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It takes a lot of faith in an idea to start a company around it. But for their companies to succeed in the long run, founders also need to be ready to fail.

Startup Fluther Inc. , a crowdsource question and answer site, has raised $600,000 from investors who include Marc Andreessen.

Web pioneer Marc Andreessen, now a venture capitalist , has joined the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is well known at HP, which bought his Opsware Inc.

Marc Andreessen , who sold his software maker Opsware Inc. to Hewlett-Packard Co.

Two years after selling his software company to Hewlett-Packard, Marc Andreessen has joined the PC giant's board of directors.

Hewlett-Packard Co named Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, 38, to its board of directors, tapping one of the industry's best known investors to help guide the world's biggest PC maker.

Aster Data, a proven leader dedicated to providing the best data analytics and management platform for 'Big Data' applications, today announced that Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing.

The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware.

The now bald-as-Bruce-Willis ex-Netscape wunderkind-recently-turned-VC Marc Andreessen, roundly trounced by Microsoft and its Internet Explorer widgetry 15 years ago, is underwriting an early-stage browser start-up called RockMelt about which little to nothing is known other than its disruption-suggesting logo.

Technology media-types have given plenty of spotlight time to the likes of Twitter, iPhone apps and the latest casual games.

A new fund managed by Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen and his longtime confidant Ben Horowitz is treading familiar ground with its first investment - a high-tech startup already tied to the two partners.

Have you met RockMelt ? Neither have most people, it seems -- but the Web is definitely a-buzzin' with word of the mysterious new browser.

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 13, 2009 11:55 AM / Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is backing a new browser dedicated to browsing Facebook, called RockMelt , according to rumors we've heard from reputable sources.

In the 21st century, the main portal to your life besides the front door to your home is the window of your Web browser.

The past couple of weeks brought another round of startup funding data that reinforced my belief that the venture capital industry is staring into the abyss.

Rembrandt Venture Partners on Wednesday named Opsware Inc. co-founder In Sik Rhee a general partner.

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen made news on two fronts Monday - by starting a venture capital fund and declaring that Facebook, on whose board he serves, will probably post billions of dollars in revenues in five years.

The big news out this week in the venture capital market is the launch of Andreessen Horowitz , a new $300 million venture capital fund co-founded by Marc Andreeseen, a tech visionary who founded Netscape Communications, the startup that triggered the Internet tsunami.

The man who popularized the Web browser has started a venture capital fund to back the next generation of new technologies.

Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen is starting a venture capital partnership focused on Silicon Valley - so how have his recent investments been doing? Marc Andreessen: photograph by Joi Ito , used under CC license The precise details were widely reported over the weekend, but Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen has joined forces with former ...