Startup Roundup: myYearbook profitable, Viddler talks to Gary V.

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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The Inquirer reports that MyYearbook has finally turned a profit, netting $2 million a month in revenues. The company has taken in $17 million in investment.

Inc. Magazine has named Philly one of the top 10 metro areas for company growth in the country. Thanks to @stubborndreams for pointing this one out. And hey, it didn’t take a grassroots campaign for this one. The magazine also says that NextDocs, is the area’s fastest growing company.

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Startup Roundup: DreamIt grads get covered; new Startup Leaders-ship

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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Inquirer’s Mike Armstrong covers the 2010 DreamIt team. DreamIt Ventures is like the Dream Team, but no give-and-go from 90s point guard-great John Stockon. See our coverage of the graduating class here. TechCrunch also covered our Philly peeps.

Philly Startup Leaders has chosen a new crop of leadership to steer the entrepreneurs group. Jameson Detweiler will lead as President, along with Gloria Bell, Cody Ray, Josiah Kiehl and Matt Owens. We’ll have more on this story soon.

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Startup Roundup: Vuzit goes social, WizeHive giving away $250,000

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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WizeHive is giving away $250,000 worth of accounts after Google announced that it is shuttering Google Wave.

Vuzit is going social. The company announced DocuPub yesterday, which provides better integration for social media framworks, it says.

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Startup Roundup: Local angle to Twitter’s Fail Whale; NuPathe sets IPO terms

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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LTL Prints has been racking up partners weekly, according to the deluge of press releases we get, but that’s why not why we’re playing this one. The Old City-based wall graphics company has an interview with Twitter’s Fail Whale creator — and LTL featured artist — Yiying Lu. It’s not about failure at all:”I wanted to create a visual greeting – a visual ‘comfort’ for my friends back home for all the events that I was missing,” Lu says. Check it out if not for the story, for the original sketches.

Conshocken-based biotech firm NuPathe — read our Q&A with the company, which is developing a migraine treatment patch, here — has set the terms for the debut of its initial public offering, at between $14 and $16 per share, hoping to raise $75 million with the offering.

We’re way psyched to see this one come through the pipeline: ZVRS, a company which is taking advantage of iPhone 4′s Facetime to provide translation services for the hearing impaired launched launched at Hard Rock in Center City. Remember that, ahem, social entrepreneurship thing here in Philly we’ve been writing and talking with folks about? Yeah, cough. It’s happening.

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Startup Roundup: QlikTech debuts IPO, augmented soccer for iOS4 for World Cup blues

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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Radnor’s QlikTech launched its initial public offering last week, selling 11.2 million shares at $10 each, an initial market capitalization of $940 million, Seeking Alpha reports [h/t/ PhillyTechNews]

We love this. Local Laan Labs has created an augmented reality soccer game that lets you use an iOS4 camera to kick a ball around. Great for soccer wanna-be’s.

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Startup Roundup: The Invite Media edition

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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After it was announced that Invite Media was acquired by Google, there’s certainly been some reverberations. Forbes caught up with Google VP of Product Management Neal Mohan about the deal. GigaOM notes that the Invite buy raises a conflict of interest since Invite CEO Nat Turner said in February that a demand-side platform must “remain neutral and have zero allegiances to any publishers, exchanges, data providers or other vendors.” Thing is, there’s Google’s pesky DoubleClick ad network right down the block. Indeed there are other concerned parties as well. Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy have both asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate privacy and antitrust issues, MediaPost reports.

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Startup Roundup: Judge backs anonymous flamers in USA Technologies case

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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A federal judge has struck down USA Technologies‘ attempt to silence anonymous critics online in a decision that backs First Amendment rights online. Flame on, folks.

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Startup Roundup: myYearbook Chatter feed surpasses 1 million posts per day, Duck Duck Go whups Cuil

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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myYearbook has announced that its real-time location-based Chatter stream feature—launched last November—receives 1 million posts per day. According to a press release, two new features, which allow users to ask questions and rate each other, ala HotOrNot.com, have accelerated the stream’s growth rate. myYearbook’s traffic continues to grow at an impressive rate, with over 55 million monthly visits and 4.3 million unique visitors.

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Startup Roundup: myYearbook generating $20 million in revenue yearly, 123LinkIt and Mailroom launch

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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Mashable reports that myYearbook is generating $20 million in revenue per year, up 70 percent from 2008 and growing, with its base of 20 million users. The company’s virtual currency and virtual goods model was estimated early in its existence to be generating a third of the company’s revenue, as we’ve reported. myYearbook is focusing on expanding its partnerships with gaming platforms like Zynga and SGN with new hire Scott Levine, formerly the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Sony Music Entertainment.

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Startup Roundup: Invite Media real-time ad buys, ListenLogic social media monitoring, Happy Cog not bored

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch. Several of the tips in this week’s roundups resulted from a quick email to TP. Without further ado….

Updated 2/3, 12:26 p.m.: Rick O’Brien is SemperCon’s founder, not Max Sobol.

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Rittenhouse-based Invite Media, which suffered some setbacks early last year while in stealth mode, announced its real-time bidding platform for online display advertisements, partnering with AdBrite, AdMeld and PubMatic, according to a press release. Ad news org AdExchanger interviewed COO Nat Turner about the announcement. Turner is pretty excited about the development: “While there are frankly way too many ways to slice and dice and compare results given all of the factors present in display [advertising], there truly is a huge performance increase that can be garnered by [real-time bidding],” he says.

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