10 founders ' experience in entrepreneurship

No matter how many business books you read, you are not ready to start a company from scratch. From looking for the right investors to the habit of standing by, I share with you 10 founders of the company to learn from the experience, but remember, the real success is actually made out. You don't need a lot of money to set up a business. When we started out, I thought the degree of success was related to the amount of funding, "said La Selle Disosa Russell D ' Souza, a local activity ticketing search engine SeatGeek," You always see compelling headlines, What is the content of the enterprise financing tens of millions of dollars, this is not to say that they must have done something right? Luckily, my co-founder and I are no longer thinking about it. We realized that to build a big company doesn't require a lot of money, we only raised 4 million dollars, 30 employees, and we've made a profit. We still have a long way to go, but a five times-fold investment will not make the road much easier. "The key is that the driver Bandpage is an application that allows musicians to create fan pages," said J. Sider, chief executive and founder of "They will not teach you what the driving force is." Many of the investors I talk to say they are investing more in enthusiasm and drive than in good business plans. Entrepreneurial days are full of highs and lows, only the most tolerant people can achieve success, others have long given up. "Businesses are inherently messy." Warby Parker, who designs boutique-style eyewear and sells it online at a pro-business price, said: "Every business, big or small, is Nier Brumansor." To a large extent, companies are not the beautiful, hierarchical charts that we think or read in textbooks. It is a human network of people who create and change processes, their responsibilities change, and they always have a good mood and a bad mood. "Small details create big change Blue apron (Blue apron) is a food distribution service company, according to the weekly adjusted recipes, to provide customers with just enough ingredients. Matt Salzberg, chief executive and founder of the company, said he was surprised by the Matt Salsberg of small things. In terms of networking products, for example, you can change a small piece of text on a website and customer service will be reduced by 20%. In our operations center, a slight adjustment to the schedule can increase the capacity by 50%. "The time you work will be much more than expected and no one will tell you how many hours you will be working." It takes time to get used to it, especially if you're used to living nine to five. "Trustev co-founder Patte Fehren (Pat Phelan) said. Trustev is aAuthentication companies, focused on preventing cyber fraud. There may not be a roadmap. Our startups are focused around muse, a very disruptive technology that we can only create a word to describe what we're doing, so we're proposing ' brain perception ' (brain sensing) technology, " Ariel Garten, co-founder and chief executive of Interaxon, says there is really no guide or roadmap available for reference. Introducing brain awareness technology to the public is a unique challenge, and there is no similar product as our reference or comparison object. For things like smart watches, you can watch as a base and use this as a reference frame to understand what smart watches are. This is an iteration of something that already exists. "Choosing the right investor is like choosing a Wedding object. Littlebits is a start-up that produces electronic kits similar to Lego Toys (Lego), and its founder, Aya Ayah Bdeir, says: Choosing the right object is critical. Sometimes when you rush to get something done, you start to treat all investors and all investment funds equally. "The advice I've received is that it's very important to choose the right investors because they're partners, actually, like getting married," she said. "You need investors who can be your family, they can make you rely on, they can help you build your career, not just give you the money and disappear." At different times, when I need help, and when I need support, they all offer a lot of help when I'm confused about making big decisions; my investors have been very good. "Staying focused is more complex than you might think national field, which is famous for organizing Obama's 2008 campaign, is now creating a private social network for businesses." "Everyone told you to stay focused," said Edward Saatchi, co-founder of the company, Edward Sachi. But no one made me understand that the whole experience of building a successful start-up made me unable to stay focused-it satisfied someone's vanity ' if this works, why not try everything '-focus is a necessary condition, but it's really hard to do. "Continuous improvement in the entrepreneurial process BaubleBar is a company that sells fashion jewellery at ultra-low prices," Daniella Jakopovsky, co-founder of Daniella Yacobovsky, said: "I think the biggest surprise is the discovery of things you really don't understand, But this is also the most interesting part. We try to make sure that we are all talented colleagues and teammates who can help us answer all these questions. "It's going to be better tomorrow." It's more fun to build a company than to set up a company, "said Adora Cheung, co-founder of Homejoy Adola. ”