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The hard thing about hard things

The hard thing about hard things

By AashiPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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The hard thing about hard things
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People want to become a business man, build their business, but do not know how to succeed in business.

If you want to know the ideas, steps, tips of a successful businessman, you want to become a successful CEO, a successful entrepreneur, you want to know his secrets, what he does so that you can follow him, he must read this book summary. .

"Ben Horowitz", the author of the book "The hard thing about hard things", who is the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, is also an experienced and respected entrepreneur of Silicon Valley, a successful personality. The author writes that establishing a business is not easy.

But in this book he has written the story of his success, how to become a businessman, how to found his technical company, how to run it, how to sell and buy products, how to manage, how to invest and how to invest. I have written some live and practical things related to the problems which are not taught in any business school.

He has given ideas, points, tips related to business which are helpful in making business successful. All these things have been well explained by summarizing them in this book summary.

It is easy to talk about business but it is difficult in the beginning when at that time proper communication does not become possible because the starting procedure was started. Keeping all these things in mind, important things related to how to run a business and make it successful have been told.

How to build your business in a difficult situation when there is no easy way, no easy answer to difficult questions. The solution of this sub is explained clearly in this book summary. Important things related to business have been described in all the chapters of this book.

Communist to venture capitalist
The author has adopted a non-conformist approach where he has learned to separate people's opinions and facts so that he can handle opposing opinions. To know anything, correct information is needed for which effort is necessary.

The author says that there is no shortcut to success or knowledge. Most of the knowledge comes from our own experience. Since proper knowledge is essential, wrong reference to shortcuts leads us to failure which proves fatal.

I will survive
In this chapter, the author has told the things related to business money investment, important things for startup and which friends should be joined.

The author writes that if you want to invest, you must research the market, what are the values ​​of the business, the investor will not meet. If you think that there are no investors to invest in the business, instead of panic, think that even if there are more than 20 investors in the market and all of them refuse, then even one investor can be found, with a positive perspective.

The author writes that if you want to be with these friends, treat them well, even if they leave you, treat them well, otherwise you will not be able to trust them again.

This time with feeling
(Learning by failing)

In this chapter, the author writes that Search is necessary to do things like go out to survive, interact with the outside world and learn from the situations that come your way, leading to success.

Give freedom to your employees, because even one person can be the reason why any big project is completed late, so the whole team should join the project with one approach and work equally.

Customer Needs
(Make it easy or create it)

The author writes that customers are important in business and should be kept in mind. Providing products according to customer's needs so that they get satisfaction.

The product knowledge of the customer has a limit, he depends on his current experience.

When things fall apart
The author writes in this chapter that many times organizations need clarity about their work so that things can be properly understood.

The author narrates his example of how he managed his Firm Loud cloud's when his business was going through a difficult situation, the board members were advising him of bankruptcy but the author listened to his heart to see if there were any problems. Somewhere there will be answers to the solution of the problem because there was no perfect idea or formula to handle adverse situations, we have to face those challenges. He believes that the CEO remains positive.

How should a CEO focus and give his best when faced with challenging situations? Some important things are as follows

All the problems of the organization should not be taken upon themselves at the same time.
A CEO should have a clear concept in his organization, say anything freely.

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