Zuckerberg talks about starting a business: Focus on data plagiarism cannot succeed

"Startups should analyze market data and listen to market voices rather than plagiarism before developing products," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, in Saturday at the start school event at Y Combinator, October 21, Beijing time.

Mr Zuckerberg takes Facebook's photo-sharing service for example. Facebook, he says, is not a subjective assumption that users will love photo-sharing services, but has come to this conclusion through research. "We listen to users ' needs, including their qualitative opinions and quantitative behavior," he says. "In fact, users don't make it clear that they want photo-sharing services, just uploading photos to personal pages every day."

So Facebook has developed photo-sharing services that have exploded. And all this has been expected on Facebook.

This is not the last time Facebook introduced this idea into product development. For example, tens of thousands of users protested about Facebook's "dynamic Rollup" function, but the number of users using that feature is still rising, so Facebook insists on retaining this feature. Currently, dynamic summarization is one of the most critical features of the Facebook site.

Facebook, on the other hand, continues to grow in number of mobile subscribers, but most iOS users complain that Facebook's iOS app is too slow. As a result, Facebook has abandoned its original HTML5 technology for iOS to develop native apps. After that, Facebook applied to the App Store for user ratings and feedback. Mr Zuckerberg believes companies should listen to users and focus on data.

In a conversation with Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, Zuckerberg stressed that entrepreneurs need to give themselves some flexibility to adjust to the latest information they know.

"I always have the fear that I'm stuck in something, but it's not the most powerful thing you can do," Zuckerberg told the audience. "As a result, Zuckerberg cannot understand the idea of setting up a company before setting an entrepreneurial goal." He argues that the value of flexibility is overlooked.

Zuckerberg suggests that future entrepreneurs should first determine what they want and remain flexible before embarking on it. "In many cases, you can do some work within the framework of a company, but if such a job bores you and causes you to feel trapped, you should adjust what you do." "In fact, in the early days of entrepreneurship, Zuckerberg even thought Facebook was just a hobby, not a real company," he said.

Zuckerberg also said that one of his experiences in entrepreneurship was to start working from the basics. Many companies are tackling small problems, he says. If you're just trying to start a business, it's harmless, but it's more interesting to do some basic work.

Even if other companies enter the market and bring special ideas, Mr. Zuckerberg suggests that startups should not adjust their plans to target rivals. Otherwise, startups could end up like MySpace. MySpace was defeated by Facebook in the competition for social networking. "They felt threatened by us and copied us, which is unlikely to win," Mr Zuckerberg said. A company that only wants to copy others from the start will not succeed. ”