Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners).

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 314

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. One of the venture capitalists we had met along the way, hearing that we had sold YLighting, asked us what we were doing now, and because they liked the software so much told us to count him in, he'd write a check right now, and that's what we did.

Startup 210

Startup Marketing Customer Custom 210

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We're also looking at technology in the retail sector, or which touch the retail supply chain--things like out of home advertising, software to optimize the retail supply chain, and other related areas because we know the retail sector so well. You know Zag, herein town, and more recently our new car investment, TrueCar.

GRP Partners 158

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 158

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. & #celebrity to pull off anything! can’t wait for next year!!

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67