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It’s easy to see why Marc Andreessen is grinning on the front cover of Wired magazine this month. Inside, there’s an interview where he’s introduced as a “tenacious pioneer”, one of “our biggest heroes”, and someone who was so far ahead of the curve on his “five big ideas” that he had them “before everyone else”. It’s easy to admire Andreessen, a man whose disarming and engaging blog was a must-read during the financial crisis, when he would provide some very smart perspective from the point of view of a wealthy man, thousands of miles away from the epicenters of the crisis, who had some very sharp insights into what was going on.
The problem with Marc Andreessen
This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I've observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the recent turmoil in the stock market. In short, software is eating the world.
Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com
Andreessen Horowitz has a new $200mm Co-Investment Fund // ben's blog
This is a guest post by John O’Farrell, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz Today, we are delighted to announce the creation of a co-investment fund for our Fund II. Andreessen Horowitz now has $1.2 billion under management. We’re fortunate to be working with the best growth companies building the next global franchises—and we have the firepower to meet their needs, no matter how big a check they’re looking for.
In less than two years, Andreessen Horowitz has become one of the best-known venture firms around, with investments both in famous, later-stage companies like Groupon and in newer startups like TinyCo . Today the firm announced that it has raised a new $200 million co-investment fund. General partner John O’Farrell told me the new money is supposed to supplement investments made from the firm’s $650 million fund announced in November . That fund is stage agnostic, with investments ranging from $50,000 to $100 million, but the firm found that a lot of the money was going to large, later-stage deals in companies like Box.net. (Andreessen Horowitz has also been buying shares in Facebook and Twitter through the secondary markets.)
Andreessen Horowitz raises new fund to write bigger checks | VentureBeat
Andreessen Horowitz Raises Another $650 Million to Invest in Startups
This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. The channel is sponsored by TriNet . Andreessen Horowitz has raised another $650 million for its investment fund, the firm announced yesterday. The firm is just shy of 18 months old, started in June of 2009 as a joint venture between Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. The initial fund was $300 million, which the firm has used to make investments in a number of prominent companies, including Foursquare and Zynga.Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a $950 million venture capital firm that was launched on July 6, 2009. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are the general partners of the firm. Ben Horowitz: Why Andreessen Horowitz Just Raised $650,000,000 Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-howoritz-heres-why-andreessen-horowitz-just-raised-650,000,000 (businessinsider.com) [ edit ] Community Organizing Platform NationBuilder Raises $6.3M From Andreessen Horowitz; Causes Founder Joins As President (techcrunch.com) [ edit ]
Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz : pmarca
My partner Ben Horowitz and I are delighted to announce the formation of our new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and our first fund — $300 million in size — aimed purely at investing in the best new entrepreneurs, products, and companies in the technology industry. Between the two of us, Ben and I have started three companies directly, created many new products and services, run operating businesses at high levels of scale, angel invested in 45 tech startups in the last five years, and served on a broad cross-section of company boards with some of the best entrepreneurs and investors in the industry. Through all this, we have worked closely together for 15 years, and we could not be more excited to extend our partnership into venture capital. In undertaking this new mission, our core principles include: