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JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. And it carries no inventory.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. We both wanted to continue to build a world-class staff at GRP from which to build future leaders in either tech startups or in our investment firm. He walked me through both the logic and the math.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. StartEnginge debuted its Q2 Class, with founder Howard Marks fireside chat with Jason Calacanis, founder of Launch and Mahalo.com. Demo Day / Angel Pitch.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners).

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