Five DNA from successful founders

Starting in the second half of last year, Microsoft's global senior vice president and Asia Pacific Research and Development Group chairman Zhang a new insight into what kind of young people are more likely to start a business, and he even proposes 5 of successful founders ' DNA: A keen thirst for knowledge, creative spark, the ability to simplify abstract concepts, and the Take risks after careful consideration.

Zhang is a world-class scientist in the field of communications and software, and in the past young people were more likely to talk to him about becoming an outstanding software engineer. As the final judge and entrepreneur of the project, Zhang began to think more about youth entrepreneurship, following the "Cloud Accelerator" project that Microsoft landed in China in July 2012 to prop up young entrepreneurs.

The "Cloud Accelerator" project is Microsoft's Youth Entrepreneurship program in the United States, Israel, India and China, and the selected start-up team can enjoy Microsoft's free office space, multi-directional training and mentor support, technical and operational guidance, financing opportunities and cloud computing resources within 6 months.

Although the birth of technology, but the knowledge of entrepreneurship, Zhang Unique advantage is that the world's richest man Bill Gates is his teacher when he entered the Microsoft, can say in many issues, he got Gates "". In addition, in recent years, Zhang also have opportunities and Buffett, Welch and other business Wizards direct dialogue, he himself is IDG Capital risk partners, the Yajie Chamber of Commerce business mentor.

The "Cloud Accelerator" project is currently in China for two, with 30 young start-up teams already enjoying a free lunch for entrepreneurial support. In the process of selecting an entrepreneurial team and combining his past experience, Zhang hopes to share his insights on entrepreneurship with young people.

In Zhang's view, the entrepreneurial activity of young people in China is not low in the world, especially in Beijing, whether it is the number of start-ups, influence, or the size of venture capital, even the number of institutions to support the various incubators, will not lose the Silicon Valley. It can be said that in some cities in China, entrepreneurial atmosphere is still very strong, especially the hardware environment in the international no less favourably. If there is a gap, there may be deficiencies in the soft environment and the overall quality of the entrepreneurial community.

Zhang explains that the soft environment includes intermediary services, the training of entrepreneurs, and the variety of support entrepreneurs want. In particular, startups may encounter problems that may take longer to register, and because of limited market access, the company will have to go public to pay more and more.

As for entrepreneurial culture, Zhang said, Chinese youth may not be innovative enough in their entrepreneurial process. In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs are more likely to think about what innovations they have to launch in order to have both Facebook and Google, rather than social networking sites or search engines. There is no shortage of young entrepreneurs in China, and once a certain product and model is successful, many people will compete to imitate it. Zhang said, in fact, in terms of entrepreneurial products and models, he is not completely negative imitation, but on the basis of imitation should have their own innovation.

He said that early Chinese circles in the United States also have such a problem, such as a person to open a restaurant to make money, it will attract a lot of people herd open a restaurant, if someone open a laundry business is good, also bring the laundry glut. But why not change the train of thought, someone opened a restaurant to earn money, I opened a laundry, or supermarkets, we jointly form a complementary business circle, to make money, rather than vicious competition.

Zhang says innovation should be the most important DNA for young entrepreneurs. In addition, as the core soul of the team, the head of the entrepreneurial enterprise should also dare to bear, for many problems to sink the heart to deliberate, rather than relying on wishful thinking enthusiasm.

As Bill Gates ' apprentice, Zhang has the opportunity to listen to Gates ' entrepreneurial stories many times. Zhang wants to share with aspiring young people that entrepreneurs can have big dreams, but more importantly, take every step of the way, especially the first step.

Zhang recalls that Bill Gates didn't think one day he would become the richest man in the world, and his original ideal was to invent a machine that could write programs. But as his entrepreneurial path became clearer, Gates ' next plan was upgraded, from programming to operating systems, and then to getting computers to actually be used on the desktop.

Zhang want to borrow the story of Gates to tell young people, both the ideal is ambitious, but also down-to-earth, more importantly, there is a reasonable and clear entrepreneurial path.