PandoDaily is a web publication that offers technology news, analysis, and commentary, with a focus on Silicon Valley and startup companies. It billed itself at launch as "the site of record for Silicon Valley." == History == PandoDaily was started by former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy on January 16, 2012. The name was inspired by a tree colony in Utah, Pando, whose massive root system covers 106 acres and is continually sprouting new stems or trunks, even after wildfires have destroyed existing trunks. "It’s the perfect metaphor for what I love about Silicon Valley. It’s not just individual hot...

The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is a fiscally conservative non-profit American think tank that conducts research on employment issues such as minimum wage and health care. EPI was established in 1991 and has been described as "a nonprofit research group that studies issues of entry-level employment." The Employment Policies Institute has no employees of its own. Instead, according to the New York Times, Berman and Company charges the nonprofit institute for the services its employees provide to the institute. The charity evaluator Charity Navigator has issued a donor fraud advisory concerning...