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NextCar, Led By Scott Painter, Gears Up For Launch With Exec Team

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The company named Jim Nguyen (co-foudner of TrueCar) as its President and Chief Operating Officer; Kash Sheikh (family office, private equity) as Chief Financial Officer; Joseph Chang (Houlihan Lokey) as Chief Revenue Officer; Lucas Donat (TrueCar) as Chief Marketing Officer; Matthew Cacciola (Fair, TBW Media Arts Lab) as Chief Design Officer; Chris (..)

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TrueCar's Scott Painter On Entrepreneurship And IPOs

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One of Southern California''s big success stories -- from startup, to venture funding, and a recent IPO--is Los Angeles-based TrueCar , which had its IPO in May. First of all, the process is unbelievably antiquated, and designed to put all sorts of checks and balances into the system to protect investors. READ MORE>>.

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How Fair, Scott Painter's New Startup, Is Creating A New Model For Car Ownership

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Painter, who was previously CEO and founder of TrueCar, and has a long history in the automotive purchasing and financing industry, sat down with us to discuss Fair, what he learned at TrueCar, and how he hopes Fair will transform the auto industry. What lessons did you learn from TrueCar, which are you are applying here?

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Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier

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Truly a sight to see, TrueCar brings L.E.D. Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. The TrueCar L.E.D. “TrueCar L.E.D.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone. Deflationary Economics now favors us.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. How can you do a job half time? Pretty well as it turns out.

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. What kind of customers are using the tool? Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers. I grew up here.

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