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

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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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TrueCar Launches New Pricing Tool

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar.com , the online automotive pricing startup headed up by Scott Painter, said Thursday that it has launched a new tool to help new car buyers. TrueCar said that it has launched a Best Local Price tool, which will allow car shoppers to search for the best local deals on a vehicle. READ MORE>>.

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TrueCar Licenses Auto Pricing Data

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the new car pricing data startup headed by Scott Painter, said Monday that it has inked a deal with automotive publisher High Gear Media , where High Gear will include TrueCar's data on its network of web sites. Tags: truecar publishing auto automotive pricing. READ MORE>>.

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TrueCar Launches Monthly Pricing Report

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing startup headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday that it has rolled out a new, monthly consumer price report. TrueCar is a spinout of Zag Automotive, and gathers its data from actual sales information from local dealerships. READ MORE>>.

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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. 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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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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