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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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One of the firms poised to take advantage of that growth is Pasadena-based OpenX (www.openx.org), which develops one of the most widely used ad serving solutions available. What's also important, is that people are using the product. Our products include open source, as well as software-as-a-service, hosted products.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

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That's kind of like getting a job at Harvard--the Art Center College of Design, which is in Pasadena, is one of the most respected art colleges in the world. So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. It was going crazy.

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Interview with Al Eisaian, IconApps

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For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app.

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

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What are GridTest's products used for? Our product has gone to China, Taiwan, Australia, and Europe. Instead, I found some early, lead investors from the Pasadena Angels, who connected me with the Tech Coast Angels and Maverick Angels. Neal Roche: We make test equipment for the electric vehicle market.

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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. But for most businesses it is. Go research it.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&# Overture (Goto.com).