Count the four types of startups

Since I got into the technology startup media, I've seen five hundred entrepreneurial projects without one thousand. And after reading some of the feelings include the following:

1, start-up company's future is determined by the early team members, in fact, that is, people;

2, most entrepreneurs do not fly, because it would not be suitable for everyone to do, especially in the country, because of the absence of middle class and the lack of growth in market segments, so people's tolerance for entrepreneurial failure Not enough

3, most entrepreneurs do not really understand the industry subversion theory, and there is a big empty trend, the Internet is only a tool and the way, but more valuable is your understanding of specific industries and observations.

This article will share with you the four types of startups, and believe that this is not a commonplace cliché. To know that the entrepreneurial team is composed of new members, and that the core of the team will affect the team's future direction, and these "genes" are almost always accompanied by entrepreneurship, just as a person's personality can not be easily get rid of.

** elite **

The elite entrepreneurial team, usually the team of former well-known Internet executives, product managers, continuing entrepreneurs, a complete market, products, research and development, marketing, manpower, mature product models and market data.

This kind of entrepreneurial team is the most easy to get the capital, it is usually very easy to get a lot of money the first round of investment. Then is to rent offices, recruit people, development, promotion, a complete corporate system and manpower norms. Putting aside the business start-up aside, in fact, is a miniature version of the formal company.

As for the success rate, it is the number of five or five, all the perfect data, the team can not be a guarantee of success of the business, which has always been a low probability event. But for the capital is not important, such "elite team" is always easier to find the exit timing.

** Geek type **

Geek type team, usually a small number, and even some only one person. They serve in large companies or even free-lance and feed themselves.

They are usually excellent PM or designers, have a certain reputation in the industry or within a small circle, they have great confidence in their ability to grasp the product, they have a strong product cleanliness or paranoid. Entrepreneurship may be just a little bit of a way for them to change the world. They do not really care about the cash that may emerge. And they value the number of people who are praising it: The product is out!

Geek-type entrepreneurs can easily make investors a headache, usually they are more paranoid and less communication, they may make the next Google, but does not prevent you from being angry two Buddha ascended the earth. For financing, they value the degree of freedom investors can give.

As for success, they rarely make public success. For example, Yang Mi said "a magical website" on subway television and they are more willing to change the industries they are concerned about. From this perspective, they are better suited to survive in Silicon Valley. As the article said at the beginning, the absence of middle class and the under-growth of the market segment are fatal injuries that can hardly be repaired.

** Reeling type **

They are real IT workers and may only be coders and web designers for small companies, but they want to one day stand on the big stage of the tech industry, change the world and change their own destiny.

Their vision, perspective is usually lacking, there is no good corporate history. In the early stages of financing will encounter many difficulties, because they will not follow the way investors like to "flicker." Interest is very important, but more importantly, fame, led a group of brothers proud and spicy.

From this perspective, they are the most hopeful successful entrepreneurs who have the strong desire to succeed, and they also have the noble head of Geek who have the opportunity to bow their heads to the needs of the ordinary people. They are the most pragmatic A group of people who are most likely to catch up with the IPO tide.

However, since the largest number of reeling entrepreneurs does not make any more success than other groups, they are indeed the most important group of people in promoting scientific and technological progress.

** muffled money-making **

The so-called "dirt boss" is better than this, their website ugly, low performance, does not support HTML5, dislocation in IE9, but all this does not prevent them in the industry muffled money.

Last year I saw more than ten such projects. They are not famous for the mainstream media. However, they have done a great job in tourism, real estate, cars, unlocking and watering the sewers, and have won the huge profits most people can not imagine. They are people who are actually creating business models over the Internet. They do not need an IPO and usually do not have much demand for financing. Equally, they are unlikely to experience explosive growth after stabilization.

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Finally, the four startups to sum up:

Elite type: financing easy, difficult to make money landing.

Geek type: quickly for foreign users.

Reeling type: refueling, reeling can change the world.

Smell profitable: not bad money, not financing.

This year, I saw the field of science and technology projects, can only be considered to leopard. What struck me even more than any of the different types of start-up companies was that despite the many failed stories, there are still young people constantly joining the ranks of start-ups.

Entrepreneurs, come on.