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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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TradeYa Gets $1.1M

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in a venture capital funding, to launch its social platform for trading goods and services. The funding came from angel investors, including Chris Hameetman (Tech Coast Angels) and Joe Addiego (Alsop Louie Partners). angels coast tech angel social swapping bartering barter trading capital venture tradeya'

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Cocodot is creating a fashionable, user friendly online invitations site, which is applying high design--and celebrity connections--to allow users to send invitations, thank you notes, and other online invitations to friends. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway.

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Staff Ranker: Helping Hospitality Businesses Better Manage Workers

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We''ve designed a system where we track your employees in real time. Through that, I designed a system using Excel spreadsheets to track this, and went on to start the company because I saw the need for it. They can use our platform to do the audit. They can use our platform to do the audit. Who is your ideal customer?

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

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It wasn't through the Tech Coast Angels, although most of the investors are members of the Tech Coast Angels or CVAN, the Coachella Valley Angel Network. Everything we do, from the product, to pricing, to design tools, are unique and serve musicians, our target demographic, better.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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We also pitched at the finals of the Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch, and got a very warm reception there. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. As you probably know, that is a big nonprofit that buys goats for families in Ethiopia and Uganda.

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