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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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Where was the technology for this developed? Alan Horsager: The funding originally started with a convertible note, through the Pasadena Angels. Not everyone in that round was from the Pasadena Angels. The other part of it has been thinking about the platform. There's a lot of foundational science here.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. We are targeting small businesses, startups, or anyone who doesn't want to pay the $50 to $100 a month for web conferencing technology. I ended up building a lot of their technology, but unfortunately, they ran out of funding.

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Interview with Dan Tamkin, Unified Dispatch

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The idea was they were going to create their own interactive voice response (IVR) technology, which we would keep in house and allow us to open up a nationwide call center to handle taxi calls. They are two different mentalities -- lasso the moon, or working on what you got until you have a platform and base, and go from there.

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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. I spent a lot of time outside of the country, running technology companies.

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