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A Chat With Kelly Perdew: Moonshots Capital And Its First Dedicated Fund

socalTECH

In 2014, a West Point buddy of mine, and also a serial entrepreneur, Craig Cummings started working together to find entrepreneurs we liked, to help them an invest in them, along with Luis Villalobos of the Tech Coast Angels. That really helps to catalyze the process for entrepreneurs, and helps to get others involved.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

socalTECH

How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues? One way is developing testing tools and infrastructure around that market, to help those manufacturers in their research and development, which is just what Calabasas-based GridTest Systems (www.gridtest.com) is doing.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

We also pitched at the finals of the Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch, and got a very warm reception there. Obviously, once we're comfortable with that, the big challenge is marketing KarmaGoat. What we've been doing for the past few weeks is we've started a marketing campaign at UCLA, which we've treated as our test market.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

We write and create our own content for the game. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. Demeter Interactive is a digital marketing and communications firm based in Los Angeles, California.

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