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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup-practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover, based on his popular ben's blog.
While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.
Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.
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I thought there would be more stories, and less bland management advice. Since I'm not a tech startup CEO, I'm not really in the target audience. Still, the introduction and the last third of the book were interesting.
The book goes into great detail about the trials and tribulations of being a CEO and founder of tech companies.
Narrow target audience . This book is only for people who want to be a CEO or run a company.
Muy avanzado, solo sirve para ceo de mas de 200 empleados
Great book - even if you aren’t a CEO or wannabe CEO it gives you a perspective from the top - and lots of Nas lyrics
Great read,highly recommend to anyone;CEOs or startup entrepreneurs alike,enjoyed it.
Fun and thought provoking. Especially if you are starting your company and your head is spinning.
quién diría, que las cosas difíciles son difíciles y las fáciles son fáciles Qué desperdicio de mi tiempo
Bdj shd d d de e e e e e
I extracted quite a few useful thoughts. Sometimes a bit boring
Real entrepreneur struggles and how author dealt with it. This is an entrepreneurs friend! I loved it! Definitely buying this book!
Fantastic insights. Nothing beats experience when talking about things that are inherently difficult. Building a good business is one of those things. Ben's insights, when added to all this makes this a must read.
I am not building a tech startup but the lessons are so valuable that they help me move with boldness and courage - especially when the way seems foggy. Thank you Ben for not concealing this within yourself.
Loved it, straight forward and sincere. I recommend it for everyone in the corporate or startup world.
Wow. This book is amazing. Not a game changer, but so much effort and insights into being an entrepreneur and running a company.
Ben wrote the book on running an organization that I wish I had read 10 years ago.
I laugh like I never laugh before at literature from a book and I have read a lot of books. Now I must buy this book. I could barely type my review because I am laughing uncontrollably at the prospect if that character knock out the author of this book if he followed Roger's instructions.
A fantastic first person account from an entrepreneur. Some stories and experiences portray the difficulty and moral issues faced by founders. Love the openness in thought and clear admittance of faults by the author. Don't agree with all the advice, but what's a book if don't agree at some instances, yet like it?
This is one of those books that you keep with you through your journey as a startup founder.
Definitely a must Read/Listen. And when you are done, read/listen again !!
Filled in my copy with bookmarks.
Definitely a must Read/Listen. And when you are done, read/listen again !!
Filled in my copy with bookmarks.
Me quedo con la frase "the only way to learn how to be a CEO, is by being a CEO" de Ben Horowitz
Relevant to any industry. Great insight from a CEO’s perspective and reality of building a business.
Full of advice not frequently found in management books, written by someone who has “been there.” Not certain how much of this will ultimately be applicable to my experience, but it was a good read. I especially feel the usefulness for me is in being given the opportunity to know the nature of some “hard things” before they will actually come up in my life, so I can at least mentally prepare for the eventuality they may occur.
Unique advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and full fledged CEOs
very hard thing to do is hard things in life
pretty good memoir with management advice here and there. audiobook production was great
An excellent collection of CEO challenges and advice on how to deal with them. Highly recommended!
This was my first audio book experience. I really enjoyed the content of this book but also the reader was engaging and brought life to Ben Horowitz's words. The is some profanity which I am not adamantly against just wasn't prepared for it. Overall, I recommend this book to aspiring top level leaders and individuals in the midst of strategic changes in business.
I listened through 2 chapters and stopped. It's also specific to IT boom millonaires and I could not relate to such experiences when money is thrown at you all over the place. Didn't notice anything for aspiring enterpreneurs so far unless you are aiming exactly to become the next big thing in IT valuations in the US. Otherwise shortsighted boring, and not funny at all.
good food for thought. sometimes over the top. overall I recommend it as a mechanism to fuel thought experiments and conversation around difficult business moments.