The way to success: only provide the services users need most

Craigslist is the beginning of the Internet classification information site, because he has been doing for more than 10 years, so, say good is focused, say ugly is like snail development.

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an interview with the CEO of Craigslist to comprehend the way of Craigslist's success

At noon Friday, the Entrepalooza of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the business people gathered. I first listened to the Entrepreneurial forum, which eprize CEO da Kan eprize employees how to play innovative! Then go to the financing forum, three VC investors there is also a sense of justification.

But the biggest bright spot was the chairman and CEO of Craigslist, Jim Backmaster Jim buckmaster. This person, like Google founder Larry Page, is also an alumnus of University's Michigan, so this time the Ross Business School's venture Capital association has been on the back of the Internet, bringing Jim in for a get-together.

The Dean let Jim make an opening statement, Jim said: "I have nothing to say, directly to the question!"

I prepared the question three small, but the scene found that a total of only a few people ask questions. Give full play to my advantage in the first row, finally grabbed the microphone, asked a more tacky question: ... is Craigslist a web 2.0 company?

The goal, of course, is not simply to be or not, but to see how he sees the Web 2.0 trend.

Jim Buckmaster's answer is very simple, for our web 2.0 "grassroots elite", even a bit of "soil." Jim doesn't think Craigslist is a 2.0 company because he thinks Craigslist doesn't have the "typical" Web 2.0 cool interface, nor does it have new technologies like Ajax and Ria. Even some of the Open-source programs and server systems that Craigslist uses are outdated.

In fact, after we've "combed" the Web 2.0 and read about the "What is Web 2.0" macro for Tim OReilly, we can argue with Jim that Craigslist is a 2.0 company because "Craigslist is all about users ... ”。

will only provide the services the user needs most

However, when I was lying in bed at night thinking about it, I suddenly woke up: this is actually the secret of Craigslist success!

In fact, most of the time, business success, or even think that belong to different worlds of the internet industry, there is no "success secrets." It is the user-oriented, over the course of the period of dedicated and improved, is straight to the top of the list of small success.

At the time, the hands of the questioning in the hall have been raised a lot

And Jim had answered my question, but he seemed to have a little more to say, and then he looked straight at me and said, "Craigslist will only provide the services that users need most."

The focus of the truth for ten years, and then in the next Yun Yu entrepreneurial tide, in the countless web site to emulate Craigslist, how many people really understand: Craigslist's success is actually in this sentence is not clear.