Marc Andreessen

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Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.

Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Mosaic was developed at National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on which Andreessen was the team-leader. Andreessen co-founded what later became Netscape Communications which produced the ‘Netscape Navigator’. Netscape Navigator was the most popular web browser for most of the 90’s, only to be overtaken by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, which was based on NCSA Mosaic.

Andreessen also served as chairman of Opsware and Chief Technology Officer of AOL after AOL acquired Netscape.

Featured on the cover of Time and other publications, Andreessen became a poster-boy of the Web 1.0 bubble generation: young, twenty-something, high-tech, ambitious, and worth millions (or billions) of dollars practically overnight.

Andreessen served on the TechCrunch 50 conference panel of experts.

Milestones

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• Invested in Business Insider. (5/21/09)
  Posted 5/21/09 at 11:44am
• Invested in ExtraHop Networks. (4/14/09)
  Posted 4/14/09 at 6:14am
• Invested in Good Data. (4/09)
  Posted 4/23/09 at 3:30pm
• Invested in kaChing. (12/16/08)
  Posted 12/15/08 at 10:24pm
• Invested in Metaplace. (10/22/08)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 9:55am
• Marc Andreessen — Joined eBay board of directors (9/30/08)
  Posted 8/27/09 at 3:01pm
• Invested in Qik. (8/26/08)
  Posted 8/26/08 at 3:42am
• Invested in Crowd Fusion. (7/08)
  Posted 9/1/09 at 9:22am
• Invested in OMGPOP. (6/26/08)
  Posted 6/27/08 at 5:27pm
• Marc Andreessen — Joined Facebook Board Of Directors (6/08)
  Posted 6/29/08 at 10:31pm
• Invested in Blekko. (5/08)
  Posted 5/14/08 at 12:03pm
• Invested in EQAL. (4/16/08)
  Posted 4/16/08 at 9:45pm
• Invested in AppNexus. (12/27/07)
  Posted 5/30/09 at 10:44am
• Invested in SocialMedia.com. (10/1/07)
  Posted 10/18/07 at 3:32am
• Invested in Twitter. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 1:56am
• Invested in CastTV. (4/1/07)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm
• Invested in Outside.in. (2/1/07)
  Posted 11/13/07 at 1:55am
• Invested in Ning. (2007)
  Posted 7/10/07 at 11:58am
• Invested in Ning. (2007)
  Posted 7/10/07 at 11:57am
• Invested in Netvibes. (3/1/06)
  Posted 7/11/07 at 8:28am
• Invested in Plazes. (2006)
  Posted 6/22/08 at 11:31pm
• Invested in Digg. (10/1/05)
  Posted 7/3/07 at 8:56pm
• Invested in CastTV.
  Posted 5/15/08 at 8:12pm
• Added position as Investor at Qik.
  Posted 10/3/08 at 11:40pm
• Added position as Board of Directors at eBay.
  Posted 10/3/08 at 10:10pm
• Added position as Board of directors at Facebook.
  Posted 6/29/08 at 10:30pm
• Added position as Co-Founder at Netscape.
  Posted 5/5/08 at 4:27pm
• Added position as Co-Founder at Opsware.
  Posted 5/5/08 at 4:27pm
• Added position as Chairman and Co-Founder at Ning.
  Posted 2/7/08 at 10:15pm
• Added position as General Partner at Qik.
  Posted 7/5/09 at 8:10pm
• Added position as Board of Directors at Hewlett-Packard.
  Posted 9/17/09 at 7:08pm

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Investments

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1. techcrunch.com [edit]
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3. Business Insider, SAI’s Parent, Closes Third Round; Round Around $5 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Czech Cloud Startup Good Data Raises Funding From Marc Andreessen And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Metaplace Raises $6.7 Million For Custom Virtual Worlds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. Velocity Interactive Group Press Release (fusecapital.com) [edit]
10. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
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12. Lonely No More: Lonelygirl15 Production Company EQAL Gets $5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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14. techcrunch.com [edit]
15. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
16. sev.prnewswire.com [edit]
17. villageventures.com [edit]
18. techcrunch.com []
19. techcrunch.com []
20. Netvibes to Announce Seed Financing Today (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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22. goliath.ecnext.com []
23. Web Video Search Service CastTV Gets Funding (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]