Internet venture too extravagant

Investors in Silicon Valley, analysts seem, China for them, the first may be more than a billion big market. Every mobile phone user installs one of their App, will definitely achieve a mass user base; everyone clicks on the ads, they earn over; each company to buy a device, they can IPO.

However, these Chinese entrepreneurs who have seen bayonets more understand the Chinese market than they do. Silicon Valley chiefs are afraid that is rarely concerned about the plight of Internet entrepreneurs in China. We may wish to look at these entrepreneurs need to deal with those beyond the threshold of what Kaner. The issues mentioned in the article may not be new to Chinese Internet entrepreneurs, but there are some fantasies about Silicon Valley readers.

Plagiarism or innovation

This is a country that lacks any protection for "innovation."

From the point of view, plagiarism in China can be at least divided into: large companies copied Silicon Valley companies, start-ups copied Silicon Valley start-ups, large companies copied small companies, small companies copied each other ......

The most troubling thing for Chinese internet entrepreneurs is plagiarism from China's big Internet companies. Even if you are a little innovative, larger competitors will be able to plunder your success in no time at all, with no idea of ​​what "innovation" is and no real or effective protection will find its way. Some people may say that why not use legal weapons to protect yourself? You will find that fighting the lawsuit can not beat each other - was approved as "copycat" several large Internet companies, has long been quietly applied to this This belongs to your patent, and the entrenched interests of entrepreneurs can only helpless.

Searching for "China Copycat" in Google, it's all about criticism, and some even raise the issue to culture. Interestingly, the "plagiarist" infamy seems to be mostly borne by entrepreneurs who might not care at all. You can despise them morally, but the ultimate financial gain remains with them. Entrepreneurs dancing in shackles, even survival, are a problem, accusing them of being "copied" meaningless, just beating dogs.

Perhaps swinging between plagiarism and innovation is no longer important, and it is important that you create value for your users. Is there any need to be able to use Chinese excellent services that are shielded from GFW? This is a question.

Obstacles brought by GFW

The first law of GFW: As long as the "user generated content" (User-generated content, UGC) foreign sites will be harmonious.

GFW second law: as long as it is a harmonious website, there must be at least one clone in China.

The third law of GFW: An unharmonious website must not be the best of its kind.

The first e-mail in China was titled "Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world." - This is a Prediction. Today, we visit the Internet abroad and in many cases, we have to cross the Great Wall . Today, the existence of GFW (Great Firewall) is no longer a secret. Even some official media are talking about this thing. Some people even think that the existence of GFW has created obstacles for Internet companies outside China to enter the Chinese market, thus giving local followers many opportunities. In fact, domestic Internet entrepreneurs also lost the chance to compete with their international counterparts on the same stage. In the long run, the result of loss of competitiveness is that we will lose a larger market, so that protection does not matter.

The bigger problem with GFW is that it has created the world's best generic technology platform that can not provide services to Chinese entrepreneurs, such as Amazon's S3 and Google's Apps for Business. In this case, In addition to find a solution, can not find it can only develop their own, which indirectly led to a lot of waste of labor, repeated inventions of the phenomenon of wheels abound, it is helpless.

Myths like Instagram or Dropbox can not happen in China. It has nothing to do with "innovation." We do not have such a soil. Even if a small company can make an excellent product early on, once it has to deal with a larger user base, it goes down while maintaining infrastructure (IDC, bandwidth, distributed storage services) and productivity plummets unless You quickly turn into a big, bloated company, and then, innovation may have vanished.

So, Google, Amazon's big men, come in ways to come in, the best of your service to China, like IBM, Oracle that occupy the Chinese market, entrepreneurs need your service even more.

Infrastructure is outdated and expensive

Data at the end of 2011 show that the average broadband connection speed in China is about 100Kb / s, well below the average speed of about 230Kb / s per second in developed countries. Actually, this can only be called "narrow" band or "quasi" Broadband. " China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2012 to speed broadband, from the current point of view, there has indeed been progress. However, broadband speeds go up, the associated costs have gone up. If Startup applies for an Internet broadband access office in the name of an enterprise, the cost will be staggering. Whether it is the world's most expensive broadband service is unknown, but the quality is not bad.

Perhaps, China's broadband network problems and there is no problem in the mobile area. According to the Q1 2012 data, 85.5% of users still have access to 2G networks. Even though 3G users are growing rapidly and 2G users are shrinking, the base is still huge. This means that in the field of mobile Internet, applications that require higher wireless bandwidth are still unlikely to make any breakthroughs in the short term, such as music and video. A large number of entrepreneurs can only squeeze in a relatively narrow area to fight.

There is a common saying in China that "If you want to be rich, you should first build roads". The same applies to the Internet. To make the Internet industry prosperous, infrastructure must be able to keep up.

Security Risk

The last piece of the famous "Three-Body" masterpiece by China's famous science fiction novelist Liu Cixin is called "The Dark Forest," and uses the passage of this novel to elaborate on the status quo of China's Internet security:

"The Internet in China is a dark forest. Every hacker is a hunter with a gun, like a ghostly sneak in the woods. He gently pulls away the branches of the road and makes no effort to make any noise at all. Even the breath must be cautious. ... he must be careful because there are hunters stealing like him everywhere in the forest, and if he finds other loopholes, whether it is a hunter, an angel or a devil, whether it is a delicate baby or a faltering old man, The girl is still a god-like boy, can do only one thing: drag library in this forest, others are hell, is an eternal threat, any exposed loopholes in their existence will soon be eliminated, this is China's Internet Security picture. "

To say too literary, in fact, deep underground hacker industrial chain, coupled with China's lack of targeted laws and regulations, over the years led to continued state of uncontrolled. Entrepreneurs every day, the site was targeted, targeted DDoS attacks or infiltration to steal the database, and then ask for network protection fees. The massive data breach at the end of last year was still just the tip of the iceberg. Security Threats to startups are always present, and every entrepreneur must face this reality.

Unique technical obstacles

It is said that Bill Gates said such a sentence, "Even with piracy, I hope they are using Microsoft's Windows." The proportion of pirated Windows users in China is too high. Moreover, Windows XP does indeed meet the needs of the vast majority of Chinese users, so that these users do not intend to upgrade to a higher version of Windows. As a matter of fact, China has become IE 6 The hardest hit (in fact there are many more contributing to this result). The presence of Internet Explorer 6 makes Internet entrepreneurs in China have to consider the browser compatibility issues, which in fact also increased the technical cost of inputs. Fortunately, doing mobile App no ​​longer need to consider this issue.

Similar to IE 6, there is the issue of interconnection between North and South of China. China Telecom was split into the Yangtze River as the boundary, south of the Yangtze River owned by China Telecom, north of the Yangtze River to China Netcom operations, quite ridiculous means that the original decision makers to do so is designed to break the monopoly, the introduction of competition, This may be achieved, but there have been cases in which the two companies were competing for obstacles to each other. This led to a very slow pace of mutual visits between the north and south. In order to balance the users in the north and south, additional costs must be paid. This is another issue with Chinese characteristics.

The flow of talent

A new generation of young people tend to be civil servants after graduation. According to various surveys, civil servants have become one of the favorite occupations of young people. For start-ups, hiring top class graduates is almost impossible. Because even if the civil servants can not be considered, foreign enterprises, domestic large-scale private enterprises is still the top priority of graduates.

Wild goose plucking taxes

On the one hand, shouting for small and medium enterprises to shoulder, on the one hand playing dark and dark games, such as "camp to increase", that is, the original taxpayers to pay sales tax management of enterprises classified as VAT paid by the tax management of enterprises, tax But increased by one percentage point. The recent hot "floating profit tax" but also reflects the tax department's foresight.

Qu Yuan Sanqu "Drunken Taiping" to praise it: take mud Yankou, iron-cutting needles, scraping gold Buddha seeking fine, nothing to find. See quail peas peas, egrets on the legs split clever meat, mosquito abdomen fat, loss of Mr. Lao start!

The rest belongs to you. Entrepreneurship in the Internet in China has become quite a "luxury" thing. Entrepreneurs are in dire straits. It is beyond the scope of this article to discuss the specific causes of these dilemmas, but we should also look forward to giving them a helping hand when questioned by various critics. Even "dancing in shackles" will try to make entrepreneurs jump more elegantly.

Although each city's business park has become the standard, but it is after all hardware, software is the urgent need to upgrade.

The entrepreneurs of the Internet in China are the most idealistic but the most pessimistic, the most hopeful, the most hopeless, the poorest, the richest, the richest, the most ardent, the most patient but the most impatient, most helpless But the most tossing guy. Without them, the entire community will be dully boring, the hardest-working groups will not receive due rewards and can not share in the wealth brought by this little progress in society. This is not fair.

Well, I know everyone is not easy, we are looking for hope in despair.