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Re:Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowi... by pkj on Friday October 11, 2013 @05:52AM (#6532231)
>"That plays well to our market development program where 1,200 big company management teams are coming through our office every year -- we ask them what they think about new ideas and they tell us."

How about asking BigCos their top pain points once in a while? That would be a 1200x treasure for current/future entrepreneurs.

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Re:Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowi... by pmarca on Friday October 11, 2013 @04:05PM (#6535609)
Yep, we do, and we set up many opportunities for our entrepreneurs to do that themselves. (I just got back from our annual CIO/CMO conference where there was a lot of exactly that.)
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