socalTECH

JULY 7, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online automobile buying service headed by Scott Painter, is reporting today that it had what is calls its "strongest sales so far this year" in June. The firm did not say what drove the growth, and did not provide any financial details on its sales or profitability. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. People either love it our hate it.

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