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Entrepreneurial Metrics-Measurements for Success

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Investors agree that the single most important factor for a company's success is the entrepreneur. Join Pasadena Angels Chairman, Chris Wadden, at this special evening where he will talk about various methodologies that investors use to evaluate entrepreneurs. Appetizers and drinks will be served.

Metrics 100
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Budding Entrepreneurs at CSLA? Yes, Really!

Steve Reich

Mark asked Kevin Scanlon, Chairman of the Pasadena Angels, to critique his student’s draft business pitches, and I joined the two of them. I suppose you don’t get admitted to an Engineering Master’s program if you’re not… ) They came from as far away as Pakistan to study at CSLA.

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

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Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. We really started to study the current generation of smartphones and what people do with them. Phil Kelly: It''s kind of interesting.

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Interview Behzad Kianmahd, TAU Ventures

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We have a number of locations, including one in Santa Monica, one in Pasadena, one in Downtown, and one in El Segundo and the South Bay Area. Is there anything entrepreneurs here can learn from the ecosystem in Israel? Cross Campus is really a community oriented around coworking. Behzad Kianmahd: It's a mutual learning, honestly.

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The Odd Couple: Angels and Accelerators

Steve Reich

As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. The entrepreneurs in startups are trained to go fast and run lean. ” And the Kauffman Foundation just published a major study pointing out that all but the top 10% of VC firms fail to create value. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

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Interview with Cramster.com

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Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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codeSpark:Teaching Kids Software Coding Without Words

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It turns out, there are lots of benefits to learning the logical thinking behind software coding, according to Grant Hosford , the founder of Pasadena-based codeSpark (www.codespark.org). The study of computer science brings broad based benefits, beyond the subject. That was encouraging. There are two other, very real benefits.

Software 100