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SharesPost Hooks Up With NASDAQ On Private Shares Market

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SharesPost , the private company marketplace headed by Greg Brogger, which had been incubated and started in Santa Monica via Brighthouse, the startup incubator run by Brogger and Scott Painter, is in a joint venture with NASDA OMX , the two said this morning. Brogger was at CarsDirect with Scott Painter, who heads up TrueCar.

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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. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. And it carries no inventory. a fbFund winner.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Adam Goldenberg , Intelligent Beauty/JustFab (El Segundo, fashion).