A gem from the archives: Fred Farina on Caltech's approach to licensing technology . Thanks to Tech Coast Angel Bill Collins for introducing me to Fred. I wanted to re-issue this show since I met Siemens TTB chief, Stefan Heuser. And in just a few weeks you'll hear Joeph Steig and Phil Weilerstein of NCIIA descibe their work with colleges and universities.

Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and the best spokesperson for Tech Coast Angels that I have met to date), Tom McInerney (TGM) and Jarl Mohn (who invests on his own “account” and whose track record is truly humbling). recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but

He's a long term angel investor and Caltech professor, meet Ken Pickar. Ken's a Tech Coast Angel and he and I were part of a panel discussion at UC Irvine's recent Annual Entrepreneurship Conference. The SW Regional Angel Summit in Tuscon March 22-23. I could see he had a great way of dealing with the students, so I decided you should meet him, too.