Shong: To be a persistent dream-person first

June 11, 2014, by the IDG Capital wholly-owned, the pioneering State magazine co-organized the IDG Campus Entrepreneurship competition, the last stop at Hunan University successfully ended. The campus entrepreneurship competition for all undergraduate and graduate students, to explore the campus of gifted developers and technical geeks. Shong, the founding partner of IDG Capital, recalls Mr. McGovern, the Chairman of IDG, who has worked with him for 22 years and has influenced his life. Mr. Mak once told him that the three great pleasures of life were: first, do what you like and feel passionate about, and second, work with like-minded people; third, to realize one dream after another, listen to the voice of the heart, do a persistent dream person. The following text for Shong speech excerpts, without my review: Shong: Every time I go back to my alma mater are particularly happy, this time more so, why? Just now secretary Chen also said, IDG Campus Entrepreneurship Contest has selected 18 schools, I only attended the two schools, one is the initiation ceremony of Tsinghua University, The other is my alma mater Hunan. Why put Hunan in the end? Because the best things to stay in the end, I think Hunan is the best. Hunan University is my dream to fly the place, our pioneering competition is to help the students here to learn the younger sister to realize the dream. Mobile Internet brings us many opportunities, but also reduces the cost of our business. A lot of people ask me where do I start my business? I say you can do anything you want with the help of a mobile phone. Today, when the moderator introduced Guo Lei, everyone's applause was particularly enthusiastic, because he did a call "Face Meng" app application. IDG cast the angel wheel early to help them. Your applause just shows that his product is very popular, although his business model still has a long way to go, but it is not important, it is important for us to participate in it. Why should I mention that? Because now you are compared with the past we have a lot of disadvantages, such as how to find a job after graduation? We graduated at that time, only to consider that the assigned job is not appropriate, can be with a boyfriend or girlfriend, but now the key is to find a job that you like, Maybe it's best to start a business. Why is it best to start a business? We all know the chairman of IDG McGovern, unfortunately, he died this March 19, and I wrote a special article to miss him. I worked with him for 22 years, and I joined IDG,93 in 91 to start the fund. I am grateful to him, because he not only gave me a chance, but also taught me how to live a life on the road to a full, happy. Mr. Mak said his mother had told him that there were three great pleasures in life. First, do something you like and feel passionate about; second, work with like-minded people; third, to realize one dream after another, you will experience a lot of happiness in this process. I think this is exactly in line with the entrepreneurial company and the team, three indispensable. First of all, this is something you like and feel passionate about, and second, the achievement of a company must have a team, not a solo, you need to work with aA lot of like-minded people to do it together, the last point is to achieve your dream, you want to make more than Facebook cattle Company, it is entirely possible, and no matter what the end result, you will be in the fulfillment of a great deal of satisfaction, you will feel that this life is not white. As far as I am concerned, IDG really let me embark on the road of entrepreneurship. June 1, 1993 I founded China's first high-risk investment fund. I had two dreams back home. One is to do more publications, magazines, to become famous, traveled all over the world. This dream was born in Hunan University reading period, but also very accidental reason, I wrote an article on the front page of Hunan Daily, is about American teachers to teach us. At that time I read a sophomore, took 7 yuan of royalties, my father is very proud of me, I think the reporter is good, not only famous, but also rich. Later, I learn English, want to become a foreign correspondent, but also because of this dream, I will pay attention to where to recruit foreign correspondents, what subjects to pass the exam and so on. At that time Hunan No news department, no "News theory", "news Business" These books, I through friends, students to find the National People's Congress news department materials, holding their textbooks completely self-study news. What I want to tell you is that if you have a dream, you have to do it, and the dream will blossom. Also, you have to do what you like and feel passionate about. I myself like to be a journalist, so I went to self-study, to the exam, all the way to be particularly happy. My second dream is to be a VC. I came back for a VC, because when the reporter knows some ideas of VCs, some practices, more importantly, I met the students of Hunan University, especially the mechanical department, engineering Department, Electronics department students, they gave me a lot of inspiration, so I set up a VC fund, Mr. McGovern also very much support. Just talked about the company we have invested, Baidu, Tencent is the leader we have invested in the company, and now we are involved in millet. For so long, I think China has many opportunities, even more than the United States, where is the opportunity? It comes from the internet market, especially the mobile internet. As we all know, Chinese Internet users have more than 600 million, mobile internet users have more than 500 million, another year is more than 600 million, more than twice times the United States. In this way we can find the future of the home and the next opportunity for cooperation, but also to promote our products. More importantly, the business model has changed a lot, our internet industry in the past is more rely on advertising to make money, but mobile internet I think is to rely on the content to profit, your content is very creative, others pay to use your content. In particular, we in Hunan Love reading, and there are many ideas, will certainly be able to find more opportunities in the future. Last but not least, I would like to share with you the so-called methodology. The school motto of the two schools I participated in was particularly interesting. Tsinghua University motto is "self-improvement, heavy moral", "self-improvement" is the pursuit of upward, "heavy moral" is a person to do things. Our motto of Hunan University is "seek truth from facts, dare to be human first". I think "seek truth from facts" is to tread steadfastOn the ground to do everything, such as market research, not to market, not to fool yourself, should be realistic to investigate your market, your products, your users and so on. The more important point is "dare people first", we do not give ourselves too much burden, the old listen to others how to speak, especially do not listen to parents teach you how to do things, you should spread your imagination wings, bravely to achieve their dreams! I wish you all success!