Hu Anjun: Entrepreneurship requires a belief

A Fudan University MBA, like most of his classmates, with a generous salary, living an elegant professional manager life, but he did not choose to become one of them, but chose another bumpy road, "proudly alone."

His name is Hu Anjun, founder and president of China Lecture network. The founder of China's network of lectures is his fourth time to start a business, the first two is to do foreign trade, the third is to do counseling, did not how to make money. After reading his Fudan MBA in 2004, he set up a Chinese lecture network alone.

At present, the site has more than 4,000 types of lectures, with more than 120,000 registered users, more than 100,000 daily visits, to become China's largest online lectures website.

Sell the house for business

Talking about how he found such an entrepreneurial opportunity, Hu Anjun said that a story: 2004, the famous management Master Porter in Fudan University, the scene of the hot and the Hu Anjun is Fudan to read the MBA is greatly surprised. Everyone in all directions came to the lecture, and many people also had conflict with security because they couldn't get into the venue. ”

Hu Anjun thought, such a good lecture, if can let more people hear. He had a simple idea: I recorded this scene, put it on the Internet for people to download and share, the world so many good lectures, hidden opportunities are inevitable.

He immediately put his ideas into action. In June, when he quit his job, he sold the only house in the Blue Cloud international community in Pudong, Shanghai, to raise money for the Chinese lecture network. He also began to experience the most embarrassing days of his life.

"In the most difficult time, I searched the house and found only three dollars." Hu Anjun said that the power bureau has also broken his electricity, credit card because he could not afford to pay a penalty for the bank, he also put an old mobile phone Ericsson 398 to sell the second-hand market 100 yuan, let him live for one weeks. Once, Hu Anjun applied for a loan, and the bank staff asked him if he had a car? He replied that there was a bicycle, the staff smiled and he smiled.

"Every day, wondering who to borrow money from."

For internet entrepreneurs, it is necessary to gain the support of venture capital. From the current Nasdaq listed companies in the success of the case, whether it is the previous three portals, or later Ctrip, Shanda, Baidu, the public are inseparable from the support of venture capital.

Hu Anjun is also eager to have venture capitalists to fancy his business model, after all, the growth of China's network of lectures in need of funding support. The marketing needs the capital investment, the user's rapid growth needs to increase the bandwidth, in order to improve the user's experience ... There are so many places where money is needed, and this is the biggest problem that bothers Hu Anjun. "Every day, wondering who to borrow money," Hu Anjun said: "In the process of fund-raising to friends, Fudan MBA students gave me a lot of support." ”

He has not been remembered to see a few VCs, famous, no name, to find their own door, friends introduced. Tell a stranger about your ideas and hope to be supported and accepted by others. However, good things tend to grind, often contrary to desire. "The first time I saw a tie and a suit, I felt flattered." Now, it's just a regular date, just like the left hand hands. To have a chat and listen to other people's ideas. "Hu Anjun said.

Hu Anjun said that his investment philosophy pay attention to "original + growth + reality", the Chinese lecture network is an original business model, imagine a huge space, while both feet stand on the reality of the soil. Although the wind is not now optimistic, but the future VCs will automatically come to the door.

He has never changed his concept of capital operation, although he has been plagued by financial problems. That is "to change things, not to see how much money to do."

Entrepreneurship requires a belief

Hu Anjun's goal is to make China's network of lectures the best provider of education Web site, the Chinese education industry to become the first Web site, to become broadband, mobile phones, MP3 content service providers, video on-demand way to provide quality lectures, people interviews and celebrity lectures.

Hu Anjun firmly believe that he will succeed in this venture. The reason is that people can train and promote themselves through lectures on the website, with a maximum of 2 yuan, you can hear quality lectures, interviews and celebrity speeches, including business management, cultural education, science and technology, political law, social life and training exams, and access to content through broadband, mobile phones and MP3. , and these education can be a booster for changing destiny.

"Entrepreneurs often die tomorrow because they don't see the day after." If you see the day after tomorrow, you can get through it. "Obviously Hu Anjun has seen the day after tomorrow, and he said he would stick with the Chinese lecture web anyway and not change anything because of what happened."

The Chinese lecture net is developing at a rapid pace. Hu Anjun's development strategy for the next 5 years of China's lecture network is also full of confidence: 5 years of development of 5 million paid members, sales revenue reached 500 million yuan, on the Nasdaq (NASDAQ) listing.