Marc Andreessen and a16z
Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Marc Andreessen's 2007 guide to startups gave founders the term product-market fit and the argument that market matters more than team or product. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) publishes some of the clearest material on how venture firms work and which metrics investors read.
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- Rachleff's law: why market beats team and product
Rachleff's law of startup success, as Marc Andreessen wrote it down: the number one company killer is lack of market. What it means for your deck.
- How to know if you have product-market fit
Marc Andreessen's definition of product-market fit, and the 40% survey Superhuman used to measure it: the questions, the threshold and how to raise it.
Guides built on their advice
- How to show market size in your pitch deck
What the market slide must prove, why TAM, SAM and SOM say little on their own, and Gurley on not capping your market at today's size.
Best resources
- The only thing that matters · Marc Andreessen
The post that defined product-market fit.
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road · Scott Kupor (a16z)
How a venture firm works from the inside.
- 16 startup metrics · a16z
Standard definitions for the metrics investors ask for.
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