The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is probably excellent, but it's definitely for the CEO of a company; a company with employees that is well-established and/or plans on growing a lot. In essence, the target market is different from that of "The Million-Dollar, One-person business" or "The 4 Hour work-week".

If you are an entrepreneur, or working on your own, or just starting out, this book will most likely be useful in the future, when you're hiring and firing and wooing investors, but probably not now.

Some of my notes:
Engineering managers should be hired internally. Sales managers should be hired externally.
"If I had a tattoo for every CEO who said she hired the best in the industry, I'd be Lil Wayne"
There's no such thing as a good CEO, but only a CEO who is good for this job at this time.


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