Entrepreneurship in the 1990s.
Ren Huawei group
Start-up time: 1987
Entrepreneurial location: Shenzhen
My reason for starting a business: I don't know how to do business. I owe 2 million yuan and am forced to start a business.
Reading Ren's story is not easy. A reporter joked that he could not interview him until he retired. Why do you want to start a business? The answer turned out to be being driven to Liangshan. After various descriptions in the media, Brother Heima found that the specific process may be like this? 1983, Ren was demobilized and transferred to Nanhai Petroleum Base in Shenzhen. He worked in front of a small cadre for four years at the age of 44. Ren, who is in his forties, still doesn't know much about business. He was cheated by others for more than two million in a transaction. Later, Ren talked about this in an interview. He said that after this incident, he understood what a market economy is and what "customers" and "sources" are. In the end, in order to pay off his debts, he chose to collect 2 1000 yuan to register Huawei as a communication equipment agent in Hong Kong. It was in the process of agency that he found himself unwilling to help foreigners sell equipment, and finally decided to take the road of independent research and development.
Ren Entrepreneurial Quotations: At that time, I didn't do well in state-owned enterprises, and people didn't want me. I also wrote a letter of guarantee, and people didn't want me, so I had to start a business. At that time, private enterprises were very unpopular. According to 1987 Shenzhen document (18), folk science and technology can be established, which is a point of no return. When I arrived in Shenzhen, I found that the income of working girls was more than ours, and then I began to integrate into society.
Zhu Xinli Huiyuan juice
Start time: 1992
Business location: Yimeng Mountain, and then to Beijing.
My reason for starting a business: "grow fruit trees when you get rich". Seeing that there are many rotten fruits in the field that can't be sold, I tried to turn them into juice and sell them.
Like many entrepreneurs of that era, Zhu Xinli was an entrepreneur rooted in the countryside. He has served as secretary of the rural party branch and has a deep attachment to the countryside and fruit farmers. In the late 1980s, after the implementation of the strategy of "getting rich and planting fruit trees" in Yimeng mountain area, fruit production really exploded, but due to traffic, processing and other reasons, a large number of fruits produced could not be successfully realized. 1992 After Deng Xiaoping's southern tour, Zhu Xinli resigned from public office, hoping to write an article on these unrealized fruits. After all, for a person who has feelings for rural life, it is very painful to see a large piece of fruit planted by villagers rotting in the ground.
1993, Zhu Xinli took over the cannery and produced the first batch of concentrated juice. According to media reports, he went to the German exhibition with samples and pancakes on his back, and finally got the first order worth $5 million, which shocked many people at that time. 1994, he led a team of less than 30 people to Shunyi to work hard, and started the road of entrepreneurship in Beijing, and his career gradually expanded.
Zhu Xinli's Entrepreneurial Quotations: I have started my business for so many years now, and I have never said that I am successful. When I started my business, I really didn't know that I was given very few resources. I always think about the advantages, never the disadvantages. In starting a business, there are too many bumps, traps and hardships. The more you walk, the more scared you get. Just like a driver, he doesn't know when he first learned to drive. The faster he drives, the more enjoyable he is, but an old driver will think a lot.
Wangwei SF express
Start time: 1993
Entrepreneurial location: Foshan, Guangdong
My reason for starting a business: Send printing and dyeing samples to Hong Kong people there. Because of the great demand, I switched to a courier company.
Like Ren, Wei Wang is not an easy person to be captured by the media. That rare interview only revealed some of his entrepreneurial experiences at that time. When he is doing printing and dyeing in Shunde, he often needs to send samples to Hong Kong for customers to see. At that time, a large number of Hong Kong enterprises had this demand, and domestic post offices could not meet their requirements for speed. 1993, Wang Wei, who was only 22 years old, borrowed 654.38 million yuan from his father, found five small partners and registered a courier company named "SF". According to media reports, Wang Wei, who just started a business, went back and forth from Shunde to Hong Kong by land with a big bag full of contracts, letters, samples and customs declaration materials.
Wei Wang's Entrepreneurial Quotations: Quotations from Wei Wang? You think too much. It is said that a Hong Kong paparazzi sent and received more than 300 packages for SF Express in order to photograph him. Although I took the last photo, it soon disappeared on the Internet.
Around 2000, these people who play the Internet made their debut.
Li yanhong Baidu
Start time: 1999
Entrepreneurial location: Beijing
My reason for starting a business: An American professor asked, Does China have a computer? It hurts my self-esteem!
From 65438 to 0987, Li Yanhong, a Shanxi scholar, was admitted to the library and information major in Peking University, but later he was not interested in this major. Li Yanhong, who had planned his life long ago, wanted to study in the United States, and also chose a promising major for himself, studying computer. In 9 1 year, 23-year-old Li Yanhong set foot on American soil, but at first he was despised. He learned a new major and couldn't keep up with his classes. His teacher once doubted: Does China have a computer? The frustrated Jiaozi of Peking University worked hard and decided to change the status quo. It doesn't seem very difficult for a champion in the college entrance examination to change his learning status. Soon, he adapted to the life of studying abroad and his grades kept up. He entered a famous enterprise as an intern and went to Wall Street for three and a half years.
Eight years overseas has given him a rare opportunity to experience, and the domestic internet industry is undergoing crazy changes. 1 returned to Beijing in 1999, rented two rooms, found five technicians and1financial personnel, and started to operate search business.
Li Yanhong's Entrepreneurial Quotations: I worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley before returning to China to start a business. I felt very happy to grow flowers and plants, but my wife encouraged me to join the company. At that time, I hoped to make it bigger and control my own direction. Returning to China to start a business is the most suitable choice. I don't seem to have a bad process on the road of life choice, but I am faced with some choices. My real dream is not the "American dream" or a comfortable life. There should be opportunities to start a business in the United States, but there are more opportunities in China, which was my judgment at that time.
Ding Lei Netease
Start-up time: 1997
Starting point: Guangzhou, then Beijing.
My reason for starting a business: I have a kind of distress that it is difficult to do my best in working in a state-owned enterprise.
After graduating from Chengdu Dianzi University, Ding Lei returned to his hometown and became a civil servant, but a kind of "inadequate" distress always accompanied him. Finally one day, he broke out. Despite the strong opposition of his family, Ding Lei resigned from his job at that time. Born in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he finally decided to go to Guangzhou to explore the world. After working in a company for a year, he has the intention to resign. This time, he wants to go out and start an Internet independently.
Ding Lei's Entrepreneurial Quotations: When I was young, Deng Xiaoping's southern tour speech gave me great confidence. I also realize that in the future, the Internet will soon surpass the simple voice service and open up a broader new world.
, Liu
Starting time: 1998, 2004
Entrepreneurial location: Beijing
The reason why I started my business (e-commerce): SARS hit, and no one bought the products in my store, so I had to sell them on BBS.
You can also hear the entrepreneurial story of overbearing president Qiang Dongge in Zhongguancun. Many people say that he started by selling CDs? In fact, when it comes to starting a business, it is better to say that he opened a restaurant for the first time, although it was a painful failure. Later, according to Liu's memory, the restaurant failed because he didn't understand management and finance. After learning the lesson, he worked in a company and paid off his debts two years later. After that, he wants to start his own business. The second time, he opened a shop specializing in electronic products in Zhongguancun, which is different from those ground stores in Zhongguancun now. But the SARS in the second year made him face unprecedented anxiety, and everyone was reluctant to go out, so business naturally went from bad to worse.
According to later memories, for a time, he and his employees posted on the Internet every day to promote products, but the effect was amazing. Since then, he began to focus on Internet e-commerce.
Liu Entrepreneurial Quotations: Since I started my business, I have never had the idea of profiteering, that is, a long stream of water, small profits but quick turnover, and the scale is the first. This is what my ancestors taught me, and I also adhere to this principle, so I am the first merchant in Zhongguancun to clearly mark the price.
The era of mobile internet around 20 1 1 year
Is Zhang hungry?
Start time: 2008
Entrepreneurial location: Shanghai
My reason for starting a business: it's nerve-racking not to order takeout late at night, so I'll do it myself.
The story of this young CEO's fame in recent years has been told by too many people. "Jiao Tong University Dormitory", "Stay up all night playing online games" and "Deliver your own meals" are the labels that are often put on in this story. Although he became famous in the era of mobile internet, few people know that his story actually began in 2008. Their initial labor was all human-driven: they collected information about restaurants around Minhang Campus of Jiaotong University, printed "Hunger" pamphlets and distributed them in schools. When students want to order food, they will call Zhang's dormitory, and then Zhang and his friends will go to the restaurant to get fast food and give it to customers?
Different from the entrepreneurial environment in which his predecessors lived, their entrepreneurial projects had many competitors as soon as they debuted. The rise of China's capital market boosted their projects, and also brought fierce and difficult competition. Some people think that after two years of development, the overall situation of the mobile Internet has been set, but more people think that the drama has just begun?
Zhang Entrepreneurial Quotations: We gradually have a sense of accomplishment and feel that we have changed some people's business methods and lifestyles through technology and way of thinking. When CCTV reported the most, Ma Yun went to Yiwu to pull small and medium-sized businesses online. From then on, it was decided that we must continue to be hungry.
Wang Xing, the former founder of Meituan.com, is now the CEO of the new company after the merger of Meituan and Volkswagen.
Venture time: 2003, 2007, 20 10.
Entrepreneurial location: Beijing
My reason for starting a business: a restless entrepreneur by nature
Wang Xing is a serial entrepreneur of Tsinghua Department. In twelve years, he has started his business three times, all of which are well-known Internet companies in the industry. Unlike Li Yanhong, who also studied in the United States, he returned to China to start a business without completing his doctoral studies. Since then, his name has been associated with three companies: Campus Network, Fan Fei and Meituan. Maybe you are a little strange to the second website, but it is worth noting that this is an earlier social SNS website than Sina Weibo. 505 days after the lifting of the ban, the business environment has changed greatly, and there is no room for the second Weibo.
After that, Meituan also successfully transitioned from the PC era to the mobile era. Now it is a star company in the field of Internet O2O? There should also be public comments from friends here. What is the next fate of the US Mission? Com and Wang xing? Time will give the answer. But judging from Wang Xing's previous resume, he is by no means a person who will not toss.
Wang Xing's Quotations on Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is not simple, but it is not painful unless what you do is not suitable for you. For some people, running or lifting weights is a very painful thing, and it takes a lot of perseverance to persist, but for others, these activities are full of fun.
Where does Zhuang Chen Chao go from here? founder
Start-up time: 1997
Entrepreneurial location: Beijing
My reason for starting a business: "to establish a universal business model and achieve commercial success on a global scale."
Zhuang belongs to the Entrepreneurship Department of Peking University. Even at the beginning of his business, his vision seemed very "broad". 1997, he started his first venture, and the company was finally sold to Chinabyte, which was the first time Zhuang sold his own company. Later, he earned150,000 USD by selling his second company, Javert Sports, and the buyer was Li Ka-shing. In 2005, Baidu will be listed soon. Zhuang Chenchao and his partner Fritz Demopoulos took a fancy to the search opportunities in the vertical field. Although there was already Ctrip at that time, they were confident that they could make a new company with a completely different business model.
After the story and the latest story, everyone knows where to go and merged with Ctrip, its biggest competitor, ten years after its founding. Just like the story of Meituan, this is an era that people can't understand and suddenly realize.
Zhuang Chuangye Quotations: Will going there be my lifelong career? Using "career" to describe where to go is a bit heavy. I prefer to regard where to go as my favorite game. I'm not tired of it. I threw myself into this game, and my work became a pastime. In this game, my daily job is to fight.
And what kind of decision will the original entrepreneur make?