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

Both Sides of the Table

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Total raised: $125mm See: TechCrunch.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. And then: When people rented the items, I went out and bought them, first hunting for the lowest price on line. He wanted to build a business that rented electronics. He would put up ads.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

In fact, if you do both, it’s called a Zig-Zag strategy. A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. And then: When people rented the items, I went out and bought them, first hunting for the lowest price on line. He wanted to build a business that rented electronics. He would put up ads.

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