Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
[This blog post is by Ben Horowitz, the Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz.] At our new venture fund, we’ve been spending time looking into new ways that will make the lives of entrepreneurs seeking...
View ArticleBig Company Execs in Startups
My good friend Steve Blank does a great job of describing the metamorphosis a scalable startup needs to undergo to become a big company. During that metamorphosis, many startups hire executives from...
View ArticleWhy Do We Prefer Founders as CEOs?
When I introduced our venture firm on this blog in July, I wrote extensively about the types of entrepreneurs and companies we want to fund: technical founders, brilliant and motivated entrepreneurs,...
View ArticleTraining—At a Startup?
Conventional wisdom: startups don’t have the time or dollars to invest in training. Training is only for big companies who can afford it, both cash- and time-wise. Not surprisingly, Ben picks a fight...
View ArticleThe Job of a CEO
Every job in a startup is (usually) hard: building a new product is hard, marketing a new product is hard, selling a new product is hard. But no job is harder than the job of a CEO. Also, no job is...
View ArticleTelling It Like It Is
As the ranking officer, the CEO has a huge impact on their company’s culture. This is especially true in startups where the whole company is watching the CEO’s every move, every interaction, every...
View ArticleGrowing Pains
These days, entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking about scaling their products. No one wants to build the next Facebook only to watch their technical infrastructure crumble when user growth takes...
View ArticleFighting Fire With Fire
As companies grow, they often get more political—by which I mean, people start advancing their own agendas by means other than merit or contribution. Ben explains in his latest blog post what a CEO can...
View ArticleGood Ambition, Bad Ambition
Ben’s last post on minimizing corporate politics generated a bunch of interesting comments. One set of commenters essentially asked, “gee, why should an employee be motivated first by a company’s...
View ArticlePrimer for Hiring Execs
Andreessen Horowitz prefers funding companies whose CEO is a co-founder. We also prefer founders who are technical. Put the two together, and you often have a CEO who has to hire executives into roles...
View ArticleUnshackle the Middle Class
This is a guest post by Scott Kupor, managing partner, Andreessen Horowitz. We are holding back the middle class in America. But it’s not for the reasons you think, and the culprits are not those most...
View ArticleWhy Bitcoin Matters
A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers. Political idealists project...
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