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Atlas Launches Mobile Appointments App

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The Launchpad LA company, which has raised $700,000 form such investors as the Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, Clark Landry, and Yuri Pikover, made a big media push yesterday on the launch of its apps.

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Interview with John Delacruz, Foodme

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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. John Delacruz: This is my second company.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. People are used to the idea to check their email when their attention dozes off, or do other things. I ended up building a lot of their technology, but unfortunately, they ran out of funding.

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The Curse of a Modest Exit

Steve Reich

We never did really figure out how to monetize the app itself, but the team kept up a weekly email dialogue with active users. DuWayne Peterson, founding chairman of the Pasadena Angels, told me we should be targeting companies that needed modest capital to hit a 3-5x outcome. Angel Investing pasadena angels'

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Counting Angels

Steve Reich

How many Angels do you want in your cap table? Mark Suster wrote a great piece in July giving his answer: “If all else fails, angel-load away! If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy.

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Want to Get Rich? Listen to Your Customers Like These Founders……

Steve Reich

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. What’s it worth?