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Marc Andreessen

Watch: Marc Andreessen on Twitter, Secondary Sales, Pulling the Plug, and More

On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC insider event, I interviewed famed entrepreneur-investor Marc Andreessen, whose most recent headline-grabbing maneuver (intentionally or not) was to take a Twitter break one week ago. I talked with Andreessen about why he has had enough of the social media platform for now, along with a lot of other things. For […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen

Expect More M&A This Year and Next, Says Marc Andreessen

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen spoke at the Bloomberg Technology conference yesterday afternoon, and he said he expects far more M&A than the tech industry has seen in recent years. The conversation stemmed in large part from questions about LinkedIn’s announced acquisition by Microsoft, which disclosed Monday that it is paying$26.2 billion in cash for the […]

Filed Under: Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Marc Andreessen

Benchmark’s Newest Partner, Eric Vishria, On Year One at the Powerhouse Firm

In July of last year, Eric Vishria, a longtime Opsware executive who became co-founder and CEO of the social browsing startup Rockmelt, joined the Sand Hill Road firm Benchmark as its fifth general partner. It’s an enviable position, given the reputation of the 20-year-old firm, which has backed Uber, Snapchat, and the publicly traded companies […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Benchmark, Bill Gurley, Bugsnap, Confluent, Eric Vishria, Marc Andreessen

Don’t Panic: On VCs and Bubble Trouble

Several of the country’s most prominent venture capitalists have sent the startup world into a hysteria in recent weeks. Bill Gurley of Benchmark kicked off the panic when in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he lamented that companies have taken their burn rates to levels not seen since 1999 and noted that “more […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Bill Gurley, burn rates, Fred Wilson, Marc Andreessen

The Origins of Netscape, as Tweeted by Marc Andreessen

As everyone now knows, Marc Andreessen apparently made it a New Year’s resolution to begin tweeting, just as some of the platform’s most prolific users are deciding to dial it down. That’s good news for the roughly 42,000 of us who are following him, given that he usually has plenty of interesting observations to make. […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Marc Andreessen, Netscape, Twitter

Why Andreessen Horowitz’s Fourth Fund is Likely Around the Corner

Yesterday, in a WSJ series on venture capitalists’ predictions for 2014, Managing Partner Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz was asked if “venture capital returns have improved enough to draw renewed limited-partner interest in 2014.” Kupor said the question was really “whether investment dollars will continue to be concentrated in the top firms that enable them to generate […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Scott Kupor

VCs Want to Know: What Else Have You Got?

It’s getting tough out there for entrepreneurs. No longer is it enough to create a sustainable, profitable, fast-growing product that’s beloved by customers.  These days, top VCs are placing a bigger premium on what’s next. Andreessen Horowitz is “generally willing to take more risk on a product that hasn’t yet been built,” Marc Andreessen told me […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Battery Ventures, Brian O'Malley, Marc Andreessen, PunchTab, Ranjith Kumaran

Venture Heavyweights Sit Back as Deal Sizes Soar

It’s been a banner week for a number of Internet companies. Last Wednesday, social network Pinterest acknowledged closing on a $225 million round that valued the company at $3.8 billion. Shortly thereafter, AllThingsD reported that Snapchat, the messaging app, is now weighing a $200 million investment round that would value the company at $3.5 billion. And just yesterday, NextDoor, […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, Bill Gurley, Marc Andreessen, New Enterprise Associates, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Ravi Viswanathan, Snapchat

Marc Andreessen: Stories About Silicon Valley “Crack Me Up”

Silicon Valley has been receiving a lot of unfavorable media attention in recent months, from Valleywag to New York Magazine to The New Yorker. Last week, during a sit-down with Marc Andreessen at the Sand Hill Road offices of his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, we discussed some of that coverage, and what he makes of it. […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, George Packer, Marc Andreessen, New Yorker

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Out of Seed Investing

There’s been a lot of back and forth in recent weeks about whether or not the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is dialing back on certain types of Series A investments. But cofounder Marc Andreessen suggests a bigger shift is the firm’s decision to get out of seed investing, except when presented with “fringe” opportunities.  Andreessen explained the firm’s thinking […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Ronny Conway

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