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| Apr 29, 2019 | Robotic Startup Anki Is Shutting Down After Raising Around $200M | 32 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Anki, a robotics and AI toy startup that had raised around $200 million over time, has shut its doors, the company has confirmed (Recode originally broke the story).
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| Jul 23, 2018 | What to Do with Too Much Advice | “Make for yourself a Rav (a teacher); acquire for yourself a friend; and judge every person on the positive side” -Pirkei Avot
We recently announced the launch of a new version of Startup School. As part of that, we created a library of th... |
| Nov 22, 2016 | Swipe Right for Startup Success | How Love and Product-Market Fit are two peas in a pod, by Luke Angell
Like most people in life, you probably have been looking or are looking for love, to help you live a happier and more fulfilled life. As an entrepreneur, you are also pr... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Chris Dixon Is Coming To Disrupt NY To Talk About All The Weird Shit He’s Investing In | Today we’re pleased to announce that Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, will be joining us at Disrupt NY. This is great news, and let me tell you why.
Usually venture capitalists are pretty boring. They generally wear... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Postponing IPOs Can Deliver Information Advantage | David Famolari Contributor
Editor’s note: David Famolari is a director at Verizon Ventures.
It’s taking longer for startups to get to IPO, but that’s not necessarily bad news for investors in private companies. Why? Because startups today a... |
| Aug 21, 2014 | Twitter Demystified: How To RT, MT, #FF And Fave Like A Pro | Twitter has a problem: New users just don’t know how to use it.
To help newbies sign up and start tweeting, the company has made a number of recent changes. Redesigned profiles, a giant World Cup marketing push, and rejiggering the Home tim... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | EBay Asks Shareholders To Vote Against PayPal Split While Icahn Claims CEO ‘Incompetence’ Cost $4B | The war of words between eBay and its new shareholder Carl Icahn continues to rage on. Today, eBay issued a notice of an upcoming annual meeting, in which the company asked shareholders flat out to vote against Icahn’s proposal to spin off ... |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Andreessen shoots back after Icahn accuses him of misconduct in Skype purchase | The spat between venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and activist investor Carl Icahn took another turn yesterday, with the former accusing the latter of “making up a fake conspiracy theory out of thin air.”
The central event: Microsoft boug... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Icahn Vs. Andreessen: Battle Royale | Why can’t Carl Icahn and Marc Andreessen get along?
Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has been pushing eBay to spin out its PayPal division, while Andreessen — acting in his capacity as a director on eBay’s board — is siding with th... |
| Feb 28, 2014 | Quote of the Day: Marc Andreessen on Advertising | “Quality journalism businesses need to either take responsibility for their own high-quality advertisers and ads, or work with partners who do. There is no excuse for crappy network-served teeth whitening come-ons andone weird trick ads ser... |
| Feb 1, 2014 | Bitcoin’s Emerging Price Stability | Earlier in January Bitcoin, as it receded as recipient of an infinite press, began to see its trading range tighten after months of wild swings. I pointed this out as perhaps the start of new stability for Bitcoin, which in turn could help ... |
| Jul 7, 2013 | In The Bay Area, Why “The Rent Is Too Damn High” | Semil Shah Contributor
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| Jun 11, 2013 | Anki Raises $50M in Funding | Anki, a San Francisco, CA-based startup focused on bringing artificial intelligence and robotics to everyday lives, raised $50m in funding.
Backers included Andreessen Horowitz (read here their announcement), Index Ventures (read here) and ... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Anki Debuts Serious Robotics AI With Fun Racing Game At WWDC, Raises $50M Led By A16Z | Remember the cute Anki Drive demo from WWDC? Well what you might have missed is that the toy car racing game was just a front for a hardcore robotics artificial intelligence startup that could let machines understand exactly where they are ... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Funding Daily: Weaponized robot vehicle edition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jun 10, 2013 | Anki zooms autonomous robotic racing cars out of stealth mode at WWDC | Robotic, weapon-shooting cars kicked off the keynote at Apple’s WWDC today.
Anki is an artificial intelligence and robotics startup that emerged out of stealth mode today and unveiled its first product — a car racing game called Anki Drive.... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Anki zooms autonomous robotic racing cars out of stealth mode at WWDC | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Robotic, weapon-shooting cars kicked off the keynote at Apple’s WWDC today.
Anki is an artificial intelligence and robotics startup tha... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | Google and its rich friends will pay you to create Google Glass apps | Some men wearing Google Glass.
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If you have a great idea for how to use Google Glass, a big fat check could... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Queen Elizabeth giving out £1M prize for engineering | First five winners are Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen
In a move to counter the outdated image of engineering, and make it an attractive career choice for young people, the Queen of England will be ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf Among Inaugural Winners Of The £1M Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering | Queen Elizabeth II is not exactly known for being a digital-first champion of technology, but it looks like the British monarchy may be trying to change that association going forward, with a new award to recognize tech leaders, the Queen E... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Hunch, SiteAdvisor Founder And Angel Investor Chris Dixon Leaves eBay To Join Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner | Hunch and SiteAdvisor founder, and prolific angel investor Chris Dixon is leaving his current position at eBay to join Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. Dixon will become the firm’s seventh general partner, an... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Andreessen Horowitz snaps up New York tech star Chris Dixon | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz h... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Andreessen Horowitz snaps up New York tech star Chris Dixon | Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has brought on its first new partner in two years. The firm’s new hire Chris Dixon is a New York City-based angel investor and two-time entrepreneur.
Most recently, Dixon was tasked with runni... |
| Aug 5, 2012 | VCs And Marketing: How The Big Players Play | Editor’s Note: Sales Marketing Manager Leslie Hitchcock is a non-editorial TechCrunch employee. In addition to working at TechCrunch and being super fashionable, she reviews startups and tech products occasionally on her personal blog, Lesl... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Mary Meeker: New Job, But Still Queen Of The 'Net | |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Andreessen Says He Has No Plans For “An Operating Role” At Yahoo | VC Marc Andreessen has taken to his personal blog to quell the rumors that he’s in the running for the position of chairman of the board at Yahoo. The rumors have been widely reported by a number of news outlets based on unknown sources. Se... |
| Dec 3, 2011 | Spare Me From “Product Guys” | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Aaron Harris is a co-founder of Tutorspree, the marketplace for tutoring. Follow him @harris, or take a lesson from him on Tutorspree.
We’re seeing people move away from finance and law and towards a culture... |
| Sep 24, 2011 | Glam Media Acquires Ning | Glam Media, Inc., a social content platform company with a large online global reach for women, has acquired Ning, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based online platform for building social websites.
Launched in 2005, Glam Media currently has more than ... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Glam acquires Ning, boasts that it’s now No. 2 in reach behind Facebook | Glam Media, a content and media company focused on women but with increasing ambition, has acquired Ning, a web service that lets people build their own social networks. The purchase price was undisclosed, but the deal is well below Ning’s ... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Ning Acquired: Here’s How it Evolved Over 6 Years | Today Ning chairman and co-founder Marc Andreessen announced the “merger” of his company with a larger company, Glam Media. In other words, Glam acquired Ning. It’s interesting to look back at the history of Ning, a DIY social networking se... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Glam acquires Ning, boasts that it’s now No. 2 in reach behind Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Glam Media, a content and media company focused o... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| Jul 5, 2010 | 4 Tips for Raising Funds in a Harsh Environment | July 5, 2010 5 min read
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| May 17, 2010 | That Person Won't Scale | One of the best things to happen to startup land this spring is the arrival of Ben Horowitz as a serious blogger. Like his partner Marc Andreessen, Ben has a ton of great experiences to share and he is doing just that right now.
I particula... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Ning CEO Bianchini steps down to become EIR at Andreessen Horowitz | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ning CEO and co-founder Gina Bianchini is leaving... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Ning CEO Bianchini steps down to become EIR at Andreessen Horowitz | Ning CEO and co-founder Gina Bianchini is leaving the build-your-own-social-network startup to become an executive-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, the new venture firm from her co-founder and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen.
Chief ope... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | The Top 20 VC Bloggers (September 2009) | When it comes to lists of top VCs, one of our favorites is the top VC bloggers. Larry Cheng, a partner at Fidelity Ventures, started keeping just such a list last May, based on how many subscribers each VC blogger has on Google Reader. This... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | Andreessen gets back into browsers with RockMelt? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Netscape founder turned investor Marc Andreessen ... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | Softball: Marc Andreessen Talks Tech At Fortune Brainstorm | Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky is interviewing Marc Andreessen in an evening session of the Fortune Brainstorm in Pasadena, CA. Unfortunately Lashinsky didn’t ask any hard questions (um, Ning worth $750 million?). But among the softballs were a f... |
| Jul 7, 2009 | Marc Andreessen Becomes Gigantic Angel | Marc Andreessen announced on his blog that he and his investing partner Ben Horowitz have funded an investment pool to the tune of $300 million for the purpose of investing in technology start-ups.
The investment philosophy of the new firm,... |
| Jul 6, 2009 | The VC's Customer (continued) | About four years, I wrote a post on this blog asserting that the VC's customer is the entrepreneur. I wrote:
The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. That's
the only way to think about the venture capital business tha... |
| May 30, 2009 | The Top VC Blogs (According To Google Reader) | Venture capitalists can be valuable sources of information about the tech community. Not only do they have quality insider information but they also have a knack for figuring out how to evaluate startups. So it makes sense that their blogs ... |
| Apr 29, 2009 | 10 lessons from a failed startup | A year and a half ago, my co-founder Dev Nag and I started an internet TV network for games called PlayCafe. Our ambitious plan was to run highly interactive game shows in which everyone was a contestant. Players could watch our hosts, answ... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | The king of customer development starts a blog (and tweets too) | Steve Blank, the king of customer development, has started a blog at steveblank.com. And he’s on Twitter too: @sgblank. Steve is one of the great startup mentors of all time and he is using his blog to share 30 years of Silicon Valley war s... |
| Feb 20, 2009 | Welcome To The "Dark Side" Marc and Ben | I think this is big news although I have not seen anyone pick up on it yet. Last night on Charlie Rose, Marc Andreessen told Charlie that he and his longtime business partner (and CEO of Opsware/Loudcloud) Ben Horowitz are getting into the ... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | Ning's Doing Just Fine Without The Porn | At the beginning of last December, Ning reversed course on its anything-legal-goes policy by declaring a prohibition on adult social networks. The reason? Porn wasn’t paying the bills; instead of attracting advertisers, it was scaring them ... |
| Aug 14, 2008 | McCain unveils his own tech policy proposal | Today, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is introducing a tech agenda that differs from Democrat Barack Obama’s on “net neutrality” laws but has similar viewpoints on tax breaks, high-tech labor laws and other hot tech policy is... |
| Jul 24, 2008 | Ideas worthy of investment | David, from ReelClever, sent me this interesting blog post from Paul Graham at Y Combinator. Y Combinator’s business model for investing in start-ups is really unique and w ... |
| Jul 24, 2008 | Ideas worthy of investment | David, from ReelClever, sent me this interesting blog post from Paul Graham at Y Combinator. Y Combinator’s business model for investing in start-ups is really unique and worth a look for those involved in the investment industry. Paul’s de... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Facebook confirms Andreessen as its newest board member | Marc Andreessen, early web technology pioneer and veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has officially joined Facebook’s board of directors, according to a rather interesting press release just put out by the company.
Andreessen, as many of ... |
| Jun 28, 2008 | Grou.ps Raises $1.1 Million And Goes Open Source | The San Francisco based social groupware provider Grou.ps announced today that it has secured a Series A round of financing for $1.1 Million in a deal led by Golden Horn Ventures. Grou.ps has also announced that it is open sourcing a restri... |
| Jun 12, 2008 | Geocities 2.0: Website Creation Tools for The Social Web | In Web 1.0 there were a number of browser-based website creation platforms – e.g. Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, Homestead and Brinkster (I myself used nearly all of those, back in the day). These apps were very popular in the mid to late 90... |
| May 14, 2008 | Stealth search company Blekko gets $3M | Blekko, a stealth search company started by Topix co-founder Rich Skrenta, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Little is known about the company, and right now its website contains nothing more than ... |
| May 6, 2008 | Rumor: Marc Andreessen may be about to join Facebook’s board of directors | Netscape, Opsware and Ning founder Marc Andreessen may soon join Facebook’s board of directors. He’s already verbally accepted the position, Kara Swisher hears.
One obvious question here — and I have an email out to Andreessen for comment —... |
| May 3, 2008 | Yahoo breaks the wrist, Microsoft walks away | Microsoft is pulling its offer to buy Yahoo and walking away, a source tells CNET [it is now confirmed, update below]. The two sides, which had been in negotiations this weekend hoping for a deal, possibly as early as next week, were appare... |
| May 1, 2008 | A Hostile Microsoft Bid For Yahoo! Would Likely Be A Pyrrhic Victory | Marc Andreessen has an interesting post looking at the consequences if Microsoft officially goes hostile in its bid for Yahoo! Thus far, the two firms have been engaged in a careful dance where each side has left the door open for a negotia... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Microsoft and Yahoo: The calm before the storm | Microsoft’s 3-week ultimatum for Yahoo to start negotiating to accept its takeover offer or face hostile action came and went on Saturday with nary a whimper. However, don’t think the silence means Microsoft was just bluffing. This is likel... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Ready To Rumble: Here's Who Microsoft Will Bring To a Hostile Fight Over Yahoo | Microsoft does not like to be rushed. Everyone is waiting for its next move, now that the deadline it set for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid expired last Saturday. And everyone can keep waiting. Nevertheless, preparations are being made f... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Will The Microsoft Hammer Fall This Week? | “If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo! b... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Request: Your input on VentureBeat’s digital media expansion. And a party next week. | We’re throwing a party next Thursday, May 1, to celebrate the introduction of our digital media team and forthcoming blog, and our overall growth as a company.
We’ve invited friends who are investors, entrepreneurs, fellow reporters — both ... |
| Mar 25, 2008 | The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment | After emaling the latest gem from Marc Andreessen to half a dozen friends, I realized I should just tell everyone to go read it.
I also pulled a couple of my favorite quotes onto my tumblog at fredwilson.vc |
| Mar 20, 2008 | Ning: All Our Charts Point Up And To The Right | Ning certainly continues to rock and roll, at least according to data released by the company and reported by Comscore. The company, which allows users to easily create social networks, now has over 200,000 social networks on the platform a... |
| Mar 4, 2008 | Marc Andreessen on Obama | Marc starts out his blog post on Obama with the following statement:
I’ve tried very hard to keep politics out of this blog — despite nearly
overpowering impulses to the contrary — for two reasons: one, there’s
no reason to alienate people ... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | Marc Andreessen For Obama | Is Silicon Valley going gaga over Presidential candidate Barack Obama? Netscape (and Loudcloud and Ning) founder Marc Andreessen shares his impressions from an hour-and-a-half private meeting he had with the Senator back in early 2007 and d... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Here's What We Have To Do | If you are thinking about building a web service, take the advice of Seth Godin. This is from his post today on rethinking what an auction can be.
my point is that this is just the beginning of using internet tools to
change the world we in... |
| Jan 5, 2008 | Andreessen Responds On Ning Porn: It's About Being Pro-Freedom | Following a day or two of discussion as to whether white label social networking provider Ning was seeing most of its traffic due to porn, founder Marc Andreessen has posted a response.
Andreessen argues that Ning isn’t pro-porn, but pro-fe... |
| Dec 26, 2007 | If You Need A 2008 Prediction… How About: The Fact Checker Is Dead… Long Live The Fact Checker | I’ve been writing Techdirt since the summer of 1997 (yeah, we let the 10 year anniversary slip by without notice), and every year I’ve resisted calls to do “predictions” for the following year. They always seem like lame filler content that... |
| Nov 21, 2007 | The Rise Of The Writer-Entrepreneur | Marc Andreessen points us to a great article by the LA Times's Patrick Goldstein exploring the rise of alternative business models in Hollywood. Rupp points out that the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood—Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackso... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Can Movies Be Financed Like Tech Startups? | I wrote last week about the perversity of having a one-size-fits-all contract in an industry that's becoming more diverse and dynamic by the month. Netscape co-founder (and now Ning co-founder) Marc Andreessen made some similar comments las... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | No Conflict No Interest - Or How To Launch A Platform in 2007 | Less than five years ago, if you wanted to launch something important in tech, you staged a big media event, got all the major tech publications to come, and put on a big show. Apple still does it that way, as does Microsoft, but the times ... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Facebook, Your Move | Not so fast, Mike. The anti-Facebook coalition piling onto Google’s OpenSocial platform does not constitute checkmate for Google just quite yet. These are developer announcements. No actual consumers have changed their social networking hab... |
| Oct 31, 2007 | Google OpenSocial Image Gallery | Last night we outlined the details emerging about Google’s social networking initiative, OpenSocial. Below are some screenshots of OpenSocial in action that we didn’t have time to include in that post.
Most of these shots show the integrati... |
| Oct 8, 2007 | Two Things I Read And Liked This Morning | Marc Andreessen’s satirical take on all the blog chatter about bubbles, business models, web 2.0, and so on. Thanks for putting it all in perspective Marc.
Jeff Pulver’s "you gotta believe" post where he makes the connection betwe... |
| Sep 23, 2007 | Ning Milestone: 100k Social Networks | Ning will cross a sizeable milestone this weekend: 100,000 user created social networks on the platform (including this one). That’s up from just 30,000 in February when they launched a new version of the service. The company is also saying... |
| Sep 19, 2007 | I Want a New Platform | One that won’t go away (under load), one that doesn’t keep me up all night (worrying about scaling), one that won’t make me sleep all day (when I should be adding features). If you have tried to build an Internet site or application recentl... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Facebook to fund apps, offer support services | Facebook is launching a $10 million fund to invest in third-party applications that rely on the company’s developer platform.
Some angel investors and venture capitalists have already committed money to funding companies that rely on Facebo... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Andreessen on Platforms | More discussion of platforms. This post comes from Marc Andreessen, who is currently working on a platform for building and deploying social web apps called Ning. One of the apps that has been built in Ning is We Love Etsy, a social network... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Platforms on the Web are Platforms on a Platform | The web as a platform is something we have written aboutquite a lotover the years here at Read/WriteWeb. Over the weekend, Marc Andreessen put up a lengthy post attempting to sort out the idea of an “Internet platform.” Andreessen writes, “... |
| Sep 7, 2007 | Japan Follows France In Thinking That Gov't Bureaucracy Can Beat Google | We’ve written in the past about the French boondoggle of a plan to create a government-subsidized search engine to compete with Google. Marc Andreessen points out that Japan is the latest country to try to compete with Google using governme... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Opsware sells to HP for $1.6 billion, in happy ending | Opsware, a provider of software that automates processes in corporate data centers — such as setting up and managing complex server configurations — has been purchased by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash.
This is a happy ending for ... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | More Virtualization News: HP Buys Opsware and Neoware | Last night we broke the news that web hosting company Media Temple is bringing virtualization to Dedicated Physical Servers, with its Nitro product. Today there is further virtualization news, with HP acquiring two companies in this domain:... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | A Web 1.0 Success Story: HP Acquires Opsware For $1.6 billion | HP has acquired IT Automation company Opsware for $1.6 billion.
Whilst any acquisition of this size is interesting in itself, the back story to Opsware is even more so; Opsware was originally LoudCloud, a Web 1.0 company that took $350 mill... |
| Jul 11, 2007 | Roundup: Facebook IPO talk, the video firehose, Ning’s ridiculous valuation & more | Here’s the latest action (updated):
Airborne mash-up: lawn chair travels 193 miles –Oregon resident Kent Couch tried to fly to Idaho last weekend — in an apparatus made out of his lawn chair carried by 105 large helium balloons. He carried ... |
| Jul 11, 2007 | First Time I Disagree With Marc | Regular readers know that I am in love with Marc Andreessen’s blog. I read it daily and he has not let me down yet. He has a post up on the 11 things he’s learned from blogging in the past "fucking five weeks" (that’s a inside ref... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | Is Blogging Dead? | That’s a dramatic and possibly even sarcastic headline, but it was derived from a real question asked in our current post comparing indie blog platforms Six Apart and Automattic. Commenter jm wrote:
“the other vision is that blogging is dea... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | Battle of the DIY Social Networks: Ning, vibEngine, PeopleAggregator | There are a number of DIY social network services on the market, and in this post
we’ll take a look at 3 of them – Ning, vibEngine and PeopleAggregator. By DIY, we mean
services that allow you to create a custom social network for any topic... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | Big, Big Round of Funding For Ning | This is just a rumor at this point, and I haven’t confirmed it with the company (update: this is now confirmed, see below), but I’m hearing that Ning has closed a very large round of financing, led by Legg Mason – $44 million total on a $17... |
| Jul 6, 2007 | So You Sold Your Company For Millions, What Next? | What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires:
Serial entrepreneurs – keep doing the same
Dreamers – expand their horizons
Mid... |
| Jun 30, 2007 | FaceLash | I am smitten with the lash suffix. So here’s one more.
Marc Andreessen, who will never face a backlash because he’s just too damn good, has written the definitive piece on the Facebook backlash.
Now we can get back to the iLash. |
| Jun 21, 2007 | Roundup: WSJ’s suitors, odd story of Tom Perkins, VC tax, WeFi and more | Brad Greenspan, the jilted MySpace executive, makes play at WSJ — Greenspan, who filed a suit against MySpace’s parent company for ripping off shareholders in its sale to News Corp. (the suit was rejected), is now seeking to buy the WSJ’s p... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | To All The Entrepreneurs We've Backed | Read this.
I know this blog is dangerously close to a Marc Andreessen linkblog. But he’s just killing it right now. |
| Jun 16, 2007 | The Age Question (continued) | Brad suggested I write this post. I’ve been reluctant because I don’t want to pick at this scab of a meme. I really don’t want to be the guy who made it harder for anyone older than 30 to get funded in the web services market.
But I’ve been... |
| Jun 13, 2007 | Has He Been Saving All This Up? | I am in awe over the quality of Marc Andreessen’s blogging. How come he waited so long to do this? Has he been saving these posts up for years and is now laying them on us day after day?
In less than two weeks, he’s written a classic post o... |
| Jun 13, 2007 | Widget Metrix | comScore is introducing its Widget measurement service today called Widget Metrix. The WSJ has the story and this chart.
I got a preview of the data last week and I had two comments for comScore which I’ll share with all of you.
First, I am... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | Is Venture Capital An Efficient and Transparent Market? | Kareem left this comment on my post about Andreessen’s posts:
"When you’ve got an efficient and transparent market"
Can you dig into this a little more, Fred? In my (limited)
experience, the VC market seems anything but efficient,... |
| Jun 11, 2007 | Roundup: Andreessen’s tips, Revver’s shakeup, Xing’s move, Yigg.de and much more | Here’s the (updated) latest action:
Marc Andreessen getting taste of what it’s like to be a blogger — The Netscape co-founder launched a blog last week. The NYT ran a story about one of his earliest posts. Then he did a good piece about how... |
| Jun 9, 2007 | Andreessen on VCs | I told you last week that the addition of Marc’s voice to the blog world was going to be fruitful. And man has it ever been.
A post on how to be more productive
A post debunking web 2.0
A post on how to hire the best people
And now back to ... |
| Jun 4, 2007 | Marc Andreessen On Seeing Bubbles That Don't Exist | It’s about time that Marc has joined the blog world. I’ve added him to my blog roll and suggest that you might want to do the same. He’s got a great post up about the OSX apps that he can’t live without (and the ones he can’t live with).
Bu... |