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Making The Pasadena Angels Relevant To Today's Startups, With Terry Kay

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In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? He started the group because he wanted to help companies succeed.

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How Investors Really See Your Startup

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Bob Aholt is a successful tech entrepreneur, prolific Angel investor, and "investment screener" for the Pasadena Angels. I asked Bob to come and share with the group how Angels decide what startups they are going to write a check for and which ones they are not. Less than 1 0.000000e+00ven get close.

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Insights & Opinions: Angel Investors - Do They Charge Fees?

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One of the biggest questions we get from entrepreneurs is if they should be having to pay to present to angel groups. Joe Platnick , a member of the Pasadena Angels , talks about whether fees are ever appropriate to present to an angel investors group. Imagine also that the requests for.

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Obama’s SEC Trying to Kill Entrepreneurship

Steve Reich

Here is the Angel Capital Association’s take: SEC regs. Please–call your Congressman, write your Senator, and post a comment at the SEC’s website. Because our Nanny State thinks Angel Investors need “protection” I normally try to keep my politics out of my blog, but this is ridiculous.

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The Curse of a Modest Exit

Steve Reich

DuWayne Peterson, founding chairman of the Pasadena Angels, told me we should be targeting companies that needed modest capital to hit a 3-5x outcome. The investors that backed the company I mentioned would cheerfully write checks to fund the team’s next venture. Angel Investing pasadena angels'

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The Secret to Success with Angel Investors

Steve Reich

was launched with nearly $2mm in Angel funding from the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels. We had an advocate in each Angel group who aggressively lead the effort. Someone has to do the heavy lifting of advocating, organizing, and building enthusiasm about your company within their Angel group.

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

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Instead, I found some early, lead investors from the Pasadena Angels, who connected me with the Tech Coast Angels and Maverick Angels. You have to get a lot of angel investors together to get a seed round, and the next round of a couple of million is quite hard as well.

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