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Marc and a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz started a company called … The post Investing in Neighbor appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. As my partner, Marc Andreessen, often says, “there are no bad ideas in tech, only bad timing.” MORE
113 The post How To Upscale Your Home Business With Little Investment appeared first on Predictable Revenue. The future looks uncertain, and many businesses are battening down the hatches in anticipation of a rocky few months.But for many, this disruption is temporary. MORE
But as medical technology grew more advanced (and bulkier, and more expensive), and … The post Investing in Tomorrow Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Going to the hospital was once a move of last resort. MORE
Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? And de-risk the investment. If someone else is going to do the deal, you may need to invest now. You are worried you can’t get enough ownership unless you invest now. MORE
Thirty years ago, this race started with the audacious goal of understanding the blueprint of humanity––sequencing the entire human genome, completed roughly twenty … The post Investing in Nautilus Biotechnology appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
These are just some of the interactions occurring across the healthcare system every year that require accurate … The post Investing in Ribbon Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. 1 billion provider office visits. 293 million health plan enrollments. MORE
Yet conferences have not seen … The post Investing in Run The World appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. When it comes to social and business interaction, the whole world has moved online. MORE
We are very excited to announce our Series A investment in Brightside, a company focused on financial health, distributed through employers. MORE
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The primary objective … The post Investing in Octant appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. The octant was the dominant tool for maritime navigation in the 18th century because it enabled sailors to chart an accurate course, even in pitching and rolling seas. MORE
At the same time, tech companies are better off than any other industry, and, to answer the question posed in the headline, VCs are still investing (we’re one of them). MORE
Compute power is essentially unlimited, … The post Investing in LabelBox appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Delivering on the promise of AI has been an iterative and interdependent balance between processing capacity, math, and data. MORE
Until very recently, a system designer was faced with an ogre’s choice between UI and formal language — make the UI simple and … The post Investing In Rasa appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
Banks are being disintermediated from their customers by fintech companies, new infrastructure technologies are lowering the barrier to entry for non-fintechs, and a wave of exciting early-stage companies are … The post Investing in Runway appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
In fact, games are not even just “games” any longer, but a form of entertainment — the … The post Investing in Roblox appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
Today, I start my next adventure in startup investing – I’m the new Managing Director of the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars. My objective is to give the startups I invest in tremendous support in acquiring customers and fundraising from investors. MORE
I began investing in women over a decade ago. It was a major part of my investing thesis. And I invested. I invested in businesses that I believed had a huge opportunity that could grow to be worth $100M or more. Many of the companies I have invested in have done it. MORE
Organizations waste a lot of mental calories figuring out where to focus and trying to track … The post Investing in WorkBoard appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Running a business is hard — there are many things a team could be doing, but only a small number they should be doing. MORE
Q: What are the Pros and Cons of Seed Investing? Seed investing is a bit of a sucker bet. At least on a relative basis to other types of venture investing. Well, the “good news” for seed investing is you should have a much lower entry price than a Series A-B-C investor. MORE
And in the … The post Investing in Material Security appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. My inbox holds more information about my online and offline life than any other repository. It holds access to my online accounts. MORE
That’s several multiples higher than the highest payment processing fees in other industries, and even worse, most of that spend … The post Investing in Alpha Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. For every $1 of revenue collected by a hospital, $0.25 MORE
Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest? To meet its own financial goals, a VC firm has to return 3x the amount it invests. The post Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest? It’s confusing. Why do VCs need to own “so much”? MORE
We’re excited to announce our partnership with and investment in Kustomer. Kustomer is a New York City-based company building the next-generation of customer support platform. In my first role at Google, I provided account management and customer support to internet publishers. I remember trying to understand the context around a particular customer case. How large is the customer? What recent interactions have we had with the customer? How satisfied are they? MORE
The common example of Conway’s Law is that an engineering team split into three groups working on the … The post Investing in ChartHop appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
As a result, an entire tool chain has been developed to aid in … The post Investing in Tecton appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
Canadian VC Janet Bannister, a partner at Real Ventures, loves investing in “conscious founders” who are trying to make the world a better place. Her style of “human-centered investing” prioritizes people and relationships, and investing in smart, self-aware, teachable entrepreneurs. . MORE
Do startup investors care about how employees are treated where they invest? Last week, I literally was on a back-door reference call for a $250m+ valuation investment (not a company where I am an investor) where a late-stage VC did not invest just for this reason. MORE
” I wondered, are we investing enough in our managers? Talent is the largest investment of an early stage company. This is why investing in each creates a competitive advantage. That’s a quite an investment for an early stage company. How should startup invest in improving its management? I met a seasoned executive recently. He made a bold claim. “Management is an art, and one that is overwhelmingly undervalued in Silicon Valley.” MORE
The historical model was to focus hiring on individuals in your geographic backyard , then provide those individuals with a paycheck, health insurance, pension, … The post Investing in Deel appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
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For many, sports are woven into our lives—we have childhood memories of watching baseball games with family, football games after a big … The post Investing in Sleeper appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
With 11 Techstars mentorship-driven accelerator programs in Europe and the Middle East, Techstars has a portfolio of close to 350 companies and invests in nearly 110 startups in EMEA annually. About Techstars Announcements Declan Kelly EMEA investment team investments investors MORE
I’ve always been interested in investing in companies and founders who take an old, staid technology category and turn it on its head, often reinventing an entirely new category (and inventing new behaviors) in the process. MORE
With venture capital investments that fail, is the problem most often with the entrepreneur or was it a bad investment by the VC? The earlier stage you invest, the more often some of them just … don’t work out. Especially when you invest early. MORE
Except when you labor through the details of this document, you discover … The post Investing in Cedar appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. MORE
But data on its own are useless; it has to … The post Investing in insitro appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Drug design is fundamentally a data science problem. MORE
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And in the … The post Investing in Material Security appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. My inbox holds more information about my online and offline life than any other repository. It holds access to my online accounts.
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That’s several multiples higher than the highest payment processing fees in other industries, and even worse, most of that spend … The post Investing in Alpha Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. For every $1 of revenue collected by a hospital, $0.25
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Banks are being disintermediated from their customers by fintech companies, new infrastructure technologies are lowering the barrier to entry for non-fintechs, and a wave of exciting early-stage companies are … The post Investing in Runway appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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In fact, games are not even just “games” any longer, but a form of entertainment — the … The post Investing in Roblox appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Marc and a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz started a company called … The post Investing in Neighbor appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. As my partner, Marc Andreessen, often says, “there are no bad ideas in tech, only bad timing.”
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For many, sports are woven into our lives—we have childhood memories of watching baseball games with family, football games after a big … The post Investing in Sleeper appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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Until very recently, a system designer was faced with an ogre’s choice between UI and formal language — make the UI simple and … The post Investing In Rasa appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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With venture capital investments that fail, is the problem most often with the entrepreneur or was it a bad investment by the VC? The earlier stage you invest, the more often some of them just … don’t work out. Especially when you invest early.
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Canadian VC Janet Bannister, a partner at Real Ventures, loves investing in “conscious founders” who are trying to make the world a better place. Her style of “human-centered investing” prioritizes people and relationships, and investing in smart, self-aware, teachable entrepreneurs. .
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