Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States) is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
That's what our guide, Magrit, calls the vast open-air theater on the outskirts of Tallinn, the ancient capital of the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia. Here, in the late 1980s, Estonians gathered by the thousands to sing patriotic ...
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West Campus in the Cupertino Foothills. The campus was formally known as Camp Costanoan. (photo Jacqueline Ramseyer/SVCN/June 21, 2011) Jennifer Cassell helps Dominic Phillips down a new switchback trail that was created ...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is making inroads in Silicon Valley while President Obama is falling out of favor in some tech circles. How will this affect the presidential race? Obama's presidential re-election campaign continues to ...
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Revenue growth forecasts are at the crux of the class action against Facebook and investment bankers. Photo: AFP THE law firm that won a $US7 billion settlement for Enron's shareholders is pursuing Facebook, Morgan Stanley and som ...
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Source: The Business Insider
When it recovers from the cataclysmic clusterfuck that was its IPO, Facebook will gather its team, round up its new friends from Instagram and Glancee, and ask the $100 billion question: What the hell is it going ...
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2011 was a banner year for venture capital investments in wireless. After the recession of the past few years, venture capitalists came out in force during 2011 to invest a total of $6.3 billion in mobile-focused companies, according to Rutberg ...
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Yesterday, SAP (SAP) bought Ariba (ARBA). It reminded me of the old Valley start-up from the mid-90s called Marimba, led by its buzz-worthy CEO Kim Polese. Kim Polese and Joe Kraus at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference (Photo credit: Wi ...
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Source: The Next Web
According to a fascinating report in Politico, the money game that is Silicon Valley is in high gear. No, I don’t mean the tactic of investing in high-growth, early-stage companies, but instead the game that is p ...
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