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What's the experience of working in a startup?
In fact, starting a business is like derailing your life and rebuilding a home (at least for your family). This new home will take away what you once got from your old life in waves.
First of all, it is impossible to be with family. Going home for dinner is becoming more and more extravagant, and all your thoughts can only happen after others' work is over during the day. You will feel that the office is the most comfortable and simple place every night.
Secondly, if you pull away from your emotions, you will suddenly lose your softness and love, and the fighting mentality such as anxiety, tension, excitement and excitement will occupy your 360-degree brain in minutes. The limited time spent with my family has become particularly perfunctory. Wedding anniversary gifts must have been brought back by various hints the day before, and it is more and more easy to get distracted when having dinner with my wife. She seriously discussed with you the details of her child's experience when she bought her first children's car three years ago.
Then, hogging your mobile phone, going home, traveling, watching movies and sleeping all become that you just want to work in another place. At any time, a picture of a quality group will make you worried and angry. Seeing the sales of the sales team decline, you will be depressed and finally sell it. When you see the out-of-stock information of the supply chain group, you are dead. When you see the financial payment deduction information popped up by the bank SMS, you will be tempted by all kinds of tricks.
Finally, life and sexual life are uninteresting, and the quality is extremely declining. When you see exposed girls in plain clothes on the streets of Shenzhen in summer, they just harden a little in perfume to show their respect, and then they are interrupted by a phone call: Hello, Lin Hao, are you swollen? We are in the credit department of China Construction Bank ... We don't need a loan? Then do you want to spend the ticket? Do you want to do something stupid?
Until one day, my wife suddenly asked you on WeChat, do you want a divorce? Are you cheating? Looking at these words on your mobile phone, you paused to open the voice message that the sales team kept sending, and sat on the sofa and thought about it. There are indications that you really have a new home away from home, and you have sacrificed most of your energy and time for it. The goal of having a daughter may not be achieved for many years, but you have made countless children's products for other children. You may not be with growing children for a long time, but you think about how your product can accompany other people's children for a longer time every day. You may not have had a deep communication with your wife for a long time, but you have painstakingly set needs and experiences with your mothers in various mother-infant groups. You missed a lot, lost a lot, and didn't earn money to repay your family. So is it worthwhile to start a business in recent years?
When you face all these questions and sacrifices, of course, you will also face a lot of joy and gain. The length of life is limited, but the passion and busyness of starting a business will increase the width of our life. You have never wasted a day. Years haven't had time to take out the pig-killing knife, and you have put it on the ground and rubbed it with the newly listed children's roller skates countless times. Every product design award can make you feel happy in the morning when you harvest the winner's email. Every Double Eleven Congress can make you cry in the middle of the night when numbers and rankings soar. Every time the crowdfunding record is refreshed, you can drink to your comrades in the pub in the early morning. Every traffic that hits the e-commerce page deserves your respect with all your efforts.
Our users are growing every day, Qi is growing every day and our team is growing every day. How do you want me to evaluate entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship is not worth it, but growth is worth it.
The moment I saw this question, my mind was full of thoughts. I also talked about this topic with my friends during the Spring Festival. I feel that we are lucky to meet this good era of mass entrepreneurship and innovation. We can use our hobbies to do business and enlarge our sincerity until we can shine.
Entrepreneurship is almost a word that runs through my life in this decade. It is not so much what it is like to work in a startup as what it is like to live in a startup. Entrepreneurship is actually a state of my life, which is as ups and downs as life itself. As a CEO, you must be like a leader, moving forward and backward with a group of people towards the same goal. Daily thinking is more complicated. It's easier to make products complicated than to save things. Working in an entrepreneurial team, growth is always an indispensable part, and there is often only one state during the period. To exaggerate, it is to go back and forth from heaven to hell every day. There will be many crazy things at any time, but after the madness, there will be many gains and surprises. These surprises are big and small, but they often make people reflect, find out what can trigger their inner feelings in the crowd, and then create countless possibilities for practice. Step by step, in this state, the degree of cooperation and integration between team partners can't be realized in non-startup companies, which is why people in startup companies are always young and strong inside.
Entrepreneurship in the Internet industry is often hard-won, or it will not come so soon. Only by being able to withstand loneliness and keep your heart, can you go to the open day. The innovation of Internet kitchen appliance industry is a process of constantly saying no to tradition. It is for daily use, and nothing can be achieved overnight by re-injecting genes into the Internet. There is no market gap, but there is an increase in quality demand. How to find a balanced fulcrum during this period is also one of the daily practices of entrepreneurial teams. Innovation is also normal, small and beautiful things, easy to refine, but growth can not stop at any time. People in the entrepreneurial team always need a larger and more comprehensive industry pattern and vision, and they should be psychologically prepared to resist risks at any time, just as there are endless troubles and hardships in life, and they should always be prepared to fight at any time.
The so-called luck is that the opportunity happens to bump into your efforts. Pure rice is lucky. It will be the sixth anniversary soon. From the first product to the brand-new brand, the efforts made are obvious to all, with the support of many rice noodles, the understanding of many peers and the persistence of many users. The future is still the road to entrepreneurship and practice, with opportunities and challenges. Whether it is worth it, let time prove everything.
I founded the brand Yi Jie on 18 with a simple original intention. I want to make a new domestic product, even if it is a broom and dustpan, I have to do a good job of texture. Now that people have good living conditions, they are naturally willing to improve their quality of life. The cleaning tools at home are not updated, and the appearance is fashionable, which will always destroy the aesthetic feeling.
Strictly speaking, as a boss, I can't say that I work in a startup company. I just started my business and built a new domestic product industry with the quality of household cleaning products. I hope Yi Jie will be synonymous with good-looking and easy-to-use in the future.
Seeing this problem, what I want to say most is actually how I want my employees to feel in my company. I hope that when we are together, we can feel fresh, interesting, young, energetic and creative development. It is true that working in a startup is hard, but equally, if you succeed in starting a business, you will have a great sense of accomplishment.
If you work in a startup company and you are confused now, you should stop, look around, look at your working environment, look at the market environment of your industry, and then ask your initial heart. If the revolution is not successful, then comrades still need to work hard. * * * Encourage.
It's been one year since the ancient Xiao Jiu was formally established, and it feels like three years have passed ... This year, various external pressures have made our whole fortress more United, denser and more effective. It is not necessarily good to have background and resources. Sometimes, please keep some "no matter how high or low" Dare to fantasize unrealistically, only dare to work hard.
When you can't see the future clearly, the only thing you can do is to do every little thing in the present. Most people will complain. Now, these people should deal less and check their talents frequently. You meet all kinds of people, hear all kinds of things and experience all kinds of hardships, and your pattern will naturally be high. Greatness is born of contempt and disdain.
Working in a startup is not only an opportunity but also a challenge. It is also a ladder, which can help you walk more steadily and further in your later life. It is also one of the platforms that can make you know yourself clearly and realize your life values and goals. You should join a long-distance tour group. The members are all strange and diverse people. In order to achieve the same goal, from the beginning, they have their own ideas, and they should unite and advance together. Although the road is long and bumpy, they have to climb mountains and wade, go out early and return late, eat badly and sleep badly, and they have to pay their own money, physical strength and spirit. However, in order to arrive safely and smoothly, and see the colorful, splendid and intoxicating scenery we expected, everyone did not hesitate. Qi Xin worked together and United, overcoming all obstacles in thought, physiology, thought and people, and finally achieved his goal and realized his wish. However, some people shrink back, change their ways and wait and see for various reasons. Their wishes are good and their hopes are high. They made great efforts, but failed to persist. Later, they didn't even see the beautiful scenery, and finally regretted it for life.
Start-ups generally refer to small enterprises that have not received financing or only received angel round financing, which have the characteristics of short establishment time, weak capital chain, small staff size and being in the business exploration period.
In a startup company, the short-term goals, management system, working methods and project resources are very different from those of a large enterprise. Employees who work in it will naturally have a unique experience. Some people can't accept this feeling of "no system", while others love this "chaotic and orderly" work very much.
As an "old bird" who once worked in a start-up team of 20 people and also worked in a scale enterprise of 2000 people, I would like to share my personal feelings and summary here.
First, the experience of working in a startup company, as I said, can be described as "chaotic and orderly" in one word.
(1) has no sense of direction.
Because in the initial stage, the direction and policies of the boss and the company can be constantly changed, or changed three times a day, employees generally feel that they have no sense of direction and don't know which direction they should work hard in.
At the same time, because the company has almost no talent training and assessment system, I often can't find my own career promotion path. If I want to be promoted, I can only take the initiative to talk to my boss and complete a certain sense of professional disorder.
(2) There is no sense of dependence.
The products and services of start-up companies are generally not widely recognized and sought after by the market, so employees often encounter obstacles when promoting products or seeking resource cooperation.
For example, if you want to put an advertisement on Tmall, it is more expensive than on Procter & Gamble, because your brand awareness is not enough. Cannot form a win-win situation with Tmall. Therefore, employees will feel that there is no backer in the process of developing their business.
(3) Strong sense of accomplishment.
Due to the decrease in the number of entrepreneurial teams, many times an important project of a company needs everyone to participate, and every employee must play an important role. Building a project from 0 to/kloc-0 is naturally more fulfilling and participatory than being a screw in a big company.
(4) No sense of bondage.
Generally, due to imperfect rules and regulations, and in order to stimulate team vitality, start-up teams will not limit attendance time, dress, approval process, etc. This will also make many people who don't like constraints more comfortable.
Second, the advantages and disadvantages of employee management in start-up companies and large companies (1)
Employee management here includes employee care, such as training, career guidance, administrative support and welfare protection.
The staff management of large enterprises is generally very detailed and systematic, and will pay attention to the professional and corporate culture training of employees at different stages before and after their employment. Five insurances, one gold and even commercial insurance will be standardized, which will give employees better protection.
Start-ups, because they don't have such strong financial support and too many administrative manpower to specialize in employee management, will be lacking in employee training and security, and welfare benefits are generally basic, and may even be unable to pay wages in time because of financial relations.
(2) Work style
Including all kinds of rules and regulations, standards and processes of enterprises.
After long-term development, large enterprises have a set of mature operating mechanisms, including various processes, norms and other standards, so they are very orderly, but they also lack creativity. You can innovate within the scope of standards, but breakthrough measures are difficult to achieve.
However, start-ups do things more according to everyone's own experience and ideas. There are not too many complicated standards. Although it is not standardized, it will be more efficient and give employees more opportunities to "innovate" in the chaos.
(3) Division of functions
Including the company's employment requirements, job function division and assessment standards.
There are many large enterprises, so the division of labor is very fine. Most middle-level employees mainly play the role of "screws" in large enterprises, and they need professionals. You can manage your own "one acre and three points" and do not advocate cross-departmental and cross-post interference, so employees of large enterprises are generally not very clear about the work of other departments.
Start-ups generally participate in every important project, and they need all-rounders more. Therefore, employees of start-up enterprises can also be exposed to more different functions besides their own posts and learn more extensive knowledge.
(4) Resource height
Including your contacts, resources and projects at work.
The advantage of working in a big enterprise is that you can see the world from the shoulders of giants, get in touch with the top resources and contacts in the industry, participate in projects that can affect the industry and market, and draw a beautiful stroke for your future resume.
But if you have been in a start-up, all the projects you can contact and participate in are carried out with limited funds and resources, which can be said to be tinkering around the edges. If you want to have an impact on something, you need very good ideas.
(5) Working state
This is how you feel at work.
Working in a large enterprise, you may feel more professional honor, more stable and orderly, but you will also feel that you are just an ordinary employee, neglected and lacking in passion because of frequent repetition of work.
But working in a start-up company is basically online 24 hours a day, because the boss can call you at any time. But it's also because the boss is around you, your work achievements will be more easily seen by him, your value will be more easily affirmed, and the team atmosphere will be better.
So in the final analysis, although small, start-ups also have irreplaceable advantages. The two can't be said to be completely comparable and good or bad, mainly depending on your personality, ability and the state of life you are pursuing.
Third, what kind of people are suitable for working in start-ups? (1) likes an enterprising and challenging life, and has no requirements for comfort and stability;
(2) people who like to be affirmed by others and have a strong sense of satisfaction after completing a small matter;
(3) People who like to try new jobs and are tired of repetitive work;
(4) people who want to engage in more creative work and make new breakthroughs after having strong work experience.
To sum up, in fact, working in a startup company has obvious "disadvantages" and "advantages" that big companies can't match. Everyone's feelings of working in a startup company are actually different. This is because everyone's personality is different, and you should choose a company according to your special needs.
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Thank you for reading. If you have any questions about workplace politics or interesting workplace stories, I am willing to share them with you!
I have worked in a startup company for 4 years, and I have experienced a lot and seen a lot. Let me tell you my truest feelings.
1. Working in a startup company, overtime is common, and 996 is common sense. Working in a startup company inevitably requires frequent overtime, and all the time arrangements are subject to the needs of the company's business and projects. It is also common for weekends and holidays to be occupied. Better startups can take weekends and holidays, and the project-intensive period is almost always a single holiday.
Usually, after work, or during vacation, if necessary, the boss will call you or send WeChat at any time, and be on standby at any time. It is not allowed to turn off the phone and not answer the phone.
If you are not psychologically prepared for the above working conditions, don't try a startup company easily.
2. Working in a startup, you have to do everything and know everything. It is best to specialize in many aspects, and one is worth ten. Start-ups usually take a long time, the organizational structure is not clear, the division of labor is not clear, and the company is generally small, with more than a dozen people, often understaffed. Wherever you are needed, you have to go, and whatever the company needs you to do, you have to do.
Start-ups can't let you concentrate on what you like or are good at, nor can you just do your own sub-modules like big companies. What you do will be complicated and trivial, so you have to do everything yourself.
This has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that you can get in touch with all aspects of the company and get exercise in many aspects. The disadvantage is that if you just enter the workplace and have no plan for your career development, you may not know what you are doing after two or three years of work, but you will feel everything, but you are not specialized in anything and don't know what direction to go in the future.
But if you give full play to your strengths and specialties, want to exercise your various abilities, and have the idea of starting your own business in the future, it is a good exercise and study to start a business.
3. The startup company has high turnover rate, long-term shortage of personnel, heavy tasks and great pressure. I have worked in a startup company for 4 years, and I have been the longest employee in the company except the founder team (no one). I have witnessed the arrival and departure of at least five or six groups of people, not counting all kinds of people who came in and left halfway. Ordinary start-up companies have a high turnover rate and can't retain talents, especially when the economic benefits are not good at the beginning of the venture and the salary can't be raised.
In addition, the company is small in scale and not well-known, which can't attract more talents. It has been recruiting, but many positions have been vacant. With the development of the company's business, people are not in place and have to do everything, so people who are still in the company often feel heavy and stressed.
4. The founder or boss of a startup determines the company culture and atmosphere, and the management level of the startup team determines your growth and development limit. Startups are no bigger than big companies. Its organizational structure, system flow and corporate culture have all been formed. The founder, that is, the boss, determines the company culture and atmosphere. If you want to know the atmosphere of the company, you can see what kind of boss is.
The management of startup companies is basically entrusted to the startup team, and the management level of the startup team determines the upper limit of your growth and development. Good managers can make excellent people more Xiu Xiu, while poor managers can make excellent people mediocre.
Therefore, it is very important to choose the right boss and the right person, otherwise it will be very painful, because a person's personality and management style are difficult to change.
Working in a startup company, you should always have planB and the ability to cope with changes to ensure that you can find a better job quickly after you lose your job, because the company may close down at any time.
Startups are full of changes, so the boss's decisions often change, such as adding new business and cutting old business. , involving job transfer or dismissal, etc. This is one of them. In the fierce market competition, enterprises are also facing the risk of bankruptcy at any time, and you may lose your job at any time, which is the second.
Therefore, you must always have planB B B. What should you do if the company goes bankrupt? How to ensure that you can find a better job quickly after unemployment, or you won't get into trouble.
Well, the above are some real experiences I have summed up in my four years in a startup company, hoping to provide some reference for friends who want to go to a startup company.
Pressure, fatigue, passion, growth, this is my personal experience in a startup company for nearly two years.
First, stress. There are many pressures, including performance pressure. Poor performance, not only reduced income, but also life and death of the company, as well as pressure from work intensity. In an entrepreneurial company, it is normal for one person to fuck three people, and it is normal to work overtime at night. At that time, I often didn't start meetings until after 10 in the evening. Some people may call me too inhuman, but I can't help it. This project is so urgent that even the big boss stands aside.
Second, work hard. Before starting a company, I worked in a medium-sized company, at least as a small manager, with a group of effective engineers to help me. But after I went to this startup, I had to do everything by myself, chasing materials, carrying materials, assembling prototypes, doing tests, doing experiments, writing experimental reports, negotiating with customers, planning products and following up production. In short, I want to do everything, but I am engaged in technology development! In addition, the office environment of startups is incomparable with that of large companies. The office is dirty, messy and poor, and there are many sundries. Mosquitoes come out to bite people in broad daylight. The dining hall is hot and narrow, and there is often no place to sit, and I often squat at the door to eat. It's fucking hard.
Third, passion. Working in a startup company is still relatively passionate, and the whole company can see the results. Especially when making a good product, I am still very excited to watch the online sales figures go up. Moreover, if this product continues to sell well, it can also help startups tide over the difficulties and feel that they are the savior of the company, so they are still looking forward to it, and they can be full of passion at ordinary times, which explains why they often have meetings after 10 pm.
Fourth, growth. Some people say that startups are full of problems and think that you should never go to a small company or startup, but I think that startups or small companies have many advantages that big companies don't. For example, growth is one of them. I think you are growing very fast in a startup. In a startup, you are like the owner of the company. You have the decision-making power in many things, so you can go all out, unlike in a big company, where you have to go through the process for bigger things. It is also because you have to do everything in a startup company, what belongs to you and what doesn't belong to you, but it can help you learn a lot that you can't learn in a big company, which is very conducive to comprehensively exercising yourself, improving your perspective and problem-solving ability, and also enabling you to have a certain operator thinking, which is conducive to starting a business or jumping to a higher position in the future.
In short, in a startup company, it can be summed up in four words: pressure, fatigue, passion and growth. For some people, it may be considered as a problem, but for others, it may be considered as a paradise where you can exercise yourself in all directions!
Startups usually have the following characteristics:
1, small scale. Start-up companies have fewer employees, usually a dozen to dozens. So, almost all employees know each other! Therefore, the company's uploading and publishing is very smooth and the communication efficiency is very high. The management of the company is small, so ordinary employees can talk to the boss directly, which is also directly managed by the boss.
2. The corporate culture is positive and there is little intrigue. Because there are not many people, so everyone is doing things, there is no need to intrigue, and they dare not intrigue, because the boss can see it.
3. Irregular. In the early days, start-ups focused on business expansion, and the company's rules and regulations were often not perfect. The management of a company depends on people, which is often more humane.
So, working in a startup, you will have this experience:
1, very busy.
In order to reduce labor costs, startups often hope that employees are elites, and one person can undertake many things. In a startup, you will have a lot of things to do. Maybe you need to go out and run your own business, but you should also follow your own orders. At the same time, you need to do your own customer service. So, I will live a full life.
2. Very free.
Because the rules and regulations of startup companies are not perfect, employees are basically not bound by rules and regulations. For example, you may not need to punch in every day, you just need to do your own thing! So you may be more free in your work arrangements.
3. Irregular.
Because startups focus on business development, they will be ignored in human resource management. For example, some companies do not sign labor contracts or buy social security accumulation funds. These are all irregular manifestations! In terms of process, it is also more casual, unlike large companies that have many process signatures.
Entrepreneurial companies have the characteristics of high growth and high risk, which also leads to working in such enterprises, and it is also inseparable from these two characteristics.
First, working in an entrepreneurial company has a faster growth and promotion. In entrepreneurial companies, employees with outstanding abilities are usually more likely to be promoted for two reasons:
1 Small-scale startups give employees more opportunities to perform.
Most start-up companies are relatively small in scale, and many employees hold several jobs. In this process, everyone's ability will be developed deeper and wider, and employees who have advantages in a certain aspect will be placed in corresponding positions after training.
1. Entrepreneurial companies mostly adopt linear organizational structure and short, flat and fast management mode, which shortens the promotion route.
In the choice of organizational structure, entrepreneurial companies generally choose a more efficient linear organizational structure because of the single business type and fewer personnel.
In this structure, the boss and employees can talk directly. When employees' abilities are outstanding, the boss can see them quickly, respond to them and give them a promotion. This is undoubtedly the shortest promotion route for employees.
I spent three years in an entrepreneurial company and personally experienced the efficiency and speed of such companies in this respect. At that time, the number of employees in the company was small, and sometimes the sales staff needed to serve as commercial specialists. When the director in charge of sales is not in the company, employees with better sales ability will take the initiative to help other colleagues receive customers and help negotiate and complete orders.
In this process, everyone's ability is stimulated more. For example, a sales employee with outstanding business contact ability will be transferred to the Ministry of Commerce to take charge of major customer projects; A sales employee has outstanding teamwork ability and will soon be promoted to sales supervisor. This proves that working in an entrepreneurial company, as long as you have the ability, you will be promoted quickly.
Now I have left that company for ten years, but my original ability training and rapid promotion still provide me with many nutrients in my present job, such as good learning ability, efficient execution and self-confidence gained from it.
Second, working in an entrepreneurial company, the sustainable development of career may not be guaranteed, which is determined by the high risk of entrepreneurial enterprises. The development of employees is inseparable from the stability of the platform. If the platform collapses, the career development of employees will have to start again. There are two reasons for this:
1. The life cycle of new industries and new projects is limited.
With the popularization of the concept of national entrepreneurship, many people have joined the entrepreneurial team, but not all people and all projects are suitable for entrepreneurship. Some industries or projects are promising now, but their life cycle may only be five or ten years.
According to some surveys, the average life span of start-ups is only 2.5 years, that is to say, to work in such a company, you need to be psychologically prepared to find a job in advance.
2. Poor entrepreneur planning makes the enterprise unable to develop for a long time.
The success of entrepreneurship is not only related to the project, but also related to the quality of entrepreneurs. When entrepreneurs are unable to cope with pressure, capital integration, short-term planning and long-term layout, entrepreneurship is likely to fail. The platform cannot guarantee its long-term development, and as an employee, its career development cannot be guaranteed.
Nevertheless, start-ups still have many attractions, such as relatively new management concepts, relatively harmonious team atmosphere, less office politics and relatively passionate work.
This is my answer, thank you!
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