Marc Andreessen Blog Archive →
Born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay, and September 17, 2009 it was announced he had been named to the board of HP. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences. - Wikipedia
Favorite Posts From Marc’s Blog:
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 2: When the VCs say “no”
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 3: “But I don’t know any VCs!”
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 7: Why a startup’s initial business plan doesn’t matter that much
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
- The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1
- The truth about venture capitalists, Part 2
- The truth about venture capitalists, Part 3
- The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 0: Introduction
- The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
- The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
- The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
- The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!
- The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people
- Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
- Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on micromanagement
- CEO Crime & Punishment
- The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
- Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data
- The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
- How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with
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Thanks to Jed Christiansen for archiving Marc’s brilliant and incredibly helpful posts!
