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
: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

作者:BenHorowitz

出版社:HarperBusiness

副标题:BuildingaBusinessWhenThereAreNoEasyAnswers

出版年:2014-3-4

页数:304

定价:USD29.99

装帧:Hardcover

ISBN:9780062273208

内容简介
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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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作者简介
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Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firms investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously Horowitz was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly ten million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, Fortune, Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, Felicia.

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目录
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CONTENTS

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1: From Communist to Venture Capitalist

Chapter 2: “I Will Survive”

Chapter 3: This Time with Feeling

Chapter 4: When Things Fall Apart

The Struggle

CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is

The Right Way to Lay People Off

Preparing to Fire an Executive

Demoting a Loyal Friend

Lies That Losers Tell

Lead Bullets

Nobody Cares

Chapter 5: Take Care of the People, the Products, and the Profits—in That Order

A Good Place to Work

Why Startups Should Train Their People

Is It Okay to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company?

Why It’s Hard to Bring Big Company Execs into Little Companies

Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?

When Employees Misinterpret Managers

Management Debt

Management Quality Assurance

Chapter 6: Concerning the Going Concern

How to Minimize Politics in Your Company

The Right Kind of Ambition

Titles and Promotions

When Smart People Are Bad Employees

Old People

One-on-One

Programming Your Culture

Taking the Mystery Out of Scaling a Company

The Scale Anticipation Fallacy

Chapter 7: How to Lead Even When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going

The Most Difficult CEO Skill

The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage

Ones and Twos

Follow the Leader

Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO

Making Yourself a CEO

How to Evaluate CEOs

Chapter 8: First Rule of Entrepreneurship: There Are No Rules

Solving the Accountability vs. Creativity Paradox

The Freaky Friday Management Technique

Staying Great

Should You Sell Your Company?

Chapter 9: The End of the Beginning

Appendix: Questions for Head of Enterprise Sales Force

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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评论 ······

写的真好,讲出了许多真实却难以言说的困惑。试图创业之前,从未觉得有什么事会如此之难。Embrace the struggle,希望能继续带着立场和勇气走下去。

全是干货

一本写在大气层的《原则》。揭开创业的真面目后,只看到暗流汹涌满面疮痍。荣登今年第一后悔读的书,只怪自己渺小卑微,竟不知从何学起

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