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Interview with Mike Napoli, Tech Coast Angels

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The Tech Coast Angels had great exit last year in Green Dot - anything which, in hindsight, made this one a home run? We've heard some entrepreneurs who have had some difficulty figuring out how to work with angels. Mike Napoli: I think it was the entrepreneur. Mike Napoli: The main thing is to do you homework.

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Intrigue In Death of San Diego Angel Investor

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The death earlier this month of a San Diego Tech Coast Angel, John G. Watson , who organized San Diego's Tech Coast Angels QuickPitch event, is now being investigated as a possible homicide, according to unconfirmed reports sourced by the Frank Peters Show.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. As an active early stage investor, Mike has personally invested in over 30 startup businesses including Klout, Betterworks, Formspring, ShoeDazzle and LunchMoney to name a few.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

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Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. John Morris from the Tech Coast Angels was encouraging me to do something similar. We decided to be less formal about the mentor / mentee relationships.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not professional investors – ensuring that its startups are guided by the right people for the right reasons. Silver Sponsor.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

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Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Founded by L.A.’s

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