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  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things

  • Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
  • By: Ben Horowitz
  • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
  • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,657 ratings)

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By: Ben Horowitz
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Summary

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.

©2014 Ben Horowitz (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers
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great advice for CEOs of companies 15+ employees

great advice for CEOs of companies 15+ employees, otherwise advice is too early to be valuable

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Great read, very useful for senior Execs

Easy to follow with stories that resonated with my own experiences on a much smaller scale.

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Fantastic book!

I really enjoyed this and learnt a ton. I highly recommend this book for anyone that owns or runs a business.

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really enjoy reading book

everything is perfect amazing looking forward to read more books using this app. keep it up

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A MUST FOR Founder CEOs

Easy read
Touched on all the hard things you will encounter I should know been there over many years. It’s going to tell you more about the soft hard issues.
It’s not about strategy
Well grounded as written by a real FOUNDER CEO
Rosalind Benjamin FOUNDER CEO HELIX INTERNATIONAL GROUP LTD ENGLAND


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A deep insight into the struggles of leadership

I found this book to be quite transformational for me. As someone venturing into the world of management and startups, it's given me much greater empathy for the struggles of running a company. It has helped me to be more patient with the CEO of my company and understand her perspective much more clearly as a result.

This has made me look forward to the challenge of management, and found the ideals around shaping culture particularly reassuring.

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Insightful, straightforward entrepreneur CEO cookbook!

Great book, full of a huge array to of advice which are a invaluable for anybody on the journey of building a startup or scaling up a business!

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Must-read for first-time CEOs

As a first-time CEO I found this book very insightful. I'll definitely have to reread it.

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great management book

great book, but the recording is pretty quiet.
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Running a business, then read this.

Don't try to give this book a category, for example Buisness Management, just get ready to take notes, learn and bizarrely enjoy some rap.

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