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• If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, Ideas, Able

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

  Marc Andreessen

  Morning, Real, People

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

  Marc Andreessen

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Nimble

  "Marc Andreessen: ALL Of The Biggest, Oldest Tech Companies Will Be Forced To Break Up" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. Octobor 16, 2014.

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• People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, People, Information

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, People, Car

  "Bubble? What Bubble?"by Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. July 07, 2011.

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• Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

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  Health, Views, Fundamentals

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• China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

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  Europe, Law, Apples

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• One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

  Marc Andreessen

  Moving, Advantage, Ifs

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• More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Agriculture, Defense

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I can feel it in my own, where I sometimes feel like I don’t even care if it’s going to work, I can’t take more change. O.K., Google, O.K., Twitter—but Airbnb? People staying in each other’s houses without there being a lot of axe murders?

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  Crazy, Thinking, Nuts

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• Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.

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  Team, Smart, Thinking

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Awful

  "Q&A With Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz". Interview with Natalie Wynne Pace, www.forbes.com. February 13, 2004.

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• The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

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  Running, Phones, People

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• There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

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  Needs, Software, Constant

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• With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later

  Marc Andreessen

  Dream, Generations, Visionaries

  "The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud". Book by Phillip J. Windley, 2012.

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• Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

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  Jobs, Sky, Unemployment

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

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  Successful, Technology, Different

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• A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

  Marc Andreessen

  Mean, People, Pay

  "Ning will make all users pay" by Douglas MacMillan, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

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  School, Kids, Technology

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.

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• Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

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  Ideas, Enough, Should

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• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

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  Crush, Real, Competition

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

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  Suicide, Example, Borders

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• The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

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  Strong, News, Succeed

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• The multipurpose device will always fail.

  Marc Andreessen

  Failing, Devices

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• Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Broken, Ethical

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