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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. It’s awesome.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. and also to local advertisements. Great point about how social around photos has really moved forward over the past few years.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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TechZulu Recaps: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. He mentions double and triple bottom-lined companies and tells us investors are starting to require metrics to see measurable social and global value. .

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. This never existed a decade ago.