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TrueCar: More Than Half Of Users Now On Smartphones, Tablets

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Santa Monica-based car buying and selling marketplacce TrueCar says that more than half of the consumers coming to the service are now using either a smartphone or tablet. According to TrueCar, it saw more than 2.2 million downloads of its mobile app on iOS and Android as of the first quarter of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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

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The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. And it carries no inventory.

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What Mattered In 2010: Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Yesterday, we heard from Scott Painter of TrueCar. The introduction of the iPad has completely revolutionized our mobile experience. I think that we now recognize that mobile is a much bigger opportunity than even the wired world. Today, we spoke with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners. The IPO of EnvestNet.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile?

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Siemer Summit: Connecting Global Digital Media & Technology Leaders

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The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Presenting companies included: Add This, Cognitive Networks, TrueCar, Trunk Club, Invidi, ID.me, Datacratic, BeyondCORE, ParkMe and many more.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners). So it’s always a trade-off. All of these areas have still have a lot of growth and innovation left.

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