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Andreessen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz Talks About Fat Start-Ups, Being a New VC and What's Hot and Not!

in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:08 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown motored down lovely I-280 to meet with (relatively) newly minted VC Ben Horowitz, the other half of the high-profile venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz. Started last summer by the pair–who have worked together since they met not-so-cute at Netscape Communications, with co-founder Marc Andreessen flaming worker bee Horowitz in an email–it’s a $300 million fund that has plunked itself in the middle of just about every hot thing in Silicon Valley and beyond of late. But Horowitz wants to make sure you know there is a difference between hot and good.

Viral Video: Los Angeles Wildfires in 35 Seconds

in News on September 8, 2009 at 3:30 am PT

One of the great things about the Internet is the immediacy in getting relevant information, especially via video. Such has been the case with the fires that have been raging around Los Angeles of late, riveting images of which have proliferated around the Web, posted by professionals and amateurs alike. Check out this amazing one.
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Kara's What's Hot in Tech 2007, Starring London and Louie

in News on November 29, 2007 at 1:01 am PT

The Public Relations Society of America, Silicon Valley chapter, asked me to make a short video for its dinner last night about what was hot in tech in 2007 and also what surprised me. They did not use it, as I got it in too late, so here it is! I made it when I [...]