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TrueCar Launches New Pricing Tool

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar.com , the online automotive pricing startup headed up by Scott Painter, said Thursday that it has launched a new tool to help new car buyers. TrueCar said that it has launched a Best Local Price tool, which will allow car shoppers to search for the best local deals on a vehicle. READ MORE>>.

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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress

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An additional way the government could juice the auto industry — and specifically electric vehicles — is by providing point of sale rebates for all vehicles that could be issued through car dealerships, according to the proposal. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

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DataPop's product also creates landing pages, geo-targets offers, and uses pricing details, sales and promotions, product specs, and retail location information to tune those search marketing ads. DataPop is one of the companies in LaunchpadLA, the business mentoring and incubation effort being spearheaded by GRP Partners' Mark Suster.

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Science Launches Its Own Financial Information Service Focused On ICOs

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Science said the ICO Watchdog will offer up notifications on ICOs, and provide secure updates about blockchain-based currencies, notifying users of significant movements in price and volume, upcoming sales, and more. said the ICO news service was directly incubated out of Science Inc. Science Inc.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3

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

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He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. a fbFund winner.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? Sales is the lifeblood of every organization.

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