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

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In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them. He started a car washing business as a way to be able to drive other people’s fancy cars. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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We've both build marketing technology platforms in emerging digital channels, and also built direct-to-consumer brands who rely heavily on performance marketing and data-driven marketing. We were working on a portfolio of consumer Internet brands. We woke up and saw the same pattern, over-and-over.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic? That's part one.

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

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At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Cars Direct / Internet Brands. Shopping.com.