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JULY 1, 2009

Santa Monica-based TrueCar announced today that it has snagged an executive from Edmunds.com for its new Vice President of Product Management. The company said Cleckler will work on aiding in development of car pricing tools on the site. Tags: truecar edmunds executive automotive auto. Cleckler has also served at Stamps.com.

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JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. And it carries no inventory. a fbFund winner. Competitors: Omniture , Webtrends.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site run by Scott Painter, said today that it has named Stephen Hansen as the firm's new President and COO. Hansen reports to Painter, and will head up strategic planning, product and technology development, and marketing, among other duties. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2012

According to SharesPost, as of Friday, end of day, it will cease transactions in Facebook, on request of Facebook, to enable Facebook's "orderly transition into the public markets". SharesPost is headed by Greg Brogger, and is backed and was co-founded by TrueCar's Scott Painter. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. But, it turns out, there are not any automotive sites specifically geared towards women.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I researched the pricing of the car at TrueCar – not because we’re an investor – but because it gives you complete price transparency over what other people in your area paid for a car. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. . But I digress. We spent a lot of time together on the trip.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. Jeff Zwelling: Convertro allows marketers to know all of the marketing that led to a conversion. Jeff Zwelling is one of those.

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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APRIL 4, 2011

How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? one of the best in industry that I've seen is how Scott Painter measures his business at TrueCar. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months? In 3 months? The biggest limitation we tech consumers have is our time.

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