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

Both Sides of the Table

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Total raised: $6.0mm. -Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Competitors: Gowalla.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. if you’re just offering a product for sale? 38 AX on 08.19.10

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

in 2010, and for employees in the banking, finance and insurance sectors 64%. ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 INTEL-ISRAEL DEVELOPS NEW CHIP “SANDY BRIDGE”.