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Pmarchive · Why not to do a startup

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An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog

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, sold to America Online in 1998 for $4.2 billion; Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), a public software company with an approximately $1 billion market cap; and now Ning, a new, private consumer Internet company. But more generally, I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in and exposed to a broad range of other startups—maybe 40 or 50 in enough detail to know what I’m talking about—since arriving in S

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