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

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them. He started a car washing business as a way to be able to drive other people’s fancy cars. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. So, it makes it much harder to predict, test and scale a network effect startup.

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Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business

SoCal CTO

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. So, it makes it much harder to predict, test and scale a network effect startup.

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

InfoChachkie

Syd, along with most industry executives, also did not believe there was a market for albums comprised of songs that had already been released. The album’s success outside of the R&B market proved that James’ unvarnished sound had universal appeal, which impacted the way Soul and R&B music was marketed for the next twenty years.

Startup 100
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Interview with Alex Nocifera, Field Day

socalTECH

How do you reinvent your startup-focused on in-person, grass roots marketing-in the face of a global pandemic? Alex tells us about how the startup had to reinvent itself during the pandemic, and how it's now taking advantage of the resurgence of the economy to build its business. Talk about your financial backing?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. I’m sure others have, too.

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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. When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year.

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