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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. It is the most accurate data out there that you can use to carry into a dealership and negotiate on price. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a a fbFund winner. Competitors: Omniture , Webtrends.

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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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If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Cars Direct / Internet Brands. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.