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

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The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. -A Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

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I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

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

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Now let’s think about retention. Hit some bumps in the road?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. Is it 4/1,000?

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. To start: Hackathon.