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John O'Farrell

Owner / Partner, Andressen Horowitz
John O'Farrell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. John led the firm's investments in Facebook, Twitter and Groupon, and works with portfolio companies on partnering, strategic transactions and global expansion. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, John held Executive Vice President positions at Silver Spring Networks, Opsware and Excite@Home. Earlier in his career, John worked in the United States and Europe with US WEST, Booz Allen, Telecom Ireland, the EU Commission, Digital Equipment and Siemens. John has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin. He speaks English, German, French and Portuguese.

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A Checklist For Building A Successful Global Startup In the final installment of a five-part series on building a global startup, John O'Farrell of Andreessen Horowitz reveals 11 tips to making your international operations go off without a hitch. Updated Mon Oct 3, 2011
Building The Global Startup: If Going International Is Unfunded, It's Not Going To Get Done Doing a startup is really hard. No one in their right mind would consider doing two startups in parallel, would they? And yet that's what going international is: A second startup inside your first one. And like any startup, it needs people and money to succeed. Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011
Building The Global Startup: A Roadmap To Success In International Expansion In a high-growth company, the core domestic business will consume most of management's attention. Taking the company international is a long-term project that demands sustained effort. Your international aspirations will go unfulfilled unless you start with an explicit strategy. Updated Thu Aug 25, 2011
Get Yourself A Global Strategy International expansion can happen almost by accident -- if you're a consumer Internet company, you get offered a deal by a big German partner, or if you're an enterprise software company, your sales guys sign a bluebird deal in Japan to make the quarter -- but that rarely turns out well. Updated Mon Jul 18, 2011
Building The Global Startup How you can maximize your chances of getting international business right the first time around. Updated Mon Jul 18, 2011

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