| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.01.2014 | With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest | “There’s a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that’s the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on,” says moot aka Christopher Poole . So rather than raise mo... |
| 04.11.2013 | 4chan’s Christopher Poole: I Was A Teenage Coder—And Then I Stopped | ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.
Christopher Poole, known online as “moot,” founded the forum-based social network 4chan when he was 15. Coding in secret... |
| 08.02.2013 | Draw Quest | Drawing is one form of creative expression that has not made a rapid transition
to the digital/online world. The tablet may well change that. Paper is
one of the most amazing tablet apps I have seen. It is beautifully made
and the art that ... |
| 08.02.2013 | Moot’s New iPad App, DrawQuest Challenges Users Of All Ages To Create And Share Drawings | 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) launched Canvas in 2011 as a place to remix images and reduce friction in the image creation process. But he found that unless you were an active member of the remixing community, it wasn’t as n... |
| 17.10.2012 | Second Screen, Third Screen, ... | It's pretty common practice these days to pull out a tablet or phone during big live events and watch on two screens. The industry has taken to calling this the second screen experience. Or social TV. It's an area our firm has a few bets in... |
| 27.05.2012 | Investment Thesis @USV | Venture firms operate a bunch of different ways. Some have a geographical focus, others have a sector focus, still others have a stage focus. Union Square Ventures’ focus has evolved into what we call a “thesis” but is probably better descr... |
| 22.04.2012 | Paintball | I was up at Columbia University on thursday speaking to Steve Blank's students. Steve did a weeklong version his Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia last week. During the Q&A, a student asked me how I engaged with the startups we invest in... |
| 01.02.2012 | Art Hack Day | This past weekend, I find myself thinking about Steve standing at the crossroads of Art and Tech, and I wonder if this is what he had in mind as I navigate down a deserted industrial street in Bushwick and hone in on a crowd of smoking hips... |
| 20.01.2012 | First Look: Backplane, The Lady Gaga-Backed Community Platform With All-Star Investors (Invites) | Early last summer we wrote about Backplane, a mysterious startup with impressive backers and some major star power behind it: one of its cofounders, Troy Carter, is Lady Gaga’s manager. And Lady Gaga herself has a significant stake in the c... |
| 13.12.2011 | How Pixiv Built Japan’s 12th Largest Site With Manga-Girl Drawings (Redesign Sneak Peek And Invites) | Unless you live in Japan, chances are you've never heard of Pixiv. Even if you do live in Japan, unless you are young and really into drawing manga characters, chances are you’ve still never heard of Pixiv. But its 3.6 million visitors a mo... |
| 18.10.2011 | Tim O’Reilly Vs. Christopher Poole On The Future Of Web Identity | “Facebook and Google do identity wrong, Twitter does it better,” is the most oft repeated soundbite from 4Chan founder’s Christopher Poole’s Web 2.0 Summit talk today. Actually the truth is a bit more complex than that, when talking about s... |
| 17.10.2011 | Anonymity or identity? 4chan founder says we need both | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you were starting your own web service, would ... |
| 07.10.2011 | Feature Friday: Canvas Bookmarklet | One of the distinctive features of canvas is the sticker tray in the upper left of the page.
When you use canvas, you drag and drop these stickers onto images to recognize great posts. You also drag and drop the stickers to share on social ... |
| 21.09.2011 | In Situ Content | I've been working on a prezi for a talk I'm giving next monday at OMMA Global (here's the high level outline of the talk). It's a work in progress. I started it last weekend. I do a bit more each morning. I hope to have it done before I wal... |
| 07.09.2011 | 4chan Founder Launches Canvas, a Social Forum For Remixing Images | Canvas, an online forum for sharing, remixing and commenting on images came out of private beta recently. The site was built by 4chan founder Christopher Poole (known online as “moot”) and is intended as a more interactive, less unruly vers... |
| 07.09.2011 | Canv.as Opens Up | I posted about Canv.as here once before. And I'm certain that a number of readers checked it out. But getting into Canv.as required a login until yesterday. And that kept things more or less under the covers. That's all over now. Canv.as is... |
| 06.09.2011 | Moot’s Media Sharing And Editing Community Canvas Opens Its Doors To The Public | 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) made waves this past year when he unveiled his newest project— Canvas. Canvas is a place for people to post media (i.e. images, video) and start a discussion around this content. The platform la... |
| 15.06.2011 | To Science And Art | I was passing by Cooper Union the other day and was struck by the words on the front facade of its iconic building on Astor Place.
This phrase "to science and art" has been stuck in my mind since. I've been thinking about what hap... |
| 14.06.2011 | Canvas | I posted this on the USV blog yesterday but thought I should share it with the AVC community as well.
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We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almos... |
| 13.06.2011 | Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot's New Startup Canvas | Exclusive: 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) is announcing a round of funding today for his new startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has led a $3 million series A round of funding, with all of the company’s previo... |
| 13.06.2011 | Remix this: Image-sharing site Canv.as brings in $3M | Canv.as, an online image-sharing website created by 4chan founder Christopher Poole, has raised $3 million from Union Square Ventures, the company announced today.
The Canv.as website is an imageboard that lets people post photos or other p... |
| 13.06.2011 | Remix this: Image-sharing site Canv.as brings in $3M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Canv.as, an online image-sharing website created ... |
| 13.06.2011 | Canvas | We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in Internet communities for almost 15 years and we are constantly reminded of the power of the community. Whenever we are presented with t... |
| 20.05.2011 | The Hackathon Is Almost Here. Come Root For Your Favorite Hackers This Sunday! | The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is taking place in NYC this weekend and is shaping up to be our biggest and best yet. We’ll be hosting hundreds of hackers all weekend long. Come hang out with them, or watch their presentations in person at... |
| 07.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) Christopher Poole: Build A Product Before You Build A Platform | One of the biggest startup cliches is that every other startup wants to become a platform for other startups to build on. But to Christopher Poole, the founder of Canvas and 4Chan, that is the wrong approach. “People get caught up in trends... |
| 05.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) Moot Reimagines The Image Board With A Fresh Canvas | When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) started 4chan, it was a very basic image board that attracted an incredibly active and vibrant community. But 4chan itself is not a pretty site. It is almost Craisglist-like in its barrenness. That is why P... |
| 02.04.2011 | (Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes | When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many of the Internet’s most pervasive memes, ... |
| 29.03.2011 | 4chan founder looks to Reddit for a new Canv.as community | Christopher Poole, also known as “moot” and the founder of online imageboard 4chan, has a new image-sharing startup called Canv.as. Now he just needs to build a community around it as successful as — but hopefully a bit tamer than — his las... |
| 23.03.2011 | 4chan founder’s Canv.as opens up to the world — but just a taste | Canv.as, a slightly secretive image-sharing and content creation site created by 4chan founder Christopher Poole, has opened its doors to the rest of the world — but for viewing purposes only.
Existing beta Canv.as users can link to threads... |
| 01.02.2011 | What you need to know - 02/01/11 | 33need launches to enable microinvestments for a good cause; China censors word "Egypt" in searches
Launching today is 33needs, a new platform for companies to showcase how they’re going to change the world and raise money through... |
| 31.01.2011 | From the Creator of 4chan Comes the More Mature Canvas | The new startup from 4chan’s Chris Poole a collaborative, image-centric forum called Canvas, is rolling out invites a few at a time starting today.
Users upload images and remix them using Photoshop and a rudimentary photo editor inside Can... |
| 31.01.2011 | 4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World | Canvas launches today for 4,000 or so lucky souls.
Seven year old 4chan, created by now-23 year old Christopher Poole, continues to delight and enrage the Internet. Major Internet memes were either created or spread on 4chan, as were more d... |
| 12.08.2010 | Rethinking Some of Those Funding Success Stories | Have a great team. Pick a huge market. Build an awesome product. And boom, the financing will be yours, just like that. Except, not really.
Perhaps we do tend to glamorize those sorts of amazing funding success stories, something that can p... |
| 28.07.2010 | 4chan is Hiring – Unless It’s a Prank | Unless it’s an elaborate and pointless prank – and come on, how likely is that? – 4chan is hiring. To be more specific, a 4chan spin-off, called Canvas, is hiring for several New York-based technical positions.
Canvas has yet to be publicly... |
| 27.07.2010 | Chatroulette Calls The PoPo And Crosses Fingers In Hopes Of Investment | Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy recently posted this strange missive detailing Chatroulette’s commitment to cleaning up its act. In battling the porn plague, Ternovskiy has resorted to tracking offending IP addresses and turning them... |
