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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

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As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

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Interview with Jonathan Cooper, ATMCASH

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Ever since the huge success of Monrovia-based Green Dot in its IPO last year, netting a huge return for local angels, investors here have taken a second look at financial startups. Jonathan Cooper: One, is we've developed a proprietary, anti-fraud payment system. It took us four years to develop our anti-fraud payment system.

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