The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Author: Ben Horowitz ISBN: 8601404235832 Published: 2014,March 4A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, b…
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