VC Dialogue Entrepreneur: Are you fit to be a social entrepreneur?

Article source/"Entrepreneur" magazine column host/dry Dragon Venture Joint founding partner inquiry Do you have to have at least three weeks of paid vacation a year?　　Are you anxious to get rid of the stress of working overtime every day?　　Do you feel anxious about not having a regular paycheck every month?　　Do you need a nod from friends, partners, family, and superior leaders?　　Do you tolerate all kinds of unreasonable phenomena in society, because someone will change it someday? If you have two or more than two answers to "yes", hehe, then you basically do not have the quality of social entrepreneurs. If most of your answers are "no," then congratulations, you have the potential of a very talented social entrepreneur. The entrepreneurial NGO (NGO), the social entrepreneur, is the entrepreneur with a sense of mission. They have a high degree of responsibility towards the target group, aimed at creating social value rather than personal economic wealth; for them, financial income is a means to an end, not a goal itself. They are subverting and expanding our value system. Sina Survey screenshot to see the Sina Online survey, give us interesting revelation: There are more than 1/3 people for "responsibility" to start the NGO business, 71% of people hope that through the enterprise rotation blood to maintain the operation and development of NGO, NGO on the road to overcome the biggest obstacle is how to get Third-party Trust and support (39 %), in any case, 78% of people will insist on going.　　Look, entrepreneurship is a one-way street, whether it is to make a lot of money. Therefore, social entrepreneurs have the following characteristics: higher mental state and moral strength of greater courage, higher wisdom, creativity, business skills are more willing to share, and the more they share with others, the more people will support them to transcend boundaries, to innovate, to break the routine, to build non-mainstream groups and groups to be more willing to be lonely, Hard work, they were often admitted when they had been working silently for years after the founder of the Shanghai Qiming Publishing house: May 2005 Shanghai qiming Book Store (www.sunriselibrary.org), a duly registered public welfare institution, set up a rural library for poor areas, and to promote the art education of rural children. So far in Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, Guangxi, Sichuan and other areas to set up 13 library Zhaojian Erino Bee (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. founder/ceo founded Time: July 2008 "Gap Solitaire" entrepreneur Community Network, a non-profit community, members from three major areas: the Internet, mobile Internet,　　Venture capital, most of which are entrepreneurs, combine network communication and offline entity activities to promote the cooperation of entrepreneurs and the success of project financing.　　Charlie: What prompted you to start a public service business? Fang Zhiyan: Help Those in need, do something for them. I put this idea into action, is a momentary impulse, accidental, or opportunity, is inevitable, I think there are. However, once openedBeginning, the character of habitual sense of responsibility, competitive heart, the pursuit of justice, as well as this market (I do not taboo to see the public good also when the market) the huge demand, this thing firmly fixed.　　And once the public welfare institutions are established, they begin to have their own independent life. Zhaojian: Hope to help entrepreneurs solve the information asymmetry in entrepreneurship. Grassroots entrepreneurial team, in the early days often in some areas have obvious deficiencies, such as technology-led team, in the product and marketing links are relatively weak, for product design packaging and financing are lack of clear understanding.　　After reading a lot of cases, I decided to build a platform of complementarity.　　Charlie: What are your entrepreneurial dreams if you can't get economic benefits from them? Fang Zhiyan: A person not because of the natural disadvantage of their birth, qiming is essentially a poor area for children to provide more opportunities, form may be shown in the countryside to establish a library, the children there to provide art education opportunities.　　Do what they can do for them, in this troubled reality, this is my biggest dream.　　Zhaojian: I don't think all the activities of people are for economic purposes, to help entrepreneurs, to see more spite, forward-looking small companies, which is the biggest reward for me.　　Charlie: The company is not profitable, what to maintain entrepreneurship? Fang Zhiyan: I can only work harder (paid work) to maintain the greater cost of doing public activities. Qiming when the establishment of the publishing, I was almost half the state of seclusion, by part-time to do some translation can be. But then, when it was expensive, I had to start working again, because the public service itself was unpaid.　　There was a time between the two, I quit my job, I think a lot of NGO entrepreneurs have similar experiences. Zhaojian: The operation of the empty Solitaire is basically me and a few good friends volunteer responsibility. We also do not expect to have income or someone to sponsor, the specific activities are entrepreneurs AA system, the quality of the activity itself is not the amount of money invested to decide.　　Grassroots entrepreneurs are willing to consciously participate in and maintain our activities so that they can endure.　　Charlie: What's the most memorable of all these years? Fang Zhiyan: The most memorable is a matter of human feelings. Our first library manager Xiao Ying, is an AIDS village in Henan province a peasant woman. At that time, Qiming first library to be opened, I let her go to the village electrician to press a few more lights, she did not go, because the village tradition is male outside, female Lord, find electrician this kind of thing is man dry.　　But she's changed so much now, not only actively and we communicate the situation of the library and even the village situation, but also feel that they do not have enough qualifications to learn computer, and to persuade the province to the village Working Group, special funds for the library to build a room, the village received donated books together into the Ming Library management.　　Charlie: What's the biggest difference in your business compared to a for-profit venture? Fang Zhiyan: There is no essential difference other than profit. Although not profit, but still have to consider cost control, efficiency, quality of service, balance of payments, income and sustainability of projects. Managing a public service is harder than managing a business organization. Commercial organizations enjoy more freedom of operation, stronger social infrastructure, greater pool of talent and a more relaxed social and public opinion environment.　　NGO's legal system, management model have not yet formed, there are a variety of evaluation standards first set up, a little careless may also be arbitrary. Zhaojian: With the profitability of the entrepreneurial contrast, our belief is: with people rose, hand left incense, timely, do not take feather.　　The English name of the empty Solitaire is: Fightclub, for most grassroots entrepreneurs, facing the future need to maintain a Fight state, Fight against fate.　　Charlie: Did you not consider the problems of success, failure, and making big money? Fang Zhiyan: I didn't think about it in my heart. Of course, I also have a strong competitive heart, the heart must have the idea of going ahead, but success, failure is the idea of a person for a moment, a second thought, fortune and evil turn.　　So there's no need to be persistent. Zhaojian: I've only considered two points: one is persistence, the other is influence. Our organization is about to face the two birthday, it is worth remembering to run such a completely non-profit organization.　　When we oldest, it will be one of the most proud fragments of our life.　　Charlie: What are your ultimate goals? Fang Zhiyan: I began with a lot of thought, after three years, and so I put the management system straightened out, can be replaced by someone. Qiming Publishing is now the sixth year, in the institutionalization of management, may only have just entered the threshold. I don't set goals from my personal point of view, and I never make any short-term goals or long-term plans for my life.　　Qiming Publishing Group as an organization need these, I personally do not have. Zhaojian: Without much thought or failure, the result may be a different success. This cause I pursue is not to make a fortune, I am willing to go forever like this, do not seek results, may have unexpected results, as long as I devote myself to do.