I embarked on my own entrepreneurial journey during the summer vacation of my sophomore year in college, and it was a completely zero-cost entrepreneurial process, without even investing a penny. So I say that this entrepreneurial experience is really interesting to me, and it is definitely an experience that I will never forget in my life.
It was in 2001. At that time, the school happened to build a very simple musical instrument rehearsal room for our music club. At that time, I was the president of the music club and the lead singer of our band. The guitarist, Brother Bo, has a good relationship with the art instructor of our school, and he is also from the same hometown. We successfully obtained the management and use rights of the rehearsal room. Brother Bo is from Chaoshan, and she was also the inspiration for me to start my own business. Her business acumen is very, very right. One day, after he and we finished rehearsing in the band, he suggested to me that we should stay at school together to see if we could use this rehearsal room instead of going home during the summer vacation.
Then we posted an advertisement on Tongcheng.com to recruit some students who wanted to learn guitar during the summer vacation, and we also sold some guitars to see if we could earn some living expenses. Before that, during the summer vacation after I graduated from the college entrance examination, I was also... The guitar teacher started recruiting students online in the same city. At the same time, I helped him recruit four or five students in more than a month. Then in the first semester of my sophomore year, we Recruiting new members for the club, and cooperating with them, we also sold nearly 20,000 yuan of musical instruments to, er, new members of our club. After the sales, other bosses also shared the profit of about a few thousand yuan for the two of us. People, plus we also had half a year of practical teaching experience in school club guitar classes, so I thought in my mind that online enrollment, selling guitars, and teaching guitars were all three things I was very emotional about at the time.
I also have experience in a matter in the area, and there are some small results, so, uh, after Brother Bo proposed this idea to me, I basically hit it off with him without hesitation. So we immediately discussed how to raise the issue. Well, at that time, the intra-city networks distributed free advertisements, so at the beginning our basic daily work was to visit these major intra-city networks across the country, but now most of them They are all listed in the same city, and there is no charge. This city has been bombarded with advertisements on the Internet, so in less than a week, other enthusiasts have added it to our QQ through their own enrollment advertising information. Come to the group for consultation.
At that time, it was very interesting in the era when the mainstream communication and dating software was QQ. What impressed me most at that time was the student who was the first to sign up to support me. He was better than me. I'm two years younger. I work as a handyman in a dye factory in Foshan. During a simple communication with him, we learned that his dream since childhood was to become a musician and form a band of his own. However, due to financial and family reasons, it has never been realized, so in our Motivated by the same hobbies, we are online.
In less than a week of chatting on QQ, he did something that I still admire. Since he decisively quit his job after a week, he packed up his bags and became single. A man came to Tianhe, Guangzhou and asked me to learn guitar and buy a guitar. At that time, his online reputation was very impressive. His name was Ye Zi, and he was from Hunan. We always called him this way during the time we got together again. As for what his real name was, I never asked. I asked too many times. The first thing he did when he came was that I took him to find a private house to rent near our school. The discount was less than 2,000 yuan, and I only had a schoolbag with a few clothes in it, but nothing else.
For half a day later, we rented the house in the attic of a bungalow at the entrance of the school. The cost was less than 300 yuan a month. The window faced west, which was a very, very good place. It was a small single room with nothing but a bed. Well, at that time, I felt like a steamer all day long. It was very, very hot. After renting the house, uh, he immediately We have discussed his tuition fees, and the cost of the guitar will be all paid to me, all at once. 200 yuan, uh, in this basic process, he handed the money over to us neatly and without hesitation. Uh, at that time, I was already shocked. Uh, I think this may be a person's love for us. It was a manifestation of my extreme longing for a dream. It shocked me at the time. At the same time, this incident really enhanced my confidence in continuing to do this job well, because I had never thought about myself. Its charm can influence a student so much that he gives up his job and comes to pursue it. I think Ye Zi.
But the noble person who inspired me to start a business, although financially and materially, did not give me the qualifications to make a change in business, but from a spiritual perspective, it gave me a strong motivation to start a business at that time. , which greatly enhanced my confidence and belief in entrepreneurship, and also gave me a boost in determination to do this well at that time. So I think this is more critical and valuable to me. So I think that in the end, entrepreneurship is not about ability, funds, resources, or even accumulation, but about hard work. It is the confidence and trust of the founders and the founding team in the career they have chosen. To this day, I still believe that the world is a product of our personal trust. Whatever you believe in, you will see and you will embrace it. What.
At the same time, I highly recognize the wise words of Mao Zedong’s teachings. Only you dare not think, but you can’t do it. This is the first story that I really started to devote myself to starting a business. What follows this story is that during the two-month summer vacation, I think we recruited about ten students. Counting the guitars at the sales office, I remember that I personally had superior. The total cost was 6,000 yuan for the original entrepreneurial fund. During this period, I also summarized some experience and methods of operating facilities in the process, and achieved the results of some small resources and the accumulation of original funds. The next paragraph is to share my experience of breaking away from the school musical instrument room and opening other studios with Brother Bo. I pressed Li Zhikai to start his own business before he graduated from college, and he has always been on the road to entrepreneurship. He has never failed and is still searching for different entrepreneurial practitioners such as the great siddhi method of entrepreneurship. Follow us and share entrepreneurship together. Play together.