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

Both Sides of the Table

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]. It’s awesome. The deals we quickly went through are: 1.

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TrueCar Hires Away Edmunds Evangelist

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, annoucned today that it has hired the Chief Evangelist from Edmunds. Toprak spent nine years at Edmunds, in addition to earlier experience at automotive franchises. READ MORE>>.

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These High School Dropouts Crushed It With Some Simple Growth Hacks

InfoChachkie

His success was based on delivering substantial value to an overlooked market, spurred along with some common sense growth hacks. Some of Pappy’s commonsense growth hacks included: Target – Pappy served an overlooked market: women. His casinos where well lit, clean, utilized female dealers and offered child care services.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

socalTECH

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works? Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

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Super Successful People Do These Uncommon Things

Jason Nazar

Sometimes you have to know when to zig where others zag. TIP: more of my thoughts on marketing and publicity ). TIP: more details in the 5 Steps Sales Process ). Underestimate Demand – for your products and services. You’re always going to get the same results, doing what everyone else does.

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