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Famous Birthdays Passes 25 Million Monthly Unique Users

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Santa Monica-based Famous Birthdays , which operates an online website which lets people look up the birthdays and other information on celebrities and other famous people, says it has just passed 25 million monthly unique users. READ MORE>>.

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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

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It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear.

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Interview with Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

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He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). You build relationships with communications and activity. What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform.

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Interview with Clark Landry, GraphEffect

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For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. Thanks for the time today!

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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