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Marc Andreessen on innovations, entrepreneurs and startups
Marc Andreessen, Founder of Ning, Opsware, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his insight to entrepreneurs at Startup School 08.
Journalism Failures — Big Time
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- In February 2001, Fortune magazine named ENRON the “most innovative company”.
- In October 2007, Robin Hanson, on the Overcoming Bias blog, re-published the falsehood that James Surowiecki (and 3 other book authors in their respective book) made a mistake about Francis Galton in his book, The Wisdom Of Crowds.
- In January 2008, the “BetFair [...]
Eric Zitzewitz now out of Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s rich and remarkable local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams —ALAS.
Hardware companies have clustered around industry leaders in Silicon Valley, while Internet advertising and design has taken root in San Francisco.
[...] The [Silicon] Valley residents see themselves as true entrepreneurs, entirely focused and dedicated. Marc Andreessen, 36, the co-founder of three companies in the Valley (Netscape, Opsware and Ning), concedes that San Francisco is generating [...]
YAHOO! RESEARCH SCIENTIST DAVID PENNOCK IMPLORES AND SUPPLICATES GMU PROFESSOR ROBIN HANSON TO CONTINUE BLOGGING.
David Pennock:
Academic papers largely influence … other academics. In a cycle that often seems set up to do little else than impress one another within a insular niche. Ok, I’m exaggerating the skeptic’s side of the coin, but it does seem rare that an academic paper has a truly large impact on the wider world [...]
Will some brand-new prediction exchanges be based on the FaceBook platform in the near future?
Read Marc Andreessen’s take on the FaceBook platform, and decide by yourself. As for me, I’d say “yes”.
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