How did Ma Yun, Ma Ma, Liu and Zhang Chaoyang discover entrepreneurial opportunities?

In such an era of entrepreneurship, everyone has his own ideas, believe in his own ideas and then practice hard. This is entrepreneurship. As long as you can grasp the dynamics of market economy, you will have the opportunity to accumulate the first bucket of gold in your life!

Ma Yun: "China Yellow Pages" tests the water for Taobao

Ma Yun, who is now the richest man frequently, was born in Hangzhou. He was born in a poor family. He failed the college entrance examination twice and was finally admitted to Hangzhou Normal University for the third time. After graduation, Ma Yun was assigned to Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology to teach English and work part-time as a translator.

Later, after Ma resigned, he changed several jobs, including being the assistant manager of a newly opened KFC store.

1995 He founded Haibo translation agency. Because he helped the Hangzhou municipal government talk about cooperation with an American company, Ma Yun first came into contact with the Internet when he went to the United States.

1In April 1995, Ma Yun paid 7,000 yuan in advance and raised 20,000 yuan with his family and friends to set up Haibo Network, one of the earliest Internet companies in China, and started the China Yellow Pages project.

A fellow villager who once met Ma Yun in a food stall described him as drunk, dancing and chatting with a large group of people. At that time, no one knew what the Internet was. Many people regard Ma Yun as a "liar" who sells Chinese yellow pages everywhere.

As of 1997, the website turnover is actually 7 million yuan! With the warming of the Internet in China and the competition between China Yellow Pages and Hangzhou Telecom, Ma Yun finally sold 70% of the shares to the other party.

During the period of 1997, the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation extended an olive branch to Ma Yun. He sold the remaining shares of China Yellow Pages at a low price and went to Beijing with several entrepreneurial partners to continue developing online trading websites.

After 15 months of hard work, MOFTEC has not only become the first ministerial unit in China to surf the Internet, but also made a net profit of 2.87 million yuan.

However, the shares promised by MOFTEC to Ma Yun's team have not been implemented for various reasons, so he decided to start a business again. 1February 1999, Alibaba, which started with 500,000 yuan, was born in Ma Yun's home in Hangzhou Lakeside Garden. The 18 entrepreneurial team that has created amazing wealth has also cooperated so far.

In 20 14, Alibaba was listed on NYSE, and Ma Yun became the richest man in China.

Li Yanhong: Looking for search prospects when developing software

Li Yanhong was born in an ordinary worker's family in Yangquan County, Shaanxi Province. My father Li Guifu is a boiler worker in Jin Dong Chemical Plant (now renamed as Jin Dong Group), and my mother is a tanner in Yangquan City.

From 65438 to 0987, Li Yanhong was admitted to Peking University Library and Information Science (now Information Management) with the first place in Yangquan City. However, his excitement about entering the highest university in China was gradually melted by the boredom of library and information science.

Since his junior year, Li Yanhong has bought books such as TOEFL and GRE, with the goal of studying in the United States, focusing on computer science. 199 1, Li Yanhong received an acceptance letter from the Computer Department of new york State University in Buffalo, USA.

His first job was as a senior consultant in IDD company. The company was acquired by Dow Jones on 1995, and the boss got millions of dollars in return from the transaction. Li Yanhong was extremely shocked: "I understand that you can achieve great success by setting up a high-tech company."

Next, while helping the online edition of The Wall Street Journal to develop software, Li Yanhong discovered a search method that can rank websites according to the number of network connections, but company executives were completely uninterested in it.

1997, Li Yanhong left the company and applied for a patent for his technology in the United States. Later, at a meeting, Li Yanhong was invited by William, chief technology officer of Infoseek to join Infoseek as a senior engineer to jointly develop the first generation search engine.

However, Infoseek did not give enough enthusiasm and support to the search engine field after 1999 was acquired by Disney.

Li Yanhong felt extremely frustrated, so he decided to start his own business in China and invited his good friend Xu Yong as a partner. With the help of Xu Yong's contacts in Silicon Valley, at the end of 1999, they got1200,000 dollars from two investment institutions.

After returning to China, Li Yanhong founded Baidu, the largest Chinese search engine in China.

Ma: "Monternet" has changed Tencent's living conditions.

Compared with most contemporary Internet entrepreneurs, Ma has a different family background. Ma's father is a southern cadre, but under his father's "care", Ma's entrepreneurship was not smooth sailing.

In the early days of QQ, Ma Hua Teng tried to sell QQ for 600,000 yuan, but could not find a buyer. Gu Yongqiang and Feng Jue, who was working in Sohu at that time, visited Tencent. In the spring of 200 1 year, Ma went to Sina to meet Rebecca himself, and there was no news since then.

At the beginning of 2000, when IDG and PCG invested US$ 2.2 million in Hong Kong, the price was to sell up to 40% of the shares. According to an employee of Tencent that year, during the financing process, Ma had undergone lumbar surgery twice. After the second operation, he lay flat on the bed and went to work with a laptop.

Ma finally waited for the MIH group in South Africa in the torment. At the same time, Monternet launched by China Mobile began to change Tencent's living conditions.

The "28-20" agreement of Monternet mobile phone charging makes it possible for Tencent to charge for its member business, and then the speed of Tencent making money is as amazing as the crazy growth of its registered users.

Today, Tencent has become the largest Internet company in China with the help of QQ, and has been involved in almost all Internet business fields, which Ma never thought of when he started his business in 1998.

Because at that time, Ma and Zhang Zhidong, a college classmate, decided to go into business and set up a software company with only five telephone lines and eight computers. Their main business is outsourcing software for other companies.

At that time, in order to make a living, both of them worked as sales and engineers, and they dared to take any business. They do web pages, system integration and programming, and QQ developed by imitating ICQ is just a by-product of the project.

Liu: E-commerce out of the counter

Liu was born in Suqian, Jiangsu, and his family was not rich. When he was in college, his family gave him 500 yuan to go on the road. In his junior year, Liu rode his bike to a unit in Mentougou every day to practice as a programmer, from which he earned his first bucket of gold.

1998, with the savings of 12000 yuan, Liu started a company in Zhongguancun, rented a counter and started selling CDs as an agent. In this way, he earned considerable wealth, which is the starting point of JD. COM's career.

By 200 1, JD.COM Mall had become the largest CD dealer in China at that time, and opened more than ten branches all over the country. Liu's personal wealth also exceeded 10 million yuan for the first time.

Later, JD.COM Mall transformed into an e-commerce, won the domain name of JD.COM, went public, and married a sister with milk tea, reaching the peak of her life.

Zhang Chaoyang: I was fooled by investors at the beginning of my business.

Zhang Chaoyang is from Xi, Shaanxi. Zhang Chaoyang loved fantasy since he was a child and was unwilling to lag behind. He studied painting, made a model plane and played the erhu. He likes watching Water Margin and Goldbach's Conjecture. The ideal is to become a physicist and win the Nobel Prize.

Since college, he has been busy climbing the peak of success. Take a cold bath in winter to exercise perseverance and run long distances around Yuanmingyuan. 1986, he passed the examination for studying abroad which was passed by less than 100 college students in China at that time, got a scholarship and went to the School of Physics and Engineering of Columbia University.

1July, 1996, Zhang Chaoyang officially started his financing trip. "In order to call investors, he queued up at a public phone booth on the American street, and he even tasted the embarrassment of being driven out of the office by investors.

At this time, Zhang Chaoyang endured a lot of tricks from American investors in order to obtain financing. "They played me around," Zhang said.

Through continuous efforts, Zhang Chaoyang got to know Negroponte, director of the Media Laboratory of MIT and author of Digital Survival. After meeting with Zhang Chaoyang, the man of the hour promised to make angel investment in his company. This is also the first angel investment to change Zhang Chaoyang's worth.

"In the end, after a long period of contact, three other interested investors were identified. I was tortured, too. Maybe it's because I'm young, powerful and dedicated. Maybe the three of them were attracted by my desire for success and gave me a chance.

In fact, I got my first angel investment on the recommendation of a professor at MIT. "

1August, 1996, ITC Aitexin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (Beijing) was officially registered. 65438+1October 65438+March, Zhang Chaoyang finally saw $65438+05,000 in his account, which was the first venture capital that ATTEX obtained. Investors include Nigroponti, a professor at MIT, and Edward Robert, a professor at Si Long School of Management. Another US$ 20,000 from Nigroponti arrived at 1997.

This very important investment for Zhang Chaoyang is $225,000. Although there is only $654.38+$7,000 for him to start a business, he can finally start doing what he wants.

When the big boss started his business, it was also very bumpy. How similar is this to your present situation?