Horizon NET Lintingham: The more painful the deeper

Entrepreneurship is not just a stage for grassroots. In today's entrepreneurial tide, the big company's executives leave business, seems to be increasingly a trend. March 18, 2012, the domestic professional social networking site Skyline Network CEO Lintingham Guest mobile Technology TNT Salon, and other guests to share the entrepreneurial experience.

Prior to the venture, Mr. Lintingham worked for Motorola, leading the team to develop greater China market entry strategy and expand related business. At Apple, he is the director of business development in China, which is mainly responsible for nurturing consumer demand and markets in China. He also served as vice president of Sina, which led to the merger of US Sina and China "s Stone richsight to become one of the main portals of Sina.

In 2004, he began to prepare his own business. The following year, the Horizon Network was formally established. At that time, with the Sky Network was set up with the adjacent network, people and nets. "The biggest difficulty is that the market is immature. "At that time, many people do not know what is SNS, let alone occupational SNS." He recalls the situation and concludes with three features of China's Internet development: rejuvenation, entertainment and virtualization. "At that time, everyone thought it was strange, why should I put my information online?" "In such a bad market environment, many of the social networking sites that started out with the Sky network are now in decline, or have already collapsed," he said. And his company after seven years or so honed, now become the industry's "leader."

"Why do you think you can win?" ”

Faced with such a problem, he always corrected: "Not winning, is sticking to the present." "He felt that in the field of professional social life, as the number of entrants, the future competition will also become fierce, it is still a little premature to talk about success." Then he replied: "Because I failed." Pausing for a moment, he repeated the remark: "Because I have failed." At the end of 1999, he founded his first career Q dot net. After the dotcom bubble of the turn of the century, Q dot net also encountered great difficulty. He was forced to put an end to his first entrepreneurial journey in a situation where he was still struggling to recover. Although this venture failed, but entrepreneurship can "with the people you like to do like things", so he did not give up.

"The first experience of entrepreneurship is critical to the overall consideration of my second venture," he said. One of the main lines is to stick to it. In fact, the first time our team, our ideas are very good, is not adhere to down. This time, we must find a way to stick to it. ”

At the time twenty or thirty wanted to do, but did not make the professional social networking site, Lintingham said his most admired is linkist. After spelling it out on paper, he laughed: "Obviously, I want to copy LinkedIn." "In 2004, the company was set up in Taipei and entered the mainland in the second year, focusing on the development of high-end members as well as the Skyline network." "But the difference is that when we burn 10,005 dollars a month, they burn 60,005 dollars." This can't be maintained. "He believes it is not possible to spend too quickly when the market is not ripe, because it may give investors a loss of confidence." "Maybe they've never failed," he said. He continued.

"In the United States, there are many investors willing to invest in failed entrepreneurs. Because you have spent so much money, learned so many lessons, deeply engraved in your heart. Silence for a moment, he said slowly: "The more profound the deeper." ”