29 posts and columns on Chris Dixon

News Byte

Quote-Saving App Banters to Shut Down; Founders Jump to Betaworks

in Social on May 15 at 4:42 pm PT

After struggling to attract a significant user base over the past year, conversation-saving app Banters is closing up shop, co-founder Lauren Leto announced via company blog on Tuesday. Leto and partner Patrick Moberg had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the likes of Chris Dixon, Khosla Ventures and SV Angel. The two will join Betaworks — Leto as general manager of the firm’s Findings product and Moberg as a “hacker-in-residence.”

Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann’s Lesson for Start-Ups: Go Your Own Way

in Social on March 13 at 11:42 am PT

Telling people how to create and run their own Internet start-up is a booming mini-industry. But here’s Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann’s advice: “Don’t take too much advice.”
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NewsFailure

The way I see it, If I can spend 20 minutes in the morning and have a 90 percent chance of knowing anything important that someone might mention that day, I’m informed. A person mentioning news that I didn’t know about, that is relevant to me, is a failure in my newsreading methods.

– Chris Dixon, talking to News.me about how he gets his news

Sarah Lacy Debuts New Tech Site, PandoDaily — $2M+ in Funding and Guess Who’s Working for Her? (Video)

in Media on January 16 at 9:00 am PT

Here’s the brave woman who will be the new boss of Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler and Paul Carr. (You read that right.)
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eBay Buys Hunch

in Commerce on November 21, 2011 at 6:57 am PT

One of a string of pickups for eBay.
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News Byte

Like the Blog? Buy the E-Book! Chris Dixon For Sale, Via Kindle

in Media on April 19, 2011 at 6:31 am PT

Here’s a clever idea from Chris Dixon: The investor and entrepreneur has turned his well-read blog into an e-book. Dixon, who runs Hunch and helps steer Founder Collective‘s bets when he’s not blogging, has taken a couple years’ worth of posts and compiled them into “Startups;” Dixon’s proceeds from the $2.99 mini-book will go to non-profit hackNY.

With Canvas, Can "Moot" Bottle 4chan and Sell It?

in Social on January 31, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT

Christopher “Moot” Poole, the creator of 4chan, today opened up testing of an image-sharing community called Canvas, which seems a lot like 4chan without the anonymity.

Twitter List Service TLists Becomes Sulia, Raises $3.5 Million

in Media on December 20, 2010 at 12:42 pm PT

Ah! You can still raise money for a start-up whose fate is tied directly to Twitter. And it doesn’t hurt if you’re actually working with Twitter while you do it.

BoomTown as Judge Judy, Um, Judge BigApps

in News on October 13, 2010 at 2:37 am PT

With All Things Digital Global HQ located in the heart of the Castro in San Francisco, BoomTown tries hard not to judge–even that dude who likes to come into the Starbucks naked. But I made an exception to be a judge for an innovative civic geek contest that New York City is doing for the second year called BigApps 2.0, opening up a whole mess of government information and letting software developers have at it. And how much do you want to bet there will be a bed-bug app submitted this year?

Goodbye (Crummy) CAPTCHAs. Hello Ad Dollars?

in Media on September 20, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Solve Media can’t make captchas go away, but it says it can make them less unpleasant–by turning them into ads.

Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures

in Media, March 12, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT

Hunch's Fake and Dixon Speak (And They've Got a Hunch, You Might Not Get Exactly What It Is Yet)

in News, February 18, 2010 at 10:42 am PT

A Father and Son Team That Founds Web Start-Ups Wants to Finance Them, Too: Ken and Ben Lerer Get Their Own Fund

in Media, February 2, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Hot Potato Is Ready to Eat: Do Twitter, Facebook Users Want Another Real-Time Chatter Service?

in Media, November 25, 2009 at 7:25 am PT