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JULY 1, 2010

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]. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

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 Zag Santa Monica Pricing 174

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JULY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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Research Sales CarsDirect Web 2.0 100

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JANUARY 25, 2010

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. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Truecar Pricing Zag Santa Monica 133

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. Or a quick flip.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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