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I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.
Marc Andreessen
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Marc Andreessen
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 9
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
Marc Lowell Andreessen
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There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
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Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
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We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
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The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.
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Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.
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You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
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Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high
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There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them
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My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.
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Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts
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There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
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I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.
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The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.
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It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'
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Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.
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