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

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The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. And it carries no inventory.

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Siemer Summit: Connecting Global Digital Media & Technology Leaders

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The event attracted over 500 distinguished attendees from around the world in the digital media and technology industry including advertising, media, data, eCommerce, software, social and gaming. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Tim Cadogan , OpenX (Pasadena, advertising). Asher Delug , Airpush (Los Angeles, advertising).

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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We've developed technology, originally developed at YLighting, which enables us to understand that if a customer comes to a website via marketing, and a cookie was deleted, then subsequently comes back and converts, we know what marketing happened before that cookie deletion. We had relied mostly on technology building YLighting.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter.