Part 1: Why not to do a startup

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Part of course: Marc Andreessen's Guide to Startups List

In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups.

My specific experience is from three companies I have co-founded: Netscape, sold to America Online in 1998 for $4.2 billion; Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), a public software company with an approximately $1 billion market cap; and now Ning, a new, private consumer Internet company.

Why not to do a startup

With all that out of the way, let's start at the beginning: why not to do a startup. Going through the recruiting process and being seduced by a startup is heady stuff for your typical engineer or midlevel manager at a big company -- you get to parti

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Part 2: When the VCs say "no"

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