Pang East: Standing on the shoulders of giants

A beautiful Beginning

1977 Pang East was born in Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province, an ordinary rural family, docile and good parents gave him the name of the east. Rising East, Sunrise, they eagerly hope that their children have a bright future. Where some people know, this full of expectations of the name, this one smile face with two dimples of children will become China's internet star.

A few years later, Pang East with outstanding achievements into the economics Department of Ningbo University, began his own university life. He studied economics, but he often went to the library to see the books of literature and history, and he carefully wrote reading notes. Until today, he wrote the half of the high reading notes still placed in his office, the accumulation of wisdom everywhere for him to use.

In addition to reading, Pang also often participate in recreational activities, is the University of Ningbo, the president of the student Union. He has a keen interest in the play and his first commercial activities are done through a play. Some people say that "thinking mode plus passion and ability" determines how much success can be achieved, the University of this drama performance is undoubtedly the three perfect combination of the Virgin show. Banners, posters, such as the conventional way of sponsorship, was Pang left in the corner of the theater, he specially planned a grotesque drama, the middle actor's unrestrained speech content was he implanted in the school near an optical shop advertising. This form of breaking the routine, the success of the glasses shop received 2500 yuan sponsorship costs. Recalling this unique experience, "in fact, their glasses sold very well, many students feel good to play, they went to buy." Pang East looked very proud.

Obviously, the sponsorship does not consume the innate commercial talent in his blood, and he predicts the most lucrative business model for the next decade in his reading notes: Private hospitals, private schools, real estate, the internet ... These lines in the reading notes in the small print clearly engraved in his heart, became the future into the Internet an important turning point. "97, learned to surf the internet, access to the Ministry of Labor Internet operator Qualification Certificate, the test is the use of Netscape browser, e-mail send and receive, at that time the national Internet number less than 600,000" said Pang.

The university time is joyful, oneself student's time for the enterprising various bold idea, the original vision, the keen sense of touch is his precious wealth. On the current development of the fast-growing real estate intermediary business areas, this bachelor of Economics has also written a dozens of-page "home Group" business Plan, and now the students can also find the graduation book of his home group chairman of the signed signature.

On the contrary, Pangwei like guns since childhood, with his aunt's words, "This child is born with a gun fate." When shooting the prestige, hit the goal to bring the joy, in Pangwei face the choice of school and shooting, the family despite the future some worry or believe his first bole shooting coach Zhang Guangwei words, stood on the side of the Pang-wai interests. Back then, is a neighbor that "you like shooting, to practice Bai" put Pangwei to the beginning of the road to the champions.

　　A brand new arena.

The wish of the Pang Wei into the shooting team, won the provincial team coach also friends of the help, progress rapidly. 2 years later, the first time to join the youth team has been invincible, he has leapfrog to participate in the adult group, but also achieved good results.

"Someone judged me a bit like Liu Bei, in fact I think more like Tang's monk, personal ability slightly more than Tang Qiqiang Tang's monk." The greatest value of Tang's monk is to let the disciples know what is meaningful, and to do it with a strong faith and will to the Apostles and children. "The entrepreneurial path of Pang East is like building a team of learned people, from singles to peers."

He had just graduated from the first Internet company in China-Ma Yun's Chinese Yellow pages for 6 months as a salesman, the University of the Ministry of Labor internet operator credentials to make this first job easier.

Later, he transferred to the Ningbo Economic Planning Commission, "at that time very free, a day to work half an hour on it." "Half an hour of work is completely unable to satisfy his enthusiasm, his a grasp all the time to study hard friend also deeply affected him." Back then, he spent his free time reading a lot of books, and began to try to develop his own web site. Successful people always say that when you are young, try more, try enough, and know exactly what you are fit to do. At this point, Pang East is lucky, his 10 years almost all in the practice of his choice to start-the Internet.

"In May 99, the first personal website was established: At that time the ad is in accordance with CPM Billing, is every 1000 exposure how much money, usually thousands of exposure to 1 U.S. dollars to 2 U.S. dollars, each page can be placed a lot of advertising, then the United States company very trustworthy, the first site to help me earn more than 10,000 U.S. dollars in advertising fees. Pang East in the readme of his own history, the dollar to become their first bucket of gold.

The extent to which a businessman can achieve success is inseparable from the mode of thinking, passion, ability three aspects. Pang's business thinking has never been limited to technological development, and the deep understanding of advertising has earned him a second bucket of gold during the dotcom bubble. After the first website, he began to write a column in a local media in Ningbo, introducing the dynamics of the Internet, recommending valuable sites, using the media platform, his second personal website, the Chinese site who is the coolest, and also gaining a steady click-through rate. Although later he has launched a securities web site, webmaster Home and other famous websites, the home of the Alexa rankings even squeezed into the top 1000, but the entire internet downturn no business is willing to make any advertising on the Internet, hacker attacks increasingly serious, Pang's second bucket of gold was not as easy as it had imagined. In the network bad time, Pang East look at their webmaster home considerable hits, is also a surprise and regret. At this time, he once again break the conventional, decided to use webmaster Home for their own securities service website for promotion, the flow into real business value. At the same time, he added to the securities advisory services to pay for the project, from the webmaster home to the investment needs of customers who have a strong interest in this project. "Sell the advertisement to oneself" completely broke the deadlock of the market environment, holding the second bucket of gold, Pang East quit the work of Ningbo, began the real entrepreneurial road.