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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. The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. And it carries no inventory. Competitors: Gowalla.

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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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That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.