High school graduates drop out to join the entrepreneurial Circle Zuckerberg's success is hard to replicate

In 2011, Zhang Linxuan, 19, graduated from high school in the United States, he returned to China to work for an English-language training company, according to the voice of China's news story. He found that the current domestic students to learn oral English demand exuberant, but the price of teaching at home and abroad, quality is not guaranteed. Zhang Linxuan suddenly had an idea: can American students offer one-on-one teaching services to Chinese students? In this way, American students have a working income, Chinese students improve the level of oral English.

A few months later, Zhang Linxuan organized a team of their own, with an average age of 19.5 years, most of them high school graduates and college students. Others on the team, some of them threw out college admissions notices, some had dropped out of college, and others were planning to drop out.

Why do these high school graduates abandon their studies and plunge into entrepreneurship? Can they find their way in the wave of internet entrepreneurship?

Last October, the team formed, business books, 2 months to seek financing success, the company was established in January this year, the June website will be officially online. Talking about technology companies is also as fast as the team's youth.

In short, the chat network is an online chat platform, but one side is the university students in the United States, while the Chinese English learners, they chat in English, the Chinese pay. In addition, the chat network also provides online study information consulting services, the object of chatting to university admissions officers, study abroad consultants and Chinese students.

According to one of the team members, Tsinghua University sophomore student Sbotton, currently, in the chat net in China's team has 7 people, in addition to founder Zhang Linxuan, there are two Tsinghua University students, a University of California, two high school graduates, and a third in the student. How do they balance their studies and careers? If not, Sbotton said, he might consider quitting or dropping out of school.

Sbotton: Many successful businessmen say that it is impossible to win a part-time job, so I'm also thinking about the relationship between my studies and the site I'm facing today, and I'm ready to leave school and even drop out to do the job, and at least 4 out of 5 of my 6 partners outside of my group have finished dropping out. , as well as a plan to drop out of school.

Sbotton said in an interview, don't bully young poor. His team of study abroad services have a wealth of experience, although young, other inexperienced, but filled with blood, a week can work 100 hours, in order to find investors, they continuously sent hundreds of e-mails, saw more than 20 angel investors, finally got 1.5 million of the investment.

Sbotton: I think in today's social environment, age is not a hindrance to our business the most important problem, if the real discovery of this thing, but also fully understand the full trust in themselves, I think can do.

It sounds as if entrepreneurship is really urgent for them. Zhang ailing has a famous saying: Be famous before it is too early. Do you want to start early? Is there a future in the chat network model? Can they succeed if they start their own business after graduating from high school?

Sun Qingjie, a professor at the University of Communication, has a wealth of experience in Internet entrepreneurship, and he immediately raises his own questions when he hears about the entrepreneurial model of technology.

Sun Qingjie: Now this thing because it's not technically difficult, there are Chinese Internet now everyone will be very large number of clones, now just start to do small, no big companies will pay attention to it, but once you have to do a very hot, we really find that there are many business opportunities, will (cloning).

But Professor Sun Qingjie that the younger generation does have a unique advantage in the Internet entrepreneurship Wave. They are "digital residents", that is to say, grew up in the digital age, understanding the Internet world more in-depth, more natural. The older generation is a "digital immigrant", growing up to contact the Internet, which is the disadvantage of entrepreneurship.

Amprjo, a US investor who has focused on the internet industry, has suggested that while the internet has made entrepreneurs younger, it is not right to talk about Facebook founder Zuckerberg, which is hard to replicate.

Amprjo: American venture Capital did a statistic, in the United States from entrepreneurship to success, the average number of 2.7 times, that is, in the United States, many people first enterprise failed, the second enterprise failed to third or fourth enterprises to succeed, the U.S. entrepreneurial success of the age of up to 35 years old. Of course Faecebook in the first two years, and a few years before someone out to do faecebook may also fail, a few years later business opportunities were robbed. Now the creation of this model is not a new model, this study abroad service in the beginning of the new east has been n years, so my view is still more pessimistic.

Amprjo specifically talked about, when Jerry Yang and Ferro founded Yahoo, Stanford University students, Yahoo is very successful, but with the size of Yahoo, investors found that the team lacks coordination, management and other aspects of talent, had to hire professional managers from outside, this also means to venture success, Team members must be able to complement each other.

Amprjo: The knowledge that an enterprise needs is not just to understand the Internet, how to do it, how to manage it, how to attract customers to keep customers? The company has a big staff how to manage, internal how to manage these things need a versatile team, not just say we this team everyone on the internet has passion, we all know the Internet, understand this industry, understand the market can do it, of course, can go to a professional team to manage the financial, then for investors, The team is still an incomplete team.