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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

By: Ben Horowitz
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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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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The author speaks about building a business in IT and finally selling it years later throughout all the struggles without touching base on product which I find most valuable in this book. It is about everything except the product.

A must read either you are an employee or employer in IT

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The narrative behind the writer's journey is detailed and insightful - you really feel part of the story's ups and downs. The advice provided is invaluable as its delivered from someone who has been there and done it.
The audible version is perfectly narrated.

Insightful

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It's a fantastic book for guidance if you're a CEO, but it's not limited to the top position in the c-suite. Any c-level, senior VP, director (UK), or anyone aspiring to be one of those, should read this book. And then all talk about it together! There are numerous, almost countless, high quality take-aways that will help you run your businesses.

A leadership must-read

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A very brilliant book. Not on the fancy things about running a business (private jets, huge houses, TED conferences) but on what to do when you are days away from running out of money.

Makes me both inspired and terrified to become a CEO.

Illuminating and terrifying

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I wish I’d had this book over the last ten years of running a £100m company. So many issues would have been made clearer. Not easier, just clearer.

If you run a company; read this book

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