Entrepreneurship, always a never-ending topic

Today's bigwigs in the Internet industry are also "reeling" business start-up period. In business, bigwigs who have also been hard, but also to give up the dark heart, here we take a look at Chinese and foreign Internet bigwigs are young entrepreneurs, to see how they successfully persevered?

Ma: Even if 24 people totally oppose me, I have to do it too

In 1995, Ma did not make any translation of money, but by virtue of superior ability to bring their own not small fame. A Chinese company that contracted construction projects with the United States recruited Ma for translation into the United States. Everything that follows is the same as in a Hollywood movie: American businessmen want to rely on their accounts and take out a gun to confine Ma in the room for up to two days.

Ma was released in panic and lost his carry-on luggage, earning just $ 600 at the casino in Las Vegas. It was this $ 600 that paved the way for the online world.

After a great startled escape, Ma did not return immediately but flew from Los Angeles to Seattle. After making friends in Seattle, Jack went to a very humble company. It was here that he first came into contact with the Internet. Ma company that person told Ma, want to check what knocked on the computer will be able to come out. "I was even scared of touching the keys of a computer, and I thought at the time, who knows how much it costs? I'll lose if I break it."

Ma Yun memories of the mood at that time. However, the sense of smell-sensitive horse has a heartfelt intuition, he felt that the Internet this thing will certainly play in the future, the Internet will change the world!

The night of March 1995 was crowded with people in Hangzhou's Ma family, all of whom were foreign businessmen who met during the four years of teaching at the time of teaching. Ma wanted to hear the business needs of these people who are doing business with the Internet. "I asked 24 friends to come to my house to discuss. I talked full about two hours, they heard silly confused, I also confused .Finally in the end how? 23 people say forget it, only one person said You can give it a try, you can not quickly fled back .I think one night, the next morning decided to do it, even if 24 people are all against me. "(Source: Great Wall Network & Renren)

Jobs: Sold Volkswagen to start a business

Wards sold his beloved Hewlett-Packard 65 programmable computer, Jobs sold his Volkswagen, Coupe 1000 US dollars as a start-up capital. The two hold equal shares in the new company, with the remaining 10% backing Ron Wayne who will help them. Apple's industry model is very simple: the circuit design by Woz model, and then produce the circuit board on the market. None of the three individuals realize that a grand tomorrow is coming.

A shopkeeper running a computer ordered 50 computers at 500 dollars for each. To his madness, the first generation of Apple computers that two young people took out was a bare circuit board with no chassis, power supply, keyboard, and no display. Steve Jobs at this time did not know the design and products.

In 1976, he and Steve Jobs rushed to the Atlanta PC Festival, then went to Philadelphia, hurry to show the world their achievements. This is a rather shameful experience. At the show, people turned a blind eye to the stony young people and the ugly "boxes."

Since then, many Silicon Valley company owners have been harassed by a hair-bearded, young man in jeans, or the phone was blocked by him in the office. Under Steve Jobs's stabbing, advertising creative company McKinney, investor McKimula joined the new company, Apple officially transformed into a joint-stock company. (Source industry encyclopedia)

Zhang Chaoyang: Caravan by arrow publicity company

95 years ago, I did a postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At that time, many students felt very lonely in the United States. They got married early and lived a stable life. Every day they went home to study in the lab or went to the PHL. I'm not like them, spend a lot of time playing above, leading me to PHD a bit long, but the bad things become a good thing. At the end of 1995, I returned home with a broken box holding a thousand dollars a month's salary.

By the end of 1996, I finally set up a good stand for ISI. I must start my own business. I went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology with some professors such as Negroponte on financing, the first successful financing is 96 years in October, the first fund more than 200,000 US dollars.

At that time, basically all the national media were present. I would like to take this opportunity to let them publicize and promote us. Someone asked why this time he came to China. Negroponte replied: "I made an important investment first of all. This investment was made by Charles Zhang and I wanted to see how the company was."

At that time all the media suddenly uproar, the next day, "China Economic Times" "Beijing Youth Daily" have been reported, together with the effect of the scene, AIT has become famous, I also started a little famous. This is basically the story of a straw boat borrowing arrows, with four forces mobilized Ying Haiwei company's 40-person marketing department strength, Negroponte's visit has also become China's digital first year.

Robin Li: those things going back to China for business that year

When I first arrived in the United States, the language was not particularly fluent. What was even more crucial was that I switched to a major. I was a major in information science at Peking University and a major in computer science in the United States. At the time, I took a fancy to a professor's graphics project , He applied for his laboratory. He asked me some questions. Some of the questions I did not quite understand. Some of the questions I really did not know, so I did not answer so well. He asked me one last question. He asked: China has Computer? I was hurt at that time, because my own questions were not answered well, causing American professors to start to wonder whether China had a computer or not, and just because one such thing made me think that one day I must do it in the computer field A business to come out.

This incident has gradually become my ideal - to use their own technology to change the world, the ideal should be said that not completed yet, but I gradually approach the ideal every day. Someone on the internet said that because my wife had pulled back the vegetables in the garden before I returned to start her own business, I was not actually tracing the source. At that time, the words of the professor in the United States made me even more motivated to do this well.

Zuckerberg: do not want to work under the hand of others

In the fall of 2003, Zuckerberg, 19, for the first time on the Web gave an idea of ​​his intention to create a social networking site to his "high budding" Adam D'Angelo, a "budding party" who later became Facebook's first chief technology officer.

Zuckerberg told De Angelo that some Harvard seniors want him to set up a "dating site" or "Facebook-like" site, and Zuckerberg hopes to get help from D'Angelo.

Zuckerberg said he hated to do "wedding dress" for others, just as they do not want to work in the hands of others, "until the last minute, we all launched their own website, said, 'you are not as good as mine, if If you want to join us, come on ...... Otherwise, I'll help you later. "

In February 2004, Zuckerberg and his three classmates, Drsin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin founded Facebook, initially targeting only Harvard students, after which Zuckerberg extended it to other universities such as Stanford and Columbia.

According to Zuckerberg, the first three months of Facebook monthly operating expenses only 85 US dollars for rental of computers, in June 2004, Zuckerberg Facebook moved to the Silicon Valley town of Palo Alto. At the end of the year, Zuckerberg chose to drop out and concentrate on the web business due to more and more Facebook registered users, at which time the number of users was reported to have reached 1 million. (Source: Oriental Morning Post)

Gates: After leaving school to create their own company

Bill Gates, 19, dropped out of Harvard in 1975 and sold BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) with his high school alumnus Paul Allen. Pei Ji means "beginner's full-size symbolic instruction code", a programming language designed for beginners, and when Gates was still studying at Harvard, they compiled the language for MITS 'Altair.

Later, Gates and Allen moved to Albuquerque and founded Microsoft in a local hotel room. In 1977, Microsoft moved to Bellevue, Seattle, where PC programming software was developed. In 1979, MITS was closed and Microsoft continued to develop its main business by modifying the BASIC program.

The company founded in the early sales BASIC interpreter. At that time computer enthusiasts also often develop their own small BASIC interpreter, and distributed free of charge. However, since Microsoft is the commercial producer of a few BASIC interpreters, many home computer manufacturers use Microsoft's BASIC interpreter in their systems.

Yang Zhiyuan: give up writing papers to create a portal

Yahoo was founded by Taiwanese Taiwanese Jerry Yang, who was born in 1968 and joined Filo in 1993 as a graduate student at Stanford University of Technology.

They like to surf on the World Wide Web and make their favorite sites a list to look for. There were times when they got a brainwave, they decided to make the list available online for use by users and called the list "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web."

Unexpectedly, this action was very popular and a sensational effect occurred. As a result, they dropped out of their graduation thesis in 1995 to specialize in creating web portals and gave the list of major sites the new Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, The acronym Yahoo becomes the web portal's name.

Wang Zhidong: software genius, the leader of a new generation of programmers

Wang Zhidong, a student of Peking University's Department of Radio Electronics, did not graduate until he was well known in Zhongguancun. He shuttled across various computer towns next to Tsinghua University to write tools for the owners of these trains. By the way, encryption and decryption Work

Wang Zhidong how popular? That is constantly someone looking for him to start a company, asked him to share in technology. Prior to the establishment of Sitonglifang in 1994, Wang Zhidong has been involved in the establishment of two software companies, in addition to Peking University founded the school-run enterprises Founder Group in the work experience, he was many media called software genius, a new generation of programs Leader of the staff.

No matter from which point of view, the founder of Sitong Li Fang has its own distinguished position in the history of Zhongguancun. This is because the company initially had a relatively clear structure of property rights. According to the agreement, Stone invested 5 million Hong Kong dollars to take up 70% of the shares, with Wang Zhidong and his entrepreneurial team occupying 30% of the shares. Wang Zhidong's technical team led quickly wrote such a Chinese platform RichWin, all the rage.

SINA launched SINA Wireless Business in April 2002 to create a value-added service platform for China's subscribers and provide wireless value-added services. Sina is a four-way Lee and Huayuan information network merged. sina's Chinese name Sina is the then president Wang Zhidong, the domain name is a good expression of Sina's hope to become China's largest portal of determination. (Source: Speed ​​Network)

Ding Lei: registered domain name inspired by telecommunications work

In 1993, Ding Lei graduated from Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology returned to his hometown Ningbo, was assigned to the Ningbo Bureau of Telecommunications. Ding Lei in the bureau's biggest gain is learned Unix and telecommunications services. Up to now, Ding Lei was very pleased with the hard work that had been paid: "I left the unit almost every day because the unit has a Unix computer, and the success of NetEase and I have mastered the essence of Unix very early."

This section of the bureau's life to Ding later development has brought endless inspiration, the most classic is the digital domain name application story. Ding Lei in developing a browser-based free e-mail system, while thinking of technical problems, while thinking about the domain name. Ding Lei finds free e-mail to be successful must have a catchy domain job. Chinese 26 English letters pronunciation simply can not speak clearly on the phone, the three letters of the domain name has been registered light, "What kind of domain name just remember? Ding almost think this question every day.

At 2 a.m. on that day, Ding suddenly thought that numbers could be used to represent a domain name. The Chinese pronounced alphanumeric characters altogether, and 163,169 already had implications for Chinanet and the telecommunications bureau and the Internet in China. Everyone on the Internet had to dial 163, know it can no longer recognize it. Think of this, Ding Lei jumped up from the bed, dial 163 Internet, check a bit 163. net and 163. com these two domain names, thank God, has not been registered. Quickly registered the two domain names, Ding Lei and went to sleep, but how sleep can not sleep, and he more and more to the United States, they jumped up breath from the bed 188 registered. net, 188. com, 166. net, 166. com, 126. net, 126. com, 127. net, 127. com. Ding later said he was sensitive to numbers from his telecom life, because telecom people know too much about the numbers.

July 1995, Ding Lei, a person to leave Ningbo Telecom, has undergone three job-hopping, Ding began to calm down to think about the issue. Considered about 5 days, he decided to give it a try, founded Netease. Netease company was established when only 3 individuals, the so-called company is only a 7 square meters of room, a few people squeezed in such a small space took the first step in their own business. The company's funds are only 200,000 yuan of money, many people asked Ding Lei how the first money is coming, in fact, most of these money is Ding Lei previously deposited (the money was originally used to buy a house in Guangzhou, home security, Ding language) , Some borrowed from friends, and the other part was made for a lot of billing software for others. (Source: World Manager)

Ma Huateng: Once the lack of money to sell QQ

In 1998, Ma Huateng, who left Runxun with a share of capital gained from the stock exchange, co-founded Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. with five students. With his passion for the Internet, newborn Tencent began to look for pages and networks Expansion capacity.

That year, the Internet industry was in its infancy in China, with 3 million Internet users, less than the current fraction. Like many Internet companies that started their own business, capital and technology have become the biggest problems for Tencent, and the company was struggling for a while. "We had to run around to get the necessary working capital, sleepless nights," Ma later said. In order to let Tencent survive, Ma and several founders began to do web pages, systems integration, programming to make money, with the product to the operator to sell, being shut out is commonplace.

February 1999, Tencent developed a network instant messaging tool - Tencent QQ. Ma Huntang QQ put on the Internet for free use of users, less than a year on the development of 5 million users. However, a large number of QQ download and surge of users at this time has become the company's "burden" for this "lack of money" start-ups, let alone update the equipment, and even one or two thousand yuan server hosting Fees are also huge pressure.

Gold mining in emerging internet markets is a hard job. At that time, the main business of the dozen or so small companies was to make projects for Shenzhen Telecom, Shenzhen Unicom and some paging stations. QQ was only a by-product of the company. The entire company often pour out for a project, but also to avoid being exposed. In order to give the customer a very strong impression, when Ma's business card never printed "general manager" message, but only with the title of "engineer" - in Shenzhen, there are hundreds of companies like Tencent, Ma Huateng's expectations at that time, but the company can survive.

Under the persuasion of friends, Ma Huateng began to want to sell QQ. However, during the negotiation, some ICPs required exclusive buyout, which made Ma Wanteng, who wanted to make more money by selling more companies with QQ software, was very hesitant. QQ can not sell, but the user growth is fast, operating more and more investment, Ma had no choice but to raise money around. Banks have not heard of "user registrations" can do a mortgage loan, domestic investors are not concerned about technology, but Tencent how much fixed assets. Talk about the four did not reach the bottom line, Ma decided to leave QQ raised their own.