Post-AI Era: The Rise of Micro-Business Commerce
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A few days ago, I was discussing with a friend that starting a business should be approached like running a business.
You need to find a niche that can quickly recover costs and generate profits. Act fast.
In the consumer sector, there are still plenty of opportunities. The key is whether you can deliver higher-quality products and serve users well.
Why should entrepreneurs adopt a business mindset and focus on niches that can quickly recover costs and make money?
Because capital is harder to come by now, investment and financing are not as vibrant as before.
Today’s entrepreneurship has reverted to the state from years ago: “Invest what you have, earn it back quickly, then scale up production.”
Opportunities in Small Businesses
Why are there still opportunities in consumption and entrepreneurship?
Big companies are cutting back on investments.
Small and medium-sized companies are also struggling.
But people’s demands won’t change in the short term.
China has experienced 40 years of rapid development, and both material and spiritual demands have flourished, becoming persistent necessities.
These demands need products to satisfy them, don’t they?
Now, you can use lighter organizations and fewer employees.
More efficient methods can meet people’s demands, create cost-effective products, and achieve affordable alternatives. Isn’t that an opportunity?
Look at the development of AI and decentralized IPs.
These allow ordinary people to gain massive influence, powerful channels, and even intelligent digital employees.
This means the cost of acquiring traffic has decreased, and the cost of gaining user trust has also dropped.
Those who can master AI, IPs, and intelligent agents can start businesses without needing funding or even many employees.
IPs can generate profits for them, and AI agents can serve as digital employees.
They just need to focus on how to meet users’ consumption needs.
While big companies may reduce staff and small businesses may fail, AI-powered individuals have great potential.
If you master advanced productivity tools and become a super individual or a one-person company, it’s hard to fail.
Don’t start by thinking about raising funds.
Or hiring dozens or hundreds of employees right away.
That’s the playbook of the past era.
Now, you need to be steady, learn to use AI, build IPs, and handle all aspects of business single-handedly. Yes, all aspects.
Final Thoughts
Recently, Sequoia Capital held a closed-door meeting. Besides discussing AI trends, like the shift from AI in delivery processes to delivering results, and AI agents becoming a hot track, there was something more significant.
The big shots envisioned a future:
They look forward to Silicon Valley producing the first one-person company, powered by countless intelligent agents, that could reach a $1 billion valuation.
Imagine one person, leveraging the power of AI, becoming the CEO of a $1 billion unicorn.
Isn’t that a future worth looking forward to?
