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

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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]. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. a fbFund winner.

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SharesPost: Sales In Escrow, New Research

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SharesPost, headed by Greg Brogger and incubated by Brighthouse, is looking to create a Web 2.0-enabled Brighthouse is a technology incubator headed by both Brogger and Scott Painter, who also co-founded Zag and CarsDirect. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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