Mitch Altman (born December 22, 1956) is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as featured speaker at hacker conferences, as international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
October 21st，Mitch Altman have come to Yiwu to share his experience with new hackers.
米奇·奥特曼(生于1956年12月22日)，著名的创客和发明家。大本营位于旧金山，最闻名于耳的作品是一键式万能电视遥控器TV-B-Gone。除此之外，作为一名优秀的演讲家，米奇·奥特曼还活跃于各种创客论坛，并往返世界各地的创客空间，为年轻的电商创客们提供指导。同时，他还是玉米地电子公司的CEO。10月21日第21届义博会开幕当天，米奇奥特曼空降义乌，给年轻的创客们分享了自己的经验。
Q1 Do you have any recommendation for the Ecommerce in China？
你对中国电子商务有些什么建议吗？
China ecommerce is bigger than probably anywhere，like alibaba is huge ,and wechat always has amazing features that we don’t have in South America or in Europe ，so in this area china is running ahead of world，and you even get anything from that.
中国的电子商务在全球范围内可以算是数一数二的，比如中国的阿里巴巴拥有庞大的市场，比如功能齐全，引领潮流的微信，在南美、欧洲国家都还未出现这样的平台。因此，在这一领域，中国正领先于全球，你甚至可以从这些平台中找到任何你想要的。
It is really interesting that chinese government is doing a kind of surport of people running companies.I think one thing can be very helpful in this is the government continue having interests in importing more and more creative learning environments in schools 、universities，and also in companies .These environments are for people looking for more things so that they make them different from before. Having these environments of community where people encourage each other to try new things ，new ideas will arise.
我看到中国政府正在全力支持创业的人，这是一件值得关注的事。在我看来，如果政府能够持续保持这种积极态度，在学校、公司营造更多的创造学习环境，这将对创业者有着不容忽视的助推作用。有了这样的氛围，大家就容易去寻找新的事物，推陈出新。也更利于大家相互激励学习，碰撞出创意的火花。
Upon to now china has been fantastic at making western products better and cheaper，but we have 1.4billion people in china，it will be fantastic if people here were exploring and creating products and services that were new and uniq.This is a fantastic opportunity for amazing things to come from china.
长久以来，中国一直擅长的是在西方的产物上“做”文章。人们想着怎样将它变得更好，怎样将它变得更便宜。但是拥有14亿人口的中国能做的不仅仅是这些，如果这14亿人都愿意去激发思维，进行创造，那必将产生前所未有的变化，这对中国来说，是个巨大的机会。
what do you think of the young Hackers？
你是如何看待中国的年轻创客的？
It is fantastic that young people come up with pretty interesting ideas.Something today is unique for China and that really excited me.
Wherever I go I like to see people who are creating products and services that are personally motivated by them.
Because when people are doing something that personally motivated from what they are excited about and passionate about，their life experience will bring them to creat something unique.
现在的年轻人拥有源源不断的新奇的想法，这让我很欣喜。如今的中国已经焕然一新，我从中看到了一些让我眼前一亮的东西。
无论我走到哪里，我期望看到的是一群在创客追求自己喜欢的东西。当他们所做的是自己感兴趣的事，那么日常生活中的经历就能成为他们创造的来源，也就容易创造出属于自己独一无二的产品。
They are part of environments that cause them to see that a problem that need to be solved，and that means there are probably many people that also experience that problem ，and that means there are probably a lot of people are willing to pay to solve that.So I like to see more that could happen here.
当创造与生活结合起来，他们就会发现一些在生活中亟待解决的问题，这些问题必定也困扰着更多的人。也就意味着会有人愿意去花钱解决这个问题。我期望中国会涌现出越来越多的人将创业与自己的人兴趣结合起来，做自己真正喜欢的事。
Do you have any advise for the beginners？
你对创业初期有些什么建议？
There is so much that anyone starts a compay is not going be good at.It's really important that you are doing something that you are trully believe in rather than that just someway to make money.Because when things are not going well you will get disappointed , and it will be more difficult to continue.But if you are doing something that you are excited about，you will learn when you need to learn to keep going and you will look for resourses that you need to keep going.
有太多人刚开始是不懂得怎样创业的。我认为，你需要对自己所做的事有一个信念，而不仅仅是为了赚钱。如果创业只为了赚钱，当你遇到挫折时，你就会很容易一蹶不振。但如果你是在做一件自己感兴趣的事，你就会去学习来提升自己，去寻找更多的资源让自己做得更好。
I have been in China for many years，so much what i have seen in china are people start with the motivation of I wanna start a compay to make money. There is nothing wrong with that，but I think that kind of background can be much more successful if people explore ideas and come up with something like i said which is exciting to them.
我已经在中国很多年了，看到过太多人纯粹以赚钱的目的去创业。当然，赚钱并没有错，但我认为如果大家勇于创新，按照我刚才说的去做，那么这个大背景就会有很大的改变。
The mosts i see in china is people taking a western product services and just change a little bit，like changing yellow and blue instead of coming up with their own unique ideas.People can make money that way，we need money for living our lives ，but we need people to come up with ideas that make an inpact on the world.
我在中国看到最多的是人们将西方的产品稍作改变，比如只改变黄色和蓝色，他们缺少自己的创作。这样赚钱无可厚非，但是我们需要大家创造出新的产品来影响整个社会。
