Entrepreneurs have to have missionary feelings

Like many business ideas in recent years, successful entrepreneurs are "missionaries" rather than "mercenaries", TDF in the glass office of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Kleiner. Randy Komisar, a Landy Comisa partner, published in his 2000 "Monks and Riddles: The entrepreneurial wisdom of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur" (the Monk and the riddle:the Art of creating a while making A Living the idea for the first time in a book.

The book is about a Comisa-like character who advises a young entrepreneur who drinks more coffee and is excited about it. The latter prepares PowerPoint speeches and all the right financing languages, but his ideas sound scary: selling coffins online.

The teacher said, calm down. Don't focus on the money. Imagine the whole experience and the satisfaction of engaging in meaningful work, which is the real success.

This book is very popular. But Comisa only opened the way for Doerr (John Doerr), the leading-Peng of China. Dole further elaborated on and disseminated this view from business school to magazine interviews. Dole, a consultant to Barack Obama, the US president, has invested in Sun, Intuit, Google and Amazon as a billionaire.

Dole's point is this. The work of the entrepreneur is extremely difficult. To be successful, they must be passionate, but not paranoid. They cannot expect to be present within a few months or years, but rather to create a business from a strategic height in search of long-term success. They have to guide and train the team rather than dictate the team as a group of hungry wolves. They should be enthusiastic about contributing to society, rather than obsessing over their own interests. Mercenaries only have money in their eyes. Missionaries are also interested in money, but they are more eager to explore the meaning of work. They have a "complete life plan", not "deferred life plan".

Ignore the fact that entrepreneurial theory may be too much: Dole says it makes sense. The recent report on Bezos (Jeff Bezos) 's acquisition of The Washington Post (The Washington post) reminds me of what he said.

Bezos is a good example of what Dole says about missionary standards. For years, his start-up, Amazon, has been under ridicule. Amazon has failed to make a profit. It was the symbol of the dotcom bubble of the late 90, when its share price soared and then plunged. A "mercenary" may cashing from the big one and then quit. But Bezos believes that the Internet will revolutionize business, he won.

But is it appropriate to refer to such people as missionaries? My father was a missionary for nearly 20 years. He served in a formidable group called the Oxford Mission (the Oxford burritos). The group disseminated the teachings of the Anglican Church in India and Bangladesh. Its priests and nuns have built orphanages, schools and clinics, and these institutions are still operating. But when I tried to list the similarities between Bezos and the retired Delfs Broughton priest (Reverend Delves Broughton), I soon couldn't write it.

I think they all pursue the meaning of life. But I doubt their meaning is different. My father is still in the habit of the internet age, it may be difficult to understand the retail industry "to mediate" the spiritual purpose. For him, the dispatch question is whether the local library continues to subscribe to the Church Times (the Church).

When I think of missionaries, it's not just those people who devote themselves to lofty goals and truly understand the meaning of life. I also think that they are extremely humble and willing to risk their emotional and even physical injury to work that may never be accepted by the public. A great preacher is not only likely to run out of first-round risk financing, or to find a right market. They could still be eaten.

Dole hopes to see the founders more likely to be the qualities of the Boy Scouts (Boy Scout)-to inspire followers and boost morale, or, figuratively speaking, to set up tents in the pouring rain, and to move on with a brisk flow of the storm.

However, you don't want them to be sacred when they are successful. You want them to act as big cashing as mercenaries. It is not a missionary's typical view of a "complete life plan" that the venture capitalists will not celebrate when the church is filled, but rather to celebrate when the fundraising disk overflows.

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