Chris Dixon

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

Kara Swisher 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.)

eBay Buys Hunch

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

One of a string of pickups for eBay.

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

Liz Gannes 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

Peter Kafka 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

Kara Swisher 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?

Peter Kafka 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

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

The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.

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

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

When Aardvark was sold to Google for $50 million last week, a lot of folks wondered about the fate of Hunch, another hot start-up in the space. Except, as correctly noted by two of its four co-founders, Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon, in a chat BoomTown had yesterday, Hunch is quite different–more of an algorithmically hopped up recommendation service that makes use of a mass of data from user-generated questions and answers than a simple social search service. Here’s an interview with Fake and Dixon on the progress made so far to figure out the fate of the year-old start-up.

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

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

Meet another set of investors funding New York-based Web start-ups: Lerer Media Ventures, run by Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer and his son, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer. Their backers include familiar names like Ron Conway and Arianna Huffington.