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Swagbucks Taps Shopzilla's Weinrot As COO

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Weinrot also previously has served at such companies as CarsDirect, DIsney Online, and BonusMail (MyPoints). Weinrot had been heading up operations and business management for Shopzilla, heading up its marketing, product management, sales and operations functions. READ MORE>>. swagbucks shopzilla executive rewards prodege'

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Zag Adds Another AAA Group

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Zag has developed a software product which allows users to fully configure and price cars for car buying programs and affinity groups; the firm's software is already being used by a number of other AAA clubs. Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer.

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NextCar, Led By Scott Painter, Gears Up For Launch With Exec Team

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The company named Jim Nguyen (co-foudner of TrueCar) as its President and Chief Operating Officer; Kash Sheikh (family office, private equity) as Chief Financial Officer; Joseph Chang (Houlihan Lokey) as Chief Revenue Officer; Lucas Donat (TrueCar) as Chief Marketing Officer; Matthew Cacciola (Fair, TBW Media Arts Lab) as Chief Design Officer; Chris (..)

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Sponsor post: Discount to tomorrow's DFR, and win a ticket to digiday:APPS

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Join us as we kick off the holiday season in grand style and bestow the Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor on Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Tell a friend, and purchase your ticket at www.digitalfamilyinc.com. Use discount code: DFR30 to receive $30 price. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS.

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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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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners). So it’s always a trade-off. In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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When we got funded, we worked harder to put together a product which was longer lasting, and not just a beta attempt like what we had done before. I started as a tester, but in six months, I had risen to assistant project manager at CarsDirect. In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. in architectural technology.

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