Comments on: My problem with Marc Andreessen’s blog http://www.31fps.com/2007/06/26/my-problem-with-marc-andreessens-blog/ A blog about business, technology, and life Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:47:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sdpurtill http://www.31fps.com/2007/06/26/my-problem-with-marc-andreessens-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-170 sdpurtill Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:34:58 +0000 http://www.31fps.com/2007/06/26/my-problem-with-marc-andreessens-blog/#comment-170 Wow, impossible for me to say that any of your responses are wrong when your it's straight from the horse's mouth :) But I'm still trying to figure out how you can balance running Ning and blogging (quickly becoming an A-lister) at the same time? I have huge respect for bloggers like you; guys that not only talk the talk but actually do something about it (like Mark Cuban). I hope we will run into each other sometime in the future when I'm down in Silicon Valley :) Sam Wow, impossible for me to say that any of your responses are wrong when your it’s straight from the horse’s mouth :)

But I’m still trying to figure out how you can balance running Ning and blogging (quickly becoming an A-lister) at the same time? I have huge respect for bloggers like you; guys that not only talk the talk but actually do something about it (like Mark Cuban). I hope we will run into each other sometime in the future when I’m down in Silicon Valley :)

Sam

]]> By: Marc Andreessen http://www.31fps.com/2007/06/26/my-problem-with-marc-andreessens-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Marc Andreessen Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:53:53 +0000 http://www.31fps.com/2007/06/26/my-problem-with-marc-andreessens-blog/#comment-169 Hi Sam -- thanks very much for the kind words! Just a few comments: * Netscape did $20 million in revenue the quarter it went public in 1995, and did $600 million in revenue the year it was sold to AOL in 1998. Just fyi :-). * Answer to the first question: I have lots of repressed opinions that are now tumbling out :-). And the posts all start short... * Answer to the second question, first part: you're right, and I'm not going to talk about VC's that much anymore -- I'm going to focus much more, I Just wanted to get the VC stuff out of the way since raising money is important for many new ventures. And people ask about that topic a lot. * Answer to the second question, second part: I disagree with that, there are tons of barriers to entry, and Amazon's S3 and EC2, while fantastic services, are not substitutes for a lot of the hard work that most Internet startups need to do to scale and succeed! Enjoy the movie :-). Marc Hi Sam — thanks very much for the kind words!

Just a few comments:

* Netscape did $20 million in revenue the quarter it went public in 1995, and did $600 million in revenue the year it was sold to AOL in 1998. Just fyi :-).

* Answer to the first question: I have lots of repressed opinions that are now tumbling out :-).

And the posts all start short…

* Answer to the second question, first part: you’re right, and I’m not going to talk about VC’s that much anymore — I’m going to focus much more, I Just wanted to get the VC stuff out of the way since raising money is important for many new ventures. And people ask about that topic a lot.

* Answer to the second question, second part: I disagree with that, there are tons of barriers to entry, and Amazon’s S3 and EC2, while fantastic services, are not substitutes for a lot of the hard work that most Internet startups need to do to scale and succeed!

Enjoy the movie :-).

Marc

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