歷程-創業第一年:idea:不知道幹啥第二年:team: 沒人願意跟著做第三年:prototype:開發時間成本,客戶對接第四年:makreting and commercialization:推向市場,小批量生產,成本控制,生產流程第五年:revenue and profit:掙錢維持第六年:diversifying:至少三個項目同時做,才能活下去第七年:stablization:利潤率 [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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% of overall hardware startup can be survived [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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 can afford that. EV is in the process of cost [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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 the concrete plan: making a reusable [ ...閱讀全文 ]
創業者如果成功需要很多特別的特性: 一些通常所說的特性(網上一堆)我列出來一些:passion,Resilience,Strong Sense of Self,Flexibility,Vision, execution, risk taking, open mind, planning and priority, etc.s 我說點另類的。 創業者傾向於把不確定的事情定位為機會。 [ ...閱讀全文 ]
創新是一個長長的鏈。能把這個鏈完整了是一件了不起的事。首先需要知道問題再哪裡? 只有10%的人會意識到目前的產品或者程序需要改進。其餘的人都接受了, don't care or get used to。然後10% of that could have basic idea about a high level solution.Then 10 % of that could have chance to get right pe [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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 is to test what they want, NOT I think [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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. Collected business cards. Exchanges the [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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 my mentor for free until my company mak [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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 me to look for a right person, who has better [ ...閱讀全文 ]
創業不久,經歷三次合作夥伴的分開。 沒有一次不是鬧翻天的。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 before the [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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:preproduct prototype should be donemanufac [ ...閱讀全文 ]
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 grant program fromSteve's graduate scho [ ...閱讀全文 ]
今天收到來自以前合作過的政府基金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 development. He actively [ ...閱讀全文 ]