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Fab – FORE!
Marc and Ben founded Andreessen Horowitz with some very explicit beliefs. We would invest in Information Technology companies, and not in things medical, green or clean. We would have a preference...
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Hiring Rockstars
In Europe, most sports leagues participate in a system of Promotion and Relegation. At the end of each season, the top three teams in the second league get promoted to the first league and the bottom...
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Who You Gonna Call? Navigating the Existential Crisis
This series of posts starts off with a short quiz for the startup CEO: Q: Who’s responsible for developing your product? A: That’s easy—Engineering! Q: Who in your company is responsible for selling...
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A Recipe for Growth: Adding Layers to the Cake
Businesses don’t grow themselves. One of the most important jobs of a CEO is to aggressively define and pursue a growth agenda for his or her business. Why is this important? Growth typically...
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The Freaky Friday Management Technique
Many years ago, I encountered a particularly tricky management situation. Two excellent organizations in the company, Customer Support and Sales Engineering, went to war with each other. The Sales...
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Management Debt
Thanks to Ward Cunningham, the metaphor technical debt is now a well-understood concept. While you may be able to borrow time by writing quick and dirty code, you will eventually have to pay it...
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Who You Gonna Call? Strategic M&A
In part I, I talked about how up-front investment in a high-caliber strategic business development function helped to save Loudcloud when an existential crisis hit in 2002. But the value of strategic...
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Steve Jobs, Superhero
When I was a kid, I read tons of superhero comic books. I fantasized about superpowers, but the storylines about heroes with massive Achilles’ heels really held my attention the most. They saved the...
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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 years?
Since Marc and I founded Andreessen Horowitz three years ago, we have raised $2.7 billion. That statement begs a few questions. The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise...
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The Future of Networking
Major technology platforms tend to last about 25 to 30 years. This gives them time to gather sufficient developer momentum, enable a set of transformational ideas, build those ideas, and form a large...
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