Startup Weekend v3.0 announces dates during PTW; January is move-in month [Startup Roundup]

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Philly Startup Weekend confirmed that its next hackathon, which has seen the launch of several startups in the region, will take place during the kick-off weekend of Philly Tech Week, April 20-22. Tickets are on-sale here.

The Business Journal’s Peter Key reports that the clever CAPTA startup Solve Media that shows advertisements that are to be typed rather than words, raised a $3 million to $6 million Series B round of funding.

One of Poptent‘s user-generated commercials created for yogurt-maker Dannon will air during the Super Bowl, the Inky’s Joe DiStefano reports. Interactive Firm Red Tettemer was tapped to create a Super Bowl ad for Century 21 real estate. Supposedly, it’s the first time a Philly ad firm, no, two, have made the big show.

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CliqSearch raises $840k, PopTent ad gets National Championship treatment [Startup Roundup]

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CliqSearch, the Philadelphia-based social search company that debuted at Philly Tech Meetup in September announced that it has raised a round of funding from angel investors to the tune of $840,000, TechCrunch reports.

PopTent, the crowd-sourced viral video creator based in Philadelphia, must be celebrating the fact that one of its user-generated videos made for Dell was aired during the BCS National Championship. The story also features an interview with the commercial’s creator Sam Akina.

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National publications react to Philadelphia Media Network incubator [Startup Roundup]

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GigaOm reacts to Philadelphia Media Network’s announcement that it has accepted three startups into its incubator program Project Liberty. ReadWriteWeb’s John Paul Titlow posts his notes, too. In related news, Peter Key writes about CloudMine and its recent inclusion in Philadelphia Media Network’s incubator.

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Business Journal announces 2012′s 30 entrepreneurs under 30 list [Startup Roundup]

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The Philadelphia Business Journal has announced its annual 30 entrepreneurs under 30, including PoverUP‘s co-founders Charlie and Elie Javice, Embrace Hearing‘s Sam Tanzer and Ross Porter, At Media‘s Antoinette M. Johnson, Defined Clarity‘s Bruce Marable, and Here’s My Chance‘s David Gloss.

As we reported yesterday, RJMetrics raised $1.2 million from a group of investors spread across angels and venture capitalists. The company said in a blog post yesterday it was important to wait until it launched with a minimum viable product, signed on customers, moved into office space, grew its workforce and became more stable and efficient.

Coursekit, which moved to New York but still has close ties to Philly according to the company, announced a funding round of $5 million this week. That’s in addition to $1 million raised before it launched in December.

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Monetate: How to get hired by a startup [Startup Roundup]

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Wondering how to get hired by a startup? Monetate has put together the above Philly-focused graphic visualization for just that. [h/t BostInnovation]

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myYearbook passes 500,000 daily mobile users, First Round spoofs Rebecca Black in holiday video [Startup Roundup]

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The Philly Startup Leaders announcement that Dell Boomi’s Bob Moul would be taking over the organization was put to ink all over Philadelphia last week after we covered the news. Follow the coverage at the Business Journal and at the Inquirer. The official press release is here. Most notably, it looks like Moul is angling a better connection between experienced business veterans and young startups and in between the city and suburbs.

myYearbook has launched an iPad app, according to a press release, following news that it has passed 500,000 daily mobile users and 200 million mobile sessions per month.

First Round Capital has released its annual holiday video, spoofing none other than Rebecca Black’s infamous Friday music video, which, notably enough, was also the fastest rising global search query in 2011. Locally relevant video features include Monetate and former Philly retailer Warby Parker. “It’s our First Round, First Round, we just closed our First Round.” If you know Black’s chorus, you’re already laughing.

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RJ Metrics: Why Our Startup is Doubling Down on Philadelphia

From the blog of RJ Metrics, a Center City business analytics firm, written by co-founder Robert Moore:

2011 has been an outstanding year for RJMetrics.  We’ve tripled our headcount, creating eight new high-tech jobs in Philadelphia and filling our Center City office to capacity.  We’re proud to have done this profitably and without the use of any outside capital.

Today, we signed a new lease that will significantly expand our office space in The Philadelphia Building at 13th and Walnut.  This was not a decision that Jake or I took lightly.  2011 brought with it a number of strategic opportunities, including offers that would have involved moving our company to New York or Silicon Valley.

We turned down those offers and we’re doubling-down on Philadelphia.  Not because it is the path of least resistance, but because it is the right path.  We believe that Philadelphia is the best possible home for our start-up.  Here are five reasons why…

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Open Angel Forum’s Contently earns $1 million in revenue; Charlton grows PHD Virtual [Startup Roundup]

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PhillyTechNews covers startup PHD Virtual and the man running the show, CEO Thomas Charlton. The company reports five consecutive year-over-year quarterly gains and now employees 70 to 80 people, the publication reports

Contently, which is backed by the local Open Angel Forum and is based in New York, as we reported in March, earned $1 million in revenue in 2011, Mashable reports.

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The 14 startups demoing at DreamIt today [Startup Roundup]

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The Philadelphia Business Journal covers DreamIt Ventures’ Fall 2011 graduating class, which will show off their work this afternoon at the incubator’s demo day. TechCrunch has the full list of startups, including 5 minority led companies launching today. Included in the demos today will be Cloudmine, CirTouch, ElectNext, Flirq, Grassroots Unwired, Kwelia, Metalayer, OneAway, Qwite, SnipSnap, Spling, SupplyHog, ThaTrunk, and UXFlip.

New DreamIt Ventures startup Spling announced a $400,000 Series A investment yesterday led by Deep Fork Capital, TechCrunch reports. It’s a social sharing site, that appears to be a cross between a bookmarking service and social network. In related news, Lancaster-based appMobi, which is striving to create tools and resources for HTML5 development, was named ReadWriteWeb’s Most Promising Company for 2012.

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Startup Roundup: It’s the end of the bubble as we know it

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That startup bubble we’ve all been experiencing is expected to dwindle in 2012, according to a new report from TechCrunch that comes from conversations with early-stage investors like First Round Capital‘s Josh Kopelman. He told the publication that “I think 2012 will look more like 2008 than 2011.” Investors, Kopelman included, suggest that they’re being more cautious in Series A rounds.

Duck Duck Go has been integrated as the default search engine in Linux Mint, which claims to be the 4th most widely-used home operating system beyond the usual suspects.

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