Great engineering talent is the life-blood of the innovation economy. Startups across the nation, from New York to Silicon Valley, are in an all-out war for the workers they need for their ideas to thrive. Over the next decade, we believe there will be one million more technical jobs than the domestic workforce can fill.…
More »Alan Bradley: [holds up his pager] I was paged last night. Sam Flynn: Oh, man, still rocking the pager? Good for you. – TRON: Legacy Here’s my card. It’s got my cell number, my pager number, my home number and my other pager number. I never take vacations, I never get sick. And I don’t…
More »Living in silos As software continues to eat the world, we spend an ever-increasing portion of our time online. Worldwide, we pass over 35 billion hours a month in the digital world, with US Internet users spending an average of 32 hours online monthly. As the Web has evolved, more and more of that online…
More »Every aspiring CEO has heard of David Ogilvy’s famous admonition, usually paraphrased as “Hire people smarter than yourself” or words to that effect. In my case, following that good advice has not been hard. Applying that criterion has meant that I’ve had an enormous pool of qualified candidates to choose from. As I’ve progressed in…
More »The Challenge of Sustainable Development I just came back from a short stay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Like its fellow BRICs China and India, Brazil has experienced a massive economic boom over the past decade. While the boom has lifted tens of millions of people out of economic misery (40 million have entered the…
More »But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail. —William Shakespeare, Macbeth In my last post, I described how, at Opsware, we would step back from the fray about once a year to go through a strategic review of our situation with the board. In November 2005, our conclusion was to keep on…
More »So you got to let me know Should I stay or should I go? —The Clash To lead you to an overwhelming question…. Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. —T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Taking the exit On July 23, 2007, HP announced…
More »We are delighted to announce that the six General Partners of Andreessen Horowitz, with our families, are all committing to donate at least half of all income from our venture capital careers to philanthropic causes during our lifetimes. The reason is simple. We are fortunate to work with some of the best entrepreneurs and technologists…
More »SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2, 2003 HP and Opsware Inc. Join Forces to Deliver Enhanced Automation for HP’s Utility Data Center SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2006 Opsware Announces Worldwide Distribution Agreement with Cisco These two headlines sound pretty similar—“Small company partners with giant company to reach a bigger market”—but they led to two very different outcomes. Our 2003…
More »In part I, I talked about how up-front investment in a high-caliber strategic business development function helped to save Loudcloud when an existential crisis hit in 2002. But the value of strategic business development didn’t end there. In fact, it was only beginning. Opsware V1: Single product, single customer The EDS transaction closed in mid-August,…
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