Pioneer Mentor Liu: Give the fish more to teach

"If you really want to start a business, are you thinking clearly?" "May 31, standing on the rostrum of the Great Hall of the people of Wuxi, facing the hundreds of entrepreneurs under the eyes eagerly, Lenovo Holdings chairman and President Liu first poured a pot of cold water to everyone." "Do you want to be a big tree or a grass?" Grass is to put energy and time into the family building, so that life more comfortable, no higher pursuit, so good? Also very good. You're going to make a big tree? That's a lot of trouble, because you have to have the gene for the tree and you have the chance to be a big tree--there's a great chance you make a lot of effort, and finally do not "although there have been many times before told the story, but each time Liu is still full of affectionate: 40 years old to start his business, he just dabbled in the sea, Was cheated out of 200,000 yuan registered capital of 140,000 yuan. 1987, Lenovo has a sum of 3 million yuan by a Shenzhen private import and export company cheated away. In order to recover the money, he was in charge of the company in the mouth of the house for a long time, "I even took a brick pat his heart has."　　Finally, despite the recovery of the funds, he was scared out of a disease, for several months to slow down. Today, Lenovo has grown from a small company to China's leading PC brand maker.　　When Lenovo acquired the IBM PC to become a global multinational, when Lenovo entered the field of investment and grew into a diversified holding company, Mr Liu felt he needed to do something for the founders. Angel Investment before this, Lenovo Holdings has set up a Lenovo investment Hongyi investment two fund management companies, through venture capital and private capital for entrepreneurs to build a bridge to the capital market.　　Perhaps to make up for their own investment industry chain, Lenovo Holdings in this year set up a 400 million Yuan Angel investment fund, mainly used to further support the development of science and technology start-ups, planning 5 years, all the benefits of Angel funds will be used again for angel investment. Prior to the establishment of the Angel Investment Fund, Lenovo had already had the "incubator" sector and funding specifically for start-ups.　　Last August 14, Lenovo held a joint venture with Highland Capital to invest 3 million of dollars in the Beijing Network Kang Technology Co., which is already the third High-tech start-up of Lenovo's holdings. "We need to associate this partner. They can not only bring us brand, but also can help us improve the management level.　　"Network Kang Technology CEO Tony was a" Lenovo fan ", in his office is full of the market can buy almost all the books about Lenovo. Before returning home in 2004, Tony had worked in Silicon Valley's two start-up companies, resonate and NetIQ, but none of the two companies had succeeded.　　Later he joined a large company Symantec as a software engineer, responsible for the development of the enterprise Security Architecture product line (SESA), but never interrupted their own entrepreneurial dream. At the RSA Security Exhibition in 2004, he saw web filtering products (urlfilter), that this kind of products in China should be very market, so with angel investors 10 million Yuan returned home to create a network Kang technology. The following year, the network launched the Internet Behavior management products, began to domestic enterprises door-to-door sales. At first, however, customers seemed less than sure about the High-tech product.　　"2005 years of performance is very bad, only 200,000 yuan sales; 2006 is still very painful, and only more than 1 million yuan." After the first two or three years, net Kang Science and technology finally after all: 2007 Chinese stock market bull make a lot of office workers fascinated by the FRY, but also make many enterprises annoying, have to find Nets Kang request to seal off those stock sites, network Kang's orders are too much to do, and soon become the domestic leader.　　This year, the network Kang also released a second product line-intelligent flow control system. At the beginning of 2008, the network Kang Technology entered the vision of Lenovo Holding. At that time, Lenovo Holdings to buy a set of Internet management software, to find four software companies to compare, of which three are foreign-funded enterprises, the other is the network Kang technology. Finally, network Kang Technology successfully selected.　　Because of a product, network Kang Technology and Lenovo holding a bond, and finally won the investment of Lenovo Holdings. "I recently studied the history of Chinese enterprises, and found that the" heavy technology companies like us "often to the 7-10 years after the establishment will usher in a big development, Lenovo is so, Huawei is the same, the net Kang soon to this stage.　　"Tony is confident about the future, and he wants to invite Liu to give lectures when the company is larger." To teach by fishing is another very important thing that Liu wants to do. Lenovo's Lenovo Investments each year bring together CEOs of invested companies, and a CEO club party.　　Liu will attend the party every year, and they do on-site exchanges, he also specifically invited the successful entrepreneurs such as Ma Yun, Niu and other people. Mr Liu feels that because of the late development of China's business environment, for enthusiastic entrepreneurs, they lack two things, one is money, the other is management. Lenovo after years of development, in addition to have some financial strength, but also accumulated a lot of management experience.　　As the saying goes, teach a person to fish, rather than give it to the fishing, while providing financial support to entrepreneurs, can provide them with more management assistance?　　Mr Liu's idea coincided with Lu, dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Although the Chinese Academy of Sciences directly holding the enterprise has more than 500, but the sales of billions of dollars but only 42, in addition to the "Boss" Lenovo Holdings, the number of companies in the second half of the annual operating income of less than 2 billion yuan, technology has not been well translated into the market. So they meet each other, together to do a "big fight". December 2007, the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up "Lenovo Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences", which is the core of "Lenovo Star" entrepreneurial CEO special training classes by Lenovo Holdings. July 15, 2008, special training classThe first phase of the formal commencement of the students is from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, selected from the 30 technical leaders. Liu told the students the first lesson, "How to be president." The whole "Lenovo Star" curriculum is also painstaking, completely aimed at the development stage of entrepreneurial enterprises, to solve the problems of enterprises as a starting point.　　For example, in view of the ubiquitous mechanism of scientific research institutes, Lenovo teachers will tell the students what they have to do to solve the problem. This kind of course will soon be able to use the enterprise's practice. Shi Yuanliang of the first phase of the students set up a company to do compound fertilizer additives, the beginning of his Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology accounted for 80% of the shares, management team accounted for 20%.　　After listening to the course, he persuaded the company to introduce new shareholders and plans to further increase the stakes for the late-joining executives. CEO special training class is very popular. The first stage in the Chinese Academy of Sciences before the enrollment of almost no one, and to the second phase of enrollment, there are more than 140 people enrolled. So popular is also because the special training classes to help students solve the funding and management of the two major problems.　　At the time of the first phase of the July 2008, 7 trainees had received external investment, two of which had been invested by Lenovo, while the remaining 5 had been invested in other VC ventures. Many invested companies have not forgotten the help that Lenovo has given. At that year, the rapid development of the communication is facing a difficult problem: domestic staff and "returnees" between the gap between the day, the team is getting worse. To solve this problem, Lenovo Investment Chief management consultant Wang Jianqing and other people to help the exhibition planning an event, the company's all the middle and high level together, spent two days a night to discuss a problem-"Why to start"? From the beginning to pretend to be reserved, to later open their hearts, and then to the fierce quarrel, finally everyone's gas shun, but also found a common goal. After the event, the company's executive power has been greatly improved.　　June 27, 2007, the exhibition in the United States Nasdaq successfully listed. After receiving the capital from Lenovo in April 2001, Liu Qingfeng, the Hkust chief executive, also experienced a painful personal change. Liu Qingfeng and other more than 10 entrepreneurs are students and scientific and technical personnel, no one has the experience of doing business; they have a beautiful dream to create the world's best voice recognition technology companies, but do not know how difficult the road ahead. When Liu Qingfeng first met Liu and was asked "How much do you want to do business", he did not know "bragging" replied: "I want to be a company more than Lenovo." Liu did not have the slightest displeasure, but the flow of gratifying attention. "If we all have such ideals, are determined to surpass Lenovo, what is wrong with this?" "In the years since its inception, the HKUST continued to lose money and the business model has changed-from desktop software to industry system software to the core voice engine." In the process, Lenovo Investment gave Liu QingfengA lot of encouragement helped him stabilize a large number of investors and helped him complete the transition from scientists to entrepreneurs. Now, Liu Qingfeng also began to consciously unconsciously use Lenovo's management methodology to solve the company's various problems. May 12, 2008, the Hkust News fly successfully landed in the domestic SME board, Lenovo 7 years of adherence finally achieved high returns. [Page] Entrepreneurial complex after the first training class was successful, Liu wanted to help more entrepreneurs. To this end, last September 16, Lenovo held the second phase of "Lenovo Star" CEO special training class. Unlike the first, 10 of the 30 trainees are from outside the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and all the trainees have set up a company before the training, some of which have even surpassed billions of dollars in business.　　In July this year, the third CEO of the special training class recruitment work is about to begin. Special training class places after all limited.　　Lenovo also came up with a way for more entrepreneurs to learn management knowledge, which is to host the "Lenovo Star" Entrepreneurship Forum, through a few days of intensive courses, quickly help entrepreneurs improve the company's management level. This pioneering event in Wuxi is a good combination with the Wuxi government's "530 plan" for returnee entrepreneurs. 2006, the Wuxi government launched the "530 plan" to encourage overseas students to return to entrepreneurship, through a series of preferential policies, attracted nearly 600 High-tech projects settled in Wuxi, gathered a variety of high-tech talents more than 6000 people, the emergence of Wuxi Suntech and other excellent High-tech enterprises.　　Next, Lenovo Holdings will also hold a business forum in Wuhan, and held several such events every year. As one of the largest private enterprises in China, Liu wanted Lenovo to be able to take on more social responsibilities, and the most important thing he thought of was helping more people to start a business, including the "grassroots" class of laid-off workers or peasant workers who wished to open a bun shop. To this end, Lenovo has donated 20 million yuan to the China Youth Entrepreneurship International Program (YBC) to help "grassroots" entrepreneurship.　　In the future, Lenovo will also study how to run an organization of its own to help more "grassroots" entrepreneurship. "We will be able to invest in more grassroots and more traditional ventures when we have stabilized our High-tech ventures, hoping to do something to boost the nation's spending power and promote the urbanization of the rural population," he said.　　"said Liu. Mr Liu is gratified that the entrepreneurial environment is now much looser than it was. "What happens if you really fail?" In fact, you can return to the civil service, or to other enterprises to continue to work, and then after a period of time to make a comeback.　　"Now, as an entrepreneur, he's not just enjoying the success of Lenovo, but he's also starting to enjoy the joy of helping more people start a business." The legacy of entrepreneurship China needs to help entrepreneurs succeedIndustry. What should entrepreneurs do after a successful venture?　　Because of each individual's different value orientation, successful entrepreneurs also do different things: some enjoy life, some engage in charitable activities, and some entrepreneurs, like Liu, invest in the cause of helping more people to start a business successfully. 16 years ago, another entrepreneur on the other side of the strait was linked to Mr Liu. The 60-Year-old Shih retired from Acer in 1994, already the godfather of Taiwan's IT industry, he has lonely, and joined a group of "old Acer" to set up the "Smart Bank" of China Group, to provide start-up companies including capital, finance, personnel, operations, law, market, tax, marketing,　　Technology, such as a full range of consulting and services. As for why to choose to help start-ups, Shih that: "We have really experienced too much, if the company's growth in the process of providing them with timely advice and necessary services, I believe that the growth will be very good help." This will not only improve the survival of start-ups, but also improve the success rate. "As it is. In Greater China, the history of modern enterprise development is not long, coupled with a complex business environment, which makes it possible to start a successful, now still proud of the forefront of the enterprises and entrepreneurs are numbered. Multinationals such as Acer and Lenovo, which have become mature Chinese, can be managed by the Chinese who have formal MBA education in the West, and even by Western professional managers such as Acer's Lanci and Lenovo's Amelio. However, for the start-up enterprises, we can only rely more on local entrepreneurs such "experienced" wisdom.　　CCTV once had a popular entrepreneurial program, "win in China", each time the guest comments, as the founder of the Shi Yuzhu and Mr Yu's comments will be more reliable than other guests. After hundreds of years of industrial revolution, still the evergreen Western enterprises, such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and so on, have turned over the first generation of entrepreneurial chapter, now, the third generation and even the fourth generation of non-entrepreneurial family of professional managers began to grasp the power. However, the first generation of entrepreneurs valuable experience has been absorbed by enterprises and promote the vast majority of the formation of the "HP's Way" and "IBM Spirit."　　In China, Shih, Liu, the first generation of entrepreneurs, they are willing to selflessly come up with their own valuable entrepreneurial experience, and more entrepreneurs to share, very valuable. At the same time, we also see MA, Yu, lei these second-generation and even the third generation of entrepreneurs, early in the cumbersome day-to-day management of the release to their own entrepreneurial ideas and spirit to more young entrepreneurs. We can even assert that Chinese companies are more hopeful when there are more and more entrepreneurial mentors in China.