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Chris Dixon: The Ultimate Founder’s Founder
Chris Dixon, 38, may be the ultimate founder’s founder. He’s running his second startup, Hunch, after selling his first company, SiteAdvisor, for $74 million dollars four years ago. He’s an active...
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Chris Dixon on Arugula-Eating Liberals, the Downside of Destination Sites and...
Yesterday I wrote up part of my recent interview with Chris Dixon, an active seed-stage investor and the CEO of Hunch, a year-old consumer Web application company that Dixon formed with Flickr...
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Entrepreneur Twitter Drama Highlights the Price of Speaking Freely
Last month, entrepreneur Matt Mireles (pictured) published a tweet, asking: “Why is TechStars NYC run by a non-entrepreneur?” The “non-entrepreneur” in question is 29-year-old David Tisch, whose...
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Social Scene: Khosla to Give Away Half of Fortune, Kvamme Moving to Columbus...
In this week’s Social Scene, Eric Schmidt is building fancy new digs for his personal VC firm; Joanna Rees has convinced Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus and others to back her bid to be mayor of San...
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And Then There Were Seven (GPs): Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard Chris Dixon
Though the cat was basically out of the bag by Saturday, the news is now official: Andreessen Horowitz, the firm founded in 2009 by Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, has hired Chris Dixon as its newest...
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Chris Dixon on His First Six Months as a West Coast VC
When the news broke last year that entrepreneur-investor Chris Dixon would be joining the Sand Hill Road firm Andreessen Horowitz in January, the move surprised many industry observers. For one thing,...
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Ten Hot Stories: Jason Calacanis Turns VC, Welsh Carson Eyes Next Fund,...
Time to catch up on some hot stories you may have missed this week. Here are the 10 most popular posts on peHUB based on number of unique pageviews from our regular readers for June 3 – 7. 1. Jason...
View ArticleFour VCs give their two cents on bitcoin
Venture capitalists actively minting strategies for bitcoin investing can agree on one thing: It is a complicated space and seeing what’s ahead is difficult. What motivates them is the belief that big...
View ArticleHoning your bitcoin strategy
The troubles with bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox are just the latest bad news surrounding the digital currency. Earlier this month, Russia had banned the use of bitcoin, and new reports began to circulate of...
View ArticleEve bags $2.3 mln
Database firm Eve has received $2.3 million in seed funding, the company announced on its site. The investors were Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, Tom Pinckney, Sep Kamvar, and Zubair...
View ArticleAndreessen Horowitz backs UK startup Improbable
Andreessen Horowitz has made a $20 million investment in Improbable, the latter company announced in a blog post on its site. In addition to this funding, Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen...
View ArticleSign-in software company Envoy raises $15 mln from Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco-based Envoy, provider of sign-in software for office visitors to register and check-in via an iPad-based system, announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding from Andreessen...
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