Zhongguancun Street: cruel reality than dream
Zhongguancun Street has been listed for six months, under the venture capital boom sweeping the country, business street, Knightsbridge, at the same time, 200-meter-long street ushered in a large number of dreamer of entrepreneurship.
With ideals and geek spirit earlier than venture Street is trying to build the complete VC chain to provide more services. But in the face of growing dreamer, and entrepreneurial capacity of main street was comparatively limited, and with the influx of more people, have great geek spirit is gradually diluted by being impetuous.
Here only talking dreams
In Zhongguancun Street, greeting people is not “did you eat”, but rather “: are you a entrepreneur? ”
From Jilin, Shanghai, Xian, Hangzhou, Langfang, entrepreneurs have been attracted, in free space, power and WiFi at the same time, they write on the keyboard legends, keen to invest can help them realize their saga.
No school for students, working for many years in his middle years, and serial entrepreneur who gathered together around the streets of this less than 200 meters long, where they talk about school, a job, rent only focus, entrepreneurship, investment, and dreams.
One Tuesday morning, venture Café binggo, a self-media man, an entrepreneur, a Bard, and a bunch of lawyers, entrepreneurs, owners of Book Club are scattered in different places on binggo coffee kick.
Bard is printed on the card after the philosophy of time, bridge the technological revolution, and popularity of the Internet, entrepreneurship, interpretation, he was discussing with the people business combined with the campus culture. Behind them is a lively reading group.
Moderator is wearing black Mao suit lawyers, reading Club promoter and binggo coffee co-founder Duan Bohui told Tencent technology, book club established to read Kevin Kelly’s out of control, thereby helping entrepreneurs understand the trend – although the boom out of control a few years ago had passed.
At 12 o’clock noon, the garage across the street, beginning midday routine half an hour, and entrepreneurs of all stripes got on the podium, introduced the item at the same time attract talented people. Newcomers excited, calm more entrepreneurs facing the computer continue to work.
Garage next to the coffee is black Street play Centre Roadshow here is very hot, the venue always crowded with spectators, many entrepreneurs, road shows are a great opportunity to learn, while also acknowledging investors ‘ great opportunity.
Entrepreneurs through various occasions: concept products, road show at the Café Central learning experience, investment agency for help. They had conceived a and a business model, outlines one product after another, and look forward to for his dream of a pioneering Street is coming from, however, went into the business street is not easy.
How went into business street
First solo with garage coffee compared to the living environment, entrepreneurial Street now is trying to build a complete business services chain.
Kechuang Technology Services Limited is a pioneering Street sea-mounted operating company, in addition to assume block format adjustment and advocacy functions, it also provides business services, announced the street Commissioner Wang Jingjing introduced sea reset branch Chong service open only to block team, therefore, signed contracts with bodies in the street is one of the conditions to enjoy the service. Therefore, to really enjoy the entrepreneurial venture capital provided by the street services, obtain recognition of bodies on the streets is very important.
Currently, a total of 13 institutions in this district business street, including venture theme cafes, investment institutions and the media, this sea of 13 institutions together with the operating companies place major players of innovation is to create the service chain.
Institutions there are the following categories of services: providing office space, providing services, helped register, organize seminar investment and docking activities.
Coffee with the 3 w incubators, for example, its main provider of team building, investing in product development, registration, and docking and other help, particularly for Italian teams, the incubator will invest. Others on the street, such as Binggo coffee, and coffee has similar incubators, incubators to navigate between different, such as incubator 3W focused early in the project, even without forming products are available.
On into entrepreneurial Street entrepreneurs, street venture capital services become better and better, which means that you can get better service, but it also means that barriers to entry are high and competition is fiercer: just like in the 3W coffee shops, ordinary entrepreneurs to enter the incubator, 3 floor, are no longer just take up a few steps as simple as that.
Entrepreneurs eager to venture Street, main street but not so much the ability to dream all treat each other gently.
Energy limited “dream factory”
Business want an entrepreneur from the street the street walked to the end of the street you will get all information about the venture, get help, but this is not realistic: a large number of individual entrepreneurs is still wandering in the street.
94-born Fu Qiang is currently the youngest entrepreneurs in garages coffee, as a member of in the dream business street, he lives in 1000 bucks a month for capsule hotels, traveled between gongzhufen and entrepreneur Avenue. He and his partner wanted to do a university students staging a financial product, just finish the team recruited, although at present only at the idea stage, but he had good marketing-letting team members all wear bearing the product name of the dinosaur suits by bus, is cause for concern.
Fu, plans to raise RMB 3 million in Angel rounds, mainly for team building on wages and benefits that he plans to provide accommodations for employees, because the North drift is hard work. Not long ago, the angels meeting held road shows, he returned with a business plan to wait for a long time to make up, there is no context.
Sun Liang was named “local living” project, he wants to integrate rural property on line presentation and transactions, resigned venture more than a year, a day soaking in the business street, and later to two or three times a week, but until now the project progress has remained small. A middle-aged woman who likes to dress is already pioneering Street for a few months, she wanted to make a product help dress industry for wiring, but the specific structure outlined in the PPT.
On maturation of these teams lacking highlights, ideas are not entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial Street does not reduce the entrepreneurial threshold, although they can communicate with people here, but remain difficult to achieve substantial progress.
For more entrepreneurial teams to get services, the incubator is trying to accelerate the pace of hatching at the same time, entrepreneurial Street start mode output 3W coffee plans to open 40 stores next year, science and technology parks to this pilgrimage, hoping to recreate a business street. But for this “pilgrimage” of entrepreneurs, Zhongguancun Avenue may not look so beautiful.
A few days ago, Angel Fu received feedback from the meeting, his business proposal didn’t pass, which means that investment did not fall, and that venture was almost running out of 100,000 dollars has, the young friends sigh: the reality is cruel. After several attempts, he and his partner plan to change business models, hoping to usher in change.