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Chris Dixon
cdixon.posterous.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Chris Dixon, an entrepreneur and investor, writes about startups, venture capital, pricing software and hiring programmers.
What HN saysHN links it mainly as a source for startup and investing ideas, such as his MIT post, which commenters compare to a Bill Gates piece.
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- 1MIT is a national treasure2 people · 525 points · first shared 2011 · 150 comments on HN
- 2Dropbox and why you should invest in people2 people · 214 points · first shared 2011 · 74 comments on HN
- 3A scientific way to price b2b software2 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 4Why doesn't Hunch solve single problem instead of being generalized product?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 5Starting your first company1 people · 103 points · first shared 2010 · 33 comments on HN
- 6Some tidbits from Joel Spolsky's talk last night on recruiting programmers1 people · 81 points · first shared 2010 · 97 comments on HN
- 7Chris Dixon: Things I'd do if I ran a big VC firm1 people · 73 points · first shared 2010 · 25 comments on HN
- 8Bubble or bust? Nobody knows anything1 people · 48 points · first shared 2010 · 9 comments on HN
- 9Bitcasa and convergent encryption1 people · 47 points · first shared 2011 · 13 comments on HN
- 10The anti-bubble of 2001-20041 people · 45 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 11A few comments on Paul Graham re superangels1 people · 41 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 12Game Mechanics Applied To Angel Investing1 people · 24 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 13Thoughts on incumbents from a startup's perspective1 people · 12 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Vested vs Unvested Options1 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15Eric Ries by Chris Dixon1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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jonbischke · 2011-05-15
Not that anyone would ever accuse Bill Gates of copying anybody else but this seems pretty similar to what Chris Dixon blogged about a couple of months ago:
http://cdixon.posterous.com/mit-is-a-national-treasure
dr_ · 2011-04-18
The article fails to mention that the online storage space itself was considered quite competitive at the time. Yet Drew Houston was able to pull it off.
It's a bigger space than SAT prep, but given the right entrepreneur, either could have been successful.
Chris Dixon had thoughts on this in an earlier posting:
http://cdixon.posterous.com/dropbox-and-why-you-should-invest-in-peopl…