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

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Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society

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One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. Value is becoming the new thing, and the web gives the ability for people to share value and other sides to discovery value.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. There are big companies being build around the mobile phone. We really believe in the market. Fouad ElNaggar: Anyway they want to.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. Overture sold for $1.6

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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There are trade publications such as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline at one end, and gossip celebrity news at the other end. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space. It's a very exciting opportunity.

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

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James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.