At the age of p>14, a child of the same age is preparing for the senior high school entrance examination. He has sold Kongming lanterns in his spare time and "fished" the first bucket of gold in his life. At the age of 19, a child of the same age reported to the university accompanied by his parents. He took the admission notice from Hubei University and sat in 8 physical stores and 3 online stores. The company's annual sales reached 15 million yuan. With the "connivance" and support of his parents, after 91, he tasted the hardships of starting a business and enjoyed the sweetness of going hand in hand with his studies and career in just four years.
Little boy Lang,
Earn money by himself
Luo Jingyu, who is 19 years old, is from Shiyan City, Hubei Province. His father runs his own business and his mother works in a local primary school. Perhaps influenced by his father, Luo Jingyu loved reading some books on business since he was a child, dreaming that he would one day become an entrepreneurial celebrity like Ma Yun and Yu Minhong.
In the third grade, Luo Jingyu saw his friend wearing a beautiful black vest, which was a bit like that worn by a rock band. He was envious. How handsome he would be if he had one himself. At dinner that day, Luo Jingyu didn't directly ask his mother for it, but carefully described the style of the vest worn by his friend. When he saw his son's excited expression, his father understood. "Son, that dress would look great on you." What my father said touched Luo Jingyu's heart. Luo Jingyu nodded straight. My father smiled and said, "Buy it if you like, but you have to earn money to buy it yourself." Dad's previous sentence made Luo Jingyu happy, but the latter sentence threw him directly into the abyss. He is only 11 years old. How can he make money?
Seeing his son's unhappy face, Dad smiled and said, "It's a good thing to want something. It's not a man's job to provide it to you reliably. You have to fight for what you want in the future." Dad told him that he could help them with housework at home, and then they would "pay according to their work". In this way, Luo Jingyu washed dishes eight times and swept the ground twice at home before earning money to buy a vest. That night, looking at the brand-new vest on the bed, Luo Jingyu touched it again and again, tasting the joy of making money, and an indescribable pride spread in his heart ...
As time went on, in Luo Jingyu's young mind, he recognized his father's practice more and more. Father Luo didn't think that he just wanted to cultivate his son's sense of independence, and "accidentally" made his son's heart stronger.
After that, Luo Jingyu wanted something, even pocket money, to help his parents do housework at home and then get paid according to their work, which also left a deep mark on his small heart: as long as he worked hard, he would definitely get what he wanted. This awareness has made his studies and his career even more successful.
set up a stall to make money,
I fell down on the road to starting a business
When Luo Jingyu was just in the third grade, an accidental discovery prompted Luo Jingyu's "entrepreneurial dream" to sprout. One weekend night, after a day's study, he walked alone to Liuyan Square in Shiyan City. He found that many people in the square were lighting lamps, and little red dot rose slowly into the sky. Curiosity made him take a closer look. It turned out to be the Kongming Lantern that people used to make wishes. He also wanted to buy a Kongming Lantern, so he found a vendor who set up a stall and asked, but a Kongming Lantern actually cost 11 yuan. "Such a small thing is so expensive to sell?" Luo Jingyu said discontentedly. "Although it is small, the purchase price is expensive." The peddler put on a pretense that he can't afford it.
After returning home that night, Luo Jingyu couldn't sleep in bed. In his opinion, the cost of a small lamp will definitely not exceed 4 yuan, but it is so expensive, and there must be great profits. Early the next morning, Luo Jingyu went to Shiyan market without telling his parents. When he inquired, he realized that the purchase price of this small lamp was only 2 yuan. God, how much profit is this? Touching his pocket, he only had more than 1,111 yuan. Luo Jingyu took the initiative and bought 51 lanterns. He carefully considered that people bought lanterns for wishing, so he used the remaining money to buy some markers.
That night, Luo Jingyu came to the square with his goods on his back and became a "stall owner". Others sold it for 11 yuan, but he only sold it for 8 yuan. He also provided markers for everyone to write their wishes on the Kongming Lantern. Although his service is good, he only sold a dozen lamps a night. In the following nights, Luo Jingyu could be seen in the square. In just a few days, he earned 311 yuan. This is the first bucket of gold in his life.
In those days, when the students were all rushing to prepare for the senior high school entrance examination, Luo Jingyu was thinking about another question. Where did the goods in the big market come from? There must be more affordable places to purchase them. That day after class, two female students sitting next to Luo Jingyu were discussing something in a low voice. "Your pants are nice. Where did you buy them?" "My mother bought it from Taobao shop." "Where is it?" "Online." The two men talked with relish. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. When he heard the word "online", Luo Jingyu had a brainwave. Why didn't he expect to go online for scouring?
When Luo Jingyu came home from school, he told his father about this idea. His father asked him to search on Taobao, and he was shocked. A Kongming lantern on the Internet was only sold for 51 cents, and even if he bought more, it was included. Without the slightest hesitation, Luo Jingyu immediately took out part of his savings and asked his father to teach him to run online banking and bought two thousand lanterns online. Thinking that a person is weak in selling stalls, it is better to have money and earn some pocket money with the whole class. So, everyone discussed selling Kongming lanterns for 5 yuan each. For each one sold, Luo Jingyu gave his classmates a commission from 2 yuan and earned 2.5 yuan by himself.
The sale was successful. In just a few holidays, their team earned more than 5,111 yuan. Not only that, he was catching up with the new curriculum reform that year, and he also successfully completed the topic of practical class "Practical sales of Kongming lanterns". Because he experienced it personally, can he still do this topic well?
While making money, it can also help to finish homework. This sweetness makes Luo Jingyu firmly take the road of "starting a business while learning".
After graduating from junior high school, Luo Jingyu was admitted to Shiyan No.13 Middle School. Since kindergarten, he has always insisted on learning painting, and chose a special art class, focusing on learning art. Students studying art can take time off for legitimate reasons such as "going out to sketch and attending art training". The free arrangement of time makes Luo Jingyu's whole high school career less urgent, which also provides convenient conditions for his entrepreneurship.
At the beginning of the first semester of senior high school, Luo Jingyu ended his stall career. He saw that the female students in the class liked to talk about clothes together. "Women love beauty, and women earn money." This sentence came out involuntarily. Selling women's clothes may be a good industry.
It is Luo Jingyu's consistent style to do what he thinks. Just after the Lantern Festival in 2119, Luo Jingyu told his parents that he wanted to open a clothing store. The dinner table that night was particularly quiet. After a long time, his mother said, "You are a student. What should you focus on?" Do you still can't tell the difference between light and heavy? "
"I don't think there is any contradiction between doing business and going to school. On the contrary, it sometimes helps my studies ..." Luo Jingyu wanted to convince her parents.
"if you want to do business, we don't object, but we need to find out when it is appropriate to do it. You are a student, what capital do you have to go to the mall? " Father said earnestly.
Without the support of his parents, Luo Jingyu decided to act secretly by himself. He borrowed 511 yuan from his close classmates and friends he met in art training. In this way, he scraped together 119,211 yuan and rented a storefront on the second floor of the "Golden Triangle" market in Shiyan City.
however, the result of this attempt was a complete failure. Luo Jingyu's goods are ZAZR I-shaped vests, waistcoats, miniskirts and some strapless dresses, which are relatively avant-garde. At that time, Shiyan people could not fully accept such exposed clothes, and the store was on the second floor, and the location was not good. After supporting for half a year, Luo Jingyu lost all the money he borrowed and had to reluctantly close it.
On the closing day, Luo Jingyu sat on the steps of the corner stairs with her purchased bag, and she didn't want to leave for a long time. Is it true that learning and entrepreneurship can't be balanced, as parents said?
The winner is the one who sticks to the end.
After the clothing store closed, Luo Jingyu did another thing that surprised everyone when all his close friends thought he was going to be depressed.
During that time, Luo Jingyu took classes seriously and painted seriously. He found an important business opportunity when he was painting behind closed doors at home.
Because there are many paintings, painting materials are used frequently. Either there is no pigment or painting paper, and every time I go to the painting materials store, I buy hundreds of things. Looking at a few big bills only for a small bag of things, Luo Jingyu felt a little distressed. In the future, he should go to several painting shops to compare. Maybe some painting shops are cheap! This run doesn't matter, it actually makes Luo Jingyu's head active. There are only four painting materials dealers in Shiyan City, and there are more than 21,111 art candidates who take the art exam. No wonder the price of painting materials remains high. If you can save the two links of retail and distribution and directly obtain the agency rights of some painting materials products, the profits will still be considerable. Thought of here, Luo Jingyu was very excited, but soon, he calmed down again, and he still had hundreds of thousands left. What can he do to talk to the manufacturer about agency?
In October, 2111, Luo Jingyu finally found an investor, Liu Lijia, while attending a friend's birthday PARTY. At that time, Liu Lijia and Luo Jingyu, who were leaders in a logistics company, met in a guitar training class. After hearing Luo Jingyu's analysis of the painting material market, he was still hesitant, but later, when Luo Jingyu found him with more than 41 pages of business plan, and ensured that this line was a steady profit-making industry, Liu Lijia was somewhat moved. Seeing that Liu Lijia was somewhat shaken, Luo Jingyu wrote a letter of guarantee on the spot: even if Liu Lijia made money, even if he lost money, Luo Jingyu borrowed Liu Lijia's interest of 4 points. Liu Lijia finally let go, and made a piecemeal investment of 1 million yuan for Luo Jingyu, rented a 41-square-meter facade room in the "Golden Triangle" of Shiyan City, and established "Yujia Business Co., Ltd.", which mainly deals in art painting materials and musical instruments.
At the beginning of the company, in order to have enough time to manage the company well, Luo Jingyu, the general manager, told his family and school that he had attended art training, so that he had plenty of time to stay in the company and handle affairs. However, in addition to managing the company, Luo Jingyu didn't fall behind in his studies. After leaving school, he quietly told his friends the truth and patted his brother on the shoulder and said, "Have a good class. Please be a teacher later, you know." My friend quipped, "My price is not expensive either. I can choose good wine and food, so just remember to buy the bill."
Before the company got on the right track, Luo Jingyu lived and ate in the company. Looking back now, parents can't have found no signs at all, but they have confidence in their son and once again "condone" their children to dare to think and do it.
During that time, Luo Jingyu could only sleep for four hours a day. Sometimes in his dreams, he was either memorizing English words or negotiating with manufacturers. The pressure was so great that Liu Lijia, a partner, felt distressed. He was still a child, like a snail, crawling slowly with a heavy shell of pressure on his back ...
Luo Jingyu was able to survive the pressure, but running to the market to pull business made Luo Jingyu break his brain. Many schools and studios have regular suppliers, and it's more difficult than going to heaven to bring their business! When talking about painting materials business with Shiyan No.6 Middle School, Luo Jingyu often rushed to the school gate early in the morning with a self-made product album on his back, trying to mix with the students who went to school, but all the students in No.6 Middle School entered the school in school uniforms, and were not allowed to enter the school without them. Every time he was driven out by the guard, he wandered around the school gate, sometimes leaning against the wall with an English word book to recite words, and sometimes with a Chinese book to read the text. After a long time, the doorman also recognized this "doing nothing" student. When he saw him again, he directly told him to "get out of here". Seeing that students of the same age looked at him differently, his self-esteem was hurt, but it also aroused his fighting spirit. He would never go back until he won the business in No.6 Middle School. Later, with perseverance, Luo Jingyu finally blocked the headmaster of No.6 Middle School at the door. "Our painting materials are of good quality, and the price is lower than that of any painting material shop in Shiyan, and we provide free trial service, so we can buy them after using them well." Luo Jingyu handed the painting material atlas to the headmaster and introduced it. Looking at the exquisite picture album and the senior two student in 13, the principal finally agreed to think about it. In the end, Luo Jingyu's honesty touched the principal and the students in the art class.
Luo Jingyu said that he learned from his business father that success can only be achieved if he is not afraid of setbacks, so these efforts are nothing.
another time, because of logistics problems, the goods were delayed. Luo Jingyu rushed to No.6 Middle School and went to the art class one by one to explain the situation. Finally, he made an amazing move: he bowed to the whole class and apologized. Perhaps his sincerity touched the students, and the students in the art class decided to wait a few more days. Two days later, the goods were finally delivered to the art students. After this matter was solved, Luo Jingyu felt the whole person collapsed. He didn't even know where he had the courage to bow and apologize to his peers that day.
In the college entrance examination in 2112, Luo Jingyu was admitted to the visual communication major of Hubei University Art College with good results.
After entering the university, Luo Jingyu has more time to take care of the company's affairs. Now, in addition to eight physical stores, he has opened three online stores with his friends and an art training school in Hanyang, with the company's annual sales reaching 15 million yuan.
Although Luo Jingyu has made small achievements in starting a business, he keeps a low profile, eats in the canteen, lives in the dormitory, reads books when he has time, and never plays online games. He told reporters: "Learning and entrepreneurship have never been contradictory. Entrepreneurship is a learning experience. I started my business to have a bigger learning platform to improve myself. My goal now is to combine my studies with my entrepreneurship. What can be done in an hour will never be done in an hour and a half. Efficient study and work are king. Under the premise that my company is developing better and better, I hope to set up a venture fund in the future to help more people with dreams like me to start a business, make a living and develop. "