| I wrote a book: Read Write Own | cdixon | 2023-06-22 |
| NFTs and A Thousand True Fans | cdixon | 2021-02-27 |
| Doing old things better vs doing brand new things | cdixon | 2020-10-19 |
| Computers that can make commitments | cdixon | 2020-01-26 |
| Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies | cdixon | 2020-01-17 |
| Strong and weak technologies | cdixon | 2019-01-08 |
| Who will control the software that powers the Internet? | cdixon | 2019-01-04 |
| Why decentralization matters | cdixon | 2018-02-18 |
| Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design | cdixon | 2017-05-27 |
| How Aristotle Created the Computer | cdixon | 2017-02-20 |
| Gadgets and Computers | cdixon | 2017-01-16 |
| As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally… | cdixon | 2016-09-25 |
| Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology | cdixon | 2016-08-18 |
| “Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the… | cdixon | 2016-08-07 |
| “Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform… | cdixon | 2016-08-07 |
| “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… | cdixon | 2016-07-30 |
| “The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions | cdixon | 2016-05-11 |
| Comma.ai | cdixon | 2016-04-02 |
| The Internet Economy | cdixon | 2016-03-13 |
| What’s Next in Computing? | cdixon | 2016-02-21 |
| If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of… | cdixon | 2016-02-11 |
| Nine reasons screenshots are awesome | cdixon | 2015-11-13 |
| Lessons from the PC video game industry | cdixon | 2015-10-31 |
| It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment… | cdixon | 2015-10-31 |
| Gordon Moore on self-driving cars | cdixon | 2015-10-23 |
| One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. | cdixon | 2015-10-17 |
| Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users | cdixon | 2015-06-27 |
| The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital | cdixon | 2015-06-07 |
| Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden | cdixon | 2015-05-12 |
| Proprietary services vs open protocols | cdixon | 2015-04-12 |
| Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds | cdixon | 2015-03-24 |
| "It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" | cdixon | 2015-03-13 |
| The idea maze for AI startups | cdixon | 2015-02-01 |
| Come for the tool, stay for the network | cdixon | 2015-01-31 |
| Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief | cdixon | 2015-01-24 |
| Stack Exchange | cdixon | 2015-01-20 |
| Skydio | cdixon | 2015-01-15 |
| VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle | cdixon | 2015-01-12 |
| How We Got To Now | cdixon | 2015-01-12 |
| Flow | cdixon | 2015-01-10 |
| The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality | cdixon | 2015-01-01 |
| "The Not So Global Internet" | cdixon | 2014-12-27 |
| Two eras of the internet: pull and push | cdixon | 2014-12-21 |
| "The dawn of trustworthy computing" | cdixon | 2014-12-11 |
| "This business is like bird spotting" | cdixon | 2014-12-01 |
| "The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI." | cdixon | 2014-11-23 |
| "A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" | cdixon | 2014-11-19 |
| "There's no way to tell where the border is between measurement and manipulation" | cdixon | 2014-11-15 |
| The return of podcasting | cdixon | 2014-11-14 |
| "The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things" | cdixon | 2014-11-08 |
| We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket supercomputers | cdixon | 2014-10-28 |
| "The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" | cdixon | 2014-10-20 |
| "A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years" | cdixon | 2014-10-15 |
| "A standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments for resources" | cdixon | 2014-10-14 |
| "You actually have to remind yourself not to believe" | cdixon | 2014-10-09 |
| Some ideas for native bitcoin apps | cdixon | 2014-10-04 |
| Steve Jobs on problem solving | cdixon | 2014-08-15 |
| "Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal" | cdixon | 2014-08-15 |
| "Bitcoin is the currency the internet deserves and needs" | cdixon | 2014-08-13 |
| As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels | cdixon | 2014-08-03 |
| Three levels of enthusiasm for technology | cdixon | 2014-08-02 |
| Bitcoin and volatility | cdixon | 2014-07-19 |
| "It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years" | cdixon | 2014-07-06 |
| The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale | cdixon | 2014-06-15 |
| Software eats software development | cdixon | 2014-04-13 |
| The decline of the mobile web | cdixon | 2014-04-07 |
| Oculus | cdixon | 2014-03-25 |
| "We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business" | cdixon | 2014-03-17 |
| "There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product" | cdixon | 2014-03-16 |
| Full stack startups | cdixon | 2014-03-15 |
| Stored Hashcash | cdixon | 2014-03-14 |
| "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" | cdixon | 2014-03-13 |
| Four categories of Bitcoin-related projects | cdixon | 2014-03-13 |
| If you asked people in 1989... | cdixon | 2014-03-12 |
| Coinbase | cdixon | 2013-12-12 |
| Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding | cdixon | 2013-09-28 |
| The Internet is for snacking | cdixon | 2013-09-14 |
| The idea maze | cdixon | 2013-08-04 |
| Some thoughts on mobile | cdixon | 2013-06-01 |
| Hardware startups | cdixon | 2013-04-30 |
| Technology predictions | cdixon | 2013-04-06 |
| What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years | cdixon | 2013-03-02 |
| “PCs are going to be like trucks” | cdixon | 2013-02-26 |
| The credentials trap | cdixon | 2013-02-12 |
| The computing deployment phase | cdixon | 2013-02-09 |
| Samsung’s predicament | cdixon | 2013-01-20 |
| Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable | cdixon | 2012-12-18 |
| The product lens | cdixon | 2012-12-02 |
| Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece | cdixon | 2012-11-23 |
| a16z | cdixon | 2012-11-19 |
| Agency problems | cdixon | 2012-10-19 |
| The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions | cdixon | 2012-10-18 |
| Regulatory hacks | cdixon | 2012-10-10 |
| The rise of enterprise marketing | cdixon | 2012-09-24 |
| Vanity milestones | cdixon | 2012-09-11 |
| Notes on the acquisition process | cdixon | 2012-09-10 |
| The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed | cdixon | 2012-09-03 |
| E-commerce startups | cdixon | 2012-08-15 |
| Ten million users is the new one million users | cdixon | 2012-08-03 |
| Shoehorning startups into the VC model | cdixon | 2012-07-19 |
| Capabilities and sensibilities | cdixon | 2012-07-17 |
| How bundling benefits sellers and buyers | cdixon | 2012-07-08 |
| Pricing to the demand curve | cdixon | 2012-07-04 |
| The real strategy behind tiered data plans | cdixon | 2012-06-27 |
| Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning | cdixon | 2012-06-25 |
| Firing | cdixon | 2012-06-19 |
| Critics and practitioners | cdixon | 2012-06-16 |
| Equity value | cdixon | 2012-06-06 |
| Different types of risk | cdixon | 2012-06-05 |
| Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment | cdixon | 2012-06-02 |
| The experience economy | cdixon | 2012-05-26 |
| When should you give up on an idea? | cdixon | 2012-05-24 |
| Four types of mobile apps | cdixon | 2012-05-21 |
| The default state of a startup is failure | cdixon | 2012-05-18 |
| Blogging to learn | cdixon | 2012-05-10 |
| Is it a tech bubble? | cdixon | 2012-04-29 |
| Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude | cdixon | 2012-04-26 |
| The risks of being a small investor in a private company | cdixon | 2012-04-25 |
| Outsource things you don’t care about | cdixon | 2012-04-22 |
| Offline first, mobile enabled | cdixon | 2012-04-20 |
| “Meaningful” startups | cdixon | 2012-04-18 |
| There are two ways to make large datasets useful | cdixon | 2012-04-14 |
| Increasing velocity | cdixon | 2012-04-10 |
| Facebook’s response to Yahoo’s patent lawsuit | cdixon | 2012-04-03 |
| Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds | cdixon | 2012-04-02 |
| Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy | cdixon | 2012-03-26 |
| The myth of the overnight success | cdixon | 2012-03-16 |
| Some tips for interacting with the press | cdixon | 2012-03-01 |
| The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge platforms with lots of income streams | cdixon | 2012-02-26 |
| Once you take money, the clock starts ticking | cdixon | 2012-02-25 |
| Big timing | cdixon | 2012-02-23 |
| “It is the human friction that makes the sparks” | cdixon | 2012-02-19 |
| Platform distribution risks | cdixon | 2012-02-14 |
| eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce | cdixon | 2012-02-13 |
| Between failure and Facebook | cdixon | 2012-02-13 |
| Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security | cdixon | 2012-02-12 |
| And then, suddenly, it works | cdixon | 2012-02-11 |
| Bedrock programming | cdixon | 2012-02-06 |
| Who should learn to program? | cdixon | 2012-01-31 |
| What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed | cdixon | 2012-01-23 |
| Chris Sacca on the implied user contract | cdixon | 2012-01-23 |
| Revenue vs margin | cdixon | 2012-01-22 |
| Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise | cdixon | 2012-01-05 |
| Building products from improvised user behaviors | cdixon | 2012-01-02 |
| Recruiting programmers to your startup | cdixon | 2011-12-29 |
| What jobs are users hiring your product to perform? | cdixon | 2011-12-21 |
| Trusting platforms | cdixon | 2011-12-20 |
| An internet of people | cdixon | 2011-12-19 |
| Forces that affect whether a large company will buy your product (according to Marc Andreessen) | cdixon | 2011-12-14 |
| Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high” | cdixon | 2011-12-13 |
| Three types of acquisitions | cdixon | 2011-12-10 |
| Technology and job creation | cdixon | 2011-12-08 |
| Growth curves of startups | cdixon | 2011-12-07 |
| Always have 18 months of cash in the bank | cdixon | 2011-12-06 |
| Making industries “garage ready” for startups | cdixon | 2011-12-05 |
| Why is enterprise tech so far behind consumer tech? Because it can be. | cdixon | 2011-12-04 |
| The enterprise: buyers versus users | cdixon | 2011-12-03 |
| “Otherwise do something else” | cdixon | 2011-12-01 |
| Business development: the Goldilocks principle | cdixon | 2011-11-28 |
| Some lessons learned | cdixon | 2011-09-28 |
| Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home | cdixon | 2011-09-12 |
| Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world? | cdixon | 2011-08-28 |
| What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need) | cdixon | 2011-08-02 |
| Pivoting into a new corporate structure | cdixon | 2011-08-01 |
| The downside of accelerated investment decisions | cdixon | 2011-07-28 |
| The tragedy of the anticommons | cdixon | 2011-07-26 |
| Thomas Jefferson on Patents | cdixon | 2011-07-16 |
| Founder/market fit | cdixon | 2011-06-19 |
| Allocation investing and the social premium | cdixon | 2011-06-16 |
| Notes on raising seed financing | cdixon | 2011-06-09 |
| Accurate contrarian theories | cdixon | 2011-05-16 |
| Options | cdixon | 2011-05-12 |
| Best practices for raising a VC round | cdixon | 2011-05-04 |
| There are two kinds of people in the world | cdixon | 2011-04-26 |
| Inferring intent on mobile devices | cdixon | 2011-04-24 |
| Financing risk | cdixon | 2011-04-20 |
| Apple and the TV industry | cdixon | 2011-04-17 |
| Showing up | cdixon | 2011-04-12 |
| Google’s social strategy | cdixon | 2011-04-10 |
| App store shenanigans | cdixon | 2011-04-01 |
| A few points about the “tech bubble” debate | cdixon | 2011-03-27 |
| Founder Stories | cdixon | 2011-03-24 |
| SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups | cdixon | 2011-03-05 |
| The importance of predictability for platform developers | cdixon | 2011-02-21 |
| Selling pickaxes during a gold rush | cdixon | 2011-02-05 |
| Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will. | cdixon | 2011-01-12 |
| The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy | cdixon | 2010-12-26 |
| The interoperability of social networks | cdixon | 2010-11-10 |
| Timing your startup | cdixon | 2010-11-07 |
| Instrumenting the offline world | cdixon | 2010-10-29 |
| You need to use social services to understand them | cdixon | 2010-10-23 |
| Online privacy: what’s at stake | cdixon | 2010-10-21 |
| Some thoughts on incumbents | cdixon | 2010-10-07 |
| The segmentation of the venture industry | cdixon | 2010-09-26 |
| If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough | cdixon | 2010-09-12 |
| Web services should be both federated and extensible | cdixon | 2010-09-04 |
| Converts versus equity deals | cdixon | 2010-08-31 |
| Good bizdev cannibalizes itself | cdixon | 2010-08-28 |
| The bowling pin strategy | cdixon | 2010-08-21 |
| Graphs | cdixon | 2010-07-22 |
| It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are | cdixon | 2010-07-05 |
| Competition is overrated | cdixon | 2010-06-26 |
| Builders and extractors | cdixon | 2010-06-19 |
| Pivoting | cdixon | 2010-06-14 |
| Designing products for single and multiplayer modes | cdixon | 2010-06-12 |
| Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect | cdixon | 2010-06-08 |
| Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry | cdixon | 2010-06-06 |
| There are three New York Cities | cdixon | 2010-06-04 |
| While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core | cdixon | 2010-05-22 |
| Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads | cdixon | 2010-05-15 |
| Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up | cdixon | 2010-05-08 |
| Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted | cdixon | 2010-05-02 |
| The tradeoff between open and closed | cdixon | 2010-04-25 |
| Twitter and third-party Twitter developers | cdixon | 2010-04-10 |
| Underhyping your startup | cdixon | 2010-04-06 |
| Size markets using narratives, not numbers | cdixon | 2010-04-03 |
| Capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it | cdixon | 2010-03-27 |
| Stickiness is bad for business | cdixon | 2010-03-25 |
| Developing new startup ideas | cdixon | 2010-03-14 |
| The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing | cdixon | 2010-03-11 |
| News is a lousy business for Google too | cdixon | 2010-03-07 |
| It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley | cdixon | 2010-02-27 |
| A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars | cdixon | 2010-02-19 |
| Don’t be creative about the wrong things | cdixon | 2010-02-16 |
| Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies | cdixon | 2010-02-11 |
| Selling to enterprises | cdixon | 2010-02-06 |
| The NYC tech scene is exploding | cdixon | 2010-02-01 |
| Institutional failure | cdixon | 2010-01-30 |
| Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC | cdixon | 2010-01-29 |
| Should Apple be more open? | cdixon | 2010-01-28 |
| Incumbents | cdixon | 2010-01-26 |
| How to disrupt Wall Street | cdixon | 2010-01-23 |
| Techies and normals | cdixon | 2010-01-22 |
| Collective knowledge systems | cdixon | 2010-01-17 |
| Security through diversity | cdixon | 2010-01-12 |
| Shutting down | cdixon | 2010-01-09 |
| The next big thing will start out looking like a toy | cdixon | 2010-01-03 |
| What’s strategic for Google? | cdixon | 2009-12-30 |
| What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? | cdixon | 2009-12-28 |
| Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices? | cdixon | 2009-12-27 |
| Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly | cdixon | 2009-12-26 |
| Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm | cdixon | 2009-12-22 |
| Anatomy of a bad search result | cdixon | 2009-12-19 |
| Google’s feature creep | cdixon | 2009-12-17 |
| Search and the social graph | cdixon | 2009-12-14 |
| Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail? | cdixon | 2009-12-08 |
| Does a VC’s brand matter? | cdixon | 2009-12-05 |
| Some thoughts on SEO | cdixon | 2009-12-01 |
| The importance of institutional redundancy | cdixon | 2009-11-20 |
| Pitch yourself, not your idea | cdixon | 2009-11-14 |
| Presenting Founder Collective | cdixon | 2009-11-09 |
| How to select your angel investors | cdixon | 2009-11-03 |
| The most important question to ask before taking seed money | cdixon | 2009-10-30 |
| Embrace the medium | cdixon | 2009-10-27 |
| Twelve months notice | cdixon | 2009-10-23 |
| The ideal startup career path | cdixon | 2009-10-22 |
| The challenge of creating a new category | cdixon | 2009-10-20 |
| If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad for the wireless ecosystem | cdixon | 2009-10-18 |
| Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity | cdixon | 2009-10-17 |
| What’s the relationship between cost and price? | cdixon | 2009-10-16 |
| What carries you up will also bring you down | cdixon | 2009-10-13 |
| Understanding your market | cdixon | 2009-10-11 |
| Man and superman | cdixon | 2009-10-10 |
| The importance of asking people questions | cdixon | 2009-10-06 |
| The problem with online “local” businesses | cdixon | 2009-10-02 |
| Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS? | cdixon | 2009-10-01 |
| Why content sites are getting ripped off | cdixon | 2009-09-29 |
| Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing) | cdixon | 2009-09-29 |
| What if online business model innovation is slowing down? | cdixon | 2009-09-28 |
| The new economy | cdixon | 2009-09-28 |
| Online advertising is all about purchasing intent | cdixon | 2009-09-27 |
| Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising | cdixon | 2009-09-26 |
| Software patents should be abolished | cdixon | 2009-09-24 |
| Climbing the wrong hill | cdixon | 2009-09-19 |
| Thanks… | cdixon | 2009-09-17 |
| The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps | cdixon | 2009-09-14 |
| Entrepreneurs need to learn some law | cdixon | 2009-09-13 |
| Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out | cdixon | 2009-09-12 |
| Non-linearity of technology adoption | cdixon | 2009-09-10 |
| Getting a job in venture capital | cdixon | 2009-09-08 |
| Is now a good time to start a company? | cdixon | 2009-09-07 |
| The only college major that matters | cdixon | 2009-09-06 |
| Incubators | cdixon | 2009-09-04 |
| Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products | cdixon | 2009-09-04 |
| Question from a reader | cdixon | 2009-09-02 |
| Don’t shop your term sheet | cdixon | 2009-09-02 |
| Information is the (other) currency of venture capital | cdixon | 2009-09-01 |
| VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean | cdixon | 2009-08-31 |
| New York City is poised for a tech revival | cdixon | 2009-08-31 |
| To make smarter systems, it’s all about the data | cdixon | 2009-08-30 |
| Thales the Milesian | cdixon | 2009-08-29 |
| function my_exit_payout(…) | cdixon | 2009-08-28 |
| The one number you should know about your equity grant | cdixon | 2009-08-27 |
| Pitching the VC partnership | cdixon | 2009-08-27 |
| Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems | cdixon | 2009-08-25 |
| Dividing equity between founders | cdixon | 2009-08-23 |
| Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret | cdixon | 2009-08-22 |
| Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem | cdixon | 2009-08-20 |
| Options on early stage companies | cdixon | 2009-08-17 |
| Ideal first round funding terms | cdixon | 2009-08-16 |