Author name: dbasch

The traditional competition between companies has been about the price and quality of their products. For most startups that haven’t

In Silicon Valley a startup is a vehicle for performing an experiment. The motivation is usually a hypothesis of the form: If

A few days ago a neighbor in her eighties offered me a piece of advice regarding my six-month old son: “start

Next week 114 startups will be presenting at the YCombinator Demo Days. That’s a huge number; I’ve been looking into

It occurred to me that trying to give startup advice to a founder is somewhat like coaching a marathon runner

Here’s a mildly interesting puzzle: suppose you have an ordered sequence (e.g. the numbers 1 to 10). How would you

“There is a small satellite orbiting an unremarkable planet 50 light years from Earth. In spite of its tiny size,

Note: this is a post from 2011. It used to be on the IndexTank blog which no longer exists, so

Problem: owning cryptocurrency is hard. That’s right, just owning it. Most people have no idea where to start. Want to buy

[I wrote this draft a week ago and forgot about it, but in the light of the Mt. Gox news