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2RedBeans founder Q Zhao

The comely Southern girl was Business Insider as one of the 13 founders of the most "lawless" of the Silicon Valley tech circle. This is a list of almost "white male" males, Q Zhao is the only Chinese girl. She created the 2redbeans.com (two red beans) is the United States, the largest Chinese dating platform for love and marriage, currently has 120,000 users, the monthly active users accounted for 30%. Unlike the mature dating sites in the United States, such as eharmony, Match.com, 2RedBeans focuses the pairing algorithm on indicators that are more interesting to the Chinese, such as how old we are to the United States, the citizenship/Green card/identity, which school graduated, and so on. In addition, based on the Chinese implicit passive characteristics, the 2RedBeans also intimate with a number of ' encouraging expression and interaction ' of the small mind, similar to ' who is browsing your files ', instant chat, ' secretly secretly love ', ' ask the other person's question ' this.

2RedBeans website screenshot

How to say, in fact, for the Chinese in the United States dating platform is not unusual, more than 10 years ago, someone is doing, but why only 2RedBeans made a bit of movement? Hey, let's start with the story of this ex-hate-marrying woman.

Q Zhao is a native Chinese girl, studying for a job that called a smooth sailing. At the age of 14, she graduated from the University of class, 19 years old. Then she went to the University of California at San Diego to read a blog, majoring in electronic engineering. Turn Dr. After Zhao, q as the ' technology Sea Stay ', in Broadcom (Bo Tong) headquarters over the edge of the sun while the design of the chip's cozy days.

Just, step by step on the point of the Q, he also encountered a headache problem-can not find a male basin friend!

The situation of the Chinese in the United States "female" is more frightening than imagined, the eastern West is the same. The physical range of party/activities/salons, as well as all the known dating sites, Q have tried to row all over, the results are all over ... Until then I toss out the 2RedBeans, and then, Q has a husband ... Today's "Two red Beans" has been the largest in the United States, even though received a thank-you note, but each time "into a pair of children," let Q moved unceasingly! She said that she had not paid her salary or paid attention to the money since she left Broadcom 3 years ago. Even before July of this year, the 2RedBeans was the silver of her and cofounder's own pockets.

I listen to this forthright girl, with very fast speed, tan frankly share her experience and entrepreneurial story, feel that their heart also lit up.

Don't worry, it's definitely a positive energy story.

Q: Tell your unfamiliar friends what 2RedBeans is for.

Q: Two red beans are for overseas Chinese to make friends with a website. I've been thinking about it since 2010, when I was doing it both to solve my problems and to solve my friends ' problems (laughter). Our website is January 31, 2011 on-line, the day TechCrunch to help us to report. Particularly magical, my husband just saw the report that day, and then registered on the first day (laugh).

Q: What about your personal background? How did you get started with the 2RedBeans story?

Q: Originally I was the doctor after reading, working in a large company in a step-by-step manner, although technically challenging, I always felt that it was not so appealing to me to devote my life to studying ' how to make people's TV look better '. Didn't the BBC say 5 Secrets of happiness, one of which I particularly agree, "maximally part of Something" (Life is a big thing), so always have the idea of their own business.

Then, I was just looking for (boyfriend), especially active, all kinds of activities to attend, but still can't find, because every run to an activity can only know a limited number of people, Time cost thief high do not say, also special not targeted. Later, I went to all the big dating sites in the United States to find, eHarmony, match or whatever, anyway you can hear, I should have an account. It's a lot easier, but I'm just going to go home and search, and then I have two or three dates every week, and it's kind of fun. But unfortunately, I think this is a very good way for the Chinese the probability of success is still not high, because most of these sites are not Chinese people, you will receive a lot of emails recommended to you who, but are not the people you want to find; I was very entangled to go out with these people, hehe.

Later, I understand that the success rate of online dating is really outrageous, especially in the United States. You can not believe that the United States now into the marriage of the couple of 20% are through the dating website to know; many friends around me, as well as college roommates and so on, are so found husband/wife. I'm thinking about making a dating site. This is to help others, unique meaning.

Q: 2RedBeans (two red beans) that's a funny name.

Q: Take is "red bean born Southland ... This thing most acacia "in the meaning. I just thought that the Chinese people are more shy and less direct in making friends. I go to other dating sites, contact me is basically old beauty, one is because the old beauty is more, second, because the Chinese are really more passive, even if you have a crush, and rarely take the initiative. Inside, we Chinese people are not always see who move, put the red bean to who, I think ' two red bean ' This name is more coincidence with Chinese friends habits.

Q: What is your core work now?

Q: The most important thing is to push the moving end of the product. The web version we moved was just online yesterday, mostly I did; and then we're working on Android and iOS apps, and we plan to go online next Valentine's Day. In general, I spend about half the time developing products/writing programs, and the other half of the time for BD, investors, partners and hiring.

Q: What are your plans for the future? How do you plan to grow 2RedBeans?

Q: We will do a lot of publicity and promotion work; just got 220,000 dollars of angel investment, almost enough for us to spend. In addition to continuing to host many American schools in the non-prudential (which we are already doing), we will try to promote ourselves through the traditional media (such as the Chinese television station etc).

Products, we also have a series of plans, today's ' two red beans ' only do what we expect in 5%; When the number of users reaches a certain scale, in addition to encouraging online interaction, we will also focus on how to let the online interaction quickly move to the offline, such as a copy called Howaboutwe (we ...). How about it? Website. Users post an invitation every day on their own pages, such as how about we Going rock alecks (what about climbing?); If you happen to be interested in this person, you can run to agree to his invitation. In this way, we have a more interactive online opportunity.

Chinese boys are so shy that they need a little push (laugh). I often get a question from the user: "How many days do I have to talk to this girl and ask her out?" I would tell them to contact them at most 3 times a 3rd time, or they might think you were not interested in her.

Q: Can you share the 3 mistakes you've made since you started your business? What did you learn from them?

Q: Let me say 4.

1 underestimated the entire team's "acclimatized" to the Chinese market (laughter). Web site Just two months, we went to China, we have thought about directly from the Chinese market began to push, struggled for a while, found that they have been abroad for too long, the Chinese market at all do not understand; To talk about ' developing the Chinese market ' basically belongs to the blind delay kung Fu.

2 When the beginning of the management work, the hired person is not suitable, not bashful immediately let people go, in fact, this is not responsible for both sides.

3 before the product just do the molding, in fact, has been able to use, the function is also in, but their old feel not perfect enough, dragged the line. At that time co-founder more experience, he told me, even if again embarrassed, also must let the product hurriedly on-line. This is extremely wise, because only get user feedback, can be targeted to improve.

4 originally in large companies, not accustomed to "head-on confrontation", the first always feel that the opposition to some of the feelings of the team, but now understand that everyone is in fact to work; some things only after intense discussion, can take a little detour.

Q: What kind of advice do you have for new recruits?

Q: The founding team must have a clear idea of how the stock should be held in the first place; You can add various conditions to the hypothesis, but be sure to put ' warn ' in front of you. I found that a lot of Chinese entrepreneurs feel up to talk about this a bit embarrassed, originally I think so, but then see a lot of entrepreneurial team finally make a few joint founders, are in the product has done almost, everyone began to share stocks, the results of the discussion, and broke.

Q: What are the most frequently used online tools you use to grow your company?

Q:email and LinkedIn. (Small series cross-examine, you often with speak Chinese people to deal with, do not need to micro-letter?) I personally do not use micro-letter, this thing is too disturbing, it is easy to disrupt their normal work rhythm.