Zhou Hongyi: Start With Skills

I think some people have misunderstandings about entrepreneurship. They understand entrepreneurship as a couple of brothers open a company and go back to print a few boxes of business cards. I call the chairman of the board. Chief executive officer His classmates hang CXO on their necks. Their names are very foreign and do not know what they mean. If this is understood as entrepreneurship, it is totally wrong.

I hope that we can understand entrepreneurship in this way and regard entrepreneurship as a state of mind. We must go all out to pursue a goal. As long as you are not satisfied with the status quo and try to break through, it is entrepreneurship. If you are a student in school, are computers, if you are not satisfied with just learning credits, not satisfied with the examination to cope with, but spend a lot of time to improve your programming ability, and put a lot of effort to study a lot of software, it is also a business. Learning is like this. Work is the same. As long as you face up to problems bravely, solve problems positively and dare to shoulder future risks, this is actually the mentality of starting an undertaking.

If we understand entrepreneurship as if I go out to set up a company today, I will go public tomorrow. Facebook Sorry, I have never had such a successful example. Where is there such a smooth sailing in the world? Putting you on the plain of a flat plain, you walk along the straight line with your intuition. In fact, when you look at it from high altitude, the way out of you is crooked and tortuous. Entrepreneurship is the same, although there is a goal in mind, but to achieve that goal, you have to solve practical problems. The road of man is going step by step, and this road must not be straight line.

Especially in China, the environment is indeed too complicated. Especially in Entrepreneurship In the early days, you have no experience and no resources. The innovation in your mind may be just an idea or an idea, but if it can not be realized, it is nothing. But to achieve this idea, you need judgement, experience and knowledge. Therefore, I have always advocated that when graduating from college students, do not have a brain to save a company, the best way is to join a start-up company, and even join a risky seed company to learn entrepreneurship and experience entrepreneurship.

Many people say that if I join others' company, then I will become a part-time worker. Who will work for others? If you think you are a part-time worker, you work all your life. It doesn't matter if others think you are working. The important thing is that you should never regard yourself as a part-time worker, but look at it from a different angle. It is the company that pays you, pays for your tuition, and practices your own abilities and experience. You encounter product managers, technical experts, or founders of a company, and learn from them the experience of success, or even the lessons of failure. If you join the company, the company dies two years later. Congratulations, you haven't lost a penny. If you take part in a living company from birth to death, you can avoid repeating the same mistake in the future. You didn't spend a penny, you let a company die once, you learned how to avoid the lesson of failure, what a value it is. This is much more useful than how much you get, than you go to a famous big company.

When people see you, they say that you are working in a big company in Beijing. That's vanity. It doesn't mean anything. So I have always stressed that if you are in an entrepreneurial mindset, you can call entrepreneurship in any state. Until one day, when you have a strong impulse to start a company, you may find that each person has his strong points. You may not be a CEO material, but you may be excellent. CTO You may be a good sales supervisor, and you will know when to find a partner to start a business at this time.

So, I encourage you to start a business, in fact, it is to encourage everyone to cultivate entrepreneurship. I do not advocate that you must go out and set up a company. It is just a form. Many people in Silicon Valley do not pretend to set up a company first, but in the garage at home, they use spare time to produce a product, which is part of entrepreneurship.

I don't want to teach successful studies. I hope you can think clearly what you want in the next few years. When you start a business, you can always remember what I said, no matter temptation or challenge, refuse to be mediocre and different. You do not have to follow the mainstream of the time, but also be able to stand up to loneliness and even have a kind of toughness, dare to lose and fight repeatedly. In the next five years or eight years or ten years, we have been persistent in exploring. I believe that five years or ten years later, a new generation of entrepreneurs in China and a new generation of innovative leaders in China should be born.