Product/Technology

3-D Image Firm Gets Flattened

  From the Los Angeles Business Journal BIOTECH: FDA snub pushes Imaging3 into bankruptcy. By ALFRED LEE Monday, September 24, 2012 When Imaging3 Inc., a nine-employee medical device maker on a nondescript street near Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport, filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, it was more than just another penny stock quietly running out of [...]

The Innovation Economy

  July 19, 2012 An Article for the Technolink Association: Dr. Kevin J. Scanlon and Ms. Jessica Seay-Klatt Pasadena Angels Investment Group Society today continues to benefit from game-changing innovations in medicine and business through successful partnerships involving the investment community, government, and young entrepreneurs. These partnerships provide the support and knowledge necessary for validating [...]

Creating Incremental Strategic Value

We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. In fact, very few products have the ability to establish market leadership out of [...]

Avoiding the “Hammer Looking for a Nail” in Tech Transfer

From time to time we have posts from local members of the startup community that provide some great advice from a different perspective. Today’s post is from Dr. Andrea Belz, a long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, a local consultant and one of the brightest people I know (a CalTech PhD–what more can you say).  [...]