Marc Andreessen Ideas Quotations

Most of the software ideas of the late '90s which people tried and failed on--customer relationship management, marketing analytics, supply chain management, B2B procurement--those ideas all made sense and had good business justifications. But the tech wasn't quite there. Many customers who bought early feel bitter. But at some point those things will hit the mainstream and work.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.