Author name: dbasch

In SiliconValleyStartupLand there are memes that some repeat as if they were absolute truths. One of them is “the first […]

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor, even though I prefer a different label. I don’t want to

Warning: what you are about to read is mostly speculation. Take with a grain of salt. Don’t trust my numbers

I decided to plot country murder rates against gross domestic product per capita, and also against Gini coefficients. I scraped

Speaking in Newtown, CT yesterday, President Obama said: We can’t tolerate this anymore.  These tragedies must end.  And to end

I took the data and the script from @mdreid‘s blog post about Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership, and plotted Total

I just read a blog post entitled “You can do it alone” as well as the ensuing discussion on Hacker

If you use Twitter or Facebook, you may occasionally see status updates that look like: “I crushed a 7.2 mi run with

This morning I saw the following headline on a Wall Street Journal blog: Women Executives Make Venture-Backed Companies More Successful:

This weekend I ran a poll using Google Consumer Surveys. Google assures me that the respondents represent the “US Internet population.”