DON’T RETRIEVE THE HYPE

“New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

Entreprenerd and angel investor Chris Dixon, preaching what he doesn’t practice at his massively overfunded and overhyped startup Hunch, Twitter via Business Insider, 6 April 2010

FOOTLOOSE AND FINANCIER-FREE

“We’re helping save the next generation of college grads that would have gone over to Morgan Stanley.”

Harvard MBA and Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon, who takes credit for a deal as readily as any investment banker, on porting Wall Street ethics over to the startup scene, New York Times, 7 March 2010