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

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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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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

Well chances are there are some partners or sites where you can get information on jobs today. 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. Quick Growth Let’s say you’ve limited it to a particular type of job in a specific geography.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

Well chances are there are some partners or sites where you can get information on jobs today. 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. Quick Growth Let’s say you’ve limited it to a particular type of job in a specific geography.

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