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Founders: #50 Marc Andreessen's Blog Archive

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What I learned from reading The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook by Marc Andreessen. ---- [0:01] In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups. [3:15] Great things about doing a startups: Most fundamentally, the opportunity to be in control of your own destiny — you get to succeed or fail on your own, and you don’t have some bozo telling you what to do. For a certain kind of personality, this alone is reason enough to do a startup. The opportunity to create something new — the proverbial blank sheet of paper. You have the ability — actually, the obligation— to imagine a product that does not yet exist and bring it into existence, without any of the constraints normally faced by larger companies. The opportunity to have an impact on the world — to give people a new way to communicate, a new way to share information, a new way to work together, or anything else you can think of that would make the world a better place. The ability to create your ideal culture and work with a dream team of people you get to assemble yourself. Want your culture to be based on people who have fun every day and enjoy working together?

[00:00:00] 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 have 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. 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…

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