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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.

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Meet Our New General Partner, Jeff Jordan

Ben's Blog

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Today I’m delighted to announce that legendary Internet industry CEO and executive Jeff Jordan has joined Andreessen Horowitz as our fifth General Partner. I say “legendary&# for two reasons.

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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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Backing someone pre-pitch: The story of how I backed Clubhouse

This is going to be BIG.

He's direct, focused, and he gave me great feedback on what to teach about how to get teams working together at scale--so great that I roped him into giving the talk, and eventually co-founding the meetup group that CTO School became. Jordan Crook's comparison to Clubhouse as Salesforce for developers is spot on.

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A Clarification With Respect to Yahoo

Ben's Blog

From Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz: Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might become an operating executive of Yahoo in some capacity.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

However, t he main thing is to start with the right space—and one that will be bigger than what you think you will need, says Jason Jordan of Propel Insurance. “I Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

However, the main thing is to start with the right space—and one that will be bigger than what you think you will need, says Jason Jordan of Propel Insurance. “I Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation.

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