Do not think of yourself as a worker

I think some people misunderstand entrepreneurship. They understand the business as a few buddies to open a company, go back and print a few boxes of business cards, I call the chairman of the board, you are the CEO, his classmates hung a CXO neck, the name is very foreign, do not know what it means . If you think of this as a business venture is wrong.

I hope all of you will understand entrepreneurship in this way and view entrepreneurship as a mentality. In order to achieve a goal, we will pursue tirelessly. As long as you are not satisfied with the status quo, the idea of ​​trying to break through, that is, entrepreneurship. If you are a school student, is engaged in computer, if you are not satisfied with just to learn credit, not satisfied with the exam to deal with, but spent a lot of time to improve your programming ability, a lot of effort to study a lot Software, that is also a business. Learning is the case, work is also true, as long as you bravely face the problem, actively to solve the problem, the courage to take the risk of the future, this is actually entrepreneurial mentality.

If we understand the business as I go out today to set up a company listed tomorrow, the day after tomorrow beyond the market value of the market, I'm sorry, never had such a successful example. Under the sun where there is such a smooth thing? Put you on a flat plain, you intuitively go along a straight line, in fact, look down from high altitude, you go out of the road is curved, twists and turns. Entrepreneurship is the same, although there is a goal in mind, but to achieve that goal, you have to solve one by one the actual problem. People's way is step by step out, and this road must not be a straight line.

Even more so in China, the environment is really complicated. Especially in the early days of business, you have no experience, no resources, innovation in your mind may be just an idea, an idea, but if it can not be achieved, then it is nothing. However, in order to realize this idea, you need a sense of judgment, an experience, and a need for knowledge. Therefore, I always advocate college students just graduated, do not mind a hot to save a company, the best way is to join a start-up company, and even can join the risk of seed companies to learn entrepreneurship, business experience.

Many people say that when I join someone else's company, I am not going to be a part-time job anymore. Wrong, if you think you are working, then you are working all your life. Others think you are working, this is not important. The important thing is that you should never think of yourself as a part-time worker. From another perspective, the company gives you wages, pays for your tuition fees, and practices your own abilities and experiences. You meet product managers, technical masters, or company founders to learn from them the lessons of success and even the lessons of failure. If you join the company, the company died two years later, congratulations, you did not lose a penny, you are involved in a living company from birth to death, you can later avoid repeating the same mistakes. You do not spend a penny, you make a company dead for a while, you learned how to avoid the lesson of failure, it is a matter of value. This is much more than your salary, more expensive than you to a famous big company.

When people see you, they all say that you are working in a big company in Beijing and it is amazing. That is vanity, a little meaningless. So I always emphasize that if you have a business mentality, then you can start a business in any state. Wait until one day, when you have a strong impulse to start a business office, you may find that people have their own strengths, you are not necessarily the CEO's material, but you may be a good CTO, you may Is a good sales executive, this time you know what kind of partner to find a business.

Therefore, I encourage everybody to start a business. In fact, I encourage everyone to cultivate their entrepreneurial spirit. I do not think you must go out and set up a company. That is just a form. Many people in the United States Silicon Valley is not a pretentious establishment of a company, but in the garage at home, use of spare time come up with a product, which is part of the business.

I do not want to teach any success, and I most hope that we can figure out what we want in the next few years. When you start your business, whether tempted or challenged, you can remember what I said: refusing mediocrity and being different. You do not have to follow the mainstream of the time, but also be able to withstand loneliness, or even have a toughness, courageously defeated, in the next five years or eight years, ten years has been gritty to explore I believe that after five years, ten years from now, it is possible that a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs and a new generation of Chinese innovation leaders should be born from all of you.