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The Case for the Fat Startup (and mix signals)

Check out this Blog post from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz . 

A classic example of mix-signals entrepreneurs receive from VC.

These days, nearly all the entrepreneurs who come pitch at our venture firm Andreessen Horowitz highlight how little money they are raising and how "lean" they are planning to run the company. While we don't want to invest a single dollar more than a company needs, there is a case to be made for raising enough money to win the market. 

My partner Ben makes this case convincingly in 

his guest post on AllThingsD titled "The Case for the Fat Startup." Read it, and along the way you'll also hear the story of how Ben navigated our company Opsware through the turbulent dot-com implosion to a $1.6 billion acquisition by HP Software in July 2007. 

Hint: he didn't do it running lean.