Entrepreneur Readme: How to get the first group of Angel users

Article | Guo Xiaoli (ProcessOn operations director) recall that three years ago now we are still thinking about this product, and now nearly 100,000 users in use, the number of users created a chart is close to millions .... At the beginning of May 2011, we decided to take a long thought to the ground to make a browser-based drawing tool. A window can be standardized mapping, no longer need to download installation, and through the Internet to achieve cloud storage, no matter when and where as long as you can open Baidu online map. The name of the first problem we have to solve is to give it a loud name, initially we just want to implement the process of mapping, at that time, LinkedIn is very hot abroad, it is a professional social networking, by linked and in the composition, we will draw on its composition, We are the online on-line flowchart (process) tool, which later formed the ProcessOn, we hope that one day ProcessOn will be like LinkedIn as a service for the global users like products. Research and development process at the end of May 2011, we began to develop ProcessOn, in fact, is an online designer, then spent 4 months or so time on the intranet test online, the first version of the online is a large volume of flash, through this flash can do some basic drawings. Then we improve the design, while doing peripheral functional development, at that time mainly do the file management function, by February 2012, the whole station has a basic prototype, the user can do a good map and manage their own documents. We were formally deployed on the afternoon of February 6, we called it beta, and we gradually increased our group and sharing capabilities later on. With the continuous improvement of ProcessOn, as well as N and user exchanges, we feel that the flash version of the designer has been unable to meet the needs of users, the use must be installed before the Adobe plugin does not say, because of its large size, each time to do the loading time before the picture, there are other drawbacks. At that time, HTML5 just became popular in China, we decided to give up the flash designer for one year, based on the HTML5, to develop a new version of the designer. 2012 of June, we began to redesign the new designer, starting from scratch .... After a year of testing and improvement, 2013 the end of June, we successfully on-line the new version of the designer. In December we launched the iOS and UI map for the front-end designers, and we're now ready to do the mobile end and the mind map. The first user February 6, 2012 afternoon on-line, at that time we did not register the entrance, all are closed invitation registration. In the early hours of 7th William Olmstead, a Maersk shipping company from Italy, became the first registered user of ProcessOn. Our first group of Angel users came from LinkedIn, the domesticNo one knows, and no one to use, we are through and early users to communicate, step by step to improve the ProcessOn. June 2013 officially online HTML5 version of the designer after the formal opening of the registration, CNSD Shantao on Weibo to give us a micro-blog, the user followed, Word-of-mouth legend, the user continued to grow, December we online iOS and UI map, the domestic science and technology media to us, and brought the registration peak , up to now, the registered user is about to break through 100,000, the number of users ' works is nearly million ... Summary entrepreneurship is very difficult, at the same time it will bring you a lot of happiness, whenever you see users with ProcessOn and happy to share the time, will feel very relieved, success is constantly improve the process!