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CallFire Hits Messaging Milestone, Donates $10K To Local Nonprofit

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Santa Monica-based voice and texting API developer CallFire said this week that it has just hit two billion messages send via its platform, and decided to donate $10,000 in credits on its service to a nonprofit to celebrate the milestone.

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LIVESTRONG.COM Challenges Users To Quit Smoking via iPhone App

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Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Livestrong said its new MyQuit Coach iPhone application--which costs $3.99 READ MORE>>.

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Livestrong.com Trumpets Apps Milestone

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Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the health and wellness site run by Demand Media, is trumpeting two pieces of app news today.

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Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously …

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Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. By “first” I mean?—?we

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

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Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?”

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

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This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time.

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