The boss of the Internet entrepreneurial Experience: ignorance, luck and patience

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Entrepreneurship is now a fashionable topic. Sometimes chatting, suddenly a friend rushed in with a full face excitedly, it must be engaged in entrepreneurial tide.

During this time, my most important job is also with the entrepreneurial bosses chat, some of them have been successful, some still running on the entrepreneurial road.

Listening to the bosses talking about the stories and suggestions of entrepreneurship is also a very interesting thing. These days, turning over the interview records of this time, looking back at the way they have gone, some words are very practical. Today a simple collation, to the excitement of the Buddy some reference.

Tom Net CEO Lei

When Enet as a journalist, he interviewed Lei many times. This boss is good, often mouth without a few of the company Confidential, their PR are anxious to fire around. Outspoken so very recruit reporter like. Later, after the Sina, the concern to some possible competition relations, but less interview. But when I saw him, I was still very happy to say it without thinking. That day, I carefully put forward the idea of an interview, he is happy to say, come on, do not care what you are Sina I am Tom, we are all working. Want to talk about everything, pick his words that day:

I think, if for the money to do a company, as soon as possible to set up a company, is completely unable to succeed, can say that the probability of success is zero. To be an internet company is to have passion, passion, interest and success. So I think that the most important thing is to get down to the business you are interested in quickly, this is very important, rather than the stench of how to quickly make money, how to sell the company's own profits. It is a bad phenomenon that the young people who are doing the internet now have a lot of purposes impure, they want to sell the company to make money.

I heard a friend say, the internet start-up period determines your fate, you make a new internet company, within two weeks the formation of the team determines your Internet company's personality, culture and future development ability. So the lineage of every emerging internet company can be determined within two weeks, and your team's build determines your lineage and future odds.

I think the business of making money is inseparable from the support of partners, like the Chinese have a sentence, "Go out by friends", whether the Internet or wireless internet, there is an ecological value chain, there are different partners, different winning mode, to promote the development of the industrial chain. So I think that in the Internet field, partners are very important. In particular, you are the Internet, but you have to rely on traditional media, the traditional mode of development. Like Jay Chou, if Jay Chou is not red, can his music text messages make money?

Air network chairman and CEO Zhou Yun Fan

Zhou Yun sails, also do not need to introduce too much. The big Boy, and Lei, Yan they personally are good, how many small meaning. I consulted him on the question of how to find an entrepreneurial partner.

Ning and I should say it was a bit of a fate, and we met in September 97, the first day of the Stanford report. Because there is a department of Chinese students are not many, I see he can speak a little Chinese, and look like the Chinese, they chatted, and then met. He has been in the United States for more than 10 years, also have a car, you can drive over, I just went to do not know anything, and go out to buy food with him, so is to first know, have a friendship, and then do something. For example, we give the Hope Project "China Project Hope 98 North America Love Action", when I was executive committee chairman, there are more than 40 university students will participate, including Harvard, Yale and other universities have participated in, Ning also did some of the web site, because he is learning technology. We have classmates friendship, fighting friendship. Come back together to start a business, is because he wants to start a business, I want to go home, Chen a boat want to do the Internet, so we started a business, we have such a foundation. We had some good times in Chinaren. In the acquisition of the time and in Sohu, we have spent a period of the most difficult days, when the Internet is the most pessimistic time. Everyone thinks that the internet is a matter of burning money, we spent more miserable time together, and then to the air network to start a business together, this experience is also fate, a lot of feelings and trust in this foundation.

Many entrepreneurial partners, I also said, why a lot of failure? The same is true in the United States, where partners end up collapsing, like a building's foundation, if not playing well, there is a disagreement, the company can not operate. Some people follow this person, those who follow the person, and finally fall apart, in fact, so do not work together, preferably alone. If the partnership, must be a trust, and who is the CEO is the most important, he must have the heart to accommodate others. For example, Ning in the Australian CEO Forum to say a few words, I will be very happy, because he does not represent himself, but on behalf of all of us. The key to having a partner is to judge according to their own conditions, if you do not have partners, looking at others have to look at them without thinking about their ability, this is very bad.

I think the success of entrepreneurship is two points, one is business model, the spirit of perseverance. The business model I'm talking about is different from the business model that you immediately understand in your head, which is to suit your business model, that I can do it, or Yan can do it, but we have a lot of resources, and you're a college graduate, and you don't have the resources to do the things we can do, When you do not have the advantage of things, you will inevitably fail. Although I am 3 months later than you, but I have the resources, I can get up at once. So you do this thing when you want to, first, you are not rich, no money will not be able to do; second, you are not the most suitable, if you find that you are not suitable for this matter, then do not do, because it will certainly be defeated. So from the business model, for the entrepreneurial people, whether the next generation of Internet or mobile phone, must think clearly is not suitable for you to do, and then you do it, so your chances of success will be greater. There are a lot of new applications, and a lot of new things, but not necessarily yours. For example, Sina uses its portal, funds and other advantages to kill in, you may have done the first two years, are quickly lost. For startups, it is important to find the next application, but it is more important to see whether you have the advantage to do, when you look for the time, you must persevere to do.

Chen, chairman of Thousand Oak Group

Chen a boat Needless to say, a few acquisitions, Chen recently very happy. Also wanted to let the mop go public. That day, I talked to him about entrepreneurship, but also the topic of MOP listing.
Actually, the mop that you just mentioned Chinaren is a merger, they are in particular from the investors, from the company's founder's point of view, they have a concept, he holds the original can not circulate the stock, suddenly can be circulated, get the value of recognition, from you can hardly estimate its value, into a concept that can actually be set up. For everyone, this is very important, especially for the input, he put a dollar into the company, the real end of a dollar into 10 dollars, must have a merger such an event.

But for those of you who really want to have an entrepreneurial ambition, and who really wants to do something, like my boat, mergers and acquisitions, it's just a small milestone in the company's very long path, and it's only the beginning. We may be concerned about the listing, we are concerned about the company longer.

This wave of entrepreneurship is more rational, the company is more rational, rational investors are also relatively strong. I think the degree of innovation is larger than before, the previous business is basically copying foreign business model to do, and now a lot of entrepreneurship is to take China's unique national conditions, foreign good things may not be applicable to China, so that innovation is more difficult.

To these new and innovative small enterprises, they face two factors, on the one hand, the market expands rapidly, this is their opportunity. On the other hand, the successful company is a very strong competitor, said Sina, In fact, there are many opportunities in WEB2.0, your video is very good, you can also seize these opportunities, not only new companies to seize these opportunities, if the new company innovation, Wang always said, Sina will continue to innovate, there are opportunities. For small companies, on the one hand, its opportunities are good, on the one hand, the face of these "giants" are not to be trifled with.

Chen Qiyu, former CEO of China Net

When I talked to him, it was about the time he had the most rumors of his resignation. However, when he left the day, I finally did not hit his mobile phone. So, I find that it is not a good journalist.

I think there is no less detours this matter, there are many friends, including myself also created the industry, there are some detours must go, if not go, do not know that is the case, is a part of learning. I think the most important thing is to understand, what is the purpose of entrepreneurship? What is the purpose of doing business? The end is for profit. In the boom, people often say that there is no basis for the concept of profit, we should be careful, and ultimately think this is a business, your input is ultimately to produce. Belong to have this certainty to do, otherwise, must be to do an empty dream, eventually will not find this dream.

Xiaolin and Xu Fei

They are the president of Chinabbs and the operation Director of the search network. It was introduced by a friend. Later Chinabbs and Xiaolin I wrote to Sina's Silver Age. They are the first to start a business. They only talk about fear:

Xiaolin: I said a little perceptual knowledge, because after all, I entered the company for a short time, frankly, not particularly familiar with the Internet. I think, maybe the company developed to a certain time, need to break through some of the bottlenecks in technology, the bottleneck in talent, because now obviously feel that the cause of development is very fast, but the demand for talent, especially the core backbone of the needs of personnel is very large. There is the ability to find a good long-term development model, and according to the changes in the market to adjust, which I am more worried about.

Xu Fei: In the process of development, I worry about the problem is mainly our competitors, I am not worried that it will be faster than us, but worry that they are slower than us. In the market, including me and my competitors, but also a friend of mine, we will often study the products of competitors, we hope to grow with them in the market, so that we can motivate each other and encourage each other. Because help oneself to grow up is own opponent.
Chen Huimin

Chen Huimin, one of the founders of the former West Shrine Hutong. Now a group of West Shrine Hutong founder and Xiaolin in Chinabbs there, Chen Huimin is concerned about a wide range of companies, even real estate, chemical companies have. Back to it after doing a few companies, one he was not willing to keep a secret I said more. Another, is specialized in renting information classified search engine climbing dog nets. Listen to him talk about the difference between the business:

When I was a Western Shrine alley, I did not make a penny from the site itself, we were using software to raise the West Shrine Alley, at that time we thought it was a well-deserved way, because the atmosphere of the internet was so. But I think that if a website can not be profitable, then there is no need for registration, if a netizen does not pay, then he can find a substitute. If a website does not profit, there is no value. I'm talking about a commercial website, and if it's a blog or a personal site, it's not in my mind.

Now entrepreneurial even then, because the Internet investors more rational, more mature, he does not require you to achieve when the profit, when the listing, if not immediately listed, then can feed themselves? Now the atmosphere is much better than 2000 years, when people obsessed on the market, now people's ideas more mature. So now it's a good time for entrepreneurs.

Dafory and Zhungchengsu

They are one of the founders of the former Shark's sports, and are now teaming up to "where to" travel search engines. And they chatted two times, long time, wrote a long article into the Silver Age series. I am very satisfied with this article, looking for a very beautiful angle. Their entrepreneurial perspective is also firsthand:

Set up a company, to meet three conditions: one must be a money industry, the second is to do the boss, three are currently existing companies or new competitors are not easy to enter. The first company Shark Wei Sports once famous, but because the competitor Sina Sports too strong, finally defeated in the confrontation, had to sell to Tom Net.

Dispatch former CEO Xie

Xie, an Internet veteran, is one of my favorite interviews and respects him. Entrepreneurial experience as rich as his experience, dare to speak the word. However, the circle of similar character people, as if they are like and do not like to occupy the general, the very different. Listen to him talk about the relationship with investors:

One is that we have to have an agreement, or is called a common rules of the game, I remember the last time Alibaba that thing when I talked to you, you see now do not say which is more successful, because the stock price changes at any time. But that must be done, take the stage, have the core competitiveness, more stable prospects of the Internet company, without exception is to accept the market economy the most front-end game rules, the rules of the game regardless of the investment side, major shareholders, small shareholders, management and even employees, the hearts of satisfaction, not satisfied, we all accept, follow, Rules of the game behind the principle of good faith, including due to your breach of the credibility of the potential legal risks of this set I think is now successful internet a basic cornerstone. Have no hands early, have, I remember when we just returned home when there is no Sina, when there is called the network, there is the People's Daily network, I did in the public network is very early, why did not succeed? At the very least. Nowadays many successful characters ' legends are usually about how to make decisions and how to be great. In fact this is the second place, you again good judgment, put in a wrong or immature game rules, you are lost. So this is the most important, on this basis, other conventional management factors, communication factors, incentive system, training, so that employees feel the future, there is the direction of career development, these should be.

Everyone's role is different, there must be the so-called common interests side, but also have their own interests, the same, this is also the rules of the game, should be in the game before the start, there are clear, immutable, guaranteed rules. That's one of the big things we say about Internet companies ' success. Give you the option when the agreed, a few years to cash, at that time is in accordance with the price of the stock market, no one can not manipulate. When you signed a date has been set, your expectations, return what you should do, is basically framed, you can leave, you can give up, but you said at this time I do not do well, I would like to more or less, the rules of the game has been decided to die. So the form of these things is easy to learn, it becomes a company operating the most basic, the most basic rules, it should be said to be a very hard long-term process. Listed companies in fact, now may not be people do not want to buy this, buy that, but because it is affected by the Nasdaq rules, the rule is dead. It was the law at the time, so not in this above everyone move too much brain, so this company you will find that more combat effectiveness, the role of identity is more clear, not so many live thinking, live thinking big, leaving is, not only you can not go to change the rules, especially now there are many new start-up companies, In this respect, we still feel not deep, groping, learning and even hesitant stage, this is very hurtful, it is easy to have a good bureau to get bad.

Added：

February 6, 2006 17:37 After the issue, a friend of mine, a grand number of red eldest brother, is also a successful entrepreneur, Wu Gang, joke summed up his valuable experience, after reading, relaxed incomparable, hehe, just like a digital red, is the essence of entertainment, easy is the key.

He said: "You have seven points of power, three points of luck, coupled with the patience of waiting, ah, and the Sky drop pie can hit the big head, it became."