It has been nearly a week since I went back to the job interview after my last post about starting my own business, but I still haven’t found a job suitable for me. But that is to be expected. Over the next week, I had three or four other top-tier companies waiting to interview. I have made better preparations.
What preparations have you made?
1. Review previous interviews, take notes and review. Understand the current interview process, concerns, and concerns of hr departments in mainstream companies, so as to communicate in advance in follow-up interviews.
2. Review the basic books and project codes that you have read before, and make mind mapping notes; Browse the official website documentation of current popular front-end technologies.
3. Review your goals and what you know about the company and its business.
Point 3, the following statement.
Different from the general job-hopping, I stood at a different crossroads. Find a way to stick with the business, or go back to where you started three years ago?
There is still a second chance.
Anyway, this time considering returning to the workplace, is passive, is unwilling. If the subsequent job offers are more satisfactory, there are no more than two situations. One is a big company with a good salary or position. The second is a small company, good salary or good prospects. I prepared for the best, but with low expectations.
It’s a long story to tell about the failure of a startup, and this is just a replay of the last one or two months.
At the beginning of October last year, Dragonfly outsourcing project was launched to implement the idea of off-site outsourcing and help enterprises find nearby talents to solve problems more conveniently (more like consulting business). After a month of painstaking research and development, the official website was launched. It soon became clear that without real project requirements, it was difficult to promote. And the official website borrowed a lot from peers, nothing new. So project development/roll-out stalled. After a revision, still no help.
In early November, AT search (blockchain search engine), which was launched last year, was relaunched to expand the blog search function, aiming to gather high-quality technical bloggers and monetize traffic. Through various ways to promote, and iterative development and operation for nearly two months until now, only to find that the promotion effect is very small. In fact, there are still many people who keep blogs, but traffic has already shifted to super apps and mobile devices. In fact, AT search offers so little value to users that it’s largely a self-fulfilling project.
After thinking deeply about these two projects, I came to the following conclusions:
Entrepreneurship can not be opportunistic, products to output value. Dragonfly Outsourcing and AT search are both free tools, belonging to the aggregation of information, without original content. And the quantity/quality/functionality/interaction of information is not enough to retain users. Such a product, may not be as good as a random adhere to the original public or personal blog station.
Entrepreneurship is not public welfare, need to make profits, can continue. For grassroots entrepreneurs like me, it is even more so. This is more popular truth, but I deeply understand.
The rest of the plan is clearer. One is to keep preparing for interviews until you find a job that’s right for you (or not). The second is to do the second choice, write a good public number, do value realization. We will discuss the realization of value next time.
