Silicon Valley Elite's Entrepreneurial Secrets

About the author of Silicon Valley Elite's Entrepreneurship Secrets

A new self-media person born in the 1990s in Silicon Valley, he is currently an investor in a private equity fund. Author of How to Be a VC. She interviewed many Silicon Valley investment tycoons, including 22 investors on the Forbes list of the world's best venture capitalists, and 20 people on the Forbes list of 30 under 30 young talents, and shared the investment and entrepreneurship secrets of Silicon Valley with everyone.

Gong Yawen graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a double bachelor's degree in media and sociology, and a master's degree in management.

Table of contents

Preface... V

Preface... XIII

Chapter 1 Entrepreneurial Thinking... 001

Andrew Scheuermann, Co-founder and CEO, Edge

Chapter 2 Market Trends... 033

Mary Jo Mader - Senior Editor, Advocate

Chapter 3 Business Model... 049

Shruti Shah – Co-founder of Root Relocation

Chapter 4 Product Testing... 063

Patrick Slade, co-founder of Cyonics

Chapter 5 Financing Management... 079

Brian Powers, Co-founder of Temper Packaging

Chapter 6 Corporate Culture... 093

Tim Huang, Founder and CEO of Fico Records

Chapter 7 Financing Valuation... 103

Tom Brady, Co-founder and CTO of SkyEye

Chapter 8 Saving Money... 127

Laura Dasaro – Co-founder and COO of Six Foods

Chapter 9 Staff Recruitment... 141

Mike Townsend – Co-founder and COO of Family Heroes

Chapter 10 Never Compromise... 157

Kevin Chen, Co-founder of MedRite

Chapter 11 Marketing... 169

Yahya Abagbaber - Oncologist, Founder of the International Agency for Research on Cancer

Chapter 12 Finding Pain Points... 175

Courtney Glass, Co-founder of Brainstorm Technologies and Executive Director of the Startup Alliance

Chapter 13 Product Research... 187

Stafford Sheehan - Founder of Catalytic Innovations, former CEO of Dreamweaver

Chapter 14 Product Development... 201

Tarun Ganwani, Co-founder and Head of Product, Groco

Chapter 15 Startup Team... 219

Louis-Victor Jadavicki, co-founder of Weber

Chapter 16 Joint Venture... 233

Rose Wang, Co-founder and CEO, Six Foods

Chapter 17 Catering to the Market... 249

Serkan Topju——Co-founder and Marketing Director of Taber Education

Chapter 18 Resolving Conflicts... 263

Sarah Gouws - Social Engineer and Entrepreneur, Social Impact Team, GitHub

Chapter 19 Conquest Failure... 285

Danny Ellis, Co-founder and CEO of SkyEye

Chapter 20 Promotion... 309

Jessica Hendrix Yee, Founder of the Brave Collection Jewelry

Postscript... 324

Silicon Valley Elite's Entrepreneurship Secrets

Entrepreneurship: Choose the best time and insist on doing the right thing. Gong Yawen is one of the most outstanding girls I know. She is young and promising. She wrote this book about entrepreneurship, which mentioned 20 young successful entrepreneurs on the Forbes list, and asked me to write the preface. I was very interested in this topic, so I readily agreed. I saw my own entrepreneurial journey in her entrepreneurial experience, and recalled the initial hardships of starting a business and the experience of moving towards success. Her book also made me think a lot and recall my own entrepreneurial journey.

In 1999, I had just graduated from college and caught the first wave of the Internet. The idols at that time were no longer Bill Gates, but people like Masayoshi Son and Jerry Yang. I also followed my dream, rode the wave, and entered the big industry of the Internet. At that time, there was already a great demand for the Internet, but not many people were providing it. Basically, you can build a website based on your personal strength. It was in this context that I started my first entrepreneurial project, Yiyi.com, and sold it in 2000, earning my first pot of gold. After that, I started my second entrepreneurial project and partnered with others to establish XueDa Education. We have been aiming for a listing from the very beginning, so we have always been operating at a first-class level. In 2010, XueDa successfully listed in the United States. It can be said that it is the most successful company in China that provides one-on-one personalized extracurricular tutoring. In 2005, I started my third entrepreneurial project - 58.com, which was also listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year. Its share price has doubled since then. I have been working at 58.com for more than 8 years, but I will continue to do it and make it bigger and better.

As a veteran entrepreneur, I also hope to take this opportunity to share some of my experiences and insights with you. Combining the experiences and feelings of the "veterans" in the book, I hope to help you avoid detours and give you some inspiration. First, about choice. The choices I am talking about here include two aspects: one is whether to start a business, and the other is the entrepreneurial project. If you are not sure whether you want to start a business, then ask yourself two questions: "Do I enjoy the life of an entrepreneur?" "What is my original intention for starting a business?" I remember Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said this at a ceremony at Princeton University: "Everyone's choices are different, and the life they live is also different. Do you choose to go with the flow, or choose not to regret?"

As a veteran entrepreneur, I also hope to take this opportunity to share some of my experiences and insights with you. Combining the experiences and feelings of the "veterans" in the book, I hope to help you avoid detours and give you some inspiration. First, about choice. The choices I am talking about here include two aspects: one is whether to create

The first is the industry, and the second is the entrepreneurial project. If you are not sure whether you want to start a business, then ask yourself two questions: "Do I enjoy the life of an entrepreneur?" "What is my original intention for starting a business?" I remember Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said this at a ceremony at Princeton University: "Everyone's choices are different, and the life they live is also different. Do you choose to go with the flow, or choose not to regret?"

Attitude towards entrepreneurship is also important. Many people start their own businesses nowadays, not because they have an ideal or truly want to change something. A large number of people just want to change their living conditions, some feel that their previous jobs are not decent enough, and some cannot find a job. Those who choose to start a business because they are dissatisfied with their current situation are likely to follow hot topics. I think it is a bad entrepreneurial mentality to chase after whatever is hot.

If you have made up your mind to start a business, you will be faced with the choice of a business project. I think there are at least four points you need to think about.

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