Guides to startup company by Marc Andreessen

While I was reading through my google reader something popped out of no where! It was one of the Pmarca Guide to Startups from Blog.PMARCA.com by Marc Andreessen, former CEO of Opsware which had been purchased by HP for $1.6 billion in cash.

It is a great guide to people who are interested in a startup operation and what is needed to get it started. Here are list of articles that are published so far on this topic.

• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 7: Why a startup's initial business plan doesn't matter that much
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 3: "But I don't know any VCs!"
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 2: When the VCs say "no"
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup

Additionally, there are couple articles that are being published about Big Companies and what they need to keep their niche.

• The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people
• The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!

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