Now that I've been a successful entrepreneur for over a quarter century, I can speak with great confidence about the good, the bad and the ugly of leading a business. Like I always say, I don't have advice, but I do have experience, and in my experience, it's easy to start a business, but it's not so easy to manage, lead, and sustain one. That's why we are going to read The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers for the next edition of the Indie Business Book Club. And believe me, while there are rarely any easy answers, there are always answers — and it's your job to find them.
As a human being, your most important daily tasks involve finding answers, making decisions, and solving problems.
It's the same in your business. Every day, there are hundreds of answers that need to be found, decisions that need to be made, and problems that need to be solved. You have to become really good at all three. If you do, you will be successful. If you don't, you won't be successful. It's as simple as that.
This book will help you become good at finding answers, making decisions, and solving problems.
You want that, right?
Of course, you do! So let's get started!
What you'll learn …
In addition to enjoying a fresh and affirming entrepreneurial perspective, here are some of the things you'll learn by reading this book with us:
- The importance of learning the art of “reframing” questions and problems
- How to maintain a clear head when everything is anything but clear
- The difference between “wartime” and “peacetime” business leaders, and why you need to be the latter and not the former
- What a tiny business bottleneck can do to ruin your business, and how to avoid it
- … and so much more!
Reading Plan
The reading plan progresses in our private Entrepreneur Member Facebook Group.
The graphic below displays our easy reading schedule.
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 firm's investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and X (formerly Twitter). 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 10 million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Felicia.
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Purchase The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Buy this and other Indie Business Book Club picks at IBN's Amazon shop.
The book is also available on Audible and on Kindle, via Amazon.
Of course, you can also purchase the book at your favorite local book store or check it out of your local library.
Are you ready? Let's do it.
Join us!
If you're not familiar with the Indie Business Book Club, you can click here for more information.
If you're a member of the Indie Business Network, make sure to join us in our private Entrepreneur Members Facebook group to get started.
If you're not an IBN member, what are you waiting for? Join now and enjoy the book club and tons of other benefits to help you and your business become better every day.
