How to Win at the Sport of Business
by Mark Cuban · first published 2011
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
A short, entertaining collection of business lessons drawn from Mark Cuban's experience. It is eye-opening and a good read, and it helped one founder through a hard stretch at a startup.
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Mark Cuban's "How to Win at the Sport of Business" is top drawer for me.
on “Ask HN: Book under 100 pages that changed your life the most?” ↗…particularly "rough-patch" at our startup- really helped me cope with the "situation". What was once a boring book is now scribbled with notes, bookmarks and highlights. A very useful life-guide. 5. How to win at the Sport of Business (Mark Cuban) - A very entertaining yet eye-opening book. It is very short, finished it in a couple hours. A must read for every entrepreneur. I keep coming back to this when I feel like things are going…
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗…Read http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/01/the-10-keys-to-selling-... http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/the-100-rules-for-being... Read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ - Eric Ries blog Read How to win at the sport of Business by Mark Cuban his blog : http://blogmaverick.com/ Also keep in mind, most great products / services are not revolutionary but evolutionary. Google, Facebook both improved on existing ideas, Apple's ipod…
on “Ask HN: I have $100k in cash. In what kind of startup should I invest it?” ↗…Almost Everything by Scott Adams - great read Scaling Up By Verne Harnish Great By Choice by Jim Collins - love the whole series The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes - probably worth a reread How to Win at the Sport of Business By Mark Cuban - good read Elon Mush by Ashlee Vance - need I say more The Hard Thing about Hard Things By Ben Horowitz The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - probably need to deeply absorb this - a…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗Elon Musk's biography by Ashlee Vance and "How to win at the sport of Business", by Mark Cuban. I really enjoyed both of them.
on “Ask HN: What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?” ↗Non-fiction: Tough to call. I got a lot out of Deep Work by Cal Newport, The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, How To Win At The Sport Of Business by Mark Cuban, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and The Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler, as well as the three Grant Cardone books I read: The 10x Rule, Sell or Be Sold and Be Obsessed or…
on “Ask HN: What is the best book you read on 2017?” ↗