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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Total raised: $17mm.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Cars Direct / Internet Brands. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. Shopping.com. Insider Pages.