Books by Ben Horowitz
“To be an entrepreneur you have to be almost strategically irrational. He doesn’t say crazy, but he does say there’s an irrationality in believing that you can find that one out of a hundred. You also have to be deeply pragmatic about this, and that’s why there’s euphoria and terror at the same time—because what if you don’t find it? Ben even makes this emotional rollercoaster into a graph: you feel good for a while, and then horrible for a while because you learn something or the market changes.” Read more...
The best books on Running a Business
Brian O'Kelley, Entrepreneurs & Business People
Interviews where books by Ben Horowitz were recommended
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey Moore -
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg -
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Brave, Not Perfect: How Celebrating Imperfection Helps You Live Your Best, Most Joyful Life
by Reshma Saujani -
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Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises
by Derek Lidow
The best books on Running a Business, recommended by Brian O'Kelley
The best books on Running a Business, recommended by Brian O'Kelley
Running a successful business is an endless series of impossible challenges, a constant mix of terror and euphoria, explains Brian O’Kelley, co-founder of the billion-dollar ad tech company AppNexus and now at Scope3. He tells us which books every entrepreneur needs to read and why it’s so helpful to learn from those who have gone before.
