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TrueCar Looks To Predict Hot Cars

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz. Tags: truecar vehicle pricing data prediction software automobile. READ MORE>>.

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The future of car ownership: Cars-as-a-service

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My favorite car blog Jalopnik said it best: “Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet.” Fair was founded in 2016 by an all-star team made up of automotive, retail and banking executives including Scott Painter, former founder and CEO of TrueCar. Don’t buy, lease.

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BUZZMEDIA Names Hansen President

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Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the digital media publisher behind Celebuzz, Sterogum, Idolator, and a host of other music-focused blogs, said Monday that it has named Stephen Hansen as President of the firm. Hansen was most recently President and COO of TrueCar. Hansen also served at such companies as GeoCities, WePlay, and KPMG.

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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In a blog post , Brisco said that the firm decided to become a private firm again, because it would be a "good deal" for shareholders, and also said it could become "even more focused" on long-term growth. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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GRP Partners Raises New $200M Fund, Becomes Upfront Ventures

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GRP Partners--which has invested in such successes as Overture, CitySearch, BillMeLater, DealerTrack, and others, and is currently an investor in Maker Studios, TrueCar, Burstly, and others--said it decided to change its branding as venture capital has changed.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Indeed we have already seen the beginnings. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? I don’t want to go in depth here because it could take a whole blog post, but if you’ve got direct sales teams make sure to have performance metrics in place. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months? In 3 months?