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Interview with John Delacruz, Foodme

socalTECH

Before that, I worked at the Pasadena Angels, the angel investment group. How do people get those deals--is this an email or a text? We're one of the first investments out of that group. Talk about your background and what you'd done before this? John Delacruz: This is my second company. READ MORE>>.

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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. This experience led me to ask some questions: Does every angel investment have to be a home run? Angel Investing pasadena angels' At least not too often. For investors?

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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 believe the key here is key, and the ability to provide this for free, which is why we took the recent investment.

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Counting Angels

Steve Reich

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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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

socalTECH

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. That''s the problem with everyone doing anything which isn''t sexy in Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Shira Lazar from What’s Trending moderated Angel Pitch Day after an entertaining discussion with Josh Berman, CEO of BeachMint. RT @urlgrl @DigitalLA had an amazing time at #SBF. Photo by TechZulu).