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

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Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. But we do have great technology developers. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. Jose daVeiga: In 2006, we started developing the concept, consisting of a PA announcement and a Jumbotrom image. I was doing project management at CarsDirect.com, and we met there while Kent was in Business Development. Explain what you mean by in-venue?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners). Now let’s think about retention.