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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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Friday, January 18, 2008
I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. That shows some interest in the topic.
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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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Monday, November 23, 2009
Tags: General Anti-Portfolio Bessemer Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners Joe Platnick Pasadena Angel Seeing last week’s Venture Capital Dispatch in the online Wall Street Journal, When Venture Capitalists Let One Slip Away , reminded me of Jim Armstrong’s (Clearstone Venture Partners) comment last year about false negatives. “You 8220;You can afford to have a false positive; you can afford to invest in things and fail, but because the big ones are so rare, you cannot afford a false negative.
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