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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. -A Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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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. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Now let’s think about retention. Hit some bumps in the road?