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Lessons in Leadership From Warlord 6: A Chat With Lieutenant General John Vines 24 Jul 2013 | 02:05 am
I recently had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat with Lieutenant General John Vines, who is regarded as one of the most influential U.S. military leaders of the past twenty years. You can see t...
People Marketplaces 23 Jul 2013 | 01:56 am
It seems like there has been a veritable explosion of companies that are leveraging technology to build “people marketplaces” that provision various services. On one side of these marketplaces, consu...
Capital Market Climate Change 17 Jul 2013 | 01:32 am
If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. You probably thought that valuation...
Finding the Right Fit 4 Jul 2013 | 02:13 am
All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous. But the best pitches are also usually non-...
Shared Command 4 Jul 2013 | 01:50 am
Zynga recently put a new management structure in place where Don Mattrick is the CEO and my friend Mark Pincus, the founder and former CEO, will be the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Product Offi...
Where Orwell got it wrong 22 Jun 2013 | 01:59 am
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. In his novel 1984, George Orwell forecasted a dystopian society 36 years in the future, in which an all-powerful state uses advanced technolog...
The Series A Round is the New Series B Round 20 Jun 2013 | 02:49 am
The venture industry is awash with talk of the “Series A Crunch”, where it’s getting progressively more challenging for seed companies to land follow-on financing. In my short two-year tenure as a fu...
Pindrop 20 Jun 2013 | 02:16 am
One of the most famous hackers in the world, Kevin Mitnick, published a book about his exploits — “The Art of Deception” — after he got out of prison. This guy broke into corporations, government agen...
Bringing the Linux Revolution to Networking 20 Jun 2013 | 02:10 am
Today I’m excited to announce the company that will transform the networking industry for the cloud era, Cumulus Networks, which has been in stealth for over three years. We were seed investors in Cum...
Announcing Anki 10 Jun 2013 | 10:37 pm
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 to...