Exclusive – Houzz, the impossibly named online home for home design enthusiasts (because they need their own special place on the Web, too), has raised a $2 million Series A round of funding from a number of notable investors. In conjunction with the financing announcement, the company has just pushed a completely new version of its iPad app onto the virtual App Store shelves (you can get it

In September I wrote about Google’s “extraordinary” efforts to stop employees, particularly engineers, from resigning to join pre-IPO startups like LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook. In one case we confirmed an engineer making around $150,000 turned down a 15% raise plus $500,000 in restricted stock and left for Facebook