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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

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. I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible.

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

socalTECH

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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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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We also pitched at the finals of the Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch, and got a very warm reception there. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. As you probably know, that is a big nonprofit that buys goats for families in Ethiopia and Uganda.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

We write and create our own content for the game. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Rapid Fire Trivia is a game owned and operated by Danger Room Gaming.

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