Ma's Entrepreneurial Experience (Detailed)

From 65438 to 0998, the concept of practical software not only cultivated Ma's keen sense of the software market, but also made him profit from it. Ma is one of the authors of the all-time popular stock card. The stock cards developed by him and his friends have been selling well in the SEG electronic market. Ma also often solves software problems for friends' companies. This makes him not only famous in the circle, but also has a considerable primitive accumulation.

2. Establish Tencent

1998 Ma and his classmate Zhang Zhidong jointly registered Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd., and then absorbed three shareholders, Xu and Chen Yidan. As a software company established without venture capital intervention, every initial expenditure of Ma surprised his companions.

3. Difficult opportunities

At the early stage of its development, Tencent experienced a very important compensation lawsuit: around 1999-2000. OICQ developed after ICQ robbed many ICQ users, especially those in Chinese mainland.

Later, ICQ Company finally ruled that Tencent lost the case through legal channels, stopped using the name OICQ, returned the OICQ domain name to ICQ Company, and compensated certain expenses. Since then, Tencent has been using the name QQ.

4. Financial difficulties

At the beginning of the business, Ma led the team to do web pages, system integration and program design. However, because they don't understand the market and market operation, Tencent's products are sold to operators, but they are often rejected. Like other start-up Internet companies, capital and technology are Tencent's biggest problems.

5. The future is bright.

The software can't be sold, but the number of users is growing rapidly, and the investment needed to operate QQ is increasing. The horse had to go around to raise money. Ma took a business plan with six versions and more than 20 pages and began to look for foreign venture capital. Finally, he met IDG and PCG Digital and got the first investment. Tencent's development is gradually on the right track.

6. List ranking

In 20 14, Ma topped the list of 3000 family fortune in China with wealth 1007 billion yuan, an increase of 54 billion yuan over that in 20 13.

201February 13 was selected as the winner of "20 14 China Internet Person of the Year" activity.

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