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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. So, it makes it much harder to predict, test and scale a network effect startup.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. So, it makes it much harder to predict, test and scale a network effect startup.

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Interview with Alex Nocifera, Field Day

socalTECH

How do you reinvent your startup-focused on in-person, grass roots marketing-in the face of a global pandemic? Alex tells us about how the startup had to reinvent itself during the pandemic, and how it's now taking advantage of the resurgence of the economy to build its business. What's your feeling on if things are picking up again?

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Super Successful People Do These Uncommon Things

Jason Nazar

Sometimes you have to know when to zig where others zag. He nailed the follow-up HBO special. The pick-up lesson from “ The Game ” applies to business as well. Don’t ever get too comfortable with the status quo, always be willing to blow it up and start all over again to truly create something better.

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