I used to work in a mobile phone shop, with a group of teams, and when I saw that I was doing a good job in helping my boss, I decided to start my own business. When did I find a mobile phone store transferred by my peers in Shenzhen to be the next one? At first, I was enthusiastic and passionate.
The team did a good job. Slowly, business is not good, and everyone in the team is finding fault. Everyone persisted for less than a year and finally quit. All walks of life are persistent. It is impossible to succeed just by looking at what you do in front of your eyes every day.
First of all, say a feeling:
Whether it is individual entrepreneurship or team entrepreneurship, it is not easy to succeed!
First, why do officers need teams?
Reason and function:
1. Everyone's energy is limited-you need a team to share the work;
2. Everyone's ability is limited-it needs a team to make suggestions;
3. Everyone's knowledge is limited-a team is needed to brainstorm;
4. Everyone's resources are limited-it takes a team to gather sand into a tower;
Everyone has weaknesses-we need a team to learn from each other's strengths;
6. Everyone has an advantage-it takes a team to form a synergy of advantages.
Second, how to choose the mode of action of starting a business?
1. If you are in a small business, such as setting up a stall and opening a small shop:
(1) It is suggested to simplify the operation and start a business alone or in partnership with husband and wife;
(2) This situation is often small in scale, limited in market space and low in profit, and it is difficult to nourish a complete team and meet the pursuit of team members' survival and development;
(3) Working alone or in partnership with husband and wife is convenient for decision-making, cohesive, efficient, easy to maintain and full of motivation!
2. If it is a business, such as a project or a company:
(1) Suggest system operation and team entrepreneurship;
(2) Because there are many links, complicated affairs, difficult problems and specialization;
(3) Only teamwork can solve problems better.
I hope it can inspire you. Thanks for reading.
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In recent years, entrepreneurship has become a hot topic. It seems that starting a business is a freer and better choice than working in a company. But in fact, starting a business is not that simple.
Entrepreneurship is not easy to succeed. For example, we now see that Ma Yun has become the richest man in China and the idol of millions of people. But he also failed many times in the early days of his business, and achieved today's success with amazing perseverance. We only see the glamorous side of these successful entrepreneurs, but we don't know that entrepreneurial success requires the participation of time, place, people and many factors.
Pinduoduo's listing made Huang Zheng one of the top 10 richest people in Forbes, but Taobao, which has a similar business, had to accept the fate of bankruptcy. The collapse of Panda Live in Wang Sicong, which was in debt of 2 billion yuan, has become a hot news recently. The collapse of thousands of live broadcast companies may not even qualify for news.
Can individual entrepreneurship succeed, or is the team easy to succeed? If you just do things like e-commerce and coaching, one person may be enough, but this can only be said to be a freelancer, not a startup. If you want to really start a business, you must have a team with the same goal. And this team will certainly expand with the expansion of business. It is certainly difficult to support the development of the cause by individual fighting alone. Only by relying on the strength of the team and giving full play to the strengths of each member of the team can entrepreneurship be more likely to succeed.
Of course, in the choice of team members, there are also stresses. Many people may be inclined to start a business with friends and relatives, but in fact this model often has problems. The most scientific team combination mode is to find people with the same goals and values, but complementary abilities to start a business with you, and each person is responsible for his best field to maximize the team's interests.
In terms of the number of founding teams, it is best to have an odd number of three or five people to avoid the influence of team members on the company's decision-making. In addition, the design of partnership structure also has a lot to pay attention to. If you really have a long-term plan for starting a business, it is recommended to consult a professional.
Everything needs a team, which is a hard rule, a general trend and a prerequisite for doing business, but this team is a deep knowledge, which requires us to constantly explore and explore the mystery of the team.
Teams, especially entrepreneurial teams, need us to constantly attract people who share your joys and sorrows and have the same views to join your team, but it is difficult to find such people at present. If you have capital or connections, it is relatively easy to find such people. If you are a grassroots, it is hard to find such a person.
Team building is a university question. Team is inseparable from culture and soul. It is actually quite difficult to turn the team into an invincible group.
You can do things yourself at the beginning of your business and then find a team, but I still believe that starting a business is not recommended.
A person selling slippers at a stall is called starting a business, and a group of people working in an office building is also called starting a business.
So, first look at what you want to do, and then what scale business you want to create. Before starting a business, you should be clear about your goals and what kind of resources you have, and then consider whether to start a business as an individual or as a group.
My suggestion can be considered from these aspects: if you are an inexperienced young entrepreneur, it will be more difficult to start a business and you will easily make many mistakes that others have not made. If this is your case, I suggest not starting a business first, but working to accumulate experience first.
If you have certain (technical) experience and lack of funds, you can find a few like-minded people to try together. Of course, it would be better to find financing.
If you are experienced and well-funded, you can start your own business (if you start a business by yourself, you don't want to operate in partnership), then you can recruit subordinates normally and start normal operation.
If you are a skilled person, such as a barber, a chef, a painter, a doctor, etc. It's not bad to start a business alone. Mainly depends on people's wishes.
Based on the current entrepreneurial environment, it is still difficult for one person to start a business. A hero has four hands, but you can crush a few nails with iron. The problems caused by too many people in enterprises are far easier to deal with than those caused by insufficient personnel.
Even with a team, the probability of failure is high. When we start a business, we must face up to the three basic functions of the team. First, risk sharing! This is very important. Now starting a business is mainly: you can share the risk and minimize the risk, which is the most basic premise of our business! Obviously, teamwork and teamwork can minimize risks! Second, work together and enjoy resources. Although there are risks of internal friction in the management and operation of the team, the essence is management, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages! Third, the team is a multi-party relationship, which can bring a variety of integration of business chain, resource chain and personal network chain. Now, starting a business is not just * * * sharing and collaboration, which requires us to face it with the thinking of contractual partners!
Team is a prerequisite in our entrepreneurial process. Team is also a concept of partnership. We should have this thinking of integrating resources, contacts and social relations, because after all, a person has shortcomings, so in principle, no matter how small a project is, it needs a team based on partnership to operate. Behind the team is the system! How can an entrepreneurial project without a system succeed?
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In both cases, if you are very leading, Malik Yun and Lei Jun, and are ready to do a big project, you can find a partner and build a team.
Otherwise, I suggest you start your own business in the early stage, first find a small starting point and start from where you can.
In the process of doing it, if you meet the right person, you can invite to join, but don't give too many shares, preferably option shares. If the partnership lasts for a long time, there are indeed a few people who are suitable, and then we will talk about the distribution of shares.
After I have a certain understanding of the industry and achieved certain results, I am really too busy to consider forming a team.
If you don't have absolute prestige when you form a team at the beginning, then the opinions of the team will be very easy to disperse and may even break up in the end.
However, if you just started a business and have made some achievements, the trust and recognition of the team will be higher and your speech will be more authoritative.
At the beginning, the team was not a partner system, but if employees were recruited and paid, the burden would be heavy, and people would easily break up if they could not find the right direction.
One's energy is always limited, so one can only grasp the core content at this time.
If it is a retailer such as e-commerce, try the money first, weigh it and accumulate original sales. When the quantity is large, look for employees in customer service, warehousing and logistics.
The future trend will be from individuals to small teams.
The simple word "starting a business" is quite different in different goals and specific business contents. If you want to find a support point for "success", the difference between "individual" and "team" is not the key factor, but should be judged by the following criteria:
In the conventional field, the practice involved in most entrepreneurial projects can not be completed by one person, and only a few specific affairs that do not need coordination and synchronization can be completed by one person.
Therefore, in the initial stage of starting a business, it is appropriate to determine the number of business participants centered on the needs of workflow.
In some entrepreneurial projects with the characteristics of "assembly line", you can do it yourself at first, such as small-scale self-media, copywriting, shooting, beautifying, editing ... shrinking by yourself. After the experience, influence and income reach a certain level, you can form a team or introduce new investment.
The advantage of doing this is to counter the possible "risk of excessive cost investment" with the minimum cost, and at the same time lengthen the output time of a single product (work) by "time for space" and reduce certain capital cost expenditure.
Many people who don't fully understand the joint-stock system easily confuse "equity" with "working wage income" and think that "shareholders should be paid".
In a team with multiple investors, it is suggested that "rights, responsibilities and benefits" should be clearly planned in the form of "agreement", in which "no workers, no wages" and "shares themselves only participate in dividends" are the key points and must be reflected in specific work rules and regulations. Otherwise, it may bring extra trouble to the stability and future development of the team in the future. If we do well in the early stage, the future development will be smoother.
Entrepreneurship is a very flexible and complicated thing, so it is very challenging. In view of the differences between individuals and teams, we should grasp different "opportunities" and guard against different risks at different depths of intervention. Individuals and a few people "the boat is small and easy to turn around" mode; After the huge structure, "it is inconvenient to move." But at the same time, the income gap must be that "many people do the same thing" is more powerful and there is more room in the future.
How to control it in the process of "growing up" is a technological activity.
Mountain scenery: it is impossible to succeed without a team, especially systematic entrepreneurship. Without a team with strong coordination and relationship, children are playing house. Personal entrepreneurship is suitable for the initial stage of entrepreneurship, which is a low-cost entrepreneurial logic and a stage of testing and building entrepreneurial foundation.
It can be considered from four aspects: (1) How to achieve the results of entrepreneurial goals? What are the requirements? (2) What can an individual do? What can you contribute? (3) the value created by the partner team. (4) Entrepreneurship should be implemented in stages. The analysis around these four dimensions is also a combination of positive and negative thinking, including the goal orientation of entrepreneurship, the value of individuals and teams, and the implementation process of entrepreneurship, from which we can deeply understand that entrepreneurship must be realized through teams.
1, conditions for achieving entrepreneurial goals
What conditions do you need to use reverse thinking to achieve entrepreneurial goals? I take my own experience as an example. The company's goal is to serve the small and medium-sized enterprises in the region and become an influential research, training, operation and consulting group of retail and chain operation in the region. This goal looks very ambitious. Can it be realized? How to achieve it?
This requires many factors, such as experts and professors who are deeply involved in retail, product managers with practical ability, professionals who are good at marketing and growth, and salespeople who know how to expand the market. It is also necessary to establish a research institute, establish a sense of internal drive and mission, with high goals and even input.
These are all necessary conditions to achieve the entrepreneurial goal. Of course, these conditions can be completed by stages, but one thing is clear: individual entrepreneurship can't be done, can't be done well, and can't be done. Personal ability, knowledge system, resources, specialties and financial strength are limited.
Some people may question, isn't self-media a personal entrepreneurship? Actually, it's not. A person's self-media is not even business. At most, it is the test of water and life. Entrepreneurship needs to be systematic, especially since the media needs omni-channel and three-dimensional construction, and only team promotion can succeed.
In essence, the probability of success in starting a business is low, so it is necessary to set a deadline to achieve the goal of starting a business, and also to implement and execute more effective and detailed feasible schemes. It is a systematic work, which needs organization, functions, processes and systems.
2. The partnership system with strong relationship has no disadvantages.
Frankly speaking, apart from lofty goals, all career success needs deep interest binding and strong relationships to connect. Loose alliances, or projects that unilaterally feel valuable, cannot guarantee the success of entrepreneurship.
The most effective way is to establish a partner team, which not only needs different talents to complement each other, but also needs to pool more resources and business channels. In this way, we can promote entrepreneurial projects and increase the chances of success.
The most effective way to build a team and create future value is for all partners to invest and establish a perfect partner system. This kind of interest binding can make the team more sticky.
In essence, team entrepreneurship has more advantages than individual entrepreneurship. There is no team in the world that is not a partner. It can also be said that there is no chance of success without team entrepreneurship, and only rely on personal ability to integrate, alliance and connect with the network.
The realization of entrepreneurial goals needs to be completed in stages, and many people don't need to participate from the beginning. The initial stage mainly focuses on the basic aspects of users and products, and individuals, especially founders, can start their own businesses.
The initial stage of the project is basically unprofitable, and the cost will be minimized. The product is immature and has not been put on the market on a large scale. At this time, there is no need for an established team to participate. This is the realization stage of growing hacker's entrepreneurial logic. However, after all the tests are completed, when it is necessary to expand the development, it is necessary to form a team in advance and get ready.
In essence, the phased implementation of entrepreneurship is a process of individual and team integration. Personal value is great in the early stage of starting a business. At present, many projects complete the partnership system only after the foundation of the project is formed. Without the team, the follow-up financing of the project is also a problem.
A team, an organization, can only go further and improve efficiency if the individual and the team have the same goal, which depends on the comparison of individual income and contribution of organization members.
Teams are composed of individuals, and each member's ability and resources, personality and specialty are different, but it is the partnership nature of this strong relationship that promotes the entrepreneurial process.
Looking at the essence, individual entrepreneurship and team entrepreneurship are actually one, not a cutting relationship. Teams are not formed at the beginning, but all start from individuals or small-scale partnerships, and the success of entrepreneurial projects is achieved by the improvement of teams.
Undoubtedly, team entrepreneurship is easier to succeed. Team is the foundation of entrepreneurship, and partner system is the mechanism guarantee of entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, it is an impassable road to abandon the psychology of doing it yourself. Don't confuse small-cost entrepreneurship with team cost, and don't feel that you can control everything. This is either logical confusion or blind arrogance.
However, from the perspective of entrepreneurial thinking, it is feasible for individuals to start their own businesses, gradually improve the team with the development of the project, or have several core partners in the early stage. Finally, what problems and disputes appear in team entrepreneurship are all problems of system design and members, and have nothing to do with team entrepreneurship.
With three people as the core founders, the shareholding ratio is 6: 3: 1, and the large shareholder reserves 15% equity pool for holding. The entrepreneurial advantage of small institutions with about 10 people is the most obvious.
One of the three core founders is responsible for operation and sales (customers), one is responsible for technology and management, and the other is responsible for products and supply chain.
The prerequisite is that the three core founders have a high degree of trust, and have made achievements in their respective fields, one level higher than the average person, and mastered the skills of human nature analysis, technical analysis and financial analysis, so that this team can start a career in any industry.
Converted into current currency, it is reasonable for 10 people to have an annual gross profit of 2 million if they are engaged in routine industries such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.