Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

SharesPost , the online marketplace for private company stock founded by Greg Brogger, has raised $3.3M In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the company--which had been spawned out of the spawned out of Scott Painter's BrighHouse incubator--said it had raised $3.3M No details on that funding have been announced by the company.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

According to the company, the new site runs on Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, and other web-enabled mobile devices. TrueCar is a spinout of Zag Automotive, which is also run by Painter. Los Angeles-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site run by Scott Painter, said today that it has launched a mobile version of its site. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2012

SharesPost , the online marketplace for private company stock, along with CEO Greg Brogger, are paying fines in the firm's trading of private company shares, the SEC said Wednesday. The SEC announced the action as part of a larger enforcement effort over firms trading private company shares without proper clearances from the SEC.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost.com , which recently launched a marketplace for private company shares, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Advanced Equities. SharesPost is the most visible startup so far out of BrightHouse, the business incubator founded by Greg Brogger and Scott Painter, who are also behind Zag Automotive.

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JULY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The company said the new Best Local Deals feature was specifically launched ahead of Labor Day, which is traditionally one of the largest volume car sales weekends during the year. TrueCar uses actual car sales data from local dealers to present car shoppers with information on the actual prices paid for new cars in their neighborhood.

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JULY 1, 2009

The company said Cleckler will work on aiding in development of car pricing tools on the site. TrueCar is a car pricing site which was spun out of automotive software firm Zag; the firm is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, and Capricorn. Cleckler has also served at Stamps.com.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, annoucned today that it has hired the Chief Evangelist from Edmunds.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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JUNE 16, 2009

According to the firm, it will allow buyers and sellers of privately held companies to sell and buy shares in privately held firms, through secondary market transactions. Among features of the site are private company research, escrow serviecs, and electronic signatures.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We've defined this as an incubator or investor which creates companies--usually, from in-house efforts, but sometimes in partnership with external entrepreneurs--and invests in them and often provides resources, offices, and more to get those companies off the group. Representative companies: MeUndies, Eventup. Amount: Varies.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011.

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APRIL 2, 2009

socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources. billion in funding. Among the top deals for the quarter were an $86.6M

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JUNE 1, 2009

However, how much of a link do Israeli technology companies see with Southern California's technology industry? It will remain to be seen if local entrepreneurs from such firms as Zag, Docstoc, and others will open up more links between high tech firms and entrepreneurs in Israel and Southern California.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic? We weren't working with main street and small businesses, but public and private equity backed companies. So, the old school approach, zig to the zag, is a well timed strategy for marketers. In the other 49 states, we're 1099.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

These clever ideas often come from unusual sources, including an uneducated carnival operator, an author who dropped out of High School at 15, the owner of a laundry company who ran away from home as a teenager and a restaurateur who left school at the age of 13. ii) Be a contrarian, when everyone is zigging, zag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

All the quotes come from entrepreneurs who have built and sold at least one $100 million company. You’re very hesitant to fire your first employees, but a lot of times the company outgrows their abilities or takes on a different direction. The complaints – those are real” (Jim Dolan, The Dolan Company). You are who you hire. “If

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2011

All the quotes come from entrepreneurs who have built and sold at least one $100 million company. You’re very hesitant to fire your first employees, but a lot of times the company outgrows their abilities or takes on a different direction. The complaints – those are real” (Jim Dolan, The Dolan Company). You are who you hire. “If

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

When I talk to the founders of one of these “eHarmony of” companies, one of the hardest problems is how to predict and test the concept in the early days – before you have scale. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

When I talk to the founders of one of these “eHarmony of” companies, one of the hardest problems is how to predict and test the concept in the early days – before you have scale. In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. Or for each job that you get from an employer, you comb through social networks, LinkedIn, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. But all of this increased company creation has to go somewhere. It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen.

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JULY 13, 2009

The company was founded by the head of the North America investments for Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world, the head of the retail banking practice at DLJ, the investment bank. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. Those companies are doing phenomenally well, and in a normal market was IPO.

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