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

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Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Current round: $4. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

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Nate followed through on his views by investing in LA accelerator Science , run by the venerable Mike Jones , who is a former founder (UserPlane, sold to AOL), tech exec (at AOL and later at MySpace) and one of LA’s most prolific (and well liked) angels. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!)

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Isn’t it time you joined Clubhouse?

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Colin and partners continue to launch new companies, including Startups.club , a Fort Lauderdale incubator; Club Domains, LLC , an alternative domain extension to.com,net and.org with more than 1 million registrations worldwide; Entrepreneur.wiki Foundation ; Serial Entrepreneur Club. I am the founder of the relatively new domain extension “.club,”

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

TechCrunch

There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 Founders who take a mindful approach can turn customers into assets, says Khan. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures

TechCrunch

CoLearn has since been downloaded more than 3.5 The company announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding co-led by Alpha Wave Incubation and edtech-focused GSV Ventures. The company’s co-founders are Abhay Saboo, Marc Irawan and BYJU product team alum Sandeep Devaram. CoLearn screenshots.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. My understanding is that OpenCandy is a software download where the service gets to better understand you as a consumer.

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Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP

TechCrunch

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. MacRae: On the App Store, you’ve got seconds to convince a user to download your app.

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