Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
[This blog post is by Ben Horowitz, the Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz.] At our new venture fund, we’ve been spending time looking into new ways that will make the lives of entrepreneurs seeking...
View ArticleWhat Some VCs Do That We Don’t Like
My partner Ben and I have been active angel investors for years and now full-time venture capitalists for 9 months. But prior to that (and for most our lives), we've been entrepreneurs. Now that we've...
View ArticleSomething Old, Something New
Although Mark Twain’s statement that “There is no such thing as a new idea” may be an exaggeration, some of the world’s best businesses have been built on leveraging old ideas in a “new and curious...
View ArticleLooking Bigger
Call it the enterprise startup conundrum: how do you earn legitimacy if no one will give you an opportunity to become legitimate? The enterprise world is different from the consumer world: barriers to...
View ArticleLead Bullets
Early in my tenure as product manager for the web servers at Netscape, we faced a terrible crisis. We just got our hands on Microsoft’s new web server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and...
View ArticleGoogle Glass and the Glass Collective
I am tickled pink to announce Andreessen Horowitz’s participation in a new project called the Glass Collective. Along with our friends at Google Ventures and our old partners in crime at Kleiner...
View ArticleAnnouncing Anki
Today I am delighted to help unveil the best robotics startup I have ever seen — Anki. Andreessen Horowitz has been the main venture investor in Anki, which has been operating in stealth mode until...
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