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<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:</p> <ul> <li>Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick</li> <li>Know what matters in a great business plan</li> <li>Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation</li> <li>Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley</li> <li>Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding</li> <li>Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO</li> </ul> <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>