Entrepreneur, why are you in such a hurry?

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Entrepreneur, why are you in such a hurry?

Teddy Bear as a pioneer in Silicon Valley, said this article gave him great relief and inspiration, ease his impetuous mentality. He said on the phone, "I decided to translate this article." So I decided to take the best of it and translate it. This translation strictly does not follow the letter Tatsu ya norms, and full of face sister style, welcome criticism.

Why are you nen worried?

As I have observed, a large proportion of the young entrepreneurs around us-whether technical or non tech-have a bad attitude problem: they are really worried.

What's the hurry? To make a product, anxious to send the product to the TechCrunch, anxious to let it viral spread, financing, and then anxious to make the product in the first year to 1 million users, in the second year can sell a good price of 1 billion dollars, So they can successfully retire to the beach before the age of 25 years old (and the younger sister).

They have 10,000 reasons to be anxious:

"The market for this thing is huge!" I saw the demand first, so be sure to get it before the competition moves! To be the first person in the field! "

"If I graduate when the entrepreneurial has not been successful, I will (like loser) (forced) to find a job!" So must be urgent such as royal decree, hurriedly entrepreneurial success! "

"(I am a responsible person,) I have to prove to myself that entrepreneurship is feasible, so I gave myself 6 months to experiment." If the venture is unsuccessful, it becomes the benevolence of the financial world. ”

"Now investors on this piece of super optimistic, must hold the climate yo!"

"I don't want to go back and live with my parents after I graduate," he said. So now I have to raise money! Otherwise, we must make a profit on this product! If I can't do both ... Then I'll have to find a job for the money when the June graduation season arrives.

The above thoughts and the following thoughts are unfortunately biased: in any case can act quickly, never ignore the opportunity for self-improvement, not for the illusion of easy clearance to relax themselves. And a real entrepreneur, only when he can one-woman--from the very beginning even 0 experience, slag skills, excrement equipment--full of faith, from chicken blood, 100% for their own ideas, can realize the success as an entrepreneur.

Quick action can make you feel good and efficient, but listen to me: Often you think you're fast, you're actually getting slow. Let me give you a chestnut.

A few weeks ago I had a chat with a young guy. The man wants to create an online organization to teach people to program. He thinks the programs offered at the university are either impractical or difficult to learn or expensive, so he thinks it's time to start a company to build a website to teach young people how to write code. I want to say that a lot of companies are already doing it, but he has set up a special international market for his website, so I'm going to start with you.

What's the real problem with this guy? He is an MBA student with no technical background and is now looking for someone to write code to build his "teach someone else to write code" website. This fact makes me feel a little strange, but not ridiculous, so I asked him: "You are not a program ape, but you want to build a website to help others become the program ape, do you think this actually gives you the opportunity to learn how to program and then use your own learning experience to start a website?" He agreed, he said he was learning to program, but he also said "I need to do a good job as soon as possible, so I still have to find someone to do the site, because when I learn to build sites, sows will lay eggs." ”

The boy's answer is a standard standard, and it is likely to be a true and honest answer to him. In my eyes, the lad looks smart and is likely to succeed on this site (hopefully). The girls who are anxious to rush will make you miss one of the most helpful things: acquiring a real skill. The girls were so focused on the virtual time limit they had set up that they were so sure that their ideas would become the next Facebook, and it seemed to them that learning to program, design or sell such practical skills had become worthless.

I don't blame them at all. If I have only 6 months to create the next Facebook, I don't want to waste my time learning those fart skills.

But one thing, these people who are trying to realize their ideas may be intellectually aware, but not emotionally aware. In this unknown world of our lives, their seemingly perfect ideas often doomed to a failure. Why to mention the emotion of understanding, I would like to say, their intelligence is no problem, will read, listen to other entrepreneurs tell experience stories, all kinds of ways to let them know that their hands of the product can be a small probability of success. However, know that the occurrence of one thing is often very small impact on human behavior, only from an emotional understanding to let people wake up, as you have failed once, it is easy to realize that you are in the same situation again will probably not succeed. This is the so-called "oh, how painful understanding."

As a young entrepreneur, when you truly realize how small an opportunity your product has to succeed, the only value you can derive from the product is the personal capital you have accumulated-what you have learned in the project. As one of my best friends once said, "It is not the project that matters, it is not the next project, it is the project that you continue to fail and fail to perform perfectly in the future." ”

In the great breakthrough article, the famous writer Terryrossio told us his story of breaking into the film industry:

"When I was 21 years old, I had a very good discovery. (I remember this discovery very well so far, because my mind was still very advanced in that relatively outdated and stupid age). I find that anyone in any field who has worked in the same post for more than 10 years will become an expert at the job. Whether it's a grocery store, a college professor, a mechanic, or a pilot, you'll have to work at your opponents ' fingertips as long as you've worked for 10 years ...

Since I've planned to spend 10 on learning and practising writers, I've had less stress: it doesn't make sense to yell and yell at yourself in the 4th year when it's destined to take 10 years. This gave me a long time to analyze and explore the writing industry, skills, crafts and history, and so on. Step-by-step, from the style, style, role, concept to the theme has been understood. In other words, we give ourselves the space to practice. And in the course of practice, we can find all the elements of creating a good script. ”

This passage aroused my strong resonance. Because this is simply the "anxious" completely opposite mentality ah! Terryrossio not in order to sell a script to the company in front of the 21st century, he obediently learned to graduate from college, but also found a "real" job, but this can explain his laziness, not competitive or weak? This is a thing that can be seen over a span of 10 years A person who is impatient to get out of a job because he has to pay a salary to find work.

It was because he gave himself time that he had enough space to acquire the skill of the screenwriter that he eventually became a writer of the ox.

If it takes 10 years to write a good screenplay, what is it that makes us so sure we will be able to rush out a great entrepreneur in 10 years?

Maybe some interesting anecdotes can help me to make this problem clearer. Take a look at Forbes ' 30-year-old diamond King Old Five-list of the technology industry people-why High-tech? Because startups are all here.!—— guess what their age distribution is like?

25-Year-old for the watershed, the child, the obligation!

60% more than 25 years old, baby, you think more.

Of the 30 joint venture teams, only 3 teams were made up entirely of people under 25 years of age. It means that 88% of the team leaders are at least one-fourth centuries old.

What is more noteworthy is that 18 out of 30 teams, and more than half of them, have at least one co-founder who has stepped on the border of Ben Four.

Conclusion: It takes time to start a business. In fact, it takes a few years to do anything worthwhile. Therefore, if you are still young and inexperienced, then take 6 months to learn a skill alongside body, such as programming, design, sales, it is not a waste of time, but in investment time.

But the reason why the girls say so many words is worth pondering:

I have to raise money before Donkey Dog Day.

I have to rely on the product to support myself before I graduate or I'll have to close down and get a job.

After graduation I must stop starting a business to find a job, because people don't want to live with their parents.

These words are sometimes realistic and reasonable considerations. A lot of parents can't afford to move back in with their children after they graduate from college. Many entrepreneurs do not have enough savings to support the company's ability to continue running before they can feed the founders, or to pull the investment quickly enough.

But for many people, these are just excuses to hurry. Are you sure you're going to die if you don't get a job right away? Or do you feel embarrassed to move to your parents?

How much do you want to start a business?

Even if you really have to find a job-most people will find it at some time-looking for a job is the tomb of your business? Is it true that a nine-to-five official job really hinders you from starting a business? With Garyvaynerchuk like to say a word to answer you, "7 o'clock in the evening to 2 o'clock in the morning, It's a good shaoguang to sabotage! "

If you have to do a real job, work for a person you respect, a job for someone who can teach you how to be a good entrepreneur. If you can't do this, then go and be a janitor.

I don't want to discredit the doorman, but in the right situation, the perfect formal job for an entrepreneur who is still accumulating learning is to be a janitor: Others invite you to a suitable building, regularly scan the passers-by, and then to sign a person, in addition to a long time sitting, and give you money. How nice! In the interval where you don't have to do the right thing, you can indulge in learning: Writing code, designing, or practicing any technology that a start-up might need.

The reality of job search should not be an excuse for entrepreneurs to limit their success over time. Life is not limited to between 9 and 5, it's all about forcing you to better manage your own time.

If you are a young entrepreneur and are preparing to start a project, then I want you to ask yourself:

If I had 10 years to start a business, what should I do now?

Without all the external conditions and the oppression of time, what skills can I learn to laugh to the last?

The most important question is:

Why am I in such a hurry?