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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. 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. His passion has always been working with startups.

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Angel Investment Criteria

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I’m planning on going to a Tech Coast Angels mixer tomorrow and the topic for me is whether there is angel funding out there for startups that don’t meet classic VC models. By way of background for the question, there’s a great post by Bob Aholt, a Pasadena Angel: An Angel Investor’s Thoughts on Valuation.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

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He was able to raise money from a VC in Minneapolis called Split Rock , grow the business to over $200 million in sales and sell to Experian for nearly $380 million. John Morris from the Tech Coast Angels was encouraging me to do something similar. The rest is history. We connected. Launchpad V1 was born.

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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. They focus on quality and experience.

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

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Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Dinesh is a highly entrepreneurial executive with a track record of driving sales through innovative biz-dev and online marketing techniques. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything.

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Angel Funding Advice

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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. Join local organizations like OCTANe , TechStars or Launchpad LA. There are other ways you can get help.

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