socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. Why did you start in that market?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. The firm so far has signed up a number of restaurants in the Pasadena area. How do users do that?

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Steve Reich

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

We never did really figure out how to monetize the app itself, but the team kept up a weekly email dialogue with active users. No great fortunes were established, but it was nevertheless a substantial success, given the 95% failure rate for startups. For entrepreneurs? Most startups never get that far.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

Originally funded by the Pasadena Angels , the Company is now backed by “A” list VCs, and growing phenomenally, with tens of thousands of customers. The Founders at Swing by Swing keep up a running email dialogue with their users and circulate the key conversations to their whole team. Pick up the phone.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 15, 2015

The reality is that many successful companies have more than 20 angels in the cap table. MindBody (MB on Nasdaq), just went public with a $500mm market cap, and they had a significant number of Pasadena Angel as investors. The key to managing your Angels? A strong lead and experienced Angels help, as Mr. Suster noted.

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