Zhou: College students should first join the start-up companies and consider going solo

I think some people have an erroneous understanding of entrepreneurship. They think of entrepreneurship as a few friends to open a company, go back to print a few boxes of business cards, I call the chairman of the board, you call the chief executive, their classmates hanging on the neck of the CXO, the name is very flavor, do not know what meaning. It would be a big mistake to understand this as entrepreneurship. I hope that we can understand entrepreneurship: entrepreneurship as a mindset, in order to achieve a goal, tireless pursuit. As long as you are not satisfied with the status quo, the idea of trying to break through, that is entrepreneurship. If you are a student in school, is a computer, if you are not satisfied with just to learn the credits, not satisfied with the test to cope with good, but spent a lot of time to improve your programming skills, a lot of work to study many software, it is also a start-up. Learning is so, work is the case, as long as you face up to the problem bravely, positive to solve the problem, the courage to take the risk of the future, this is actually entrepreneurial mentality. If we think of entrepreneurship as the day I go out to set up a company that will be listed tomorrow and the market will overtake Facebook, I am sorry that there has never been such a successful example. What's so smooth in the sky? Put you on the Yimapingchuan of the Great Plains, you rely on intuition along the straight line, in fact, from the high altitude, you come out of the road is curved, is tortuous. Entrepreneurship is the same, although the heart has a goal, but to achieve that goal, you have to solve a practical problem. People's road is step by step, and this road must not be straight. In China, the environment is really too complicated. Especially in the early days of entrepreneurship, you have no experience, no resources, your brain innovation may be just an idea, an idea, but if not achieved, it is nothing. But to realize this idea, the idea that you need to have judgment, need to have experience, need to have knowledge. Therefore, I have been advocating college students just graduated, do not mind a hot to save a company, the best way is to join a start-up company, and even the risk of a large seed companies, to learn entrepreneurship, feel entrepreneurial. Many people say, I join other people's company, then I become a part-time job? To work for others, who seriously do it. Wrong, if you think you are working, then your life is a part-time job. It doesn't matter if people think you're working. It is important that you do not think of yourself as a part-time job, to look at the angle, is the company to pay you, pay for your tuition, practice your own ability and experience. You encounter product managers, technical experts, or founders of the company, learn from them the experience of success, and even the lessons of failure. If you join this company, the company died two years later, congratulations, you do not lose a penny, you participate in a living company from life to death of the example, you can avoid the same mistakes. You've lost a penny, you've got a company dead, you've learned how to avoid the lessons of failure, what a value. It's much more useful than how much you pay for a big, famous company. Others aSee you, all say you work in a big company in Beijing, it's great. It's all vanity. So I have always stressed that if you are in the mindset of entrepreneurship, then you can call entrepreneurship in any state. Wait until one day, when you have a strong urge to run a company to start a business, you may find that people have their own strengths, you may not be the CEO of the material, but you can be a good CTO, you may be a good sales director, this time you know what kind of partners to find a business. Therefore, I encourage everyone to start a business, in fact, to encourage people to cultivate entrepreneurial spirit, I do not advocate that you must go out to set up a company, it is only a form. Many people in Silicon Valley are not pretending to set up a company, but in the home garage, using their spare time to get a product, which is part of the entrepreneurial. I don't want to impart any success, and I want you to be able to figure out what you want in the next few years. When you start a business, whether you encounter temptation or encounter challenges, you can remember the sentence I said: Refuse mediocrity, different. You don't have to follow the mainstream, also to be able to live lonely, even have a kind of toughness, dare to repeatedly defeated, in the next five years or eight years, ten years of time has been perseverance to explore, I believe that five years later, ten years later, may be China's new generation of entrepreneurs, China's new generation of innovation leaders should be born from within you.