1. I am the boss
I make the decision on my territory!
Democratic discussion, make your own decisions, and the decision-making power is always on the boss.
Many entrepreneurs think this is just empty talk or nonsense because "I am the boss."
However, after starting a business over the years, I have experienced and contacted it. I have found that many entrepreneurs have unknowingly given up or downplayed "I am the boss" during the entrepreneurship process and regarded themselves as an ordinary member of the startup company. "Entrepreneurship is the career that everyone has together, and the startup company belongs to all employees"!
has many entrepreneurs who blindly favor and indulge the management and partners of the company.
The most exaggerated entrepreneur I have ever met:
His company has a female employee who has been promoted step by step from an ordinary employee to a manager, director, and vice president. This female employee started to work hard and did a lot of work; then the entrepreneur became more trusting and indulgent, and later it became:
female employee can contradict entrepreneurs at the company's executive meetings, confront entrepreneurs, refute and even scold entrepreneurs at any time!
Female employees can be late and leave early at any time. They come when they want to come to the company to work, and don’t come when they don’t want to come to the company to work. Entrepreneurs have to hold meetings and have to call the female employees in person every time, ask her when she wants to come to the company that day!
female employees are not responsible for sales or do not undertake sales assessment tasks, but there are project order rewards, and project order rewards are higher than the normal commission of sales staff. She wants everything involved in sales rewards; she refuses everything involved in sales assessment, because she "helps do sales, not sales"!
The female employee has many times lost his temper in the boss's office of the entrepreneur, quarreled loudly, and the volume spread throughout the office area. On several occasions, the female employee came out of the boss's office and directly "splashed" the wooden door of the boss's office, which was super loud!
Female employees leaked company secrets many times, kept abreast of the whereabouts of entrepreneurs, and were proud and often promoted, encouraging and instigating departing employees and cooperative clients to report to the company!
Female employee is dominant in the entire company. "Entrepreneurs must listen to her." Come whenever they want, leave whenever they want, and no one can care about her. She can command everyone in the company...
Many people may doubt whether this female employee has an affair with the entrepreneur?
is wrong, there is no personal relationship!
This female employee is purely promoted and picked up by entrepreneurs with one hand, and then the entrepreneurs can't stop them and cannot control them at all, and they dare not control them!
Many partners, management, new and old employees in the company have made countless suggestions to entrepreneurs in private and public places, but the entrepreneurs do not listen. Instead, many partners and management were run away by this female employee. This entrepreneur's company has been setting sun in recent years and it feels like it is about to be ruined. There are actually many entrepreneurs similar to
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When an entrepreneur forgets "I am the boss", the company is likely to be ruined!
2. Shameless, don’t be soft-hearted, and talking about money will not hurt feelings!
Entrepreneurs should be shameless.
Market competition, as long as there is competition, there will inevitably be "one party's interests are damaged, and the other party makes a profit." If you are thin-skinned, then give all your profits to the other party, and even lose money and gain publicity. Will the other party be grateful? Of course not, the other party will only say that this person is a fool!
Entrepreneurs should not be soft-hearted.
Never be soft-hearted for internal employees or external customers!
In business occasions, if you are soft-hearted, you will suffer a loss; if you cut your own meat, others will feel very happy to eat meat and drink soup.
"If you are poor, you will be safe, and if you are rich, you will help the world." Most entrepreneurs have to live a hard life, so they must be able to take good care of themselves first and be more selfish.
The soft-hearted words are like the entrepreneur mentioned above, being held tightly by the female employees below. If such a company does not die, it is truly "unforgivable to heaven".
Entrepreneurs want to make money.
Talk about money will not hurt feelings, and only when talking about money will hurt feelings.
recruits partners, recruits managers, recruits ordinary employees, finds partners... everything, entrepreneurs need to "talk about money". How to share money? How much does it cost? Find the balance between the two sides.
This is a kind of "interest exchange", a transaction!
When starting a business, talk about transactions, not about feelings;
When talking about feelings, not about transactions, concentrate!
3. How much can I pay?
Start a business, don’t think about how much money you want to make from the beginning.
First think about how much money can you pay?
This is called "stop loss point"!
entrepreneurship is risky, and no entrepreneurship is 100% successful.
There will be investment in entrepreneurship, whether it is capital, time and energy, or other aspects, these investment costs are indispensable.
At the beginning of the business, entrepreneurs carefully calculate how much loss they can bear?
This is not only responsible for oneself, family, but also for shareholders and team!
4. Make the money back first!
strives to make money, and entrepreneurs always think about doing more performance and collecting more money.
Every entrepreneur has an inner lofty dream, but this is an ideal!
In reality, what entrepreneurs need to do is to find ways to achieve more performance and see where our customers are? Who can pay?
We need to constantly test, pass practical tests, and find out the money-making model that suits us.
Entrepreneurs cannot be addicted to lofty vision every day, be ambitious, invest long-term, and only invest without yielding returns. "A mountain of gold and silver must also be empty."
Many entrepreneurs have a good vision for the future, and then regard their vision as reality, spend money, invest, recruit a large number of teams, and poach people with high salaries... In the end, they are all messy!
What entrepreneurs need to do is to start making money in the short term, achieve "fighting through war" as soon as possible, or keep profits and losses even. "Accumulate small victories into big victories", the company survives, lives healthy, and has abundant cash flow , and it will become a reality in the future!
5. Save costs
In the early stage of entrepreneurship, "reducing expenses" is more important than opening up source!
Because open source requires a series of prerequisites, there must be products, pilot projects, find target customers, channels and brands, explore business models that suit you and make money. This process is very difficult and long.
throttling is different. Reducing costs depends entirely on the entrepreneurs themselves, which is something that entrepreneurs can control.
For example, for rent costs, entrepreneurs can first find a small office space, which is cheap and has basic office conditions. You can even get affiliation at home, residential areas, or friends’ offices without registering a company in the early stage, so you can save as much as possible.
For example, labor cost. If we are developing software, entrepreneurs (technical origin) plus three or two part-time programmers, or college students, give some equity options commitments, and you can start working first. If we are doing decoration or cleaning and maintenance, entrepreneurs can go to the business and find customers before looking for temporary workers and part-time workers from the market. In recent years, talent costs have become the largest expenditure of many startups, and they are fixed and continuous expenditures.
Entrepreneurship is a very hard and difficult job. Entrepreneurs must not “set” themselves as the “domineering president” in TV series and online dramas. They linger in every day, hugging each other, and can easily get tens of millions of orders. That's not reality!
The reality is that Sicong, the only son of the "national husband" and the richest man in China, invested 500 million yuan to start a business, and was eventually plagued by lawsuits and almost broke his trust.
Ordinary people start a business, so there is no need to compare with each other!
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