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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.

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Estonia: Where freedom sings

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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Netscape Founder to Make New Browser

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Back in the day, Netscape was the browser everyone used for their daily Internet needs. It was the first Internet...
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Free To Be... Straight White Males

Source: The Awl

— max read (@max_read) May 23, 2012 MB: You'd have to be completely insane not to. Insane like Edward Conard, I mean. MB: Oo, this is just where I wanted to go. All these guys on Reddit (guys of every color, but I'm just ta ...
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Cupertino: Investors give back to Via Services, other organizations

Source: The San Jose Mercury News

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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Meet Mitt Romney: Silicon Valley's New Sweetheart

Source: Mobiledia

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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Friends no more as lawsuit builds

Source: The Age

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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How Facebook Can Solve Its Mobile Problem: Build a Browser

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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The 10 top VC firms in the wireless industry in 2011

Source: Fierce Wireless

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 ...
Full article at: Fierce Wireless  More like this  2 days ago, 5:31am CDT

Sheryl Sandberg Is The Valley's "It" Girl - Just Like Kim Polese Once Was

Source: Forbes

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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Silicon Valley remains an Obama stronghold, but Romney collecting millions as well

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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