Ask a VC: Andreessen Horowitz’s John O’Farrell Answers your Questions

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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

This week our guest on Ask a VC is John O’Farrell of Andreessen Horowitz. O’Farrell is yet another Opsware alum filling out the firm’s partnership ranks, and he follows the firm’s strategy of hiring partners with specific company building expertise. At Opsware, he headed up the company’s business development and leading Opsware’s partnerships, acquisitions and eventual purchase by HP for $1.65 billion. He had a similar role at hot cleantech startup Silver Spring Networks before jumping to Andreessen Horowitz last year.

So those startups or would-be entrepreneurs out there with burning questions about deal making? This is the perfect week to send your questions to AskaVC(at)techcrunch(dot)com.

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