Startups

Reid Hoffman, founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, gave a lecture on "How Entrepreneurs Can Create the Future," at the SXSW, where he described his thoughts on Internet industry startups and Web 3.0 Product point of view, and also cited ten he believes that entrepreneurs should follow the rules. Reid Hoffman I started my career as a product manager at Apple and Fujitsu, and later became an executive vice president at PayPal.

I had the privilege of attending a successful entrepreneurship exchange invited by IW. And over that was Grace, the former CEO of Potato, a very modest intellectual lady, Insead's MBA, and an undergraduate student at Peking University, along with two lovely children (as seen on the desktop of a computer) Grace really talked about what I really wanted to know most of the time. She said that from the first day of her start-up, she needed to pay attention to the construction of corporate culture. I am deeply convinced that in the early days of entrepreneurs, CEOs need to grasp the following three aspects, 1, is the product development to a ...

Thousands of programmers have been puzzled by questions such as "What is the future of a programmer," and "How long a programmer can work?" At present, the more common understanding is that there are two advanced routes for the programmer's career channel. A technical route is from programmers, senior programmers, system analysts, to architects. In this line, is based on the business model to the computer software model conversion, and strive to become high-end software technology workers. The other is the management of the route, that is, by the programmer, the development team leader, project manager, and finally to the corporate high-level ...

How to create a perfect business plan ten pages First, you just use a few words clearly shows that you now find there is a gap in the market at present, or what kind of a problem exists, but also with how serious the problem, In fact, a few words is enough. Many people wrote nearly 300 sheets of paper and copied some reports. Your investors are looking at this every day, but also you need to educate him? For example, the current online games market hacking situation is very serious, and you have a product that can solve this problem, you only need a word clearly ...

If you want to figure out what leadership is, then the argument is very complicated. Regardless of how people understand leadership, but the leadership itself needs to have the connotation is still clear, and I simply put these basic connotations into three areas called the content of leadership: empowerment, incentives and training. Empowerment has always been a capability that many managers find compelling because many people, on the one hand, find it impossible to authorize because the subordinates are immature and incompetent and unable to do their jobs; and on the other hand many feel that no one at all is willing Authorized because the power is one ...

Recently, a site in Alibaba's "cloud plan" website from Foshan, Guangdong Andes Metal Products Co., Ltd. Ms. Xiao reflects the domestic furniture hardware industry, a phenomenon: the domestic furniture hardware accessories variety of products, not one It is generally accepted that the industry standard, manufacturers are their own business, custom models and standards, the measurement of the chaos caused a serious market differentiation. A few years ago, an Austrian hardware brand entered China and suddenly took over 60% of the domestic high-end market. Faced with internal and external problems, Ms. Xiao issued a "rescue police" in the "cloud plan."

After using the Apple Mac notebook, if you use the window system, the user usually experience is window system desktop is too wordy, and the use of very troublesome, messy desktop icon typesetting, so that users can not understand the help system, no doubt For designers, presented a huge challenge, then designers should be more concise desktop design? 1, the desktop do not place extra common application icons: desktop only suitable for temporary files, delete after use, and more Many icons should be located in the Start menu, the desktop to create a clean; often ...

Whether most start-ups live for 5 years, what are the reasons for the start-up company to go bankrupt? Well-known entrepreneurs, chairman of the leading holding group - Dr. Li Jianxin remind young entrepreneurs, "venture is risky, investment should be cautious." And in this regard, with the majority of entrepreneurs to share a wonderful article. Hope that the majority of young entrepreneurs to learn from. 1. Technology is not equal to the product, the product does not equal the product. From technology to commodities, you need to go very far, but from an idea to be recognized, to produce real value and income, profits, I am afraid the same. some people...

"If you know if hunger, open-mindedness," Steve Jobs played a leadership role in life. Steve Jobs achieved such a successful formula is extremely complex, almost impossible to copy. Steve Jobs author Walter Isaacson wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review that summarizes in his most refined language 10 real "leadership experiences" of the business leader Steve Jobs. Isaacson wrote: "In the months after Jobs' biography appeared, countless comments ...

Former Facebook employees Sacha Tueni and Matthias Wagner are developing a Twitter client. That's right, it's a Twitter client, albeit a few years after Tweetdeck. The client, Zerobird, filters out some of the most interesting content but has not been favored by investors. "When making innovations, it is inevitable that mistakes can sometimes be made, and mistakes should be made as soon as possible, and then continue to improve other innovations."

I have to admit that we made a lot of mistakes. It's no big deal to admit failure, as long as you have the courage to go further. In the past few months, various factors have led to some problems encountered throughout the project. Strategic mistakes, swaying positions, unsuitable products, unscrupulous operations ... Well, almost all the pit we all jumped. Do not stand aside and sneer, and maybe many people "know" what to avoid, but I promise you that we all know before we make a mistake, but we've messed up a few things. Fortunately, we quickly adjusted. ...

Micro-innovation is the first proposed by Zhou Hongyi, advocating a single point close to the needs of users, on the basis of development and growth. Products bigger and bigger, it is impossible to cover everything, even if there are very distinctive place, will be a huge overall dilution. Start-up companies do, advertised a special feature, will give a good initial impression, such as the hearing-phonetic speech input method, advertised voice features than other input methods already very well to create a voice function easier to cause a good impression. This advantage is only the initial, and beginning only for the taste of the user, cold start, with a good reputation ...

Alan Cooper divides users into three categories: the novice, the middle user, and the expert. He pointed out that in the area of ​​software, eventually, most users will stay in the intermediate stage. Software, most users will stay in the middle stage Who is the main Internet product design? Novice, intermediate users or experts? We daily on different sites continue to find the information you need, do not know how many unknown pages open. And each page may be a novice's time is short. About 3 times to visit, you can ...

Have you encountered any difficulties in career development? Have you ever faced a bottleneck? If so, then how do you improve yourself is often a hot topic worth exploring, researching and learning from each other. Let us explore the topic of how to improve ourselves from the angle of fine arts career development. Before writing this post, read an article, the views and attitudes described in the article, to share with you. Not necessarily the most correct point of view, but can be used as a reference to choose the most suitable for themselves. How to improve myself on this issue ...

The habit of ordinary users has changed, not just a single social network seeking to share time, but a more in-depth and realistic experience that is more important than the product. 1. Visual Thinking Graphic communication first appeared in the education system to improve teaching and memory efficiency. In recent years, this technology has enabled marketers and companies to use it to solve complex problems in different fields and to give a graphical solution. Group Partners is a typical visual services company, through which programs it provides, customers can and with this company ...

My title has two meanings: It is more difficult to start a business than a job, and no less so than a hell. Many entrepreneurs have alienated their family and friends in order to continue their dreams. They borrowed money to keep their projects running. When they were unable to pay their salaries, they sought for financing. However, many good friends who participated in entrepreneurship also came out for various reasons Leave, so only one night eating a spicy hot drink Yanjing left tears. If one can choose, I think few people will want to come back again because this is one of the inhuman ultimate tortures of mankind. And a paragraph also said that if you hate a ...

Not all copied patterns can survive on the Internet in China because of technology, culture, customs, institutional policies, and so on. Copy to China, replicating the business model proven successful abroad to China, has played a very important role in the history of the Internet for more than a decade. In other words, in fact, there is no denying "imitative innovation" in China's Internet. Since the portal era, the Copy to China model that imitates foreign Internet products has become a successful shortcut to Baidu, Tencent, Ali ...

James Altucher seems to be a diverse group of people who are both investors, programmers, writers, and entrepreneurs. And he is a Managing Director at Formula Capital, where he has written 10 books. And despite his success, the author thinks he is still a renegade entrepreneur, because people like Gates, Larry Page, and Zuckerberg are, after all, rare. As a result, their experience does not necessarily apply to everyone. To this end, the author summarizes the average entrepreneur should have seven high-performance habits, of course, ...

When we talk about startups, it's natural to think of companies like Pinterest, Dropbox, and others that have valued more than a billion dollars. It is also important for the media to focus on them, after all, because they did make excellent products. However, in Silicon Valley, there are actually many concept of cool start-up companies, if we can understand is also very good. The foreign media BusinessInsider on the inside of the Silicon Valley launched a survey, and the respondents were asked to enumerate some of the startups doing cool products. Here is the foreign media investigation ...

[Editor's note] Paul Graham is co-founder of Y Combinator, a startup incubator in Silicon Valley who was considered the godfather of the day by the American Internet community. The article I translated may have been seen by many people six years ago, but I think it might be worth reading again for those who are already engaged in entrepreneurship. In a recent speech, I was asked how I should avoid starting a business. At the time, I realized that this could be a difficult question to answer. But in fact, we can from another point of view, to ...