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TrueCar Launches New Pricing Tool

socalTECH

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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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

Xconomy

Plans for new incubators were announced in two different cities. BIO president and CEO Jim Greenwood (pictured), a former Congressman-turned-lobbyist, told an audience, “We are fighting back,” and unveiled plans to put some of the blame for high drug prices on insurance companies.

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upStart.LA Breakdown | Accelerators and Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View

Tech Zulu Event

Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp. ” Perhaps it is time to seek some funding, but how do you get advice from the same people that you’ll need money from?

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X1 Discovery Takes On Social Media Discovery

socalTECH

Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Interview with Joel Milne, RepairSmith, Daimler's Mobile Auto Repair Venture

socalTECH

Joel Milne: The way this works, is a consumer can go to our website, get an online estimate or quote on a job they want done, and we try to provide real price transparency upfront. Theres a quality of experience, equipment, and tools necessary. How does that work? We can do about 85 percent of all repairs on the driveway, on site.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Both Sides of the Table

We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc. These days we all use Skype and collaboration tools. You will be surrounded by loads of like-minded people all looking for work space at an affordable price and all, presumably, interested in meeting and interacting with other startups.

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