[Start-up talk] How can I start an Internet business in my spare time?

The opportunity cost for entrepreneurship is very high. Therefore, many people choose to start their own entrepreneurial projects in their spare time. On the one hand, they are working to earn wages, while still allowing them to continue to advance their ideals, greatly reducing risks.

I also met many such entrepreneurs in yuanchuangpi, who used their spare time to do some entrepreneurial projects. During the communication, I found that these entrepreneurial projects encountered some common problems. I would like to extract them and share them with you.

I. Products are easy to emphasize and operations are neglected

The main group of amateur entrepreneurs is the technical background because they have the ability to implement. Because of the fixed working time, it is easier to spare time to start a business that you are interested in. For non-technical employees, they can only spend money to help themselves. In this case, amateur startups will be more uncertain. Therefore, there are relatively few possibilities. Generally, you will take the initiative to build a team to do things after thinking clearly.

However, under such circumstances, the progress of product development is easily controlled. However, after the product is released, problems often occur in the operation phase. Because it is not a full-time employee and has the influence of the original work unit, it is often difficult to publicize and promote the product in a big way, investment is relatively low. In addition, the technical background staff often start their own businesses and lack operation capabilities.

The result of this kind of thing is that you may have made a product in a startup direction very early, but you have not invested enough. It started early and caught up with a late episode.

2. Some participants may give up easily after work shortage

A team should also be set up for amateur entrepreneurs. However, when such a team is made up, it is often possible to have a few friends who are not busy recently and are interested in an idea. As a result, there was no strong agreement on the scope of work and the distribution of interests.

Once, one of them is getting nervous recently. Because not everyone has great confidence and conceptual support for entrepreneurship. If you meet such a person, your contribution to the project will be gradually reduced or even abandoned. In this situation, it will have a very bad impact on others. If you do more, you may not necessarily get more benefits. The atmosphere of the entire team will be greatly affected.

This is what happened to the startup team of yuanchuangpi, A Travel App. One of the four friends is from Baidu. After a recent shortage of work, it basically fades out of the startup project.

Therefore, when setting up an amateur entrepreneurial group, you must examine the driving force of everyone's participation in this matter. If it is just a little leisure time recently, you must identify it clearly.

3. It is easier to get tired and cause family conflicts

In fact, it is easier to get tired when you start a business in your spare time. Because it takes a lot of time and effort to take into account both existing jobs and entrepreneurial projects. Once there is a family, the relationship between the family and the children will naturally decrease, and the family conflicts will become prominent. Even if I am single, even if I have no family, for example, I met an entrepreneur who worked as an o2o software for catering in his spare time. He thinks his emotional life has been greatly affected.

Entrepreneurship has always been demanding high-intensity investment, and the investment in a short period of time is okay, once more than a few months. For most people, it is difficult to adapt to the multi-thread working mode, which may lead to a sense of attention, and the sense of attention will have a huge negative impact on entrepreneurship.

But in any case, starting from an amateur startup, it can indeed reduce the overall risk. In this process, you can consider the following suggestions:

1. operate as soon as possible and set milestones
In the end, any Internet entrepreneurship depends on user feedback. Therefore, operation and promotion must be considered. In addition, you can set a milestone for yourself. You can set a milestone for your own time, set the time required to implement the functions, introduce users, and obtain feedback. This data can be less accurate than the full-time status, however, there must be a psychological expectation. In this way, you will not be stuck in the endless development of product functions.

2. Do not think too much about small functions.
Because it is a part-time business, it is necessary to streamline the product design and only focus on the core business and functions. Do not plan a large project. The friend who used to make a Travel App mentioned previously reflected that the idea was too big, and his spare time was not enough to support such a project.

3. Make a choice. You cannot have both the fish and the bear's paw.
Start a business in your spare time is just a starting point, not a long-term plan. Therefore, after a certain amount of positive feedback and results are achieved, you can consider looking for investment or other resources to formally start a full-time entrepreneurial project. The paper tells us early on that the fish and the bear's paw cannot have both sides. Although some of the friends who are looking for Internet entrepreneurial partners at ycpai.com need to do some things in their spare time, they still need to form a full-time entrepreneurial team.