Priebatsch (formerly '11) gets $15 million for SCVNGR

If that mountain of work that you fully intended to get done over break (really, who were you kidding?) has you seriously considering kissing your graduation dreams goodbye, it doesn’t mean your hopes for fame and success are over.After all, dropping out sure worked for Seth Priebatsch, the founder and Chief Ninja of SCVNGR. TechCrunch announced Tuesday that the location-based mobile game just landed $15 million in venture capital funding. Balderton Capital joined Google and Highland Capital Partners in backing SCVNGR, which in the past four years rocketed from dorm room dream to $100 million dollar company.Priebatsch’s goal is to build a “game layer” on top of the world (check out his TED talk for more on that), and his quasirobotic work ethic is paying off. He’s formed partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola and AT&T and plans to use the new cash to fuel international growth.Even more impressively, Priebatsch expects to have 1 million users by the end of January – that’s a million people he’s convinced to perform “challenges” like going to a local burrito joint and taking a photo with the tinfoil wrapper on their heads.Although he gave up socializing, reading, and watching TV to focus on his single-minded quest, he did take a break for a tweet: “epic day!”So there you go…just come up with the next million-dollar, world-altering business idea and you too can forget about the horrors of Dean’s Date!Then again, maybe that paper doesn’t seem so bad after all.