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158 Articles match "2009","Pasadena"
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 . The Orange County meeting is new for 2009, and while the following is true for the LA meeting the OC one is probably similar: You pay as you walk in, meet the organizers, get a name tag, fill a plate from
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Pasadena-based Central Desktop , a provider of online, software-as-a-service project management tools and applications, is in the midst of a growth spurt, says CEO Isaac Garcia. The firm had only 18 employees in January of 2009. The firm, which currently has 34 employees, is targeting at least 50 employees by the end of the year, Garcia told socalTECH over the weekend. The firm says that it's been seeing lots of customer and sales growth, and is hiring across the board to grow faster.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
The Orange County meeting is new for 2009. See link above for local club listings in SoCal: Anaheim, Canoga Park, Corona, Irvine, Lancaster, Pasadena, Simi Valley, Torrance, West Covina. Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on events. Happy New Year everyone! Let's get your networkin' on for 2010.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
of all applications submitted to the Pasadena Angels get funded. Tags: Fundraising General Bill Burnham Business Week Joe Platnick Pasadena Angel A few years ago, Joe Torre (when still managing the Yankees) wrote an article for Business Week ( Joe Torre on Winning ) that’s well worth reading. One of the lines in the article pretty much sums up one of the hardest things for Angel investors to do and something that happens on a regular basis: “I have had to release guys I loved, and keep players I didn’t necessarily care for.”
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
This past Thursday, Black Card Cirlcle Foundation hosted an Arts and Music charity event at the Pasadena Jazz Institute. A lot of talented folks donated their time and talents to help out at the event and raise awareness for autism and micro lending. Somehow Somehow Kurt Daradics found the time to attend the event, even though he just got back from Roadtwip .
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
This past Thursday, Black Card Cirlcle Foundation hosted an Arts and Music charity event at the Pasadena Jazz Institute. A lot of talented folks donated their time and talents to help out at the event and raise awareness for autism and micro lending. Somehow Somehow Kurt Daradics found the time to attend the event, even though he just got back from Roadtwip .
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Joe's a long term member of the Pasadena Angels; he's on the board and he's recently joined a venture capital firm in New Zealand. What kind of a year are the Pasadena Angels having in 2009? Maybe you've already done an angel round and now you're looking for VC money. So how is it different pitching to VCs versus angels?
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Cost: Free Review: None Added 10/4/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Pasadena, CA Job Club - Professional Network Sites: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1775486 This is YOUR networking group, so we cover the topics YOU need! " Frequency: Every Friday 10 AM to Noon, La Pintoresca branch, Pasadena Public Library, 1355 N. Pasadena, CA 91103 . "Friday This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational, chamber of commerce, etc. Organizational representatives: please contact me directly for updates, etc. Attendees: If you have
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. There are plenty of examples of Pasadena Angel companies that have had multiple rounds of funding and provided quite good returns to the investors. Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob also teaches graduate level finance courses at Antioch University.
By Bob Aholt
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Shameless Self-Promotion Alert]…The last program of the day is the annual Pasadena Angels program on the state of Angel and Venture Capital in Southern California. Tags: Fundraising General Ben Kuo Joe Platnick LA County Tech Week Pasadena Angels SocalTECH.com On Thursday (10/22) this week, join us for a full day of worthwhile events in Altadena at Tech Week . The morning’s session features a Cleantech program , moderated by Ben Kuo of SocalTECH.com .
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Friday, October 9, 2009
As I was writing another installment on what the Pasadena Angels look for in company pitches, I came across a good post from Steve Blank about sufficiently understanding your customer and target markets and decided to use that instead. Lastly, Jeff Sheldon, a longtime member of the Pasadena Angels and well respected IP attorney and litigator put together a good reference on Patenting Inventions.
Interesting post on Jason Calcanis’ blog this week (also picked up by Ben Kuo and SocalTECH ) with further thoughts on Angel groups charging startup companies to pitch. All of
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Friday, March 27, 2009
For the first piece you can pretty much substitute ‘Angel’ for ‘VC’ and it’s right on the money with respect to the Pasadena Angels. Tags: Company Creation/Operation Fundraising General David Rose Investor Pitch Joe Platnick Pasadena Angels Tony Tjan V Over the course of this week I’ve come across some great articles and blog posts that should be required reading for any entrepreneur looking for funding—including those that have done it before. Starting with The Entrepreneurs Report from the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) there are two articles from outside
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tags: Company Creation/Operation Fundraising General Jason Calcanis Joe Platnick Pasadena Angels Sequoi By now everyone has seen the infamous Sequoia presentation, R.I.P. Good Times . From what I can tell traveling around the US and overseas, it looks like these slides have circulated faster than the Paris Hilton video (sorry, no link on this last one–you’ll have to find it yourself).
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