Lokalty wins local minority Youth Entrepreneur Award [Startup Roundup]

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Lokalty, the local deals company, won the Youth Entrepreneur Award at last week’s Philly Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week, according to this tweet.

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SnipSnap founder Ted Mann goes shopping at Babies R’ Us with NBC New York and shows off his couponing app.

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ElectNext, the matchmaking site for politics, was one of the winners at DEMO, a national startup showcase, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports. The startup has been getting lots of press recently, with mentions in Forbes and VentureBeat.

Ecommerce site Kembrel changed its brick and mortar location at 12th and Locust streets into a men’s clothing shop, Phrequency reports.

VerbalizeIt, whose team is located in Boulder, Co., Philadelphia and New York City, has partnered with Skype in the Classroom, according to this release.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

Current DreamIt Ventures startup Betterific gets featured in the Washington Post‘s column “Business Rx.” Betterific is originally from Washington, D.C.

Airtime‘s Penn undergrad founders get featured in GigaOM for their new product, Firefly.

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