Which of the four entrepreneurial models suits you? Author: Source:慧聪网(HC360) Update time: October 20, 2010
After more than a decade of bumpy business experiences, I have encountered many failures and successes along the way, which has led to a continuous process of reflection and summary. Here are some insights:
**One: The entrepreneurship model starting from employment**
If your goal is personal entrepreneurship in the future, the first step is to make the right choice. Choose something you like to do. On the road to entrepreneurship, you will need to work hard for years or even over a decade. If you're doing something you enjoy, working 24 hours a day won't feel exhausting. But if it's something you dislike, even an hour of work can feel like torture. Otherwise, one day when your dreams encounter setbacks, you might give up out of laziness.
Choose the most profitable industry. Doing unprofitable work no matter how hard you try is just torturing yourself and wasting resources. Select industries that have scale and advantages in your region because every area and city has different economic resources. If you don’t choose the unique, largest-scale industry in your local area, your business will not grow significantly.
Choose companies based on these standards rather than high salaries or good conditions. The second step is to learn and accumulate with purpose. Learn about the management, product, and marketing knowledge of your company, not just the knowledge related to your position. Work diligently for your boss, achieve excellent results, and make him like you so that he becomes your friend who can help you and willingly share his expertise with you.
The third step is to fully utilize the platform resources available to you. Use the company's platform to widely connect and accumulate social and other resources. Even when you become more mature, don’t blindly or hastily leave this platform. Try to use the existing platform resources to do things for yourself, start part-time or on-the-job entrepreneurship, lay the foundation for your own career, and then leave your job and start your own business when all conditions are ripe. Of course, your boss may not allow it, but he himself might have succeeded this way.
**Two: The entrepreneurship model of aligning with successful people**
An effective secret to entrepreneurial success is following the right person and working with successful people. There’s a statistic about personal wealth: generally, the wealth you possess is the average of the wealth of the friends around you. Therefore, we see that poor people usually have poor friends, while rich people have rich friends. After deciding to start your own business, find a successful person and try every means to befriend them. No matter the difficulties, coldness, or humiliations, stick with them. Regardless of the winds from any direction, hold firmly onto the green mountains. Have a purpose and preparation to carefully study how successful people handle matters and think. Use your intellect to understand how successful people succeed because success follows methods and paths. Seriously assist successful people in their endeavors, become their friends, let them genuinely help and teach you. A thousand points from others are not as useful as one point from a wise teacher. The best way to succeed is to follow the footsteps of successful people.
**Three: The entrepreneurship model starting as a sales representative**
First, determine the industry and product you want to operate in the future. In this industry, choose a good company and become a sales representative for this company. Develop markets and sell products for the company in your city, thereby becoming familiar with the industry, understanding the product, and owning the market. When conditions mature, transition from being a sales representative to an agent and start your own business. For this purpose, as long as you choose a good company, accept whatever conditions, whether there is a base salary or not. You are not accepting the conditions of employment but embracing the dream of the future.
**Four: The entrepreneurship model of feeling your way forward**
This model satisfies the urgent desire to realize your dreams and become your own boss immediately. You can start your business right away. However, this is a lower strategy. Such an entrepreneurial model will certainly lead you down a long winding path filled with countless setbacks and failures. Therefore, you will need to pay more tuition fees, endure more loneliness, suffer more misunderstandings, and may even lose confidence after repeated setbacks and failures, ultimately giving up. You will repeatedly walk down wrong paths and need to constantly reflect on and correct yourself in failure and practice. But still, starting early means enduring more hardships and succeeding later. Once you cannot correctly correct errors, it will become a dead-end road. Online entrepreneurship is also like this. Choose something you like to do and a profitable industry, befriend a successful peer in the same industry. First, do what they do, work together with them, and then you will have the capital and success to do things on your own. Success always requires help; without a submarine, how can you go underwater? Without an airplane, how can you fly? Without help from influential people, how can you achieve success?
Ancient figures like Fan Li succeeded in politics, agriculture, and commerce. This shows the principle of "once you understand one principle, you understand all principles." Whether in politics, business, or becoming a famous expert, the method to achieve success in your career is similar.
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