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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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“Stay Lean as Long as You Can,” and Other VC Wisdom from Mark Suster

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The most important takeaway of the evening, Suster said, is that it’s only by using the Internet to dramatically increase their market reach and size (getting to scale) that Web startups can significantly cut the price of the goods or services they provide. To Suster, founding a tech startup is a lot like mounting an expedition.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? 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.

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

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. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. & #celebrity to pull off anything! Kindling’s: L.A.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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