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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. We write and create our own content for the game. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Is a completed product necessary to get funding? Mark comments on the importance of being able to ship product.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. But for most businesses it is. Go research it.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. I spend 1-on-1 time with every one of the companies of which I'm on the board and find this to be our most productive time.]. We then spoke about startups. I totally agree.

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CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]

CEO Flow

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Just write me). Date & Time: Friday, March 13. Location: FinaVentures.