Recommendations from our site
“It looks at the human or personal aspect of entrepreneurship…You have to realise that, as an entrepreneur, there is no distance between business and personal life. That’s the beauty of this book and some of the stories. You cannot separate business decisions from personal decisions because the business is two people and a dog. And if they’re married to each other, then a bunch of marriage problems are going to enter the business, and a bunch of business problems are going to enter the marriage, like it or not. Noam himself had worked for a venture capital fund that basically said, ‘we will never invest in a company where the founders are married to each other.’ That’s an interesting indication, that those investors believe that companies with married founders are doomed.” Read more...
The best books on Entrepreneurship
Thomas Hellmann, Economist
Our most recommended books
-
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
by Noam Wasserman -
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed
by Josh Lerner -
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz -
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey Moore -
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg -
Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life
by Reshma Saujani
