Companies Invest Pricing Zag 
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Santa Monica-based Zag, the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has spun out a new company called TrueCar, the firm said late Wednesday. According to TrueCar, it will provide information about new car pricing, using the actual price people have paid for cars.
socalTECH
JULY 9, 2009
Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online automotive buying firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Thursday that the company has reached an agreement with Mercedes-Benz USA to offer an additional $5000 off pricing of new Mercedes-Benz cars to members of USAA, one of the affinity groups using Zag's auto pricing and purchasing services.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. And it carries no inventory. a fbFund winner.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 31, 2011
As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. So, he would determine what people might want.
socalTECH
JUNE 17, 2009
Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. They've built successful companies, but looking at the IPO market they're essentially stuck.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 31, 2011
As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. So, he would determine what people might want.
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