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

Both Sides of the Table

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. And it carries no inventory. It’s awesome. Foursquare. -A

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.)

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