#50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive

In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high tech startups. My specific experience is from three companies I have co founded. Netscape, opsware, and Ning. But more generally, I've been fortunate enough to be involved in and exposed to a broad range of other startups. Maybe forty or fifty in enough detail to know what I'm talking about.

As a board member, as an angel investor, as an advisor, as a friend of various founders, and as a participant in various venture capital funds. Much of my perspective is based on Silicon Valley and the environment that we have here. The culture, the people, the venture capital base, and so on. Some of it will travel well to other regions and countries.

Some probably will not. With all that out of the way, let's start at the beginning. Why not? Okay, so that is from the book that I'm gonna talk to you about today. So this is um this is gonna be a little different. If you're new to Founders, the premise of this podcast is really simple.

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