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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. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Palantir’s products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets. 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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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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

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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. We have the actors, directors, producers, lighting specialists, writers, agents, post-production editors, etc. The Internet is now faster, more dynamic and less about text.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. Panelists advised attendees to “Just Do It”: Go out and start your company, focusing on the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to launch. Most of the speakers launched their startups with $2-7K. B each Games.

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. What kind of customers are using the tool? Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers. I grew up here.

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