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Making The Pasadena Angels Relevant To Today's Startups, With Terry Kay

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In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? What does that mean to entrepreneurs? It''s more than money.

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How Investors Really See Your Startup

SoCal Tech Calendar

How do they make decisions on what to invest in? How do they decide how much to invest? Bob Aholt is a successful tech entrepreneur, prolific Angel investor, and "investment screener" for the Pasadena Angels. If you read Tech Crunch it seems like every startup is raising capital.that's far from the truth.

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? Minnie Ingersoll: I grew up here in Southern California, in Pasadena, and have been in the Bay Area for a number of years, and just became a new partner at TenOneTen Ventures. I've been going through the startup journey, and just finished our Series D investment.

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Insights & Opinions: Angel Investors - Do They Charge Fees?

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One of the biggest questions we get from entrepreneurs is if they should be having to pay to present to angel groups. Joe Platnick , a member of the Pasadena Angels , talks about whether fees are ever appropriate to present to an angel investors group. Tags: angel insights opinions investment.

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Obama’s SEC Trying to Kill Entrepreneurship

Steve Reich

In a nutshell, new SEC rules will REQUIRE entrepreneurs to register with the SEC BEFORE approaching investors. Please–call your Congressman, write your Senator, and post a comment at the SEC’s website. Angel Investing Entrepreneurs Pasadena Angels Raising Captial' Overwrought headline?

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. North of the 101].

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