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Chris Dixon: 3D Printing Will Transform Manufacturing, Social Media Startups Are Facing “General Fatigue”
Author: Markus Smith
Chris Dixon, the entrepreneur-turned angel investor-turned general partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, today said that he believes the 3D printing movement has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing and that it is an area where he would like to make multiple investments in the future. In contrast, he described startups in areas like social networking facing “general fatigue”. Earlier this month, Chris Dixon and Andreessen Horowitz led a $ 30 million Series C round in Shapeways, a 3D printing company, where he has now joined the board.
Shapeways is indicative of an untapped opportunity in hardware, he said. “3D has been talked up a lot, but it’s received very little investment from traditional VC firms,” Dixon said today on stage in an interview TC Disrupt.
“For us, we think it’s a major, incredibly significant innovation. It will transform manufacturing and I can see us making multiple investments.” Indeed, a lot of the smaller hardware players have turned to platforms like Kickstarter instead not just to raise money but also to drum up consumer interest and profile for their projects. This has almost become like a testing ground, with the most successful then eventually converting that growth into more traditional investment routes for startups.
New York, he said, has become a kind of “hub” for hardware, and it has opened up the opportunity for new startups and new investing in the city. New York, he said, is at the center of what he calls a “hardware renaissance”, with the clever engineers who had in the past put all their efforts into working on social networks “now working on hardware devices.”
He said this is because social networks are in the middle of a “general fatigue” and so people have turned to wanting to do “something tangible.”
The huge rush of smartphone devices hitting the market has also had an impact on the larger market for hardware and wearable computing products, he said. “The smartphone explosion has lowered the cost for a lot of components and that has dramatically lowered the costs of producing devices,” he noted.
He points out that the kind of disruption that a company like Shapeways provides is “innovation at the high end.”
He also compared hardware developments to “the same forces that when you think about what the internet did for written work.”
“Before the Internet you had to go to a publisher and get an investment. Now you can publish you ebook or blog and it dramatically lowered the cost and enabled the long tail, democratized writing. We can see 3D printing doing that to manufacturing. You can cut a deal with manufacturing now and have a Shapeways printer and the batch size is one.”
Dixon also compared the general climate for startups in New York in general to life in San Francisco.
“There are plenty of great investors here and that attracts a lot of entrepreneurs. The one thing that is missing is a whole mid-level layer. If a company has a hit product and want to scale and hire employees 50 to 100. If you want to go international, or scale a sales force. If I want to figure out a monetization thing in San Francisco I can go to Google to get that.” That acceleration is still developing here in New York, he says.
San Francisco is similar to New York with a lot of consumer stuff. Down the peninsula you have infrastructure and hardware but San Francisco is pretty similar to the New York scene, taking technology and applying it to the real world.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions from Earth’s orbit today at 4PM ET on Reddit
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been commanding the current goal to the International Area Station because December, and because then, he’s kept in close touch with those of us in the world below with the aid of social networks. Today, Hadfield will return to Reddit at 4PM ET for a new “Ask me anything” session– the first he will provide from area.
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4chan creator Chris Poole draws a future where anyone can make art
Author: Brittany Turner
4chan creator Chris “moot” Poole invested two years structure and refining Canvas, a family-friendly variation of the enormously successful 4chan, when he realized something was off. “90 percent of our users didn & rsquo; t feel like they were at the level where they could make things on Canvas,” Poole says. Whereas 4chan engagement stemmed from a really natural virality, Canvas & rsquo; s “remix” society possibly felt a little forced.
Poole and his team spent hours revamping Canvas & rsquo; s image editor in order to make remixing images easier, however it didn & rsquo; t work. The majority of Canvas individuals were spectators, he found– ballot on posts however never contributing things of their own. “What we learned is that & lsquo; I can & rsquo; t remix & rsquo; had a whole lot to do with people themselves not …
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Bane After Batman with Chris Kattan
Author: Janet Odell
Seven years after the occasions of The Dark Knight Rises, and eleven years since the madcap mafia antics of Corky Romano, where are Bane and Chris Kattan? Oh, here they are.
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Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with special guest Chris Davies, live at 5PM ET!
Author: Ian Simpson
After a weeklong hiatus, we’ve been aching to get back on the mics and speak our minds about all the crazy stuff going on in the world of mobile. And Myriam and Brad aren’t going it alone: they’re bringing Chris Davies of Slashgear fame (or is it infame?) to the hot seat and grilling him with the tough questions. It’ll be a blast, so you absolutely must join us, won’t you?
Oh, and if you have time to spare, we encourage you to sign up for a UStream account and participate in our podcast chats.
Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with special guest Chris Davies, live at 5PM ET! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Chris Cornell – Part Of Me ft. Timbaland
Author: Jade Kim
Music video by Chris Cornell performing Part Of Me. (C) 2009 Interscope Records
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Growing up Geek: Chris Pirillo
Author: James Cliff
Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have a special guest: internet entrepreneur, tech support blogger, media personality and geek, Chris Pirillo
I have to get that out of the way largely because I’ve been “doing things” publicly for so long that some people have already formed opinions about me and what they believe I stand for. That’s their problem, not mine.
I don’t know if there was ever a specific moment I found myself attracted to electronic objects? I certainly recall playing with my cousin’s Merlin and watching with wonder as my brother fiddled with his Alphie. I was certainly mesmerized by calculators, but that didn’t lead me to develop advanced math skills.
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Growing up Geek: Chris Pirillo originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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