Is anyone else driven nuts by how hard it is to get at the data behind so many articles? For instance, the bit about how it's important to have attended one of

Is anyone else driven nuts by how hard it is to get at the data behind so many articles? For instance, the bit about how it's important to have attended one of three universities - "Stanford, MIT, or Harvard", made me wonder what kind of disadvantage you are at if you attend a very strong but public CS program (Berkeley, University of Washington, Illinois). The article has a link to the reuter's analysis here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-usa-startup-connections-insight-idUSBRE98B15U20130912 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-usa-startup-con... Which includes a link to a graph (I'm thinking, ok, great, here's the data!) http://www.reuters.com/subjects/series-a http://www.reuters.com/subjects/series-a If you hover over some of the dots on the "unconnected" companies, you can see a few of the other universities attended. So it does appear that yes, attending Berkeley or other top public CS programs does put you at a significant disadvantage where it comes to getting series A funding [1], though this was as far as I could get. Maybe I'm bad at web searching, but I just couldn't find the raw data. You know, as an aside… ycombinator set up an amazing series of talks from founders and CEOs for a truly exceptional class at stanford (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325479). There was a posting about it on HN a while back, and they did make the videos available… but there's nothing like actually being there, possibly with the opportunity to meet a high up in person. There were a few objections, some down-modded (for a variety of reasons), about possible class issues here. I would say this: there's a reasonably good CS program across the bay at a university that enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined. If middle and low income students appear to be having more trouble becoming founders and getting funding (as opposed to becoming high value employees for those who get series A funding), this might also be a great location for another round of this course. [1] this is highly relevant, since students from top public CS programs don't appear to have significantly lower mid-career salaries as workers (in fact, worker bee salaries may be slightly higher out of Berkeley). Also I may have made a correlation causation error. Could be that the university itself has little to do with this.