昨天晚上去听交响音乐会，很精彩，掌声不断，指挥谢幕了2次，加奏了2曲听众才算作罢。第一次去听这么正式的交响音乐会，感觉不错，没像想象中一样困，呵呵。回来比较晚，早晨一觉睡到10点，打开窗帘，有点不敢相信自己的眼睛，，，下雪了》。。。

北京今年的雪来得可真早，才11月的第1天，竟然就下雪了。打电话回家分享这个消息，家里现在还是艳阳高照，不远的北京，竟然是漫天飞雪```

无论如何，下雪总是让人心情愉快的。

很喜欢今天拍的这张照片，比较符合现在的状态，很OL的样子，贴来供大家品评一下，虽然现在写BLOG和看BLOG的人都不多了吧。最近比较忙，忙着这个年龄应该忙碌的事情，无非是爱情和工作，都想要，却并不容易。关于工作，3年了吧，现在更希望能够做个不用天天养尊处优地呆在办公室的OL，可以多些机会去认识不同的人，体验不同的生活，奔波’一些，会更加有趣吧。也许只是一种生活状态持续久了，就会想有些改变。一直是比较安静的性格，现在倒希望可以张扬和喧闹一些。工作3年了，少了些不通世故和锋芒毕露，多了些谨慎和从容。最近常和分公司的一位同事在MSN上聊天，聊聊工作，聊聊生活；作为前辈，所言所劝颇感受益非浅。回头想想当初选择艺龙，还是应该庆幸的，因为在这里的确经历了很多，得到了很多的成长，现在的自己，相比2年前，成熟了很多，也圆融了很多，少了些青涩，多了份优雅和沉稳，也更加地自信。人生在世，总是应该长怀一颗感恩的心，去认真地欣赏身边的每一个人。

The guest post below was written by Reid Hoffman, CEO and Founder of LinkedIn. Reid, who’s been a prolific writer lately, is a strong advocate of entrepreneurism and the startup mentality. See his recent Washington Post article Let Our Start-Ups Bail Us Out, and the guest post he wrote here on TechCrunch, Stimulus 2.0: It’s The Startups, Stupid. Reid has recently appeared on Charlie Rose, and we had a chance to sit down with him earlier this year for a video interview as well. Reid is an investor in over 60 web ventures including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, FunnyOrDie, Ning, Last.fm, Six Apart and Technorati. He is also a member of the
nominating committee of our upcoming TechFellow Awards with Founders Fund.

TechCrunch and Founders Fund announced the first annual TechFellow Awards last week. This is a great time to stimulate investment and recognize and encourage tech entrepreneurs –starting up is cheaper, talent is more fluid, and people are more inclined to take calculated risks. If we can find more ways to spur investment, it will be good for the entrepreneur now and good for society later.

As a serial investor, I’ve enjoyed backing some good Web 2.0 companies, and it’s helped me develop a shortlist of criteria to cut the wheat from the chaff. After five minutes of a pitch, I know if I’m not going to invest, and after 30 minutes to an hour, I generally know if I will. Many entrepreneurs are product-focused, which leads them to pitch the brilliance of the product. Others are money-minded, so they can over think the business plan. But neither of these approaches answer the first few questions I want to know as an investor:

1. How will you reach a massive audience?

In real estate the wisdom says “location, location, location.” In consumer Internet, think “distribution, distribution, distribution.” Thousands of products launch every month on hundreds of thousands of new Web pages. How does a company rise above the noise to attract massive discovery and adoption? YouTube did it through existing channels like MySpace, which already reached millions. Yelp had strong SEO, which found them a mass audience searching for restaurants and nightlife. Facebook’s University-centric approach landed them 80% adoption across a campus within 60 days of launch. Every Net entrepreneur should answer these questions: How do we get to one million users? Then how do we get to 10 million users? Then how will you get deep engagement by your users.

2. What is your unique value proposition?

The Internet space is crowded. A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user. Many entrepreneurs create incremental improvements on existing products. This can be big – Google revolutionized search when AOL and Yahoo! were presumed to have it locked up – but more often, the pitch sounds like, “It’s a dating site, but for senior citizens…” I want to see innovation that is categorically distinct from existing propositions. Digg lets users decide which headlines are newsworthy. Last.fm tracks music listening with an iTunes plugin and buffer great music discovery. Flickr enables users to share and tag photos in new ways.

3. Will your business be capital efficient?

This may be the most important of the three. Even if you have a mass audience and unique value prop, a business fails without cash flow. An initial round of financing is important, but how reliable is later financing? Will investors see the right elements in the next stage? Your product must scale intelligently – this is why I like software. A well-coded site can adapt to mass demand without its capital expenditures scaling out of control. A product like TypePad can grow to 10 million users without half the growing pains of a service like WebVan, the Web 1.0 startup that attempted to deliver groceries to users’ doorsteps. Try reaching Facebook scale with a service like that.

With these three elements in place – mass audience, unique value, stable funding – a startup has time to discover where it can make money. Few business plans ever pan out like their owners intend. PayPal started as a plan to beam payments between Palm Pilots. Google raised funds with a vision to capitalize on enterprise search and ended up in advertising. The formula is to build an audience with a great product – then secure enough funding to figure out how to make it pay.

Since I’m focused on building LinkedIn, I’m not currently investing in new projects, but I firmly believe now is the time to take smart risks as entrepreneurs and investors. I hope these criteria help startups make better pitches as they fundraise, and maybe even encourage others to take the plunge. Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential, and if these criteria help a few more companies find capital, it’s a win for everyone.

同事推荐的一篇文章，虽然是个VC做投资的经验分享，对于existing的business，也是可以参考的。尤其是在线行业~