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Andreessen Horowitz to change VC industry?

Can Andreessen Horowitz--headed by Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame and Ben Horowitz--save the venture capital industry? It certainly made some waves when it announced that it had raised $650 million for its second fund--in just three weeks. That's a large amount in a short time period, especially

kaChing takes on the fund industry

So who says start-ups are dead in the mutual fund business? kaChing, a new advisory firm backed by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen of Benchmark Capital, and OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan among others,

Marc Andreessen's new fund

Can Marc Andreessen save venture capital as we know it? Is it worth saving? He's certainly bent on trying. The launch of Andreessen Horowitz is about as splashy as it gets in the VC industry these days. The one-time Netscape wunderkind, who was rolled pretty badly by Microsoft before he re-establi

What to make of the Sun Valley conference?

Allen & Co.'s annual deal maker bash in Sun Valley gets underway this week. It used to be the event for money managers to get together with top executives across the media and technology industries. And it was a high-profile brand-burnishing opportunity for a boutique investment bank that

Big moment for Net-only banks?

In the early 2000s, there was a huge buzz about Internet banks as a way to get customers great deals by disintermediating bricks and mortars. But the bloom fell off that rose quickly. In some ways,