Lei: I hate "entrepreneurial mentor" VC should not be keen to be a mentor

In the eyes of Lei, who play the double role of investor and entrepreneur, he doesn't really like the title of "mentor". Faced with the goodwill of investors, many entrepreneurs do have a hard word. He is Jinshan Software Chairman, Millet Technology founder, chairman and CEO, more play Network executive chairman, 17 start-up companies angel investors, has "it model" of the LEI. However, in the eyes of the "mentor" who plays the dual role of investor and entrepreneur, he doesn't really like the title of "mentor", or even says "I hate the entrepreneur mentor". Investors should not be keen on being mentors lei that at present, many venture capitalists are often "better-without" when they invest in start-ups, and often "cheerfully" recommend a lot of so-called "partners" to startups, so that the time spent by entrepreneurs is wasted in meetings with these "partners", and the last is often a lost ground. Time and energy have caused great waste. "The so-called ' entrepreneurial instructors ' often give entrepreneurs a large group of MBA from Harvard, Stanford and other overseas prestigious schools, but after the recruit often ' acclimatized ', even let the original entrepreneurial talent drain." "He said," This thankless thing, in the domestic emerging, in the face of investors ' good intentions, many entrepreneurs do have a suffering speech. "The entrepreneur is doomed to be lonely," Lei told him over the years. In addition to the money investors need to provide, entrepreneurs need more than investors to help people, trust and spiritual comfort. Entrepreneurs tend to be strongmen, who have a strong ability to cope and deal with practical problems that are often not in the wind. "However, entrepreneurs often have nowhere to talk when they are in trouble, first of all, employees are definitely not the right people to talk to, and second, it is difficult for the family to understand the difficulties entrepreneurs encounter." At this time, investors are a more appropriate to confide in the object, they understand each other's language. Lei said, "At this time, even as a good listener, or emotional comfort, can give entrepreneurs a good role in channeling." "In his eyes, investors will do is often in the initial investment of 1 million or 2 million of the capital, and the rest should be" intimate elder sister "work, in the success of a toast together, when the failure to listen to the entrepreneur said his ups and downs. "Dude, you're going to take a vacation, come back and let's start again." "Many entrepreneurial he knows a truth, that entrepreneurship is not easy, especially the continuous entrepreneurs are inevitably lost, after this will find the feeling." Lei is keen on networking for entrepreneurs because he believes that connections are "invisible" indirect financial help. In addition, when facing the internal contradictions of the founders of the company, he has only one principle, that is, only the boss. "As long as the boss does not make principled mistakes, not illegal, not tax evasion, not roll money ran, I have a clear-cut support for the boss." If the boss wants to kill the second, then kill, good and scattered, I will never stir in, do not mess. Lei said, "because I've always felt that investors don't do 'Better-without ' mentor, but to learn to give up the ownership of the control and mentality of control. ”