Solo Liu Chunhe: Counter-jungle rule from selling melons to Silicon Valley hackers

As a 85-post entrepreneur, the founder of Liu Chunhe seems luckier than anyone else, and the first real Internet venture solo has accumulated a large number of loyal users overseas and is still expanding steadily, with the company valuing more than 100 million dollars, showing a good growth trend. February 19 Lunar, solo United Yahoo Mobile search, shining the first Yahoo Global developers Conference, in Silicon Valley a "solo whirlwind." Solo has become a typical case of a grassroots team that has grown rapidly into a global dark Horse project. As "self-made" entrepreneurial representatives, they were also invited to visit the famous incubator "Hacker Dojo", which had been born in Pinterest. There, the solo team found a "hacker" companion. But behind all this, he also has a unique life and entrepreneurial process. In the Open class on the February 7, Liu Chunhe openly shared his experience from high school to the present. At the same time, he proposed "content first, Desktop will die" bold remarks, shelling the domestic internet industry "jungle law", to the audience brought a very grounded gas business dry summary. Independent thinking of entrepreneurship and the ins and outs of solo Liu Chunhe has been living in Shandong province from the Yellow River on the poor village, so since the exercise of self-reliance, toughness of character. After graduating from high school to stare at a tricycle to sell watermelon, from which he accumulated the most primitive business mind, including how to face competitors, how to promote and so on. 2009 also in Bupt Reading, he began to set up a pure City team, but the first project is not solo, but a two or three-line county behind the high school students for art Test training, after a trial then give up, the failure of the experience let him learn the nature of business. Student entrepreneurship is idealistic, and later found that society is a very cruel and realistic world. It also allows him to do more independent thinking. Since then, the pure City team back to Beijing involved in technical training, in the process to find a direction is to do overseas, independent to create new products, so that users better use of mobile phones, after some attempts to lock for solo Launcher. The science of electronic postgraduate communication Liu Chunhe that the concept of "entropy" can well reflect the free spirit of the Internet, "entropy represents a system of chaos, the greater the entropy of disorder." He thinks the internet makes the information accessible, the spirit of the Internet is freedom, people and people simply connect, the Internet can let a mediocre person to make some things change the world, this is a solo meaning. Liu Chunhe said, the pure city company inside basically no rules, only late in the morning do push-ups system. In particular, he hopes to bring the company an atmosphere in which it hopes to become a particularly free organization. Liu Chunhe that many launcher products are now robbing the entrance, Rob Traffic, and the media shout the desktop entrance theory will kill a large number of entrepreneurs. Solo Launcher's first product was released in May 2013. At the beginning of development, Solo Launcher is a can support users to do highly customizable, and adhere to the free desktop, the main focus on overseas markets. The current team of 30 people, in early 2014 had received 2 million U.S. dollars angel investment, investors have plum Blossom Angel Venture Wu Shichung and Ming potential capital of the Huangmingming. After more than a year of development, Solo has evolved from the previous desktop into a solo system, to the desktop as the core, High-frequency entry-type applications (lock screen, weather, message reminders, etc.) for the peripheral product matrix. The total user of solo systems has exceeded 60 million by December 2014. Liu Chunhe revealed that the Solo Launcher product is the industry's first to do minimalist desktop, Google Play is the highest natural ranking, but they almost never do pay promotion, traffic is very healthy, because he thought the product content is the most important. From the solo desktop to the solo system Liu Chunhe in thinking about the direction of entrepreneurship, the continuous independent thinking, and not rigidly adhere to what everyone is doing now. Liu Chunhe Analysis of the development of the PC Internet from a number of powerful tools products, such as listening, thunder, electric Donkey and so on, he came to an extreme conclusion: the tool is worthless. There are two reasons for this: one is the increasingly powerful mobile operating system itself will enhance its function, squeeze tool product survival space, especially the product needs to be downloaded; the second is the user in the mobile phone most applications did not migrate, in fact, the user's mobile phone most commonly used in the application is about 10, for Liu Chunhe the most commonly used on 2, 3. specifically to the desktop, Liu Chunhe that the desktop will die. In his view, the desktop is a tool, the user's phone will not be installed too long, and users will continue to change the phone. So the desktop is worthless, and it's not a strong demand. Like many mobile internet products, Solo is also the flow of the entrance, circle users, but has already jumped out of the original category, the product is not called the desktop but the solo system. The pure City team hopes that future users will use it, not download the app download method but Html5 way, so they have built their own HTML5 engine, the future can be gradually extended. Solo's values and methodology Liu Chunhe also shared the simple, extreme, humble values of solo and the methodology of the arrow-speed iteration. The so-called simple means particularly simple. His company has no rules, no leadership, no boss, no title. General company has two kinds of address, one is Liu Total or Wang, one is brother, all kinds of elder brother. Liu Chunhe that the first kind of easy to get into the bureaucracy, and the second easy to fall into the political brotherhood. Therefore, the pure city learns Alibaba, have nickname culture, Liu Chunhe flower name Cangjie. The second word is extreme. Internet companies have a lot of people speak the ultimate, the ultimate is the pursuit of perfect state. And Liu Chunhe's team is extreme, not the same as extreme, extremely easy to make mistakes, he thought to do one thing do not take into account A and BThe balance between, either a or B. Either you don't do it or you do it. And if it's two things, they just do one thing. The biggest dividend of the start-up company is extreme, after the wrong can be changed, after the change can be again wrong, has been iterative. On the extreme, Liu Chunhe Frankly, he was afraid to come out to see people, mainly because he was too fat. But he began to lose weight from 3 months ago, has now lost 40 pounds, weight loss is so extreme, not to mention doing products. The third is humility. He believes that sometimes the ego is the driving force for growth, but many times the person will inevitably fall into the state of self, in order to avoid being in this state, we will emphasize that a word is humility. Humility is not just about people, it's about right things. We and all other sea products are some good cooperation. Behave so, do product is also, must humble, know how to learn, think. And all the partners, we all want to give the benefit to each other first, to achieve others, and then achieve ourselves. In addition to values, Liu Chunhe that the most important thing is the speed of the arrow iteration, the city to do product speed is to be very fast. A lot of companies with the city cooperation, think the response speed is very fast. Because the team is not afraid to make mistakes, wrong to change, the formation of such a positive circulatory system. Liu Chunhe said he now has 3 goals, first hope to make a 1 billion users of the product, the second is to be able to give the 1 billion users good and good value, the third is to create a Google, Alibaba, Tencent as valuable company, to bring value to users. The law of the jungle should not be the mainstream of the industry. The law of the jungle is commonplace in the domestic internet industry. Many people also learn a variety of strategic approaches, various wars, unscrupulous competition, splashing dirty water, all over the black PR, poach each other, and even unload each other's products. This is why the solo product core is developed for overseas users. Liu Chunhe hope that these dark things happening in the country should not be seen abroad, and that the law of the jungle will not be the mainstream of the industry. A great company has never been accomplished by the law of the jungle. Only the accumulation of positive energy, it is possible to convey the value of good and good. Finally, Liu Chunhe that entrepreneurship has no beginning and end. "I don't think we start in 10, nor do we think that 13 is the beginning, nor that the time to sell melons is the beginning," he said. I think it is possible to start a business from birth, at the same time I feel that there is no end to entrepreneurship, I do not know will last 3 years, 5 years or 20, the real entrepreneur is always on the road. The experience of his struggle may be long, long, until the end of life. ”