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

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For Friday''s interview, we spoke with Terry Kay ithe new Chairman of the Pasadena Angels (www.pasadenaangels.com) on the group, and its relevance in the technology funding world today. 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. What is the "magic checklist"?

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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

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Joe Platnick , a member of the Pasadena Angels , talks about whether fees are ever appropriate to present to an angel investors group. Joe writes: Imagine going to a VC or bank and receiving a bill for a few thousand dollars for your first meeting. Imagine also that the requests for.

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Obama’s SEC Trying to Kill Entrepreneurship

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Please–call your Congressman, write your Senator, and post a comment at the SEC’s website. Angel Investing Entrepreneurs Pasadena Angels Raising Captial' And did I mention that pitch events will become a form of illegal solicitation? Here is the Angel Capital Association’s take: SEC regs. Why is all this happening?

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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Minnie Ingersoll: I grew up here in Southern California, in Pasadena, and have been in the Bay Area for a number of years, and just became a new partner at TenOneTen Ventures. We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. Tell us a bit about yourself? I wanted to be part of that.

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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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