Andreessen & Horowitz on Monster $1.5B Fund: Software (And Giant VCs) Ready to Chomp Everything!

Memo to the world from Silicon Valley power-VCs: You look good enough to eat.
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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in Three Years?

Since Marc and I founded Andreessen Horowitz three years ago, we have raised $2.7 billion. That statement begs a few questions.

What Bubble? Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.5 Billion Mega-Fund, Its Third.

How green is Silicon Valley? Very, it seems.
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Management Debt

Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term consequence.

Will Marc or Won’t He? Andreessen Mulling Yahoo Leadership Role in Bid.

Can the legendary entrepreneur save Yahoo? Can anyone?
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Horowitz Heads Facebook Fan Club

Best-run company in technology. … (Mark Zuckerberg) is probably the best new CEO that I’ve seen. He is incredibly thoughtful about how he has constructed that company.

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Management Quality Assurance

We can all agree that people are paramount, yet nobody in tech seems to be on the same page with what the people organization — Human Resources — should look like.

Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling — Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts

As Yahoo’s board meets today to talk about what to do next, the unsettled situation at the Silicon Valley Internet giant might overtake them sooner than later.
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Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” List Again (And Look Who’s No. 40)

Vanity Fair magazine put out its high-profile “New Establishment” list of the top 50 people — and guess who made the cut from tech?
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Lytro, the Astonishing Camera Start-Up, Celebrates Its Splashy Debut (Video)

The company, whose light-field camera approach took the tech world by storm on Wednesday, celebrated its launch at a San Francisco art gallery. In a video interview with AllThingsD’s Ina Fried, the company’s founders and early investors talk about where they hope to take the technology in the coming months and years.
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