The important nature of technology in the entrepreneurial team

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In the entrepreneurial circle, in the past, I often hear people say "technology is not important" or "technology is not a problem", this sentence, roughly from "What is money can be bought, then this thing is not a problem." Because, everyone thinks, technical personnel can take money to recruit, so "technology" also is not a problem.

But what I've learned from a few start-up teams and some successful companies is that it's "our technology is too weak," or "Our technical talent is scarce".

Flying new Sharp to Beijing, we talked to him that the problem of shell network, he is also frank, technical strength is not enough, is a problem. Before and the wheat field exchanges, wheat field also feel, ant community now also very need more and better technical personnel. In Saturday, with a technology-type Internet company vice-president Chat, incredibly he also felt "now recruit technical staff is too difficult."

Against the world's IT industry giants, we find a strange phenomenon. The vast majority of companies that have grown up are entrepreneurs and founders who have a deep technical background:

Global scope:

1, Google (founder Larry Page and Sergey Google search engine launched in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey began the research program. They are doctoral students at Stanford University.

2, Microsoft (founder Bill Gates, 13-year-old began programming, less than 20 years old to write Basic language);

Continental Range:

1, Baidu (founder Robin Li, the Wall Street Journal Network version of real-time financial information System designers, InfoSeek senior engineer. Li first created the ESP technology and applied it successfully to Infoseek/go. COM search engine. Go. COM's image search engine is another technology innovation with applied value.

2, Tencent (founder Ma, 1993 Deep graduate, into run Xun Communications Development Co., Ltd., from focusing on the development of paging software engineers have been responsible for the development department);

3, Sina (founder Zhidong, 1989, entered the founder group to engage in professional development work. June, independently developed the first practical Window3.0 in China, was selected as the founder of the year's seven major achievements;

4, NetEase (founder Ding Lei, once was a technical engineer of China Telecom, after serving as a U.S. database software public-United States (China) Company (Sybase) technical support engineer);

5, Odd Tiger (original 3721) (founder Zhou, after graduating from the founder Group, has served as deputy Director of research and Development Center, General manager of the Division, etc.);

6, Sing (discuz!) (founder Dai, Dai Development and design of the automatic generation of community software Discuz!...... ）；

Together, these companies will definitely be able to occupy a 80% share of the entire IT industry and the internet industry.

In fact, there are quite a number of companies with a technical background leading or engaged in entrepreneurship and success. Thus, it is important for a start-up team to have a reliable founder with a technical background.

"Technology" is not "unimportant", but "rather important". and "technology" is important, the key is in the importance of people, not just the technology itself.

Of course, as a technician, into an entrepreneur, it is inevitable to face a trade-off, a painful transition. I'll talk about it later.

PS finally add an example:

Sohu was "suppressed" by Sina, has been in the IT circle of people as "Millennium Dick." In previous years, Charles Zhang tried to Taka through hype and publicity. But it turns out that this is not a workable path.

    In recent years, Charles Zhang is still rethinking, focusing on technical reserves, engaged in a lot of technical content of things. TechWeb of a "Sina, Sohu development prospects for discussion" of the post, someone because of Sohu's technical reserves and more optimistic about Sohu.