Doong: My entrepreneurial gene

Creative Pump Station in the campus of the Confucianism Leopard mobile phone search CEO Doong in the field of mobile phone search can be regarded as the domestic leaders. Speaking of his own entrepreneurial experience, Doong said: "I think entrepreneurship is a gene that is determined by a person's character." "grew up in Shaanxi Rural Doong, with excellent academic results in the restoration of the college entrance examination after the 1981 into the radio Department of Tsinghua University, undergraduate and master's degree, he in the Chinese Academy of Sciences automation Pattern recognition State Key laboratory work for 3 years, and then to the United States to study, In 1997, he received a Ph. D. In the computer Department of USC, Los Angeles, USA. In the United States, he has worked in Silicon Valley, the well-known enterprise Informix (EF United States), Keynote, Yahoo, and so on, has been engaged in search engine and data mining project research and development. 2006, Doong embrace "create a career, change the lives of hundreds of millions of people" dream, resolutely returned to the founder of the RU Leopard mobile phone search company. 2007, the Confucian Leopard mobile phone search the world's most influential investment direction of the magazine "Red Herring" (red Herring) announced the "2007 Asia's most potential technology innovation companies" list, awarded the "2007 Asia's most potential technology innovation company" 100.

From "Geek on campus" to "campus celebrity"

Through the efforts to participate in the college entrance examination, Doong from the rural areas of Shaanxi to the capital of Beijing, Tsinghua's favored. "It makes me believe that a man can make a difference by trying to change his destiny." From then on, I used to arrange my own fate. When I was looking for a job with my master's degree, I was able to sell myself with my paper while I was in the academic conference. When the school was assigned to work, it was a very sensational and perverse thing, and I was therefore regarded by my classmates as a ' campus freak ' who liked to design himself. "1991, the Doong through Cauto G, came to the University of Southern California to read Bo, engaged in robot vision research direction." Shortly after school, the tutor summoned all the students to the year in Germany, the International Robot Vision Conference submission, dozens of doctoral dissertations carefully selected out of the 6, was adopted only doong that article. This gave him confidence, and from then on, during his Ph. D., he published eight innovative papers in the IEEE and ACM International Journals, which led to an interview with the LA Times (Los Angeles time) for photographs and newspapers, and became a celebrity on campus.

I have a restless heart

After graduating, Doong successfully found a job in Silicon Valley. But after working a few years, Doong, a habitual "restless", began to feel dissatisfied with the nine-to-five life. He longed for change in his life and a desire to bring change to the world. Perhaps it is the blood of the Qin's ancestral heroism, the northern man began to feel uneasy about his life.

A chance to return home, Doong unexpectedly received a large number of friends and relatives sent to the blessing of the message, which made him both surprised and shocked: "I found that these messages are very exciting, some humorous, some tactful, some incisive, some funny." This is an incredible thing in America. Americans rarely send text messages, generally like to call, the Chinese people may be because of personality, tariffs and other reasons, very like to use mobile phone text messages. A small mobile phone, even in my hometown of the countryside, there are many people in use. This is how big user market Ah! I am determined to combine the Chinese mobile phone market with my expertise in search and data mining technology to create a career that affects the lives of hundreds of millions of of people! ”

To do so, the so-called entrepreneur's DNA, the first is the ideal for the practice of action. Lock the mobile search engine in this direction, Doong began the road to entrepreneurship. At first, he hired a number of like-minded domestic netizens through the network to develop and promote with their own. After two years of exploration and accumulation, he felt that his project has been more mature. Holding a "Try" mentality, Doong participated in the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship competition, and entered the top five, which makes him more confident of his project.

At the beginning of 2006, Doong successful by the project into the first round of venture capital investment of 3.4 million U.S. dollars, in birthdays to open the footsteps of entrepreneurship. But originally planned to return with his companions, eventually because the family's opposition did not come back together, let Doong first tasted the difficulties and loneliness of entrepreneurs.

Two crabs "clamp" Confucianism leopard

After the award of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship competition, the venture capital company "aimed" at the Doong and handed him an olive branch. "One of them, called WSI, is the WSGR investment company of Silicon Valley's biggest law firm, and Google and Yahoo are WSGR clients." WSGR introduced me to the Sequoia, Red Dot and other venture capital funds, through their matchmaking, I have established a relationship with the new venture. Before returning to China, I came to Suzhou to study the investment and entrepreneurial environment at their invitation, in the Yangchenghu side, the new venture in the Mister Lin Xianghong, Feijianjiang, Zhao Guibin please i eat hairy crabs, they ate one, but let me eat two, these two crabs let me feel very much appreciated. And the park is indeed the overall environment is very good, the first time I came to the park I like this place, in the streets of the park I seem to have come to the familiar Silicon Valley. In this way, I am determined to be in Suzhou, in the park business. ”

Only after six months of preparation, in January 2007, the first product of the Confucian Leopard search on the line. Although the newborn has only five or six channels, the market has embraced it with unusual enthusiasm.

2008, the financial crisis is not in the period. In the face of the crisis, the Confucian leopard in research and development did not do any subtraction, but took the opportunity to increase the investment, and focus on the research is from the search to SNS social integration, in addition to the enterprise mobile marketing business model has been explored. "In the crisis, we do not have to do too much marketing or spend money to promote, but relatively low-key to practice internal strength, focus on the integration and efficiency of the improvement, and then do product planning and research and development." "he said.

Mobile Internet, change China

Opportunity always favors a prepared mind. January 7, 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the approval of China Mobile, China Telecom and Unicom to launch the third generation Mobile communications (3G) business license. This marks the arrival of a new era of mobile internet. 3G business makes mobile high-speed Internet access possible, fluent experience, the downward tariff will make the Internet through mobile phone more and more people, the expertise of the mobile phone search is able to show their fists.

"We expect that in another two years, there will be a burst of growth in mobile internet users and a profound change in Chinese life," he said. People used to wait in the bus station, commuting, the hotel and other dishes, queuing to buy tickets, the toilet and other time and occasion, wasted a lot of time, and now the mobile phone online so that people can use a variety of bits and pieces of time every day, watching news, looking for information, business and so on, China's 700 million mobile phone users each day recycling 2 hours, a day is 1.4 billion hours, a year is 500 billion hours! The resulting time and the value created by the Chinese economy can not be neglected to contribute and influence. ”

Aiming at business opportunities, the Confucian leopard quickly began the pace of market expansion, in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities set up branch offices, and intensify the construction of national sales channels and marketing system. Facing the future, Doong full of confidence: "When in the United States, many classmates and colleagues plan to work in the United States life, I never thought." Because I knew I was going to go back, all the things I wanted to learn were meant to one day be able to work to change the lives of the Chinese people. I have been giving myself encouragement, to have ideals, to make a career, to make contributions to the people of innovative technology and products.

Reporter: Huang published in: Suzhou Daily