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The Odd Couple: Angels and Accelerators

Steve Reich

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. The entrepreneurs in startups are trained to go fast and run lean. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

socalTECH

It turns out, there are lots of benefits to learning the logical thinking behind software coding, according to Grant Hosford , the founder of Pasadena-based codeSpark (www.codespark.org). The study of computer science brings broad based benefits, beyond the subject. That was encouraging. There are two other, very real benefits.

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