TPM is getting its first outside funding: an injection of between $500,000 and $1 million that comes courtesy of ur-entrepreneur Marc Andreessen. The money will come, TechCrunch reports, from Andreessen himself, rather than his new venture fund Andreessen Horowitz—with the total rounded out by funding from other, as-yet-unnamed angel investors.
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What??? Is Josh hosting a salon of some kind for this money in his own home?/s
Great news!
#1 Posted by Terry Olson, CJR on Mon 6 Jul 2009 at 06:27 PM