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# Pmarchive - Home
# [Pmarchive][1]
An archive of the best articles from
Marc Andreessen's original [ blog.pmarca.com][2]
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## The Pmarca Guide to Startups
1. [ Part 1: Why not to do a startup][3]
2. [ Part 2: When the VCs say "no"][4]
3. [ Part 3: "But I don't know any VCs!"][5]
4. [ Part 4: The only thing that matters][6]
5. [ Part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies][7]
6. [ Part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?][8]
7. [ Part 7: Why a startup's initial business plan doesn't matter that much][9]
8. [ Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives][10]
9. [ Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO][11]
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## Other Startup Essentials
1. [ The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1][12]
2. [ The truth about venture capitalists, Part 2][13]
3. [ The truth about venture capitalists, Part 3][14]
4. [ How to hire the best people you've ever worked with][15]
5. [ Serial entrepreneurs and today's Silicon Valley][16]
6. [ The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6][17]
7. [ Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data][18]
8. [ Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck][19]
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## Additional Pmarca Guides
1. [ Guide to Personal Productivity][20]
2. [ Guide to Career Planning, part 0: Introduction][21]
3. [ Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity][22]
4. [ Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education][23]
5. [ Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why][24]
6. [ Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!][25]
7. [ Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people][26]
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## Assorted Goodness
1. [ Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0][27]
2. [ Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far][28]
3. [ Why Ning?][29]
4. [ Book of the week: Best book for tech entrepreneurs this year][30]
5. [ The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet][31]
6. [ Music of the week: Three views of the blues, through jazz][32]
7. [ Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far][33]
8. [ OK, you're right, it IS a bubble][34]
9. [ Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on micromanagement][35]
10. [ An hour and a half with Barack Obama][36]
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## The Long Kiss Goodbye
Before he stopped posting, Marc tantalized readers with a "Coming Soon" list (reprinted below). I was particularly excited about the Guide to High-Tech Startups. Maybe someday. All we can do is hope.
* Top 10 books for high-tech entrepreneurs
* Top 10 ways to do personal outsourcing
* Software -- the velvet revolution and the multicore conundrum
* How to trick out a Typepad blog in 2007
* Killer Windows Media Center apps for 2007
* The truth about reporters: a multi-part series
* The Pmarca Guide to High-Tech Startups: a multi-part series
* Why Internet advertising is about to get humongous