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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Great companies are built by having great products. And a great product starts with the founder. Most people don’t love networking.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Social media. Social networking. Social games. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. More Products.