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TrueCar Launches New Pricing Tool

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based TrueCar.com , the online automotive pricing startup headed up by Scott Painter, said Thursday that it has launched a new tool to help new car buyers. TrueCar uses actual car sales data from local dealers to present car shoppers with information on the actual prices paid for new cars in their neighborhood.

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What Startups Can Learn From The Pizza Business: Samit Varma

socalTECH

Varma is actually a former technology investor at Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures, and we thought it would be great contrasting his experience starting and running a restaurant franchise with the technology startup world. What is Pizza Studio? How did you go from venture capital to running a franchise restaurant chain?

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

Indiana is home to the global headquarters for Anthem, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, as well as the North American headquarters for Roche Diagnostics. That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field. The program’s first initiative will focus on precision health.

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Whether it is launching a website, developing a minimum viable product, making strategic acquisitions or building out your sales team the founder must have a firm understanding of what it is they want to accomplish, the value it will create and how long the milestone will take to accomplish. Is outside capital really required?

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

We tend to be better at things like team building, negotiations, sales, and fundraising – which are arguably the most important skills entrepreneurs should posses. And Mark Suster has been fostering an environment to help find and grow the best and brightest new LA tech companies with LAunchpad.

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