Three famous entrepreneurs talk about entrepreneurship

In recent time, with Microsoft China Company president Jack Gao, Compaq China, President Li Jinshui and so on to leave their own business, the topic of entrepreneurship has become a hot topic of people's attention. The fog of network pessimism has not subsided, is it a new round of entrepreneurial opportunities have come? What is the difference between starting a business and working, what should be prepared before starting a business? What kind of talent is suitable for entrepreneurship-to clarify a series of issues related to entrepreneurship, to increase understanding of entrepreneurship and understanding, the reporter interviewed three more well-known entrepreneurs, on these issues asked them to express their views.

What is your career history and how did you make your business decision?

Huiyao: When I was a diplomat in Hong Kong, Hong Kong people's strong entrepreneurial spirit has deeply affected me, Hong Kong's large and medium-sized companies can say more than any other city in the world, Hong Kong people from the entry into a company to start their own business after a few years, as long as independent out, regardless of size, The social culture there shows respect for them. And I had the experience of working in Canadian multinational companies, and the accumulation of work in the government departments, coupled with Deng Xiaoping just South Tour speech, entrepreneurial opportunities are also very good, so decided to come out to start their own business. Entrepreneurship for me is a good way to master their own destiny, it makes people never free to freedom, in the past may have to be subject to the boss or the board of Directors, but also have a certain contract employment relationship, entrepreneurship is to sell themselves directly to the market, anyway, the east is not bright in the west. After starting a business with the imagination and creativity of the space, can do a lot of what they are willing to do, work has become a fun, in short it brings a completely different realm, these are prompted me to make the choice of entrepreneurial reasons.

Shanghui: The idea of starting a business is very early, in 1984, I graduated from the University of Hong Kong to work in Hewlett-Packard Company, was deeply influenced by the founder of the company, they only spent 20 years of time to create a tens of billions of enterprises. Then I left there is to feel that the environment has not met their own ideas, things do not get more responsibility, so I went to Bain. The people who go to the management consulting firm usually want to do things for two or three years. I had this idea at the beginning, and I also invested in a system that used voice mail, which in 1991 was not much in Asia, and I thought there was potential, but failed because it took a lot of energy to start a business. , and the team was not established. Then I invested in magnetic materials and so on, and the failure of entrepreneurship made me realize that I had to do it full-time.

October 1998 I began to invest to do job, did not expect to do the bigger, so April 2000 I quit, want to do it more large-scale. The motivation to come out of a business is to deceive themselves, there is a real one. Work as a management consultant is very tiring, every week to work 100 hours, migrant workers still need to continue to put in, do well today, if not to do tomorrow is over, can be a partner does not matter, to a certain extent can find professionals to do, their own relaxed. In fact, after the dry up to find that the entrepreneurial and part-time job when the situation is similar, or very tired. On the other hand is the influence of satisfaction, I would like to look back when old, a lifetime can do a few things proud of the satisfaction will be very large, and do not give these jobs.

Lu Jianfeng: The decision to start a business after a period of reflection, at the beginning of my career is the company set for me. I was 19 years old after graduating from university was assigned to the Guangdong Provincial Foreign Affairs, when the work of the head is very popular, which is also a good exercise for me. After working for 5 years, I transferred to Beijing with my husband, I found a job as manager assistant in HP company, and after a year, the general manager thought I was a bit wasteful to do this job, so I went to the maintenance Knowledge department as the supervisor. After another 5 years, the company boss wanted me to do training manager, I was very disgusted with the human resources work, I think those people will write small Hei Jing, but the company still think I am suitable, so after 6 months before I turn to that side. After taking over, the course has never been built up, and I'm becoming more and more fond of the job, as employees develop through training and you will feel the value of the job. I still have a strong feeling is that the company's principal, the big head are the foreign personnel, my task is to do a good job of localization of talent, when the ratio of the two in the conversion of their own heart is very proud.

I've been in this position for 8 years, then the American telephone and telegraph Company came to me through headhunters, when they were about to merge with NCR, and I thought I was too familiar with HP to change it, and the American Telephone and telegraph company did not do enough to localize the talent, so I chose to go there. It can be said that the challenge of this choice is great, because everything there is new to me. I've been doing it since then. Vice-Director of human resources, NCR's human resources director, Director of training and development in Greater China, and later, is responsible for the entire Asia-Pacific personnel consultancy work. When I did this, I thought it was no different from doing it in the United States, and from my heart, it was better to see the level of local staff than to do things for people in other countries. ' What I'm doing now is training, and I want to see more people develop through training, and I dream of starting a school in the future and start education from kindergarten.

What do you think is the best preparation for an entrepreneur from a migrant worker?

Huiyao: To choose your most familiar field, to have 35 years of accumulated experience in the industry, there are certain channels and relationships, a certain knowledge structure, and the other is the management experience and the accumulation of funds. Like myself, I've worked in a big engineering company for 3 years, in the economic and trade Department is also dealing with the project, as a diplomat is also to do to promote the project, so choose to do projects, International business Consulting is my most familiar area, just to my qualifications, the understanding of eastern and Western culture, large companies and government work experience are used.

Shanghui: There have been a few startups have failed, the reason is only from the product, in fact, the good product does not mean that there are customers, others need is a complete service. So entrepreneurship needs to shift from product orientation to customer orientation. In addition, entrepreneurship is not a person to do, need a class of people, so the scale of entrepreneurship needs to set up a team early, otherwise the development will be slow, to some complementary partners to pull in. When starting a company, the most important thing is to build a sales team, then the product development to keep up, and then the professional managers to keep up with the financial system in place. Finally, the personnel system should be in place, or as more and more people, who feel that they are only a small part of the company, the struggle is not.

Lu Jianfeng: Oneself must have certain ability, including survival ability and work experience, want to understand this society. The most important point is that your mindset to change, in large companies have a lot of resources to you, but the beginning of the start of everything to do their own, as in the past my office environment is a lot of space, now stay in a small room. You might have been a big boy in the past, and now you have a little assistant who has to do everything. In fact, from the time I went to work, this mentality changed, and began to go there when there is no computer, want to print and run to the secretary there. At the beginning of their own business, a few people share a large desk, but also often weekend overtime, but even so, the mood is not the same.