CHART OF THE DAY: Ex-Googlers Get More Funding For Their Startups Than Other Big Company Refugees (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT)

Googlers who quit to form their own companies do get more venture funding than founders from other big tech companies.

That's according to research from online recruiting startup TopProspect, which has job data about more than three million tech workers (mostly in Silicon Valley) drawn from sources like LinkedIn and Facebook.

TopProspect took a look at startups founded in the last five years with publicly available funding information, and more than 10 employees in TopProspect's peer-recommended network (which shows they're a decent size and well-connected).

It found that ex-Yahoos have started the most companies in this category -- 15 total. But those companies have only received about $126 million in funding.

The 13 companies started by former Google employees, including Foursquare, Tapjoy, and Color, have raised almost $310 million in venture funding.

One reason is there are quite a few Silicon Valley angels and investors who also came from the company, like Chris Sacca, Aydin Senkut, and Paul Buccheit (who joined Y Combinator last year). It might also help that Google is the most acquisitive of the big tech companies right now -- and occasionally buys back its own spawn, like it did with Aardvark.

TopProspect also found that former Microsoft employees fared well with venture money (14 founders raised $189 million). Companies started by Facebook founders are hot on buzz -- Path, Asana, and Quora were all founded by ex-Facebookers -- but there are only 7 of them and they're still relatively young, so haven't gotten as much money yet -- only about $65 million.

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Why is there such a recent surge in funding photo startups?

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It's a Marshall McLuhan thing.



Until photo sharing became easy and widely available, point to point communication was limited to the phone and text-based email.



People don't like to type that much. An innovation on Quora is that their UI has a textarea that's very fun to type in; another innovation on word processing is Ommwriter for the Mac... these are very engaging platforms to type into. Email isn't one of these platforms. Twitter and the Facebook News Feed are, but note how limited the writing usually is - 140 characters or less...



It can be rewarding to type into one's blog. Text when published (Quora again being an example) can be a great way to connect with strangers. But we don't send long emails to our friends and family much... we'd rather talk with them on the phone than write them an essay, in general. Emails between family members, in particular, devolve into grunts of "call home" or "got back safe, wonderful visit." Gone is the art of letter writing, replaced by something called "search engine optimized content creation." People don't really write much anymore in long form, and almost never within the context of a point to point communication (perhaps a cover letter for a résumé or a business proposal constitute exceptions).



Photos broke this communication throttle between close ties wide open, with a side helping of broadcast potential. Photos convey a "light rich media" experience that can be encoded in a jiffy from any location and decoded just as fast by the recipient. Photos capture a milieu and a moment without having to open up Gmail and cook on the perfect words. Photos constitute a "social ping" that conveys presence without requiring much cogitation.



We now communicate with photos far more readily than with email (or any other form of text). Photos convey a "biological" richness that maps onto family and friend communication more readily than blocks of text. We created TinyVox in this spirit of "typing is too slow". Point to point communication should not resemble an essay contest, and photo and other quick rich media gives users new options for intimate communication that both sender and receiver find new and appealing.



And finally: babies and kittens.



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Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Closes $25 Million Funding Round

As we reported a month ago, mobile ad network JumpTap has raised a round of new funding. The company confirmed this today, announcing a $25 million financing round from AllianceBernstein, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Ventures, Valhalla Partners and WPP, as well as several new investors, who are not being disclosed. This brings the company's funding to over $90 million. JumpTap is one of the largest remaining independent mobile advertising networks, in addition to Millennial Media, 4INFO, InMobi and others (another remaining network Greystripe was just acquired). Jumptap’s data-driven technology promises highly targeted advertising and the company partners with digital and media agencies, publishers, wireless carriers and brand advertisers to serve an array of mobile advertising solutions.

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DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding

European streaming music startup Spotify is in the process of closing a very large financing, say multiple sources. DST, the venture firm that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, is said to be leading the deal, which values Spotify at around $1 billion. The size of the round will be $100 million or more, say our sources. The company has raised at least €82.3 million to date, including a relatively small round of financing a year ago from Founders Fund. This new round, though, is at a much higher valuation. The Founders Fund round was rumored to be at a similar valuation as the previous round, a 2009 financing that valued the company at around €200 million.

DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding

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Google Funding CS4HS to Support Computer Science Education

CS4HS is a workshop for high school and middle school computer science teachers that introduces new and emerging concepts in computing and provides tips, tools and guidance on how to teach them. The ultimate goals are to "train the trainer," develop a thriving community of high school CS teachers and spread the word about the awe and beauty of computing.

Google Funding CS4HS to Support Computer Science Education

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Formspring just closed an $11.5 million new round of funding.

Formspring just closed an $11.5 million new round of funding.

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Comment on Google-backed O3b Satellite Gets $1.18B in Funding by Brent

Shayan, you make some great points, but I don't entirely agree with you. You are speaking of satellite technology in its current state. Satellite technology still has so possibilities for innovation. A great example of this is is Japan where they are running 100GB of bandwidth through their satellite network. Satellite internet technology is capable of doing much more than what it is utilized for here in the US. I actually have an entire blog on this subject at mybluedish.com/blog and would love for you to make a comment, as you seem to know this industry well.

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Comment on Google-backed O3b Satellite Gets $1.18B in Funding by Ryan Kim

You may well be right. We still have a ways to go before these birds are actually up in the air.

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Comment on Bubblicious? Tumblr Raises Huge New Funding Round by Mathew Ingram

Thanks for the comment, Rex -- I think the easy sharing or re-blogging of posts has made a big difference for Tumblr as well.

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Tumblr's Crazy Funding Round: $25-30 Million At Staggering $135 Million Valuation

The details are out on Tumblr's new round of funding, and they are pretty staggering: Tumblr's series C brought in $25-$30 million at a whopping $135 million valuation, Fortune's Dan Primack reports.

That's a staggering amount of money -- Tumblr's series B brought in just $5 million, and was just seven months ago.

It's not at all clear that Tumblr has a need for that kind of cash. But with traffic growing incredibly quickly, investors were fighting to get into the company.

The company hasn't yet worked out any real revenue model. Then again, neither has Twitter, and that seems likely to work out pretty well for its investors.

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• How Tumblr Grew From 450,000 Users To Several Millions
• Words Of Wisdom From Tumblr's David Karp And Celebrity Nick Cannon For Future Entrepreneurs
• Tumblr Lands "Very Big And Competitive" Round From Sequoia

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Twitter considers a new funding round -- possibly more than $200 million -- AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports.

Twitter considers a new funding round -- possibly more than $200 million, AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports.

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