Venture Capitalist Seeks More Venture Risk

Why shouldn't VCs like Marc Andreessen do a little bit of what hedge funds do now? 

The financial world is turning upside-down.

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This post originally appeared in Money Stuff.

Here is a profile of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz that is full of interesting facts—about the firm’s branding, its model of providing a “services team” that helps its portfolio companies run their businesses, its history of only naming men as general partners—but I want to focus on this one: