Yes it’s true. These guys make more money six foot under than you do walking about, breathing and everything.
Consider this our tribute to the late Amy Winehouse. We sure do miss her.
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This is a fun chart that shows that folks that used to work at Google get more funding for their start up projects than any other big tech company.
This info comes courtesy of Business Insider and online recruiting start up TopProspect, that monitors three million Silicon Valley workers from sources such as 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.
The reason? Some Google alumni work in venture capital, and Google has a reputation for buying back projects founded by ex employees such as Aardvark.
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Like most people, I find the daily convulsions of the stock market capricious and mystifying.
What does it all mean? Not too much, half the time.
But this graph caught my eye. It shows what happened to the Euro as the EU announced yesterday’s bail out.
Fickle, eh?
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Look at this chart. It shows which products create the most revenue for Apple. You’ll see that it’s the iPad and iPhone – two new products – that make the most money.
Impressive.
Now look at the money generated by iTunes. It’s a tiny amount.
But there is another story here.
According to digital strategist Tim Tucker, iTunes played a vital role in moving Apple out of the geek ghetto and into the mainstream.
“It’s a story about music,” he says, “and what it does to perception.”
“iTunes made me love Apple instead of just like it. It made me evangelize the brand, because it was associated with something that moved me.”
The lesson? Whatever the revenues, the right kind of content can make all the difference to how your company is perceived.
Which really effects the bottom line.
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Furthr will be posting a phone hacking infographic as soon as the UK select committee hearing today into the scandal is closed.
Watch this space for more unfortunately cropped Murdoch shots.
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According to a survey of investors done by Citi, the number one risk to the US economy for the next 12 months is “politicians screwing up.”
(You can see the figures in this graph we’ve just made for you.)
Of course finance guys never screw up.
Apart from that last time .
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According to research at mobile analytics firm Flurry and Business Insider, developer support for Android has been waning, despite its incredible growth.
The reason? Apple.
Flurry tracks the activity of 45,000 developers who have built 90,000 applications. As you can see from the chart designed by Furthr’s Richard Scott, developers started fewer Android projects in the second quarter of this year than the first.
Flurry speculates the change was driven by the popularity in the US of the Verizon iphone and the ipad 2.
Apple 2, Google 0? It certainly looks that way.
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Microsoft must have been hoping for more.
This graph published today shows that in terms of market share at least, after two years search engine Bing is hardly catching Google.
With about 14% of the US search market, the best you could say for Bing is that they’ve held Google at a steady 65% of market share.
How long can Google’s search dominance continue? A while longer by the looks of things.
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Information addicts that we are here at Furthr, we can never resist a graph.
Here is a great one today from Business Insider that shows just what an effect the ipad is having on the PC business.
It shows the drop in growth of HP‘s notebook shipments as well as the drop in the growth of PC notebooks overall. (BI have also added the data on Apple‘s growth in ipad shipments as a contrast.)
As you can see, a market that was going gangbusters two years ago – posting 20-40% growth – is now as flat as a pancake.
The reason? Tablets are cannibalizing notebooks, said analyst Dan Frommer.
Until someone can take the ipad at its own game, this trend looks set to continue into 2012, he said.
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