Chris Dixon is a New York guy with a degree in philosophy from Columbia University. He’s also, as of last fall, a partner at hot Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (which shortens its name to A16Z—16 is the number of letters between the A and the Z). All in all, that gives him…

Technology sellers are increasingly sidestepping their customers’ chief information officers and marketing their wares directly to individual departments, said Peter Levine, a partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Makers of software and online services are having more success pitching their products to a client’s sales operations or its engineering department, he said today at the Bloomberg…

Marc Andreessen knows both sides of the start-up game. As freshly minted university graduates in the 1990s, he and his partners went hat in hand to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to fund their new project, the breakthrough web browser Netscape Navigator. Within 18 months the enterprise had gone public and Andreessen had become a…

“You can’t go into Compton to rehabilitate gang members if you haven’t been a Crip.” — Ben Horowitz, co-founder of fast-rising venture outfit Andreessen Horowitz. Twenty years ago, the typical VC looked like a traditional banker, complete with an MBA and a background in finance. But a Wall Street background is becoming increasingly rare on…

By Ashvin Bachireddy, Andreessen Horowitz Most of the best investors in the world are considered value investors. Well, times are changing — the destructive power of technology is starting to break down companies faster than ever. Value investing is an investment philosophy that evolved based on the ideas that Ben Graham and David Dodd started teaching at Columbia Business School in…

Andreessen Horowitz has named longtime Silicon Valley executive Ken Coleman–a mentor to the firm’s co-founder, Ben Horowitz–as a special adviser. In 1986, Coleman, who was then the head of administration at Silicon Graphics, hired a 20-year-old Horowitz as a summer intern, giving him his first job in the computer industry. Silicon Graphics was the Google of its day, Horowitz wrote…

Industry veteran Ken Coleman is joining elite venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a “special advisor.” Coleman has had a impressive career as the founder and former chairman of ITM Software. He also serves on the board of directors of City National Bank and has held executive positions at Hewlett-Packard, Activision, and Silicon Graphics, which is where he first met…

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is announcing another major win for its powerhouse of talent—— Ken Coleman, enterprise tech veteran, is joining the firm as a Special Advisor. Coleman is a Silicon Valley pioneer and former chairman/CEO of ITM Software, and a trusted mentor to countless IT companies and entrepreneurs, including the firm’s founder Ben Horowitz.…

For a forward-thinking venture firm, Andreessen-Horowitz has shown a knack for reaching into Silicon Valley’s past. When the firm in 2011 backed a new startup led by BEA co-founder Alfred Chuang, Ben Horowitz in a blog called Chuang “the greatest CEO of my time.” Now Horowitz has tapped another stalwart from the dot-com era: Ken Coleman, long a…

When Ben Horowitz left landmark Silicon Valley hardware and software firm Silicon Graphics in 1992 to join a startup called Netlabs, which made network management software, his mentor Ken Coleman told him he was making a big mistake. “He said he knew the company well and told me, ‘You’ll regret it,’” recalls Horowitz. He did. But Coleman…

Andreessen Horowitz has named Ken Coleman, former executive at Silicon Graphics, as a special advisor. Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, has known Coleman for years, since he was hired by Coleman as a summer intern at Silicon Graphics in 1986. Coleman, later chief operating officer at Silicon Graphics, is now chairman of Saama Technologies…

Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has expanded quickly in recent years, said it has added a new adviser to its ranks, Silicon Valley veteran Ken Coleman. Mr. Coleman, 70 years old, who has worked at Hewlett-Packard, Activision, Silicon Graphics and other tech companies over the years, also happens to be a longtime mentor to Andreessen…

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it’s hired another special advisor. It’s Ken Coleman, the former CEO of ITM. Coleman has had a long career in the Valley, with stops at Hewlett-Packard, Activision, and Silicon Graphics. He’s met a lot of important people along the way. For example, 26 years ago, he hired Ben Horowitz into Silicon Graphics.

As Google prepares to ship its high-profile Google Glass wearable-computing device to programmers so they can develop apps that would run on the device, the company’s venture-capital arm on Wednesday said it would team up with two big tech investors to fund the app makers. Google Ventures, which primarily invests in early-stage startups, said it would…

Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Andreessen Horowitz are creating a new program to fund startups that want to make apps for Google Glass. It’s called Glass Collective, and it’s a huge opportunity for developers willing to work on a barely-alpha piece of hardware. When entrepreneurs with a Glass-y idea get a chance to pitch any one…