The release date for the English version of 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers' by
Ben Horowitz is Mar 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Many people speak about how exciting it is to launch a company, but only Ben Horowitz is candid about the challenges of running one.
Ben Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley's most renowned and accomplished entrepreneurs and cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, offers crucial guidance and useful insight for resolving the most difficult issues that business schools fail to address in his book The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Horowitz draws on his personal experience of starting, growing, selling, purchasing, managing, and investing in technology companies. Millions of people have become dedicated to his blog and have grown to depend on him to help them manage their companies. Horowitz, a lifetime admirer of rap music, magnifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and gives it straight about anything from knowing when to cash in to dismissing pals. He also discusses developing and maintaining a CEO attitude.
His counsel is based on anecdotes from his own arduous ascent, which included cofounding the pioneering cloud service provider Loudcloud and creating the wildly successful venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (creator of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser). This is not a staged triumph lap; using his experiences, he examines problems that have no simple solutions, including as
demoting (or terminating) a devoted friend; whether it's OK to recruit employees from your buddy's business; if you should include titles and promotions and how to manage them;
What to do when intelligent individuals make poor workers; why Andreessen Horowitz favors founder CEOs and how to become one; whether or not to sell your business, and how to accomplish it. How to handle your own psyche when the whole company is depending on you.
A treasure for seasoned business owners as well as those hoping to launch their own new projects, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is chock-full of Horowitz's signature straight speaking and humor, as well as insights from his own, sometimes humiliating, experiences.