Dai Zhikang: From 800 yuan's Entrepreneurship to Internet upstart.
Dai Zhikang (pictured right) was born in 198 1 and earned his first 500,000 yuan when he went to college. For example, at the age of 25, he owned a company with an annual turnover of 5 million in Zhongguancun-Beijing Kang Sheng Creative Company. In July 2005, he won millions of dollars in venture capital worth over 100 million dollars, becoming a dazzling star among the new rich after 1980s.
Dai Zhikang admits that the biggest advantage and disadvantage of young entrepreneurs is their youth. "Being young means that you have more time to remedy your mistakes, but on the other hand, market competition will not tolerate you because you are young. If you make a mistake and others don't, you may die. "
Dai Zhikang likes computers since he was a child. He upgraded the computer at home again and again, and his programming skills became higher and higher. In 2000, Dai Zhikang was admitted to the university, but after entering the university, he was not interested in the exams and textbooks and was very disappointed. At that time, the internet was on fire. Dai Zhikang knows the outside world through the Internet. He became interested in online communities that connect strangers. He wants to develop a set of software that can automatically generate communities so that even people who don't know technology can manage them.
To make software, Dai Zhikang started his own business. He moved out of school in his second year of high school, and his monthly expenses in 800 yuan were maintained for several years: renting a house in 300 yuan, eating in 200 yuan, and the rest was making phone calls on the Internet and working hard all day to develop software-all the expenses he needed to start his own business. So the famous "Discuz!" It was designed. Software. At first, this software was free. After accumulating a considerable number of users and comparing with other similar software products, Dai Zhikang decided to charge for this software. On June+10, 5438, Dai Zhikang launched a new version, which added new functions and technologies, and its capacity was several times that of similar products. After that, Discuz! Just entered the high-speed track, sales increased by an average of 30% every month. Dai Zhikang found his first bucket of gold-by the time he graduated, he already had 500,000 yuan.
When most college graduates are running around looking for jobs, Dai Zhikang, who just graduated, has become a hot topic. A company even offered him an annual salary of 300,000 yuan to join, and Dai Zhikang chose to give up. He came to Beijing to start his own company with 500,000 yuan he earned in college. After two years of development, the company has grown from the initial few people to more than 60 people, 80% of whom are programmers, and the product share also accounts for 50% of the industry market. In 2005, the turnover reached 5 million yuan.
Until now, Dai Zhikang still defines his company as a technology-based company, and he believes that only by specializing in technology can he realize his value. "I often tell programmers that you might as well be proficient in ten things if you are proficient in one thing. To do one thing, you should be very dedicated and devoted, even if you only do one thing at a time, you should be the best, the most proficient and the deepest, be a first-class master in this field, or make your own products the top products in this industry. This is our goal.
Now, "Li Xiang" is not a strange word. Born in 198 1, founded in 1999. From the initial personal website to the establishment of PCPOP, Li Xiang (see photo) only took two years. From the initial income of several thousand yuan to the value of over 100 million, it is only four years. Today, bubble net's annual revenue is nearly 20 million, and its profit is10 million. Li Xiang, who only has a high school education, created this commercial miracle. As the PCPOP of bubble net. COM), Li Xiang is worth nearly 200 million.
When I first came into contact with a computer, Li Xiang was still a junior one student. In the first year of high school, he configured a computer worth more than 8000 yuan according to his own requirements. At that time, the monthly Internet access fee was nearly 700 yuan to 800 yuan, and the Internet access fee was the manuscript fee he got for writing articles for computer professional newspapers.
1999, Xiang Li, a senior three student, set up a website called "Home of Graphics Cards", which developed rapidly. Soon, the number of daily visits reached more than 10,000, and with the reputation of users, advertisers began to invest more than 6,000 yuan on Li Xiang's website.
On the eve of the college entrance examination, Li Xiang decided to give up the college entrance examination and go all out to make a website. Li Xiang's parents are quite open-minded about their son's choice and don't interfere too much. "For me, I am faced with a choice. On the one hand, I like the media, making my own website means running my own media; On the other hand, this media had already started to make money at that time, so it was more decisive to choose the website at that time. "
Before bubble net was formally established, Li thought more about how to make money. When profit is not a problem, Li should start thinking about how to keep the company's profits growing at a high speed. Now Li, a successful entrepreneur, wants to work six days a week, punch in like an ordinary employee every day, and work for more than ten hours on average every day. There is no concept of success in his mind, only what to do and what not to do. His goal now is to set up a business, make mergers and acquisitions and go public.
High burning: connections are capital.
Gao Yan 198 1 was born in Hunan. 1998 After graduating from technical secondary school, I worked in a factory in Zhangmutou, Dongguan, but I still want to go to college. Half a year later, he was admitted to Tsinghua University. In 2003, Gao Ran worked as a financial reporter in Economic Observer, and was also named the best cutting-edge reporter of the year by the newspaper.
In 2004, the reporter had a high fever. Seeing that Dangdang and Joyo have risen one after another and want to do e-commerce, they wrote a business plan to find people who can provide venture capital. He "bumped into" Yang Zhiyuan in the elevator of a hotel in Beijing, and Gao Yan briefly introduced his ideas and submitted the plan. Unfortunately, there is no following in this operation. Soon, Gao Yan stood for another night and arrived in Changchun by train. At a meeting, he handed a plan to Jiang Xipei, the boss of Jiangsu Far East Group. Jiang invested him 1 million yuan. It was Gao Yan's network that helped him integrate into venture capital, and his value suddenly reached10 million yuan.
Gao Yan, who knows nothing about finance and IT, started his business in the IT industry with his accumulated contacts after working as a journalist for eight months. Dundee, the head of research and development of MySee (a well-known Tsinghua alumnus), reduced the cost of live video broadcast of a movie from seven yuan to seven cents. In June 2006, the two companies merged and MySee, which specializes in live video broadcasting, was born. An American venture capital makes its company worth hundreds of millions. In addition to enthusiasm, he also accumulated interpersonal relationships. Others are curious: "How does Gao Burning know so many people?"
Mao, who only has a junior high school diploma, passed the computer certification of Microsoft and Cisco in 2000. Holding these two signboards, he is very entangled: from software companies to advertising companies, public relations companies and game production companies, he deliberately jumped ship because he thinks that "technology, sales, management, packaging and promotion are the only processes to run a company, and everything needs to be familiar".
At the end of 2004, Mao met a business owner who had worked together. Mao used to do projects for him, which was very appreciated by him. Mao talked with him about the MaJoy project he had been thinking about for a year: moving online games offline and imitating their background data, but using real scenes, players actually played them. The two hit it off, and Mao and Yizhi became shareholders, holding 25% of the shares. The two sides officially operated MaJoy, with an overall investment of 300 million yuan. Mao didn't invest a penny, only relying on his own creativity and ideas, he got nearly 20% of the shares in this big project with an annual income of/kloc-0.5 billion yuan. If the operation is normal, the prospect is unpredictable.
After 80, I know how to seize the opportunity and take the shot when it is time. Today's achievements can not be separated from their own efforts, but these new rich people have the spirit of adventure and bold innovation. The advantage of post-80s entrepreneurs lies in their strong innovation ability, daring to try, and doing whatever they want. Unlike people in the 1970s, they looked back and missed many opportunities. The problem of these new rich people is also very common, that is, they are too self-centered. Enterprise management depends on organizational system and teamwork. Therefore, an enterprise can rely on a good idea to achieve, but how to manage the enterprise after it grows bigger may be a problem that entrepreneurs after the 1980s should pay attention to.