Ben Horowitz

Network effects in venture capital are no joke. Sure, people want to close rounds with brand name funds like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz because they validate startups. But perhaps more importantl

There’s an old saying in football: It isn’t the hours you put in but what you put in the hours. Apparently, Bill Campbell — a widely revered former Columbia University football coa

Borrowing a page from the information technology playbook, Usermind -- a newly launched startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures -- is selling a service that aims to provide transparen

Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (646) 887-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money and giving him deeper intelligence about his listener

The Sand Hill Road venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund could alwa

Today we’re thrilled to offer an exclusive excerpt from Nathaniel Popper’s Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, the definiti

Pews were packed at San Francisco’s Glide church in the city’s Tenderloin district last night with people who wanted to hear the gospel thoughts of two of Silicon Valley’s most successful VCs, B

You can't make this stuff up. At a party thrown by Ashton Kutcher's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/a-grade-investments">A-Grade Investments</a> at SXSW over

At the <a target="_blank" href="http://dld-conference.com/conferences/17">DLD conference</a> in Munich today, venture capitalist <a target="_blank" href="http://bhorowitz.com/">Ben Horowitz</a> took t

The latest episode of my Foundation video series comes to you filmed live from the Google Ventures Founder & CEO Summit last week. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ben Horowitz, co-founder o

Ben Horowitz loves hip-hop, but in an interview with TechCrunch he outlined a deeper vision behind his firm's<a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/andreessen-horowitz-iinvests-15-million-in-

What better way to kick off TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, than to bring together Silicon Valley legend "Coach" <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Campbell_(business_executive

Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ben-horowitz">Ben Horowitz</a>, the former co-founder and CEO of Opsware and founding partner of well-known venture capital firm

A new software as a service company <a href="http://www.domo.com/">Domo</a> is formally launching tonight at a party in Salt Lake City. I have no idea how opulent or bare-bones this party will be, but

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<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-290007" title="ben-horowitz" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ben-horowitz.jpeg" alt="" width="297" height="300" /></a>“It’s fucked up

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/grouponlogo.jpg"> As Groupon pursues its plans for an IPO, it's proposed valuation keeps on going up. First it was <a href="https://beta.tec