Marc Andreessen
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Sharendipity Wins the 'Best Ported App' in the Global Ning Appathon Competition...competition were judged by Wired Editor-in-chief and DIY Drones Network Creator Chris Anderson, Ning Chairman and Co-founder Marc Andreessen, and blogger and Managing Director of building43 Robert Scoble. The Sharendipity application... In this article: Sharendipity, Ning, OpenSocial, Marc Andreessen, and Robert Scoble |
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Cnet | 1 day ago
eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
Auction site eBay has, as long anticipated, sold off the Skype telephony service to a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen's new Andreessen Horowitz group, Silver Lake, and the Skype co-founders' Joltid Ltd. The investor group now...
In this article: Skype, EBay, CNET, Brewing, IT Security, Waste, and Niklas Zennstrom
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation
...clearing the way for the deal to close after some very public legal quarrels. As you may remember, Andreessen Horowitz partner Marc Andreessen swiftly deemed Skype one of the most important companies on the Internet after the...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Silver Lake Partners, TechCrunch, and Niklas Zennstrom
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San Francisco Chronicle | 3 days ago
Venture firm Maveron opens San Francisco office
...was the $58.5 million closed by Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park operation co-founded this summer by Internet wunderkind Marc Andreessen. Maveron will also announce today that Ben Choi, formerly of Menlo Park venture capital firm...
In this article: San Francisco, Maveron, Venture capital, Menlo Park, Storm Ventures, Chaff, and Thomson Reuters
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New York Times | November 08, 2009
Lessons From the War Over Skype
...of conflicts). The web of relationships in the Skype saga is dense. Danny Rimer was the underwriting analyst for Netscape, where Marc Andreessen began his career. Mr. Volpi and Charles Giancarlo, a partner and key figure in the deal at...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Joost, Richmond High School, Stanford University, Silicon Valley, News Corporation, and Meg Whitman
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Reuters | November 07, 2009
Skype to get independence -- for better or worse
...can therefore concentrate on its own growth prospects. "It puts you in a different mindset," said Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which will hold a stake in Skype once the deal closes. As an...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Revenue, Venture capital, and Niklas Zennstrom
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Forbes.com Technology News | November 06, 2009
Founders Win Battle Over Skype Sale
...of using confidential information to orchestrate the deal. "Settlement was the right thing to do," says Marc Andreessen, whose venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested along with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Joost, Silver Lake, Index Ventures, and Peer-to-peer
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BBC News | November 06, 2009
eBay in Skype deal with founders
...Janus Friis will now own a 14% stake in the new Skype. The other new owners are Andreessen Horowitz - run by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen - as well as private equity firm Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
In this article: Skype, EBay, Index Ventures, Niklas Zennstrom, Online auction, and Netscape
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Reuters | November 06, 2009
UPDATE 2-Skype suitors reach legal pact, eBay deal to proceed
...and ends all litigation pending against the investor group and eBay at the closing of the acquisition. Andreessen Horowitz founder Marc Andreessen, who also founded Netscape Communications, said he sees better growth prospects for Skype as a...
In this article: EBay, Skype, Index Ventures, Silver Lake, Joost, Netscape Communications, and Niklas Zennstrom
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Techcrunch | November 06, 2009
Andreessen On Skype: This Is One Of The Most Important Companies On the Internet.
...the Skype founders still controlled the service's underlying peer-to-peer technology. In an interview with me this morning, Marc Andreessen, one of the investors through his new fund Andreessen Horowitz, told me, "The deal was never held...
In this article: Skype, EBay, Escrow, Peer-to-peer, and Niklas Zennstrom
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washingtonpost.com | November 03, 2009
Skype Deal Is Turning Into A Bit Of A Cirque Du Freak
...truth, everyone is in for a wild ride. Nobody who does business with the Skype founders ever seems to come out of it happy. Maybe Marc Andreessen has the patience to change all that this time around. Just one problem, though. No one has...
In this article: Skype, Index Ventures, EBay, and Nytimes
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Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States) is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences.
- Birth Date:
- July 09, 1971
- Birthplace:
- Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Nationality:
- United States
- Field:
- Computer Science
- Known for:
- Mosaic (web browser), founder of Netscape
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