Sand Hill Road

Former Palm and Twitter Techie Mike Abbott Jumps From EIR at Benchmark to Kleiner Partner

Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Well, that didn’t last long, Mike, but maybe the food was better at 2750 Sand Hill Road than at 2480 Sand Hill Road.

The State of Social Sharing With Fred Wilson, Roger McNamee and More (Video)

Kara Swisher in Social on November 20, 2011 at 9:51 am PT

Here’s a panel I did last week at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference that took place on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, called “Social Sharing and the Data-Driven Economy.”

Reid Hoffman Talks About LinkedIn and VC Life and Gives Five Tips to Start-Ups (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on August 18, 2011 at 10:28 am PT

Well-known Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur Reid Hoffman talks turkey in a three-part video interview about a range of digital topics.

When Marc Met Mike–Andreessen Interviews Ovitz

Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2010 at 9:05 am PT

Put one of Silicon Valley’s legendary power players together with one of Hollywood’s and what do you get? A must-see interview of Michael Ovitz by Marc Andreessen.

Video: Marc Andreessen Talks About the New $650 Million Fund Burning a Hole in His Pocket

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2010 at 5:23 am PT

As BoomTown wrote recently, Andreessen Horowitz finally officially announced a new investment fund it had been raising. The high-profile entrepreneur-led venture firm pulled in $650 million from its existing limited partners, as well as some new ones. Its last fund was $300 million. Here is partner Marc Andreessen in a video interview talking about what his firm is going to do with the new pile of moola.

Painting Silicon Valley a New Shade of Green

Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 13, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Silicon Valley is trying to become a hub for clean technology–companies that specialize in alternative energy or energy-efficient products. Helping to lead the shift are local venture capitalists such as Vinod Khosla.

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

Kara Swisher 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.

A “Conservative” Estimate: Apple Will Sell 14.4 Million iPads in 2011, 20.1 Million in 2012

John Paczkowski in News on April 2, 2010 at 9:52 am PT

Well, Apple has really sucked the air out of the news cycle this week, hasn’t it? There were the reviews. The Sand Hill Road paeans. The content deal breakdowns. And sales estimate after sales estimate after sales estimate–the latest and most aggressive of which landed in my inbox this morning.

Remember When Webvan Went Public? Good Times…Good Times.

John Paczkowski in News on February 1, 2010 at 3:09 pm PT

Sand Hill Road, your day of reckoning is here. The National Venture Capital Association posted its latest Venture Capital Index today and it’s not much to look at. Why? Because a decade has passed since the dotcom bubble, and the Index’s 10-year figures no longer reflect that era’s distended returns.

Another One of These Cloud Computing Rants and You’ve Got Yourself a Stand-Up Routine, Larry

John Paczkowski in News on October 2, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

The passing of a year hasn’t much changed Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s opinion of cloud computing. Remarking on the industry’s sudden fascination with the concept at Oracle OpenWorld last September, Ellison reduced it to a thin sheen of windshield condensation. In conversation with former Sun CEO Ed Zander at a Churchill Club event a little over a year later, Ellison expanded on those remarks, suggesting that if the cloud is anything, it’s a cloud of BS.