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TrueCar Dealer Sales Pass 700,000 Vehicles

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TrueCar--which offers up automotive pricing information and automotive configuration and quoting software--said the sales came from more than 5,500 dealer partners. According to TrueCar, its 700,000th vehicle sold was a new 2013 Mazda CX-5 purchase in Elgin, Illinois, using GEICO Car Buying Service, powered by TrueCar.

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myfab5 Wanst to Reinvent The Way You Find Food | Interview With Co-Founder Calvin Schemanski

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TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review. Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. What is myfab5?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. Although the expert’s startup and Twilio never formed a partnership, our collaborative approach to diligence did benefit Jeff and his team.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

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Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.” The term was first used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels , in which he encountered a brutish race of hideous humans.

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Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities: Your Stakeholders’ Perceptions Are Your Reality

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He also spearheaded a number of fundamental software breakthroughs, including creating the basic hardware / software architecture which resulted in the creation of the third-party personal computer (PC) software industry. Designed CD-ROM filing system and created Universal Software Bus.

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Eleven Startup Tips From Mark Cuban

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In 1983 he founded MicroSolutions, a personal computer software reseller and system integrator, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Mark and his team sold Broadcast.com, to Yahoo! Even after Yahoo’s stock tanked following the dot bomb crash, Mark and his senior team still walked away with a whole lot of Chicklets. ."

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