Three stories of successful entrepreneurs

# Fairy Tale # Introduction If you want to succeed in starting a business, the most important thing is to choose a business project that suits you and has certain characteristics. You should also keep your initial passion in starting a business and constantly look for new opportunities for success. The following are three stories of successful entrepreneurs, which are compiled and shared by the internet. Welcome to read and learn from them.

Part I

Huang Jianxiang Venture gets 9.5 million yuan to invest in promoting football training O2O products

While the stars are keen to invest in internet startups, football commentator Huang Jianxiang has embarked on the road of hard work and devoted himself to the tide of internet entrepreneurship, using his own resources to launch the O2O product "Move Football" for youth football training, and has received 9.5 million yuan of angel investment.

Huang Jianxiang is "not alone" in this venture, and several of his business partners also love football. One is Mr. Bai Qiang, who has played football for more than 3 years since college and won the North American Chinese Football League. He is also a 2-year veteran of the Internet. He used to be UniView Technology Co Corp CTO and Vice President of Iflytek. The other is the star Sneijder, the Dutch national team's active No.1.

Bai Qiang and Huang Jianxiang are of the same age. They often exchange football on WeChat, scolding each other about which team is poor. They both like the German team. At the end of last year, Bai Qiang and Huang Jianxiang met in a cafe. Huang Jianxiang said that there are some entrepreneurial opportunities in sports, and they want to use an O2O method to collect online education resources. For example, if you want to play football, you need to find teams, venues, opponents and coaches. In a word, it is Uber of sports.

Bai Qiang didn't agree at first. After playing football for so many years, it's impossible to hire any coach. The team leader also takes care of the opponents in the venue. He also believes that taxi matching is simple, just from point A to point B. Sports is very complicated. Some people make friends, some people do it for health, and some people just love it.

However, Huang Jianxiang persuaded him on a macro level. "The sports industry is bound to break out and become a part of life, I admit it. At the same time, in China, mass sports doesn't have a well-known brand. Does it count as Super League? Not counting. " I don't know exactly how to do it. "Tie your shoelaces while running. If Iflytek had to think clearly about how to use his voice, there would be no iFLYTEK."

So on November 23, 214, the company was formally established, and it was named Sports. On April 21st this year, their first entrepreneurial project "Move Football" was officially released in Beijing. It is understood that "Move Football" has received an angel investment of 9.5 million yuan.

"Move Football" is an application on WeChat platform. Its main functions are: on the one hand, football fans who are interested in teaching their children to play football in their spare time can apply on the platform, and after receiving professional training provided by Mobile Bar for free, they can be upgraded to a player who can teach football in the vicinity; On the other hand, parents who are interested in letting their children experience the football initiation course can choose the weekly football experience course nearby on the platform and sign up for it at a lower cost.

In terms of division of labor, Huang Jianxiang is mainly responsible for the development of football resources and brand promotion, while Bai Qiang, as CEO, is mainly responsible for product building and daily operation management, while Sneijder is responsible for introducing football enlightenment training methods used by cruyff system and Ajax club, and seeking international cooperation. What they will do in the future is to become the first brand of mass sports in China and Uber in sports. Every time he talks about ideas, Huang Jianxiang always holds Bai Qiang's hand excitedly: Old Bai, this thing is better than all the things that the two of us put together for the rest of our lives.

Huang Jianxiang said that the project he really wants to do is "Let's move sports", and "Let's move football" is just a function in "Let's move sports". In his view, "Move Sports" should be a sports social media similar to WeChat and Weibo.

Huang Jianxiang: Actually, people from all walks of life in the sports industry need to register to form a relatively rich ecological circle. It's early days, just like when Weibo and Wechat started. When there are few species in the ecosystem, you will feel as if there is no interaction or social interaction. However, if this process can be accelerated, it will be like an open sports version of WeChat, or Didi taxi, or other social software, such as Momo.

According to Huang Jianxiang's plan, "Let's Move Football" is only a product in the initial stage. In the future, all functions will be integrated into an APP product, which will provide services such as finding a venue, finding an opponent, finding a teammate and finding a sparring partner by moving internet plus. For Huang Jianxiang, it is the most natural thing to do "Let's do sports" by starting with football.

Huang Jianxiang: Starting from football, it is easier for me to make a thorough and solid work and make a successful model or sample.

Huang Jianxiang: There are many retired players and students who graduated from sports colleges, and their current occupations may not be related to sports. They are useful, but because they may not work in the education system or sports system, it may be the most reasonable to coordinate these folk forces by means of the internet. Because only the internet can choose and realize wireless social contact indefinitely, and it is impossible for any administrative department to reorganize these people who have been scattered outside the education and sports system and can teach football, because people already have their own jobs!

According to Bai Qiang, another founder of Mobile Bar Sports, they introduced the cruyff system and the football initiation training methods used by Ajax Club from the Netherlands, and created a set of training plan for mobile bar football closely according to the characteristics of children aged 4-12 in China, which will become the main content of pre-job training for mobile bar football experts.

However, in Huang Jianxiang's view, the work of such offline entities is not the focus of his future work. He said that unlike many educational O2O products at present, Mobile Sports will not do the next step online. What he has to do is to build a platform.

Huang Jianxiang: All the offline entities we want to do have become part of our ecosystem, making this Internet ecosystem more and more perfect and rich, and reaching a benign ecological balance. We don't want to do things that are pushed step by step offline. What we want is that all people in the sports industry need an exclusive social platform, which is convenient for them to find each other, and Weibo WeChat can't play this role now.

"The public comment mode O2O only tells me that there are several Sichuan restaurants in the annex, but it won't let Sichuan restaurants know how many people like Sichuan food nearby, and we will realize two-way interaction to make the information more equal." Huang Jianxiang said. "We hope to build such a platform to connect potential football resources such as teachers and stadiums with people who want to participate in football, and really mobilize the football resources of the whole society in China through low-cost user experience, and it is the most reasonable way to coordinate these resources with the network."

article 2

Shanghai sister after 8s works as an APP trader and sucks millions of dollars in venture capital

She was born after 8s and has the experience of the post-8s, but she is playing with the expression of the post-9s pan-duality, with the signature "The expression is cute" on WeChat. She, who used to be top student, failed in the college entrance examination, but she was lucky enough to become a high-paying family in Japanese enterprises. An article entitled "whatmattersyouthemost? What is most important to you? ) MBA application started the "frequency conversion" of her career until she embarked on the road of entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Expression me, Shanghai sister Ding Yan.

dream of starting a business

Ding Yan, born in 1981 with a monthly salary of 3, as soon as she graduated from college, was the youngest in the same grade when she went to primary school at the age of 5. In the graduation season of 21, by chance, I met Sony Corporation of Japan for the first time to recruit fresh graduates outside the country, when Sony was in its heyday. Ding Yan just handed in her resume, but I didn't expect to be accepted. That year, Ding Yan was 19 years old and flew to work for Sony in Japan. "At that time, the monthly salary was equivalent to RMB3,."

After working for Sony in Japan for six years, Ding Yanmeng came up with the idea of studying for an MBA in the United States. I remember that Stanford MBA only needs to write an article entitled "whatmattersyouthemost? What is most important to you? ) "application article.

At that time, she was in a confused period of her career. Ding Yan wrote this English article for more than a month. "Later, I felt that I wanted to do consulting work after my MBA, but looking back, since this direction is determined in a few years, why not start now?" Ding Yan then gave up studying. In 211, Ding Yan began to contact Mobile internet plus. One day, the company set up a joint venture company and found Ding Yan, hoping that she could be the vice president of the joint venture company in China. Although the project finally failed, Dante Yan's entrepreneurial dream was inspired.

Quit your job and start a business

My former boss became a member of the team

When I returned to Tokyo, Ding Yan's boss Xiaoping invited her to dinner. The first thing I said at the meeting was, "I'm here to resign from you." Ding Yan flew back to Beijing the next day, and she and her original team started the entrepreneurial project. The digression is: Xiaoping Xin, the boss of that year, also joined Ding Yan's team last year as the Japanese marketing director, and he is one of the four overseas special forces members of the company.

At the end of 211, there were more than 2 people who went it alone with Ding Yan. They founded "apehills" company as a secondary development platform for mobile Internet software, and developed more than 2 apps in one year, mainly for the Japanese market. Ding Yan's English learning app rushed to the first place in the Japanese classified app list as soon as it went online. In that year, an app called "Like Yan Painting" was also developed, mainly to move street painters to the Internet, which was considered to have been involved in the O2O field very early.

However, Ding Yan said: "At that time, the team was very naive, and developed a lot of products. I wanted to do which one was popular, and many apps were on the list. It was very happy to watch. However, at that time, there was no careful planning for the business model and how to make money. Now that I think about it, the app is actually on the list, but it is just the beginning of entrepreneurship. "

moving south to Shanghai

focusing on the atmosphere of Shanghai

After starting a business in Beijing for two years, Ding Yan returned to her hometown of Shanghai in 213. In July 213, Ding Yan established Shanghai Siyan Painting Company.

Ding Yan said: "Before the establishment of the company, we made a difficult choice, whether to do education or painting. Education has a foundation in Japan, and there are more than 1 million app users; The painting-like app, although there are only hundreds of thousands of users, has a beautiful growth curve, and about 3% are paying users. "

At that time, the market in cmnet was booming. In China in 213, WeChat started. Ding Yan was very optimistic about the expression of WeChat, and finally decided to do painting.

in October, 213, she won the venture capital of millions of dollars from Beijing Zhenge Fund, Tianjin Yingnuo Venture Fund and Shanghai Relay Angel Venture, which made Ding Yan's company run with the first angel investment.

Decryption of emoticons

An emoticon sells for 299 yuan

At the end of 213, Ding Yan's team launched the "Custom-made Emoticons for Face-like Painting" on WeChat, which is an attempt in the China market, and can help China users to customize their avatars and emotions, with a charge of 299 yuan.

"After doing it for several months, I have accumulated 2, users who are willing to pay, accounting for 2%." Ding Yan was very happy to see this, and found that after determining an avatar, users hoped to customize more dynamic expressions, not just emotions.

In March, 214, a new function "My mm Show" was launched in this company, and users can update their dynamic expressions every week. After doing it for dozens of weeks, Ding Yan found that almost 1% of the 2, paying users will update every week, and at the same time, they are also inspired. Paying users are at the top of the pyramid, and some users may be blocked out because they are too expensive. The next step is to try to lower the threshold for users to get expressions and images.

To be an app that makes the post-9s scream

"Expression is just needed for chatting after the post-9s." Ding Yan said that in June last year, Emoji me was separated from the Yan-like Painting app, and was developed as an independent app, which was more targeted at the China market. One of the functions of this app is to let users spell their facial features and expressions. Ding Yan said that the expression me should be an app that makes people scream after 9.

"The reason why Magic Man and Face Meng have been on fire for a while is that they have not formed their own closed loop, and there is no following if they make a good head portrait. In fact, users need to change their avatars frequently, and the demand for expressions is endless. "

The game should also have expressions

In March this year, the expression me just launched a new function, that is, users can get a mengMeng avatar of the expression Me by taking photos on their mobile phones. Such a simple function involves the technology or logic of face recognition, feature capture, artistic generation and emotional change.

In February, 214, Emoji won millions of dollars in venture capital from Shanghai Puruan Huizhi and Beijing Beiruan Angel, which was regarded as Series A financing. By the end of March 215, the app of Emoji me had been downloaded over 2 million times, with more than 1 million users.

article 3

a few years ago, the throne of the world's youngest billionaire has been held by Facebook founder mark? Zuckerberg monopolizes. However, this year, this title changed hands, Snapchat founder Evan? Spigel is in the bag. Snapchat is a mobile communication software, which features that messages will be automatically burned after 1 seconds, leaving no record. The software can also share messages, photos and videos, and the main users are mostly young people in Europe and America.

Reject Zuckerberg and replace his title

Recently, Snapchat received an investment from Yahoo, and its valuation was raised to $1 billion. This round of financing is not over yet, and Snapchat is still seeking investment from other investors. Previously, Snapchat had held financing negotiations with Alibaba, and this summer it signed a financing agreement with the venture capital company KPCB.

Its founder, Spigel, has a net worth of $1.5 billion, making him the youngest billionaire in the new world at the age of 24. Similar to the initial stage of Facebook, the Snapchat photo sharing application founded by Spigel is also free and does not generate income, but its income-generating prospect and space are enough to attract many investors' investment. As the son of a lawyer and his wife, Spigel was born in a powerful family, but now, this 24-year-old boy has rejected Mark? Zuckerberg is remembered by people.

Two years after graduating from Stanford University, the co-founder of Snapchat has reached the peak that many people dream of, and the business empire he founded has received an offer worth billions of dollars. It is reported that Facebook used $3 billion in cash to buy Snapchat, but it was rejected.