First Financial Weekly: The Entrepreneur of soy sauce

Wen |CBN journalist Ai Yi

Sometimes, I often find it unnatural to take part in lectures and events that entrepreneurs get together with. Before the official opening, the moderator (usually the science blog or the well-known English business magazine) will first ask: "Who is the site entrepreneurs?" The hand uniform the half. Then ask: "Who is ready to start a business right away?" The remaining one and a half are sparse. Then the host never pretended to be surprised to chase another: "That did not raise the hands of what is going on?" You guys come to eat pizza? Under the laughter.

At this time, I said with a wry smile: Well, yes, I walk with you, are to eat pizza, but I also paid 10 knife ticket money.

Well, I just want to say that the lectures and salons that surround entrepreneurship are about four or five a day in Silicon Valley--whether it's in San Francisco, Palo, Mountain King or Santa Clara, and every 100 people are full, they're not just eating pizza. So think about how much of the Silicon Valley is going to be a lot of unreliable, financial and not-financed entrepreneurs.

It reminds me of another magical place more than 300 miles away-Hollywood. It is said that only 1/10 of the more than 50,000 members of the Hollywood Actors Guild can really make a living, more Hollywood actors in small apartments, driving old cars, part-time real estate agents or gas station waiters, and repeatedly http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation /31242.html "> Brokers and producers refused to interview. In fact, these entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are not like this. Not everyone is an early employee of Google and Facebook who, during the day, is smug about participating in various jump Startup days (a live demo contest of at least 10 startups facing VCs or angel Investments), and meeting with potential investors, Squeeze in a garage or studio to draw a product sketch code, at night and midnight I'm afraid I'll have to take some outsourced code odd jobs to make up for everyday bills. At least one or two entrepreneurs I know, that's what they told me.

There are more occasions when you can feel this entrepreneurial atmosphere that is almost crazy. I only on this side has the Chinese science and technology community background activity to have done two or three times the keynote speech and the forum moderator's role, each time comes down will have that kind of eyeful to put the light the entrepreneur to greet. The last time I met an entrepreneur introduced me to one of his social products, he said in an impassioned way: "We will beat Facebook, will beat Google, will defeat twitter!" I heard a little dizzy, had to ask him: "That these three things that seem not the same thing inside, you really want to beat which one?" ”

At the end of last week's event, an Indian entrepreneur rushed to show me his product. I was fascinated by his words: This product can change the way traditional media people work. So I found a quiet corner with him and he showed this product from beginning to end, finally, I finally realized that this product is a text conversion application based on the Android phone-that is, it can convert text that exceeds the word limit to a specific format and send it through the SMS channel. The way to change traditional media is to mean: I can send a manuscript by text message.

I have no means of ridicule. The mutual assistance that entrepreneurs take on each other still makes people feel like a healthy business culture. Entrepreneurial technology Blog Community startup Grind will organize one or two of fireside chats (fireside talk) that invite recent successful entrepreneurs to attend each month. But before each of the formal fireside dialogues, organizers will invite several entrepreneurs who are recently buried in research and development to demonstrate their product model, and then let other entrepreneurs sitting under the table make suggestions for their products, marketing and design.

The last time I attended the startup Grind event invited Ben Silbermann, the founder of the hottest picture sharing application Pinterest. Prior to the formal interview, organizers invited a newly-launched start-up company Purple Menu founder. This is a trading market designed to share food, its interface design is very elegant, but the product details are a bit rough. After the demo, other entrepreneurs from the product model, promotional means and profit breakthrough various aspects of the proposals, and even openly help the founder to introduce promotional channels. In my view of the spectator, this is still very touching me. At least entrepreneurs will not be afraid, when he put an immature product model to public, people will be in private plagiarism or bad.

Ai Yi is a journalist in Silicon Valley, the first financial weekly (Weibo).