Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 246 Speech at CUHK

"Starting a business is a very simple thing. What counts as success depends on how you define it. Because you will face countless choices from the beginning, and many times you may not be able to achieve the goal you hope to achieve."

Qu Li went to CUHK to contact his teacher and was recognized. Someone from the student union invited him to give a speech. He wanted to refuse because he was not prepared and not everyone can improvise.But the young girls surrounded him, their eyes were particularly scary.

We had lunch in the CUHK cafeteria and found a lecture theater. They went to notify Qu Li and borrowed a computer to look for information and make preparations.At three o'clock in the afternoon, the speech began, with the theme of innovation and entrepreneurship.

"One is to start a business after discovering demand, and the other is to start a business to create demand, which corresponds to Jumei and Honor respectively. Let me make it clear first: I was not inspired by Bridgebus and iPhone when I started Honor..."

"The demand for shopping has always existed, no need to explain, but at that time we had no experience and no funds to rent a storefront. Only Taobao, a newly established e-commerce platform, allowed us to do business at home and sell goods to Nationwide.”

"This is equivalent to a wholesale market open 13 hours a day for the country's 24 billion people. We sell goods there without paying rent. With such a good thing, of course we can seize the opportunity."

"Because I was familiar with it, I chose to be a clothing e-commerce company. I knew that if I wanted to make more money, I needed a brand, so I established the two brands Xiangyun and Danlin very early..."

"Later on, we introduced venture capital, and we have grown together with Jumei until now, and we have a new understanding of e-commerce: the time to build a brand in the information age has been greatly shortened, and the price is that negative information will also be amplified..."

"So, it is conceivable that the next ten years will be an era of great entrepreneurship. Any entrepreneur with dreams, as long as he makes good products and does online marketing, may create a widely known brand in a very short period of time."

“The emergence of the Internet and e-commerce has lowered the threshold for starting a business. Entrepreneurs who realize this sooner and act sooner will enjoy the first wave of dividends. As successful cases increase, entrepreneurs will continue to increase, and the difficulty of starting a business will It will also increase, and then we will have to strive for sustainable innovation capabilities..."

"What is innovation? I don't think there is any need to explain. As long as you are willing to work down-to-earth and don't want to get rich overnight, there are too many opportunities in the Chinese market, enough for you to achieve financial freedom and live a relaxed life."

"For example, I just checked online that the price of a branded desktop computer is about 10% higher than the combined market price of various computer spare parts. What does this mean? Has anyone thought of it?" Qu Li began to interact.

"We can assemble our own computers and sell them online..."

"There are many similar things. One thing you may not know is that Zhongguo's manufacturing ranks first in the world. Except for a very few high-precision products, everything you can think of and see in your daily life can basically be manufactured. come out.

Once you have a certain level of strength, you can set up a design and marketing company and entrust it to companies with production capabilities..."

"Entrepreneurship and innovation are very simple, right? Because of simplicity, the elimination rate is extremely high. Even if you listen to me and start your own business now, if one of 10 people succeeds, it will be considered very powerful..." Qu Li was not prepared at this point. Basically, it’s almost the same. The ten years after 2009 can really be said to be the explosive period of domestic entrepreneurship. Later, there was a saying called mass innovation and mass entrepreneurship. It is impossible to achieve without a mature e-commerce environment.A more typical example is the Xiaomi ecological chain enterprise.

"Why are you saying this?" Someone asked maliciously during the question period.

"The rise of a country is inevitably accompanied by the rise of brands. For example, Kimchi Country is now in the stage of accumulation and development, and their culture and products are extremely impactful. How to prove the renaissance of China? A hard indicator is the rise of domestic products, and the people's I feel proud to use the Zhongguo brand, but the prerequisite is to have excellent domestic products..."

“Excuse me, how can we replicate your success?”

"Copy, did I hear you correctly?"

"Yes, is there a way we can replicate your success?"

"Everyone is unique. I don't know whether the success you are referring to is wealth or career. Don't think about personal feelings. There is no way I can give up my girlfriend to you."

"Hahaha..." The scene laughed

"I'm talking about career!"

"Then you'd better stop dreaming." Qu Li said quietly, which was very hurtful.

"Ha ha……"

"I'm sorry, but the possibility of you defeating Jumei in the e-commerce field is very slim. The country's adoption of the Four Thousand One Plan this time will be a great benefit to the e-commerce industry because it will improve domestic information Infrastructure and logistics infrastructure. Domestic e-commerce will soon usher in a period of rapid development."

"Taobao is the leader in the C2C industry, and Jumei is the leader in the B2C industry. We have first-mover advantages, talent and capital advantages..."

"The success of a person or a company depends partly on luck and partly on the strength of the team. If there is a shortcut, it may be to insist on doing the difficult but right things."

“What is the hard and right thing to do?”

"For example, with Honor mobile phones, it will take us five or six years to surpass Nokia and become the world's largest-selling smartphone brand..."

"Wow!!!"

"Now do you understand what is difficult but the right thing? I know you don't believe it, but do you know what a successful entrepreneur is? Hope is born out of despair and the impossible becomes reality..."

"Since you are so confident, why did you resign as CEO of Jumei and Honor? Is it so you can shirk your responsibilities?" After a long silence, some people still couldn't stand Qu Li's arrogance.

“I have said before that half of the success of a person or a company depends on luck. I would like to add another sentence later: What is gained by luck will eventually be lost by strength.

Before the Honor mobile phone became the number one in the world, I was thinking about building cars. The development speed of the company could not keep up with my inflated desires and ambitions. At this time, I could only believe in the power of the team and admit the limitations of my abilities..." Qu Li also said I closed my eyes before I finished speaking.

"Didn't you get kicked out by the board of directors?" Others thought Qu Li was showing off.

"I hold more than one-third of the shares and have veto power. No one can expel me from the company." After Qu Li finished speaking, he didn't want to continue. He saw someone taking the camera and didn't say anything. He said in the future There will only be more criticism to be faced.

Others wanted to ask Qu Li about his movies, songs and relationships, but he was really not interested. His first university lecture in his life ended in a hurry.