Entrepreneurship will be followed by hard inner life?

During the Spring Festival of 2011, I went to Cambodia for 11 days and one of my startup's peers who worked overtime scold on the Weibo that we are not going to work anymore during the Spring Festival and he is so kindhearted to travel That the pursuit of product success? You have seen the thief eat meat, have not seen the thief beaten it.

and then? I dragged him ... so I did not know if his venture was going well. Now that things have passed for a long time, I am not angry either. I wish him well compensation for hardship. But even if you can not do that, I believe he will comfort myself that I have spared no efforts, and I have no doubts!

The past two years are very popular entrepreneurship, and the various immortals have said that this venture ah, you have to fight, you have to work 70-80 hours a week. Even my habit of 60 + hours a week working people, after listening to a little bit cold, I feel that older people are afraid of fatigue. Later I went to understand a few start-up team, there is moisture, there is maintenance, there are dormant, they did not see how hard they are forced to ......

So "hard work" is not the norm of product business, or the only way to start a business smoothly?

There is a famous saying in the advertising industry: "Half of the money I spent on advertising was wasted, and badly, I do not know exactly which half." The Internet industry is also poor. In most cases, half of the design / R & D / operation work is relentless, at least in a very low cost. The less you waste, the less overtime; the more you waste, the harder and even less productive you are.

Therefore, hard work in most cases is equivalent to some remedial act, for your mistakes, take detours to pay trial and error costs. Hard work itself and the word success is not an affair, the reason why entrepreneurship buzzwords, there are about two sources:

Most successful teams are very enthusiastic about their careers and are willing to put in a lot of time (at a particular stage). Successfully engage in (mentally handicapped) after the summary, they feel hard-working is one of the decisive elements of success. As the old saying "detail decides success or failure," most of the excellent details are actually iterative value-added services after the product has been successfully implemented.

2, plum incense from bitter cold to such a stage, in line with the mainstream values, strong communication, and bring psychological suggestion: "As long as you work hard, you can." Equivalent to "as long as the heart, everyone is God of Cookery." Physical Expenditure, of course, is one of the most successful and easy-to-copy elements of any success factor.

However, from my observation, success depends on your product direction, structure, resources, and team experience, but not necessarily linked to hard work. To put it nonsense ha: a team suitable for doing this, in the promising market, cut in the right way, have sufficient resources, and have demonstrated good execution, so they succeeded. 80 hours a week play a role in which, according to the specific project environment to analyze, there may be some time and place may not, it may be people do not work overtime and smooth.

At this time, there must be two kinds of refutations coming out. The first one, fierce competition, opponent fierce ah, go against the boat ah, do not go back is back ah. All right, but as a start-up company, is it right? To fight a full and powerful fight with others I have someone I have? In most cases is not right. Product characteristics often have nothing to do with the amount of code, but rather according to the tiger cats redundant features where you can grab a lot.

Another voice said that mistakes are inevitable, do not have to work hard to pay for the trial and error cost of detours, and from trial and error to gain experience and feedback, how can we hold the straight road that day? This sentence looks very It makes sense, but unfortunately there is no inevitable intersection between straight and curved. Overtime can fix mistakes, but can not help you find the right straight. Winners will not stay in the corners for too long, unsuccessful even if the transition 10 times revised 20 times or loser. It is a matter of pessimism when it comes to the advantages and disadvantages of heaven and earth. When it is pessimistic, this can only be done if it does not work. If you work twice as often as you do, you will not be able to increase the probability of success by 100%, which may be only 5%.

What's even worse is that desperately working overtime hard coding, not only reduces the coding efficiency and quality of the curve is more to do more mistakes, the product leaves a lot of hard to repair the sequelae and even hard to come back. The value of hard work is ultimately positive or negative, no conclusion, you have to save the character ...

There is one more key point related to hard work: whether your team is willing to work 70-80 hours a week. Entrepreneurship is not the only one in life, it is even more impossible for everyone to be the boss - most of the members are still employees mentality. The team leader thinks that he is creating a great career in his life. Others may not think so. Shouting excited trumpet urging everyone to work, the efficiency may not be high, the team mood may be bad, my heart can not be irritable. This state to make a good product is almost impossible!

The above remarks are not opposed to overtime, I am an old overtime enthusiast, doing only 8 hours a day does not quite like it. It is not the work pressure that drives me to spend extra time, but it's mostly "fun". Overtime work efficiency must be low, enthusiasm should come from the heart, from the upsurge of work emotions. This is simply the cute bullshit sentence people - who nodded frequently, as useless as shit. If all day pouring IT chicken soup I too despise myself, so have to explain:

First, most corporate employees can not choose their own department, project, job responsibilities. Whether the work can mobilize their emotions is almost a random value. Executive-led or corporate culture is only short-term effect. (This is why startups are better positioned, and identity is almost the only cohesion of startups)

Second, as the product continues to make progress, there is a strong positive tone and employees are vulnerable to the high level of emotional turmoil. On the contrary, even if the founder is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, it is hard to pour in a positive driving force.

Know that people have their own life. Is willing to work hard, uncontrollable factors too much, can not simply blame the company ignorance, sucker in charge, as if their own brilliant youth were all these big idiot ruined like. Back to the point - although there is no necessary link between hard work and success, when you are in a state of anxiety and you are not allowed to touch the meridians, you will find it the only controllable thing I can do more. A little more, we do a little more, maybe, hey! Maybe find a breakthrough!

In the post-specious point of view, because "may wish to do more," and of course the example of success, it goes with you walking in the wilderness where the lightning almost. The media love to cover stories that never stop happening to cater to the curiosity and make everyone fall in despair. They just sing "love spell will win". This is not shameful, I have done a few times ... ... At that time Urgency, acute and acute face left when the number of rational?

With European medieval blood therapy less bad ball.

This morning, on the topic of entrepreneurship and hard work made a few tweets, arouse a lot of resonance. I am not opposed to hard work. However, I am opposed to instilling the dogma that "entrepreneurship must work for a long time." Why should I discriminate against those start-ups who are not hard-working and less overtime because they have suffered so much that they have experienced the flow of ancient legal persons? See a "painless" words do not hit a hit. I know a few quickly embarked on a straight road, a small day off Zizhen Yun Run, a strong sense of well-being of start-ups, mad you can not draw Well Well. In some cases hard work is really necessary, it may be a means to deal with specific situations, it may be the whole team voluntarily overtime to vent their passion. To put it plainly, should not be changing parameters as a normal configuration.

The other wave that must have stirred up is opposition to overtime, hatred for overtime, and all overtime as a manifestation of incompetent management. Similar to the "scolded meeting" that I had arranged before. This article seems to provide them with the theoretical support ...... In fact, not necessarily, as mentioned before, "the waste led to overtime" may also be your own God, wrong, not good, inefficient waste. Do not you make mistakes only when your boss makes mistakes? Everyone must pay the price for one's own mistakes, overtime is one of them, do not always put a persecuted POSE good or bad ~

Articles written here, equivalent to nothing did not say. The laws of the Internet industry is very small, "Love fight will win" is certainly not one of them. My article always repeated the same four words, clitoral system, oh, is based on local conditions. The failure of people's success experience may not be able to get involved in your body. Probability of fierce competition may not be greatly increased, not overtime does not necessarily increase the probability of losing. Downwind product itself is a very small probability of things, the long-term Forces may improve the probability of a little bit of success, the overall look helpless, but also greatly hurt the inspiration. It is better to work hard on hard work, love to get off work from time off on time, by their own nature, with work emotions from the heart to drive the input of working time. At least enjoy the entrepreneurial process.

You know, business does not mean inner hard. Of course you love to be a dervish, but you have to be happy and your team has fun. Hard-working heart-to-heart must stifle creativity, something that entrepreneurship really depends on - not your physical strength. Do not mention entrepreneurship is hiking on the snow-capped mountains and grasslands, after the march to open Yan, I love to say: entrepreneurship, such as travel. Entrepreneurial success relies on chance, by chance, there is no specific rules to follow, what is likely to happen ... ... The real decision is "what kind of person were you." Old people learn to walk Something not very good old saying, called Handan toddler.

From another perspective, if the enthusiasm of the entrepreneurial team can not be mobilized spontaneously, it can not be fully absorbed into it. However, hard work (for example, seven or eight hours per week) is the only way to reflect each person's work enthusiasm? Or do not have to push people better. Diversity polygamy, but the source of happiness.

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