The taking and the care of the entrepreneur

Paypal, which was not originally a company offering payment solutions for WEB users, was originally designed for handheld devices (Palm Pilot) offering payment solutions and security http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/ 17710.html "> Encryption technology, even the initial investment is through Palm to demonstrate how to transfer money. Later, PayPal recognized the needs of the Web users, in the appropriate time to adjust the direction of the product, or perhaps there will not be PayPal now. If you are Paypal's initial entrepreneur (Max Levchin,peter Thiel or Ken howery), are you likely to make that choice?

Flickr, the first Ludicorp company for the Game Neverending Game research and development of ancillary products, and even initially in the form of a multiplayer chat room, and Flickr after the release of large users, but let Ludicorp finally gave up the research and development more than three years of Game implies ending. If you're the original Flickr entrepreneur (Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake), are you likely to make that choice?

Watercress, creativity from the north originally intended to create a "donkey trace" site, to do a "mutually recommended non-mainstream tourism site", but the north later found that the culture of products more suitable for such a mutually recommended form, so, only now we see the watercress. If you are at the time of the North, you will continue to do "donkey Trace", for tourism This is the big market for money, or choose to give up the original idea and do watercress this niche market?

The initial idea of the Thunder team was to do a distributed e-mail system that uses the Internet to store messages in distributed space. Later, I accidentally realized that the principle of this system can be applied to download, and we know the story behind it. If you are, are you going to continue to look for the discerning buyer to continue to do the distributed email, or do the downloads, and compete with the leader who already occupies 80% of the market share (the leader is not making money)?

Recently in the bustling Instagram, the original founder of Kevin Systrom to do a location-based service-related applications, but after a certain stage of application development, the discovery of too many functions but lost focus, cut off a lot of features to become the present Instagram, The result has been unprecedented acclaim. If you were Kevin Systrom at the time, would you be willing to chop off so much versatility? Will it continue to add to these functions as the future progresses?

There are a lot of similar cases, and I'm not sure how many of these examples are deductive, but can these cases give us a hint? Many people have criticized the lack of innovation in our Internet environment, because we all come up to follow the success of the model, but the lack of a step in the process of family choice. Perhaps, without this step to take and give up the choice, will lack the impetus of innovation, because less walk a few steps is too tempting.

Another aspect, many people start by an idea to kill to the ranks of entrepreneurs, there is a good idea, good ideas, or see a good business opportunities, sleepless night, excited, feeling that there is a kind of power drive you have to do this thing ... Persistence, is indeed a kind of strength, is a virtue, but there is no doubt that can not keep an idea a way to black, must be anytime and anywhere according to user needs and environment to make trade-offs, in the right time may want to give up your original many efforts. Otherwise it's impossible.

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By the way: if you read this article, look back on your products, but also to make a point of choice, I advise you to be cautious. The temptation to resist is also a virtue that entrepreneurs should hold, and the key is whether you really want to understand what I mean.

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