Entrepreneurship is not what you think

Paul Graham mentioned earlier in the insurance industry this day)
One of them, now I can look back at the special feeling.

I like my job experience, and then jump out of my career, because they often have a better understanding of the industry, there are reasonable expectations for how an organization operates. However, these people often compare their jobs with their previous jobs, and brother GE's article is a very different place.

This article is called "What
Startups are really like (what kind of industry is like) "is the industry he developed to associate with Y-Combinator, check what they think is the biggest accident in their career (surprises), and then sort out the results from more than 100 answers. There are a lot of internal scenes and stories in it. I think it is very worthwhile for professional students to take the test. People in the industry should feel as happy as I am.

As shown in the following example, I encourage everyone to go over the website directly, and the following is my own experience:

Please contact us to get married.

You will be with him from morning till night, don't worry, you will join us in high school, pass together, gain control, make a big noise, ignore the opposite party, and then settle again. Just like your children, you will sacrifice everything for the future. One YC said well, you are just as married, except for the sleeping part.

Industry is your life

Your career will repeat your bags from morning till night. They are not like "work" at all, because you will not "get off work 」, even if you have completed an improvement, there is still no end to it. In addition, since everything is happening too fast, the time will be slow. A week later, I feel that I have done things in the past month.

Great mood and ups and downs

Because you are fully focused on your company, it is easy to keep yourself up and down. Today, you may think that you are the next Facebook. Tomorrow, you will feel that there is no hope at all. If there is no good news, the whole sector will fall into a slump. But I want to remind you that you will have less feelings. The successful entrepreneurs in history all have very impressive experiences. They have been concerned about the development of AI, which has been broken down before, it is forced to accept micro-sources.

But it will be interesting.

If there is anything, the industry will be very interesting. Remember, you are changing the world, and you may have a sense of accomplishment in your life.

The most important thing is tolerance.

I often say that the primary industry is like playing a baseball game. You know that you have a playing rate, but you don't know which game will happen when you arrive, therefore, tolerance is very important. Help you find more data to improve your actual strength. If you continue, what will you do one day.

This is a long fight

Another example of an industry is that it often takes longer than you think. It took 20 years for the fruit to become its current position. Google and Facebook are the first to make profits after the last five years of their establishment. In addition, it may take three to four years for the Community to become Zynga and godcome. (But you can see that this is faster and faster) So remember to give yourself some time to explore, because this is often the need for such polishing, only in this way can you really grasp the marketing activities of the market.

Made up of many small things

Many people dream of an industry, that is, there is a super-powerful idea, turning it into a product launched, consumers for this crazy, they also become famous. But in practice, the opposite is true. There are a lot of small success stories in the industry. Even the iPhone is also from the previous iPod experience, even the iPod, the previous two generations have no worries, and even Apple has been down for ten years. Therefore, the best strategy is to implement multi-party failover. Just as we have previously said, you should not have only one batch of bots, because you do not know which batch is good.

Start with the simplest product

MVP has been thinking about us many times,
YC's friends have come up with a point that I agree very much, that is, the idea of a startup is often because of the "face-loving" mind, so there is no way to really win the MVP. I wrote this story as "my family's heart." because my family often wants to gain respect in the same industry, it is more important for beginners to understand their intent. The problem is that the industry is a business, so remember that your focus is to keep consumers alone, not important at all.

Starting from the very beginning

The role of MVP is to allow you to pick up the hacker and change your product from the hacker's response very early. A typical example is what we have previously said. When you do not need products at home, you can improve yourself. People's experience is that what users want is often very easy to do, but it is also the most easily overlooked by you, I am very aware of these events.

Brave changes

Because the user's needs cannot be met, you must be able to accept changes and put the user first. The product is just a tool to satisfy them. Using the fast iteration strategy, the development cycle should be optimized to the shortest, so that the product can be scaled up quickly to meet the needs of customers.

You don't have to think about your opponent.

Many hackers are mysterious and are afraid of stealing their idea. You must know that about 5,000 people around the world think of the same thing, and about 200 of them are doing what you want. The focus is not on idea, but on your competitiveness. Only when you do better than them can you have a chance. However, this does not mean that you do not care about what they are doing. On the contrary, you must keep up with their unique actions, only in this way can you determine that you are better than others.

Looking for a hacker is really awesome

Don't be skeptical. There won't be too many people who want to take care of what you are doing, so the focus is to find out the few people who will need your products. You must attract a community from the beginning.
MVP or your website. Before there is anything else, you must start to get tired of using your products.

Too high expectations for cooperation cases

There is no need for others to give you a good deal, and the two skypixers may not experience a ghost. Therefore, you must work with others, but do not solve all the problems in this way. You still have to do a good job of your customers and products to get twice the result with half the effort.

Investors often do not understand anything.

Although I am a investor and I am very hard at research, I still have to accept it. Sometimes I may not understand it. So don't think that all the investors are right. We may see a comparison between them, but you are in the first region of the war, you must have the ability to judge the issue according to the Bureau's statement.

You want to learn to play the role

In addition to making recommendations to investors (anyone), we must have the ability to establish judgments. You also need to learn the best practices, which will be one of the most important tools in your career. In addition to providing your company to investors, you must also deliver products to customers, partners, and advertisers.

Operation is also very important

I don't need to make it clear here, but I want to remind you that we are looking for good people. So as a successful startup said, only by sliding yourself to the middle of the sea can you have the chance to take the next wave of waves to the terminal.

The same industry is very important

This is why we plan to develop our appworks, and schedule three meals each week to promote mutual understanding and cooperation. This is also the reason why we have fixed the starting up mixer every month and want to bring people in the web industry closer.

It's awesome to be respected by outsiders.

Maybe you have become a person of high respect in the internet or industry circles, but when you are out of these circles, you may not have any weight, because they cannot understand. However, you have at least one website that can be viewed by others. Think about the time when I was trying to solve the problem of "Crystal foundry" for my friends, you are more fortunate than others.

What about the company's profit?

The answer is, of course, everything is not over yet. You will have employees, and then you must learn to make a good choice, help the company find the next growth and the other direction. Remember, a career is a kind of life, not a job. He has no idea or a day.