A fight is raging between chief executives and big investors over “dual” (or multi) class share structures, which give disproportionate voting rights to corporate founders and leaders at companies …

Continuing our series on what's next for education startups, in this a16z hallway conversation general partner Connie Chan talks with deal and research team ...

Now more than ever, investors need to decide whether they want to lock up their money in bets that could pay off richly–or fail disastrously–down the road.

Growth hacking is both valuable and overhyped, just like anything that’s caught on.It’s valuable because it’s created an important knowledge area that combines marketing, data science, and product to…

There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months, and malware on Windows and Office and Microsoft’s attempts to respond, 20 years ago.…

Editor’s note: This recent podcast interview of Marc Andreessen was conducted by Brian Koppelman, writer (Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen, etc.), director, and showrunner (with David Levien) of Billions…

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Jeff Jordan’s career includes stints at eBay, The Walt Disney Store, Reel.com, and Paypal and as a GP at a16z, his cur…

[Originally tweetstormed at @andrewchen, Follow me for more!] Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. As spend scales, it always gets more

A big part of managing two-sided marketplaces involves managing tensions between the two, often opposing “sides”. Typically these are consumers on one side and micro-entrepreneurs or small business…

Focusing only on the technical, "crunchy, wonky stuff" behind policies or products sometimes misses the humanity at the center of why we're doing the thing in the first place. Because systems -- wh…

We’re continuing to see tremendous innovation in marketplaces. The first generation of net companies saw a few big horizontal marketplace winners like eBay and Craigslist. But entrepreneurs are…

Love the term or hate it, the concept and reality of the "sharing economy" (or "gig economy" and so on) is here to stay. And in fact, argues NYU Stern professor and researcher Arun Sundararajan, it…

Opinion: It's time to restore the open source, community-led ethos of the original internet—with crypto.

Editor's Note: This testimony was delivered by managing partner (and former chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association) Scott Kupor to the FTC as part of their hearings -- wi…

https://youtu.be/eoZO2LDFaWk The goal of every new technology company is to achieve a hyper-growth state. Once you unlock that magic moment, though, how do you actually sustain that rate of growth?…

The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I’ve been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I’ve seen. Marketplaces at Andreessen

“Crossing the chasm” is a popular concept for almost all new products/startups, and is a useful lens for entrepreneurs to view the theory of innovation. The concept was first coined in the popular …

There’s a good chance your smartphone contains tainted cobalt. The metal is a crucial ingredient in most of the lithium-ion batteries that power our devices, and 70% of it is mined in war-torn…

* User Growth * Retention/Churn * Marketplaces * Blogging * Venture Capital * Startups * Gaming/Esports * Network Effects

I’ve shared a lot about a future enabled by mobile -- covering how mobile changes product design, app monetization, and business models to social communication and more. But what we don’t talk abou…

David George will focus on later-stage transactions.

A16z has tapped General Atlantic's David George to focus on late-stage deals.

Issue at heart of hedge fund battle over Hewlett-Packard takeover