1. Family and friends
Needless to say, there are many examples of parents helping their children. As mentioned above, Bill Gates' mother helped Bill sign the first contract and helped Bill succeed in his first venture.
Classmates and comrades-in-arms know each other better because of their close contact. At the same time, because teenagers don't have conflicts of interest, most adults are from all corners of the country, and there are few conflicts of interest between them. Therefore, friendship is generally more reliable and purer. For entrepreneurs, it is one of the most important external resources worth cherishing.
The famous Forbes China tycoons Nan Cunhui and Hu Chengzhong are classmates in primary and middle schools, one is the monitor and the other is the sports committee member. Later, they started their business in partnership, and when the business became bigger, they separated, and established Zheng Tai Group and Delixi Group respectively. An entrepreneur said in an interview with Science Investment that before starting a business in Zhongguancun, he spent half a year attending a special training course for entrepreneurs in Peking University and made friends. More than a dozen businesses he started were completed by classmates or with the help of classmates. The help of his classmates played a great role in the early days of his business.
2. Career resources
In fact, professional resources are the most effective resources. Different from the first resource, friends in professional resources have the same career development as you, and what they can provide you is very professional.
For example, He Xinyuan, the "King of Yunnan Auto Parts" in Kunming, worked in the same job in the provincial supply and marketing cooperative before establishing Xin Sheng Yuan Auto Parts Company; Liu Wuyuan, the founder of Baogong Logistics, is a member of Shantou Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He was sent by the unit to Guangzhou Railway Station to engage in cargo transshipment, and later contracted the transshipment station. Later, he established Bao Gong by using various relationships established in his work, and became a leader in the domestic logistics industry by being a logistics distributor for Procter & Gamble.
Song Zhenghai, a former middle school math teacher, the founder of Good Boy and China billionaire of Forbes, got the first order for baby carriages through a student's parents, only to know that there are such profitable things as baby carriages in the world. At the same time, Song Zhenghai's first fund for making baby carriages was obtained through a student's parents who served as a director in a bank. Without the help of students' parents, Song Zhenghai could have accomplished nothing. Feng Lun and Wang Gongquan of Vantone used to be colleagues. They work together in Nande. Later, they left Nande and joined hands with Hainan to cultivate land, which made them prosperous now. Feng Lun and Wang Gongquan are a perfect match in their careers, just like the two generals in The Romance of Gods, one plays and the other sings.
When starting a business, China has a principle, that is, to be the industry that he is most familiar with, and the industries that he is most familiar with are generally doing by himself. Therefore, this professional resource is very rich, so we should firmly grasp this point.
3. Friends with a wide range of beliefs
An entrepreneur, with many friends and many religions, should make friends and get on well with them, just like eighteen weapons, which will be used in time. Friends are like capital. For entrepreneurs, the more the better. "Depend on your parents at home and your friends when you go out" and "One more friend and one more road" are all wise sayings. If an entrepreneur can't make friends and has few friends, he will definitely die. In order to make friends with the police, Yu almost died after drinking, but he later found out that his "almost death" was worth it! "Science Investment" believes that interpersonal skills should rank first in the quality of entrepreneurs.
Make your enemy your friend.
The enemy may not be completely useless to you. The most successful way to defeat others is not to defeat others, but to let the enemy work for himself.
The secret of Rockefeller's success in the battle with his competitors lies in his adherence to the Jewish commercial law that "those who take the upper line will become strong." 1890 Rockefeller standard oil company was accused of violating the monopoly prohibition law. The accusation was made by Watson, director of the Ohio Supreme Supervision Office. He was fully prepared and put on a life-and-death fighting posture. Rockefeller was not nervous at this time, because Mark Hannah, the most authoritative senator in American medical field at that time, even gave President Hannah three points, was a young friend of Rockefeller. He took a clear stand on Rockefeller's side. He wrote a letter to Watson pointing out the pros and cons, and Watson quickly dropped the lawsuit. Using political skills is Rockefeller's proudest tactic in his business career. His new and old friends in politics will become his spokesmen at the critical moment of business war.
No matter what kind of friend you are, as long as it is helpful to you, you should manage it well, be grateful to your friends, be sincere to your friends, and your friends will give you more.
In life, we often hear about being betrayed by our friends. Don't blame your friends blindly, just say that you are careless in making friends and don't recognize the true face of others. Friends are sometimes a double-edged sword.
Shen Nanpeng, a partner of Sequoia Investment China Fund, believes that "investment should be rational, and there is no difference between good and bad. No investor will become the basis of investment because of personal likes and dislikes or feelings. If you invest by emotional factors, he is doomed to be a failed investor. "
Make friends, according to the degree of soul mate, determine a distance that both sides feel safe. Most friends are far away, and the distance between life and death and moral friends can be closer. But no matter how good the relationship is, we should keep a certain distance, so that both sides feel that adding one point is too long and subtracting one point is too short.
Harvey mckay is known as the world's number one internet expert and the author of the best-selling book Swimming with Sharks. He thinks that establishing and maintaining the internet is the most underestimated but most important management skill. It is easy to build a personal network, but it is difficult to maintain it. There are four principles to maintain interpersonal relationships: ① reciprocity, no pains, no gains; 2 interdependence, interdependence is the most stable relationship chain; 3 share, the more you share, the more you gain; Persistence and not giving up will bring feelings closer and closer. Someone suggested that the name of "relationship" should be clarified: we don't exclude all other good relationships except vulgar ones. The better the relationship, the better and more possible life will be. There is nothing more realistic and existential than perching on a plane with beautiful connections between people.
Peter drucker, a management guru, once put forward an interesting metaphor: cleaning up your contacts is like cleaning up your closet. This sentence has two meanings. On the one hand, it emphasizes the importance of contacts, which are closely related to daily life, just like wardrobes. On the other hand, it explains the management method of personal relationship, that is, it is necessary to tidy up the closet every day, clean out inappropriate clothes and put more new clothes into the closet.
Friends are indispensable resources, not to mention help in starting a business. Even when you are depressed, you need friends to comfort and encourage you. Network resources are a kind of potential intangible assets and a kind of potential wealth. If you have dignitaries in your contacts and civilians in the world, when you have joy and honor, someone will wave flags and shout for you; When you need help, someone will pave the way for you, and you will feel the power of connections.
Make more friends in all aspects, expand your knowledge, make yourself more informed, and make your own entrepreneurial road correct and brave.