Why Andreessen Horowitz Models Itself After a Hollywood Talent Agency
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have raised nearly a billion dollars in the 18 months since they founded their Silicon Valley venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, even though they’ve never been venture...
View ArticleKleiner Perkins Invests in Facebook at $52 Billion Valuation
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Facebook are together at last. VentureWire reports today that Kleiner is taking a small stake in Facebook by buying as much as $38 million of stock from other...
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Exclusive: Apple Global Marcom VP Allison Johnson Leaving Company
Allison Johnson, who has served as Apple’s vice president of worldwide marketing communications since 2005, is leaving the company, according to several sources. The reason? To co-found a new...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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BoomTown Will Have What Marc Andreessen Is Having–Investors' Splashy Win in...
When a group of powerful investors, including Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, waded into the mess at Skype less than two years ago with a $1.9 billion cash investment for a big chunk of...
View ArticleApps or Browsers? Yes, Says Marc Andreessen.
Can’t ask for a better authority on the browser vs. app debate than Mr. Netscape himself. Spoiler alert: Marc Andreessen says that everyone’s right–but that in the long run, it’s going to be browsers,...
View ArticleWhen Employees Misinterpret Managers
“Time is money, so I went and bought a Rolex.” – Wiz Khalifa When I ran Opsware, we had the non-linear quarter problem also known affectionately as the hockey stick. The hockey stick refers to the...
View ArticleKleiner Plays Catch-Up
Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the late-1990s dot-com frenzy with investments in Netscape Communications Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and, later, Google Inc. But after...
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?
The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many. Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter...
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Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews
I began writing these Personal Technology columns 20 years ago, in October 1991, with the aim of reviewing computers and other digital products for average, mainstream users. The first line of my first...
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Talks About Giving 2.0
There are a lot of things to like about Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, who works by day as a lecturer focusing on strategic philanthropy at Stanford University, and also is the founder and chairman of...
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HP's Whitman: We Have to Walk Before We Can Run With webOS
I just got off the phone with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and one of HP’s directors, Marc Andreessen. We had a quick conversation about today’s decision to share HP’s webOS with the open source...
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Attention Marc Andreessen: Microsoft Just Bought (Part of) Netscape
Here’s a deal that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s: Microsoft is buying Netscape. Or at least most of the important parts of the company that used to be synonymous with “Internet.”...
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Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999
Few people have the perspective of living and working in the tech industry that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has. Founder of the browser company Netscape and then of the software company...
View ArticleLightbulb Moment
It was one of those moments. I picked up the paper and said, “That’s it.” – Mary Meeker, on picking up the New York Times on May 7, 1994, and reading a story about a new start-up called Mosaic...
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25 Things About Laura Yecies
Laura Yecies knows a thing or two about making things run — as a masters candidate in foreign services at Georgetown, her thesis instructor was Madeleine Albright. As a Harvard MBA, she started at...
View ArticleKevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk
Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose recently sat down with Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk for the twentieth episode of Foundation, a video series in which he interviews influential business...
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The Mobile Browser Dominates in Emerging Markets
Redefining the Browser in the Mobile Internet Era There are seven billion people in this world and only 1.2 billion computers — but close to six billion cellphones. That makes the commercialization...
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RockMelt Dives Into Mobile Browsing -- iPad First
After two years of having a desktop-centric product, the RockMelt browser is coming to mobile — and it’s diving in iPad-first. It’s nothing like your grandpa’s Safari. RockMelt for iPad caters to the...
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The Science of Investing: Hearst's New Venture Arm in $30 Million Funding...
Hearst Ventures, the investment arm of media giant Hearst Corporation, said it was making a minority equity investment in Science, the Los Angeles area tech “studio.” Privately held Hearst is the sole...
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Kleiner's Doerr Takes Adviser Seat at Flipboard
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner John Doerr has joined the board of Flipboard, the mobile-based social media magazine, as an adviser. “John has been a long-time supporter and adviser to...
View ArticleRockmelt Ends Its Browser Dreams
Rockmelt announced Thursday it would soon end support for its desktop browser service, instead transitioning its user base to its mobile apps and newly launched Web-based product. The company, helmed...
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Ten Years Later: Lessons From the Applied Semantics' Google Acquisition
Image copyright undrey Ten years ago today, my business partners and I sold Applied Semantics to Google. At the time, it was Google’s largest acquisition to date. In the following years we worked...
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Yahoo Paid $60M to $70M for Rockmelt -- Will Dump Browser and Use Tech to...
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo paid $60 million to $70 million for social browser startup Rockmelt, with an aim of using its technology to turbocharge its myriad of media and...
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Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking...
Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter, just as the San Francisco microblogging company prepared to unveil its IPO documents. In the post, I noted that “the...
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