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TIM FAULKNER — Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, LoudCloud, and most recently Ning, on his newly launched blog discussing the topic of a new tech bubble:

Lots of people running around starting questionable companies, launching marginal products, pitching third-tier VC's, throwing launch parties, shmoozing at conferences, blogging enthusiastically, and otherwise acting bubbly does not a bubble make.

That's just life in this business.