历程-创业第一年:idea:不知道干啥第二年:team: 没人愿意跟着做第三年:prototype:开发时间成本,客户对接第四年:makreting and commercialization:推向市场,小批量生产,成本控制,生产流程第五年:revenue and profit:挣钱维持第六年:diversifying:至少三个项目同时做,才能活下去第七年:stablization:利润率 [ ...阅读全文 ]
6% of overall population are working or worked in their own business; 50% of business can operate more than 5 years; 30% of them can run more than 10 years. Less than 20% of startups are making hardware. 98.7% of consumer hardware startup are failed and 3 [ ...阅读全文 ]
Elon is tackling some very tough problems: rockets, EV, and urban traffic.The core of his business model is driving the cost to a level that more people can afford it. Before space activitis are government privilege and now spread to even startup company [ ...阅读全文 ]
If you check how Elon Musk form SpaceX The Boring Company you will notice the ideationprocesses are quite similar. Both are starting from very very big vision and screening down to a specific immediate problem for startup. Living in Mars dream has driven [ ...阅读全文 ]
创业者如果成功需要很多特别的特性: 一些通常所说的特性(网上一堆)我列出来一些:passion,Resilience,Strong Sense of Self,Flexibility,Vision, execution, risk taking, open mind, planning and priority, etc.s 我说点另类的。 创业者倾向于把不确定的事情定位为机会。 [ ...阅读全文 ]
创新是一个长长的链。能把这个链完整了是一件了不起的事。首先需要知道问题再哪里? 只有10%的人会意识到目前的产品或者程序需要改进。其余的人都接受了, don't care or get used to。然后10% of that could have basic idea about a high level solution.Then 10 % of that could have chance to get right pe [ ...阅读全文 ]
We have been invited to demonstrate our device to engineers in this mining company in this Jan. Then they sent us to underground mining site for field testing for twice. The lessons we learned are:Field testing is not training. The only thing we should do [ ...阅读全文 ]
Attending launch event of innovation idea pitch competition at College. It seems very important because Mayor came to cut the ribbon.Networking with people including fellow startup entrepreneurs, government funding agent, and some business leaders. Collec [ ...阅读全文 ]
Today meet one of my advisor, Fi, a professor from community college in library study room. He is very smart person and provides consulting service for startup.He provided me clear picture about marketing plan in a very organized way. He would like to be [ ...阅读全文 ]
Today my partner told me he will go university to continue his study by the end of the year. But he will still play a smaller role in the company but will not involve into the daily operation and low level engineering and design activities. He will help m [ ...阅读全文 ]
创业不久,经历三次合作伙伴的分开。 没有一次不是闹翻天的。First time it happened around 2008 when my friend and I wanted to buy a machinery company. At the beginning I contacted with seller, made price and negotiated with him. I also wrote business plan and marketing plan. But right [ ...阅读全文 ]
Following lean method for the company business model and process. I have been bootstrapping the company for more than one year and will continue up to certain point before seeking money invested. By that point the company should have done a list below:pre [ ...阅读全文 ]
in September 2014, we, three friends, decided to start up a business. We have been talking for about 3 months to collect ideas. Finally we got a good idea to start in December 2014 which is hardware device for distance measurement. Luckily there is a new [ ...阅读全文 ]
今天收到来自以前合作过的政府基金manager的email. She e-introduced me to CEO from US company in MI who are interested in our product. This would be our first direct connected potential customer.As well talked to Tom, our US partner this morning regarding company, product de [ ...阅读全文 ]