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

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Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Current round: $4. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Cars Direct / Internet Brands. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.