Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (Featuring Bonus Article Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything by Steve Blank)

<p><b>The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.</b></p><p>If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the <b>Harvard Business Review</b> archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.</p><p>Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to: <ul><li>Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick<li>Know what matters in a great business plan<li>Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation<li>Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley<li>Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding<li>Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO</ul></p><p>This collection of articles includes Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader by Timothy Butler; How to Write a Great Business Plan by William A. Sahlman; Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything by Steve Blank; The President of SRI Ventures on Bringing Siri to Life by Norman Winarsky; In Search of the Next Big Thing an interview with Marc Andreessen by Adi Ignatius; Six Myths About Venture Capitalists by Diane Mulcahy; Chobani's Founder on Growing a Start-Up Without Outside Investors by Hamdi Ulukaya; Network Effects Aren't Enough by Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman; Blitzscaling an interview with Reid Hoffman by Tim Sullivan; Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff; and The Founder's Dilemma by Noam Wasserman.</p>