How successful entrepreneurs perceive entrepreneurship and jobs

Now there are more and more reports about entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship is increasingly becoming a choice for young people. However, although entrepreneurs have made great products and great companies, more people's entrepreneurship has ended in failure.

On the eve of the U.S. Thanksgiving Day, an entrepreneur in foreign programmers and entrepreneurs gathered in the social news website Hacker News that their business failed. He spent all the money, credit overdraft, sold the house, the family can sell the basic sold. He had two children under the age of 6, and his wife was pregnant again.

The entrepreneur's experience resonated with Aaron Hillegass, another entrepreneur. Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, a hundred-man programming training and consulting firm, founded the company in 2001, but the company is truly developing after 2008.

Aaron says that in another one months his company is going to start school, and he often encounters good students who are unwilling to join the company and want to start a business. So he wrote an article about his idea of starting a business and joining a company, although the article was in some ways a "job posting," but some of Aaron's ideas are certainly worth the reference of those who have entrepreneurial ideas.

In short, Aaron believes that the best place to start a business is to be able to determine a company's culture. But since the success of entrepreneurship depends largely on luck, if you can find a company that is like-minded and the company is willing to pay you an attractive salary to solve the problem, join the company and don't start a business.

First: Whether the success of entrepreneurship depends mainly on luck

Many successful entrepreneurs will say that they have succeeded because they have found the right person, or the company's strategy is good, or the right investors, or quick trial and error and transformation. But Aaron believes there are so many points of view because these people ignore the importance of luck. The biggest difference between a lot of successful entrepreneurs and unsuccessful entrepreneurs is a good luck and a bad luck.

Aaron began programming at the age of 10, then went into the NeXT company created by Steve Jobs as a developer. Because of his experience with NeXT and Apple's programming languages, he founded the Big Nerd Ranch Company in 2001 with partner Emily, which provides training in programming language C and other programming consulting services.

Apple was far less popular than it was now (Apple launched its iPod in 2001, saying it was just beginning to recover.) At that time, Apple's share price was less than 10 dollars, now 560 dollars. So the development of big Nerd Ranch is not ideal, although he sold his ideas to everyone, by 2008 the company still only 7 people.

Apple launched the iphone developer SDK in 2008, and as Objectvie-c was the main programming language for the IOS operating system (then called the iphone OS), Aaron and his 6 employees became the best programmers in the world's hottest field overnight-and this The field is almost non-existent before Apple releases the SDK.

After that, Big Nerd Ranch, which now has more than 100 employees, has offices in Europe and Latin America, and has become an expert in programming languages such as Ios,android,javascript and Ruby.

Aaron prides himself as a smart man, but says that smart and hard work has expanded the company to 7 employees, and that the next development is all about luck.

Indeed, he could not have guessed in 2001 that Apple would launch the IPhone and App Store after 6 or 7 years, and if Apple hadn't done that, Aaron's company would now probably be around 10 or even shut down.

Second: The beginning of entrepreneurship full of adolescent troubles

Aaron believes that early start is the founder of the most difficult time, not only work hard, more importantly, the effort is likely to get nothing in return. Many times, entrepreneurs spend a lot of time and experience to do one thing, and finally they find that they have to give up.

But, worst of all, entrepreneurs will find that their rivals have better places than themselves. For example, some companies will understand the industry more, some companies already have customers and income, some companies have even begun to profit.

Although many times, new entrants have a new vision and calf spirit, entrepreneurs will feel that this is their advantage. But Aaron says most of the time it's a disadvantage.

In the early days of entrepreneurship, the team can not achieve fine division of labor. That means it may take hours for an entrepreneur to do something that an expert can handle in 10 minutes. Aaron says he has done every job in the company and has done poorly.

Third: just enough money.

Many entrepreneurs, after their success, are billions of dollars, so becoming a billionaire is also why some people start a business.

Aaron had poor, and he knew poor was bad. Now he thinks it's cool to have enough money.

Aaron's definition of enough is that you can invite a friend to a nice restaurant, but you don't have to worry about the cost of the meal.

In the process of dealing with billionaires, Aaron found it better to be a billionaire than to spend enough money. So he thought that the young man's idea of the future should not be "how do I become a billionaire", but "how do I have enough money to spend?"

Of course, some people want to earn enough money and retire. But Aaron thinks it's a sad thing if smart people retire early and play golf to get old to die. Even if he were to leave the world in the evening, Aaron wished he could contribute some useful code to a project that morning.

Four: Entrepreneurship often does not solve real problems

Many people start out by creating a company to solve problems. Entrepreneurs will hope that the problem has not been solved well by now, and that if you can handle it, someone will pay for it.

Above all, the problem is a real one. Aaron believes that many times entrepreneurs are guessing whether a problem exists.

When you are working for a company, the company's customers ask questions and pay for a good solution. For the employees of the company, there is no need to guess what problems to solve.

Aaron believes that old companies want to innovate, and that these companies have the resources to help those who have ideas to realize their ideas. Working in a large company, you can get hundreds of customers on the same day that your product is released, creating a deep satisfaction that you have contributed to the world.