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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. - John Von Neumann

archive // 2011 // September

Merging Glam and Ning

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Today, my company Ning, where I serve as chairman and cofounder, is announcing that it has agreed to merge into Glam Media.  In this post, I’d like to briefly explain the whats and whys, and to thank a lot of…

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The Big Data Conundrum

This is a guest post by Scott Weiss, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz. As data storage costs plummet, the world is storing data that would be impractical to keep just a few years ago. Think video camera feeds, web logs and GPS tracking information. We used to throw away or sample this data, but now…

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Ridiculously Transparent

This is a guest post by Scott Weiss, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz. I had a real struggle preparing to be a public company CEO. And it had little to do with having scalable internal systems or making the quarterly numbers… I just couldn’t keep secrets from my employees. As CEO of IronPort, I wanted…

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