How programmers participate in entrepreneurship

Before the edge of the creation of a few days of active, many friends also consulted me how to participate in the entrepreneurship of the problem, to (TU) point (Chao) (JI) (ju).

Confirm your willingness to start a business

Most people have a misunderstanding of entrepreneurship, a mention of entrepreneurship in a rented out of work to work overtime to die last night fame blockbuster. In fact, it is now very common to start a business, not necessarily to hardships, and not everyone involved in entrepreneurship to become the founder and CEO. Depending on your goals, you can choose a niche in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

I have a idea that's going to be done anyway: Founder/ceo founder

I met a person who thought the same way, and we decided to do it together: co-founder co-founder

I recognize someone's idea, I have a good ability, I want to help him: partner Partner

I think entrepreneurship is very rich, want to gamble: has been invested in the company's core staff, have the kind of options

I think entrepreneurship is very interesting, want to experience: have been invested in the company's early employees, if you are not short of money, then no investment company does not matter

A programmer who does business directly as CEO?

If you have not been able to make money independently of the software, tens of thousands of users of the free app, the number of fans more than 50,000 large, daily PV10 million site, then do not leave, choose a you like to do in your spare time to try.

Many things are not just a matter of ability, but also a matter of preference. I met a lot of great programmers CEOs who were not happy. If you do not like to serve a group of people (that is, your users), then stay in the big company, do a quiet hit the keyboard handsome.

Partners and co-founders

Few people can distinguish between partners and co-founders, and the industry calls it a bit more casual. For the sake of clarity, I have made the following definitions for partners and co-founders:

Co-founders have a say in the direction of the company's business, the board should also have the right to vote, not only the product should use what technology structure, the future development of the company, whether to accept a round of investment, he can influence and even modify the decision.

Co-founders and founders are equal and have the obligation to do everything they can to ensure the success of the company unconditionally.

The co-founders ' need for entrepreneurship is intrinsic, and if the founders quit, he would still do it, and he would even recreate a company to realize the idea.

Partners are different.

The partner is the assistant founder of the existence, the general direction is set by the founders. He has no right to decide, only to provide advice and advice, and to help complete a certain aspect of the business. Accordingly, partners should not assume the obligations of co-founders.

Partners can be added in the middle and late, not necessarily in the early days. Correspondingly, there will be fewer shares of the partners joining the latter.

The partner's entrepreneurial needs are influenced by the founders, who are reluctant to dominate a company (in terms of perceptions and preferences for their own ability), and if the founders quit, he prefers to change a team as a partner.

The reason to be clear is because there are a lot of teams that trick programmers into joining, giving the partner the right (in fact, he thought, a technology knows what business), but asked you to do the co-founder's obligations (free code).

In fact, most of the cases, technical personnel are partners or core employees in the identity of the venture, so the next focus on these two.

To be a technical partner or a core employee, be sure to

If you just want to have a stake, the early core staff can have a few percentage points. Once the company NB, the money is enough for you to use.

In the start-up company as a technical partner (especially in the early days), in addition to dealing with machines, but also frequent dealing with people, in a word, all the technical problems are your problem, all the technical issues, or your problem. Do not think of a start-up company focused on only do technology, room is to tube, the team is to take, the external speech is to do, cooperation interface is to talk about.

Define what you want, and then choose a suitable location.

Three suggestions for students who want to be a technical partner

The non-investment team will not go.

The first thing to consider is the risk problem. In an industry with a success rate of less than 1%, don't believe in small probability events. It is true that some people become famous overnight, but most of the startups are not half-cu Xintian.

If your skills are perfect, there is a chance to enter the seed wheel or even a round. If there's no particular reason (like your technology sucks), don't take the early risks.

Go to a company to get the investment, holding the same salary as the original, do The dream thing, is the partner's unique low-risk career path.

Do not believe the media, ferocious sad and entrepreneurial success has no causal relationship, it is just Zhu June tears, sensational use only.

Don't go for the N-long team with no MVP.

If you look at a person shouting to start a business for more than a year, but even an MVP (the smallest available products) can not be taken out, it should be noted.

The truth is very simple, an MVP to outsource, do it down to the million. If the founder really believes in his ideas as he says, he will not wait for a free labor. You see:

Our project is valued at least 10 million;

We can get the investment soon as long as the MVP comes out;

I'll give you a 20% stake.

If the top is true, obviously outsourcing as long as the million, I would like to spend 2 million, the same to a stranger. The founder of this IQ can't follow? If the founder's IQ is fine, there's at least one thing he's telling you.

Don't go to a tech partner, not a paid team.

Do you remember the story of a pig and a chicken in a partnership selling eggs and ham sandwiches?

Under the same conditions, founders usually have only one idea of whether they are right or not, while technical partners pay for the meat on their legs.

So technology partners deserve the compensation they deserve, even when there is no investment.

If I were the founder, I would probably give a technical partner a choice question if I had no investment and I thought the project was a reliable one:

The technical partner has a monthly salary of 5k and no shares.

After the project financing, the technical partner can buy 10% of the company's shares at a 60k price.

Or

The technical partner has a monthly salary of 2.5k and no shares.

After the project financing, the technical partner can buy 20% of the company's shares at a 60k price.

The focus is not money, but the rules of the game:

Everyone has to jump into the water;

We all have confidence in the project and we recognize each other.

In a nutshell, the founders should look at the stakes more heavily than the money, and the partners more than the shares.

How programmers participate in entrepreneurship