Luis Villalobos , the founder of the Tech Coast Angels , the largest and arguably the most influential angel group in Southern California, has passed away. Villalobos was instrumental in creating the Tech Coast Angels, which has been one of the most active groups in both investing, as well as mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs across Southern California. "His His passing Villalobos was 72, and had been in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph's in Orange for treatment of a lung infection.

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The Tech Coast Angels talk about improving your chances for long-term success in the lead article of the November SCribe Newsletter.  Lessons For Entrepreneurs From Tech Coast Angels 10 Tags: Company News Events Guest Article Internet Marketing Member Profiles Venture Capital business threats email is cool entrepreneurs Gideon Informatics los angeles corporate real estate Newsletter non-compete provisions Check this out, along with our other feature articles and links to the upcoming event schedule. Here Here are quick links to the feature

Los Angeles-based Mobile-XL , the international mobile information services firm backed by the Tech Coast Angels, said this week that it has linked a deal with Oberthur Technologies to include its XLBrowser Content Platform on Oberthur's line of SIM cards. Mobile-XL provides SMS-based, mobile applications which provide news, information, and other content to lesser served, developing countries with limited or expensive Internet access. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The firms said that including Mobile-XL's software on its SIM cards will

Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , the social question-and-answer and polling startup headed by former MySpace VP of Operations Jason Feffer, is morphing its focus towards the social news area, saying last night that the company is looking to become a "social newspaper." According to SodaHead.com, the site is looking to create a forum to discuss breaking news and "hot topics" which are important to users on the site. The site--which originally started as a question-and-answer site along the lines of Yahoo Answers--said it now has a community of 2.5 million people who visit

GRP Partners ' Mark Suster attended Jason Calacanis' new LA-based Open Angel Forum and shares his perspective with critique of the Tech Coast Angels . Tags: in the New Link to Mark's blog . ...Tags:

Often credited as the founder of Los Angeles-based Tech Coast Angels , Luis Villalobos was presented with the prestigious Hans Severiens Award at the Angel Capital Association's Annual Summit in Chicago in 2007. Tags: in the New Today word spread that he "has been undergoing treatment for a yet to be determined lung infection. He has been in ICU at St.

Last night's topic: An Angel in LA, a blend of my entrepreneurial journey mixed with dance photography and stories of the Tech Coast Angels . ...Tags: Tags: in the New Last night I had the honor of speaking at ENGR 195: Entrepreneurship Course for Scientists and Engineers at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCIrvine. It was my 3rd year in a row presenting to this class.

Often credited as the founder of the Los Angeles-based Tech Coast Angels , Luis Villalobos was presented with the prestigious Hans Severiens Award at the Angel Capital Association's Annual Summit in Chicago in 2007. Tags: in the New Luis Villalobos has died suddenly after a brief illness. Yesterday word spread that he had been undergoing treatment for a yet to be determined lung infection.

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