"Twitter was timed right: Two years earlier, or later, and it would have been a failure," he says. Andreessen hopes his new shop will be "almost a throwback" to the small, focussed venture capital firms that seeded Silicon Valley in its earliest days.Īndreessen, a classic mile-a-minute speaker, paces himself as he describes Twitter as both an object lesson in the art of entrepreneurship and the technique of investment. This is why, entrepreneur wannabe, you want to come to them: "Because we are you," Andreessen says.Īndreessen and Horowitz, who have privately invested in such familiar ventures as Facebook, Digg, LinkedIn and Twitter, clearly relish the small-is-the-new-black aspect of their lean operation.
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Netscape Inc.'s equally spectacular demise at the hands of Microsoft during the brutal " browser wars" battered Andreessen but made him wiser (is it only coincidence that he says his favorite movie is " Bambi Meets Godzilla?). Netscape itself was based on Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, developed in 1993 by Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Netscape served up the first eye-popping IPO of what was to become the dot-com boom and at one point its eponymous browser had 90% of the market. Netscape's appearance in the mid-1990s is considered the internet's Big Bang.
Andreessen, a co-founder of Netscape, knows a thing or two about what young, inexperienced, brainstorming whiz kids might face in the big bad world.
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