Mentions: John Morris, Entretech's Nitro, MyShape CEO Louise Wannier Register for UCLA's upcoming 2009 Entrepreneurs Conference on May 8th. ...Tags: With over 20 years and 100 startups, he's an experienced member of the Tech Coast Angels , but he's taking his time renewing this year. Today he shares his reasons why.

The NITRO effort is pulling together a list of local mentors — including Robert Flynn (Modern Feed & Supply), Bryce Benjamin (Tech Coast Angeles, Language Weaver), Marc Averitt (Okapi VC), Suresh Nihalani (Clearmesh, Accelerated Networks, ACT Networks), Robert Siegel (X/Seed Capital, Stanford), Zareh Baghdasarian (Chromodyne, Monterey Networks, myShape), John Morris (Tech Coast Angels, GKM Ventures), Tuck Newport , Richard Levin (Tech Coast Angels, Private Investor Forum), Richard Morganstern (TCA) , Joe Boystak (Chopin Capital), Raymond Cohen (Symphony Medical)