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The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers
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Title
The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers / Ben Horowitz.
ISBN
9780062273215
0062273213
9780062273208
0062273205
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 289 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Ben Horowitz, co-founder 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. Publisher's description.
Other formats
Print version: Horowitz, Ben, 1966- Hard thing about hard things. First edition. New York : Harper Business, [2014]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 26, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. From Communist to venture capitalist
2. "I will survive"
3. This time with feeling
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
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
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
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
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?
9. The end of the beginning
Appendix: Questions for head of Enterprise sales force.
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