Be cautious about finding partners in early business

If you ask me this question one months ago, if you need a partner, I will tell you categorically: it is necessary. However, after so many things, I began to wonder whether it was necessary for the partners, which is an unusually tangled and contradictory topic.

Why do most people like to partner when they start a business?

1. Limited funding. Most entrepreneurs like to be smart and want to find a free and hard-working technology to help you develop your products. This is a very tempting idea. But failed entrepreneurs are often because they ignore a lot of detail. For example, if you are very approved of your project, a few years after the project valuation will reach more than billion, and you to save thousands of tens of thousands of of the development costs of the transfer of 50% of the equity. Simply put, for tens of thousands of of the development costs to give up their dream of the tens of millions of benefits. Another possibility is that if you are not confident enough about the project, you are looking for a technical partner to do it for free so that you can reduce your cost risk. Then I want to ask you: Before the project has begun, you have no confidence in the project, do not think it will be the BR of the future. Why are you still starting a business? Is it okay to go home and farm? Why are you holding someone else to start a business? deceptive?

2. Need a partner, the partner can let you get sustenance and dependence in the heart. People often need not only the support of the work, but also the spiritual sustenance. Kwan has worked in IDC company, research and analysis of nearly 100,000 of small and medium-sized webmaster. Found a very interesting thing.

A large number of small and medium-sized webmaster in the site before doing like chicken blood: Blog to think that their blog will certainly become the focus of network attention; Do the navigation to think that they are the next hao123; do the mouth of the local forum to wait for him to do it, each year's advertising fee must easily millions.

Everyone thinks they are extraordinary and everyone thinks they are going to be successful. But the result is extraordinary and consistent: 1 months later they began to feel that doing the site is particularly boring, need to maintain, update, promote. 2 months later, they began to become a state of love and care. 3 months later they began to completely abandon their website. In fact, this story exposes a lot of problems: when a person in the early days of entrepreneurship, his brain is not clear enough. His excessive imagination of the future led him to see the present. And entrepreneurship is a very lonely, boring, difficult thing, we must learn to be lonely, and find happiness from loneliness. This pleasure is a subtle thing. (for example, Kwan is doing a project, quiet night I was always busy alone to 2 O ' Day.) But every time I finish a little, I feel very happy. Because I think the things in my mind are gradually becoming reality, I am closer to the dream. This spiritual pleasure is very subtle.

Back to our topic, if you feel that the entrepreneurial need to partner, just for all the support in the heart, so that they will not give up easily. I want to say: Entrepreneurship is like the west to learn, he needs to experience all kinds of hardships. And learn to be lonely, strong heart is the course of the road. If you can't do that. And to expect your partner to give you heart sustenance, whether you can succeed, I think at least you are not strong enough.

3. More people, easy to be optimistic. In the creation circle, I heard the most words: I invest in people, the project second. Oh。 I want to say how big a word it is. Entrepreneurial team began to pay more and more attention to their own entrepreneurial team, all kinds of Ali, Tencent, Baidu and other famous employees, all kinds of Stanford, Cambridge and other high education plus turtles. An angel agency in the project requirements is mandatory to set the number of entrepreneurs more than 2 people. In fact, I think: most of the entrepreneurial idea must first come from a brain, it is impossible to have two people who just know exactly have the same idea, that is, we have to do for you more than 2 people to start the number of entrepreneurial requirements. Tell someone about this idea and be sure to find someone to start a business with. Excuse me, is this a start-up? If we are trying to get the investment of angels, let others feel more reliable to find their partners. Then I want to say: if you so care about other people's opinion, then you should not choose to start a business. Because you forgot? Forget that when we first started a business, most people were not optimistic? Forget all the kinds of discrimination we had when we started our business?

4. Chopsticks are many, do not break easily. Remember the stories that adults told us when they were kids? A chopstick snapped. And chopsticks are more than easy to break. I then asked: Dad, they are all right old folding chopsticks do? And the reality? Recently a very hot article, "Bubble face bar valuation near billion, partners." The story of this article reflects a lot of the typical problems that can be encountered in the entrepreneurial process: 1. At the beginning of entrepreneurship, everyone is not a little equity, casual promise. Once the company reaches its size, for those who have not cared about equity before. 2. For partners, the early 2 preferred 55 3 people like 333 left 10% options pool. Why is this? Because at the beginning of the venture, since it was a partner, everyone was equal. So I had to open 55. The result is that there will be contradictions and conflicts in the process of entrepreneurship. Who is going to make the decision?

To this point I would like to say: hurt you the deepest often not necessarily is the enemy!

Final summary: Kwan's expression does not mean that the partner is not good, on the contrary, I prefer partners, I have been looking for partners, but I want to pass those neglected issues to calm everyone down. Think carefully about whether you really need a partner? Looking for a partner is like looking for a wife, but you can't ask for it! Ningquewulan.