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

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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. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Interview with Alex Nocifera, Field Day

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Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. The one thing the investors I mentioned all the way through-is they have put a lot of trust into me as an entrepreneur, and they trusted me. So, the old school approach, zig to the zag, is a well timed strategy for marketers. Talk about your financial backing?

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.