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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've made over 30 investments in Southern California, and that's just in Redpoint, and doesn't include all of the investment we made as Brentwood Venture Capital since the late 70's.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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We've both build marketing technology platforms in emerging digital channels, and also built direct-to-consumer brands who rely heavily on performance marketing and data-driven marketing. We were working on a portfolio of consumer Internet brands. We woke up and saw the same pattern, over-and-over. more) READ MORE>>.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Cars Direct / Internet Brands. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. Shopping.com. Insider Pages.