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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  Marc Andreessen invested in Business Insider. (5/21/09)
  Posted 5/21/09 at 11:44am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in ExtraHop Networks. (4/14/09)
  Posted 4/14/09 at 6:14am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in Good Data. (4/09)
  Posted 4/23/09 at 3:30pm
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  Marc Andreessen invested in kaChing. (12/16/08)
  Posted 12/15/08 at 10:24pm
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  Marc Andreessen invested in Metaplace. (10/22/08)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 9:55am
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  Marc Andreessen — Joined eBay board of directors (9/30/08)
  Posted 8/27/09 at 3:01pm
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  Marc Andreessen invested in Qik. (8/26/08)
  Posted 8/26/08 at 3:42am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in Crowd Fusion. (7/08)
  Posted 9/1/09 at 9:22am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in OMGPOP. (6/26/08)
  Posted 6/27/08 at 5:27pm
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  Marc Andreessen — Joined Facebook Board Of Directors (6/08)
  Posted 6/29/08 at 10:31pm
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  Marc Andreessen invested in Blekko. (5/08)
  Posted 5/14/08 at 12:03pm
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  Marc Andreessen invested in EQAL. (4/16/08)
  Posted 4/16/08 at 9:45pm
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  Marc Andreessen invested in AppNexus. (12/27/07)
  Posted 5/30/09 at 10:44am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in SocialMedia.com. (10/1/07)
  Posted 10/18/07 at 3:32am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in Twitter. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 1:56am
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  Marc Andreessen invested in CastTV. (4/1/07)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm

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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]