What Ben Horowitz is looking at investments:

1. The size of the opportunity – you need to get 30% to 40% of the market to meaningfull and to make money in technology.
2. The quality of the team – is the team good enough to build a great product that is ten-times better and take the market.
3. A bad market always beat a good team.

What Ben Horowitz likes to have in his investments:

• Megalomaniacs
• Outliers
• Shifts in technology or markets
• Market sectors that are dead – big market, a winner, bad product; this is a opportunity
• Entrepreneurs that tilt towards big markets and not a niche
• Hard core technical team
• Products then teams rather than vice versa

What Ben Horowitz believes to be the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs:

• Being both entrepreneur and inventor
• Finding product/market fit
• Managing their own psychology

Learn how business works directly from groundbreaking entrepreneurs and business leaders. This episode features Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a $300 million venture fund aimed at investing in new entrepreneurs, products, and companies in the technology industry. Presented by UC Berkeleys College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship. Series: Distinguished Innovator Lectures [4/2010] [Business] [Show ID: 17365]