Tag archive: Marc Andreessen

These days, many tech junkies and stock watchers will tell you that the multi-billion dollar valuations of companies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Groupon prove there's a new technology bubble currently being filled with the hot air of speculators and investors hoping to get rich on the “next big thing” out of Silicon Valley. But that's just not so — at least according to superstar venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. During… Read More

it's been a long time coming, but online auction giant Ebay has inked a deal (PDF) to sell of 65 percent of its VoIP operation Skype for $1.9 billion in cash. The buyers are a group of technology investment houses led by Silver Lake, with investors including Andreesen Horowitz (a new venture capital firm from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen), Index Ventures, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal values Skype at… Read More

The current recession and general economic turmoil might make it seem like the wrong time to empty out one's pockets on a bunch of speculative ventures, but Marc Andreessen—co-founder of Netscape and one of the developers of the Web browser that started it all, NCSA Mosaic—has partnered with Ben Horowitz to launch a new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, with a $300 million starting fund. Andreessen and Horowitz… Read More

Remember Netscape? At one time it looked as if it would eclipse Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as a browser. Those days are just a hazy memory now, but the man who dreamed them, Marc Andreessen, is still very much alive and kicking – and the newest member of Facebook’s four-member board. It will be a change for Andreessen, who has plenty of experience with startups – after Netscape he was involved with Opsware and… Read More

These days it’s hard to believe that Netscape Navigator was once the dominant browser, with over 90% of the market – in fact you have to be of a certain age not to say “What?”But in the days before Internet Explorer consolidated its position, Netscape was the one.   Times change, however, and now Netscape is vanishing slowly into the sunset. As of Saturday its owner,AOL, stopped support for the browser, which now has… Read More