Startups

It's been a while since I started recruiting a start-up, and of course it's certainly quite different from starting a big company. At Yahoo! Search, it feels as if we're always hiring. Every week, I have to do 5-8 interviews. It's like an endless resume, interview, and hiring agreement. But now I'm no longer hiring manager. At work, we also recruit only a few product managers. Although the company is always hiring, I'm often a member of the interview team. In large companies, you can first of all be aware of the points between the teams ...

Although small start-up companies can not afford to pay for enterprise-level software like big companies, the necessary office applications for start-up companies are essential. Although there are always new office software on the market, there are products from big companies like Google and works by startups. However, some of them are free and some require payment, so we chose 15 applications from them, hoping they will help start-ups improve their productivity. 1, make a reservation: Google Calendar This software allows everyone to share their work schedule in the Go ...

A few years ago when I was ready to start a business, one of my predecessors told me, "If you think your job is programming, it's a big mistake." 　　”。 "I want to start a business, is to do what I like to do ah, with cutting-edge technology, the most trendy tools to do my favorite products." "Of course, the above is just my initial idea. Startups always think startups are playing the latest technology, static HTML, then PHP, then Python, and then Ruby on Rails or node.js ... Maybe it's changing now. ...

Instagram is a photo-sharing app bought by Facebook at the beginning of the year, but its users seem to have found it, though it hasn't found a way to generate revenue. The founders found that Instagram could help them with their business and achieve a good expected result. 　　They have joined a long, innovative team in the hope of creating new services on a variety of existing platforms in innovative ways, and this Instagram, with 1 billion users, is naturally the best choice. For example, Pri ...

In the previous article, I wrote that we should learn something from a technology company, but then for some reason did not write the whole, now in response to this situation, write the following inspiration. 1. Find something to do with the company. 　　It should also meet the following three points: you and the team are most passionate about it; you and the team are expected to be best at it; huge market opportunities await development. 　　2. If you do not meet the above three points, you are not doing the right thing. 　　3. Do one thing for yourself. 　　4. The product is the first. 5. The only standard to judge the quality of a product.

In recent days, Alibaba's most-mentioned words are not trading volumes, not c2b, ecosystems, but a word we rarely hear before-small and beautiful. Small and beautiful, refers to those who are not large, but have unique value of enterprises. 　　We give a daily example, you may only sell dumplings, your service radius only around 2 kilometers of residents, but your steamed stuffed bun is very delicious, everyone likes, then you are small and beautiful. But why does Alibaba advocate small and beautiful? I think the probable cause is about three points: first, for the health of Taobao platform ...

Let's tell a story first. Four people in the elevator: a person running in situ, sweating, a head against the wall, needle-tied meat, all kinds of self-abuse; a man does nothing; a man has been praying very reverently. 　　A long time later, the door opened and found it was the top floor of a skyscraper, surrounded by a pile of reporters, interviewed them "so high, so great, how did you get up?" 　　One said that their own efforts is very important, the way to, to run 20min rest 5min; 　　One said, painstakingly repaired, the head hits the wall to need one hours 3,600 times, the head must pack; One...

In October 2001, a city government in Zhejiang Province issued a major talent training project, with 5 years as a training cycle, a weekly investment in training funds of 50 million yuan, invited the two chambers of academician to be mentors, training 100 "jobs" style leader. 　　As a result, the news burst open, "training 100 jobs in China" became a big joke. In fact, there are misunderstandings here. It is said that to cultivate 100 jobs-style leaders, the white is to cultivate innovative leadership. I searched on the so.com the key words "Innovation + project", the result has ...

The user chooses a product, the first point is that the function of the product satisfies the user or the product content is the user wants. In the product design work content is very important is the function design, we hope that through the product function can in the time, the economy, the manpower and so on aspect cost brings the benefit to the user. With the development of products, we found that the same type of product basic functions are roughly the same, the competition between products more and more difficult to open the gap in the functional level. Now the product staff also began to work on the user experience, and the constant pursuit of user experience ...

October 2006 date, I first use Sogou input method, the office of a buddy was surprised to see: You also use Ah! 　　September 16, 2013, Sogou Wang Xiaoquan and Tencent cooperation, Tencent shares 448 million U.S. dollars for Sogou company 36.5% shares, in the words of the media: Sohu and Tencent holding hands in love. I quite admire the Sohu Zhang, although he has been a depression for two years, this has just come back, but in his dormant recuperation in these two years, China's Internet two of the most bright bulls are his soldiers, one is the news client to do 1 ...

Before Pingwest, Silicon Valley often used "not sexy" to describe companies that were enterprise-class products or start-ups. 　　But there are some companies doing well in Silicon Valley, the enterprise-Class communications tool Yammer product Manager, acquired by Microsoft 1.2 billion dollars last summer, today in an event sharing the Yammer experience of designing and developing products for enterprise-class users. In fact, to share experience, the first issue to discuss is still why the community generally believe that enterprise-class products are difficult and "easy to use", "easy to understand" to equate. In the ...

In the future, smart watches and smart glasses are likely to become a necessary part of people's travel, like smartphones. For intelligent products, the most important function is to simplify life, to bring more convenience to users. 　　If you betray that intention, you are likely to become the next failed Google smart TV. 　　In the recently held Tencent "product Home" salon, several intelligent hardware products developers launched a brainstorming. 　On the basis of developer discussion, Tencent Technology summed up a few "golden rules" about intelligent product development. ...

7.5-7.7 start-up weekend weekend activities in Xiamen, the special coffee held in the event, the well-known angel investors, the United States Mito Chairman Cai on the development of mobile Internet and entrepreneurship-related topics with the participants of the entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial team to share. 　　I talked about a lot of dry goods, such as creativity, implementation, financing, changes in the mobile internet age. Creative, not executed. Creative of course valuable, but sometimes creative and quite worthless, in Cai view, creative without an executable program it is basically worthless. Cai win ...

Entrepreneurship is a lot of people's dream, and indeed more and more people have set foot on this road to find a dream. But in terms of success in entrepreneurship, the proportion of truly successful entrepreneurs is low. Many enterprises in the first 5 years of entrepreneurship, fell on the entrepreneurial road. Why is this happening? Recently, BusinessInsider's blogger Alysonshontell wrote about the earliest of startups and the 12 common mistakes that new entrepreneurs make most easily. Here, we also share. 　　If you are an entrepreneur, see if there is a case for a condemnation. 1, too early or ...

As long as you are willing to use your brain, it is not a simple repetition or repetition. 　　With their own minds, on the basis of repetition, the formation of a valuable accumulation, for their future lay the foundation. 　　I remember a composition of the college entrance examination in the early 80, is a figure, a man to dig wells to find water, dug a lot of holes in the ground, different depths, and some places are about to dig to the water, but because he tasted, not at any point on the real lasting dig, the result is that he did not find a little water. Until now this picture has left a deep impression on me, because with life ...

A job you don't like may lead to a new world. The world is connected, and every task that you dislike may be the gateway to another world that is open to you. 　　Only when you walk in and discover new things do you really know whether you like the job or not. I often get emails from my young colleagues and spit on me that I don't like my job and feel that what I'm doing doesn't make sense. This I quite understand, just graduated students will think so. When you choose to work, you must be very concerned about what company you will go to, which department ...

Note: This paper is from the island "decision reference" (July). 　　Old week talked about their two puzzles, first to do products or first talk about feelings, the second is to improve product experience, is to do or cultivate people to do? 　　Q: To count the number of Chinese entrepreneurial product manager, it should be Zhou 祎. Zhou: I'm so flattered. I have also been confused recently, and the three views have been reversed. In the past we talk about what the first product, you need to do according to user needs to do products, in the experience to achieve the ultimate in the product experience on the basis of ...

Rely on accurate consumer group positioning, specialized services, inexpensive brand-name products, professional and systematic promotion, such as a series of closely linked fine management initiatives, Watson firmly caught a large number of loyal customers, and effectively avoided with shopping malls, large integrated supermarkets, convenience stores, stores and shop, such as retail forms of homogeneous competition, 　　Really effective to achieve their own operating characteristics. Accurate targeting of consumer groups in the increasingly homogeneous competition in the retail industry, only to provide consumers with the right product selection and quality shopping experience to win the market. To achieve ...

Entrepreneurship, a dream that lingers in the hearts of those who hold thoughts and hopes. Especially for many young people, when it comes to entrepreneurship, they always hang on to their appetites. In fact, in the past decade many people started their businesses by essentially doing it in a do-it-yourself way. There are many obvious advantages of going it alone, such as a person deciding the style of the whole company, such as a quick decision, such as a strong execution. But over the past two years, I've found that the trend towards a combination of multiple people, especially a trio, is becoming more and more apparent, and my observation of the latter's entrepreneurial success rate is increasing dramatically. Because of the increasingly competitive market, opportunities ...

Recently, according to foreign media reports, an iphone application Lala Lunchbox recently became popular, parents and children can use it to plan nutritious lunch. The application has some monster characters, as well as cool visuals and game elements that actually originate from a very simple parent-child activity. Here we go into the Lala lunchbox behind the entrepreneurial story. LaLa Lunchbox founder Gillian Anfinhen (Gillian Fein) is the mother of two children. She used a ...