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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]. a fbFund winner. Competitors: Omniture , Webtrends.

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Zag Makes Exec Hires, Promotions

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Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made. Zag said it has promoted Bernie Brenner to Executive Vice President in charge of the firm's consumer initiatives, named David Pributsky as VP of Partner development. a number of hires and a promotion.

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TrueCar Tops 200,000 Cars Sold

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TrueCar said the number comes less than a year from when it reached an initial, 100,000 car sales, which occurred earlier this year. TrueCar said the sales came via its more than 40 partner-branded Web Siets, which use the car pricing and sales engine powered by Zag.

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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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Good Gawd: Unconventional Startup Wisdom From The Hardest Working Man In Show Business

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Syd Nathan, owner of Brown’s label, refused to finance a live album, as he was concerned it would limit James’ popularity on the road, which in turn, would suppress sales of future singles, which was the label’s primary revenue source. When everyone is zigging, go zagging. Radio And Baseball. Some fans began to collect show recordings.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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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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These High School Dropouts Crushed It With Some Simple Growth Hacks

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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. ii) Be a contrarian, when everyone is zigging, zag. into the gambling experience.

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