Garage Coffee Two years old: innovative incubator to drink coffee in the name of entrepreneurship

April 7, Zhongguancun "Garage" Café founder Su Ying drink a bit more, not only because of the number of guests, but because this day is the two-year garage coffee celebration.

The limit of 150 people's Party, already overcrowded, garage coffee removed all the coffee table before, full of chairs, the people under the crowd, applause repeatedly.

Compared with the lively two anniversary celebration, Su Ying just started the garage coffee is another scene: the entire 800 square meters of space basically few people, Su Ying was thinking, maybe half a month will have to close. And two years to develop, to start the theme of the garage coffee not only did not close the door, but also won a lot of attention. "Beyond my imagination. "Su Ying said.

Zhongguancun Management Committee Entrepreneurship Service Ma Yihong witnessed the growth of the garage coffee, "garage coffee is only a part of Zhongguancun ecological circle." The existence of this circle is the foundation of the whole zhongguancun entrepreneurial atmosphere. "Ma Yihong said.

Epitome

At present in Zhongguancun, the more famous entrepreneurs congregate mainly in garage coffee, 3W coffee and beta coffee, and around these cafes, a lot of venture capital also began to enter Zhongguancun. It is understood that from the beginning of last year, nine and venture, Qingyang Angel, Innovation Workshop, such as a large number of venture capital began to enter Zhongguancun, before the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/9742.html "> Electronic stores known as the Hailong Building, Many of the floors of the tower have been put into the capital to get closer to the team.

In addition to being close to entrepreneurs, these ventures often organise activities in these cafés, where organizations often send people to permanent cafés, communicate with entrepreneurs in a timely manner, and communicate ideas to these entrepreneurs in addition to the project.

The founder of the lathe, Zhang Kaixin, started out in the garage. In 2012, Zhang Kaixin 10 million yuan, so he moved out of the garage and had his own office. For the garage, Zhang Kaixin is still very nostalgic, because in the initial stage, Zhang Kaixin found his partner in the garage, and finally completed the first financing.

In addition to providing entrepreneurial sites, the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem in Zhongguancun has many models and functions.

It is understood that Zhongguancun Management committee has identified 16 entrepreneurial incubator,

In Ma Yihong's view, the garage coffee is the entrepreneurial ideas of the exchange and production phase, between entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs and investors in the exchange.

Microsoft Cloud Accelerator, focus on the technology-oriented enterprises to hatch; The Yajie Chamber of Commerce concentrated a group of very successful entrepreneurs, the implementation of a tutor system one-on-one service, each year selected the top 20 enterprises to hatch, the use of the strength and resources of instructors for rapid hatching; 36 Krypton uses Internet to serve the internet business; The Evergreen Park is an Israeli model that hatches only 8 companies a year, and the Venture Garden will incubate the best resources for the 8 companies.

As for the standard of the entrepreneurial incubator identified by Zhongguancun Management Committee, Ma Yihong said, "We are using entrepreneurial thinking to discover entrepreneurial incubators", first of all, these incubators have a good viability, and secondly, these incubators are market spontaneous, not government behavior, " In other words, these projects are created by people with dreams, they are willing to pay their own energy and time.

Ma Yihong that these projects can activate more resources, for example, traditional incubators are related to area, and innovative incubators have broken through the constraints of area, and these innovative incubators can serve several or dozens of times times the number of businesses in traditional incubators, and these innovative incubators rely on different resources and services in different directions.

Zhongguancun Ecology

Talking about the role of Zhongguancun CMC, Ma Yihong said, hope that the Zhongguancun CMC is only a helper role, "the ecosystem must be formed spontaneously, not a government action." ”

It is understood that Zhongguancun CMC has an Angel guidance fund, the Government will be limited partnership with the role of investment institutions to establish a fund, through market-based means of investment in enterprises, and zhongguancun innovative incubator to form a good interaction. The aim is for the government to make a sum of money for the development of investment in Angels.

At present, Zhongguancun Management Committee has been with the innovation workshop, Gobi Investment, Sina Micro-blogging fund, Enlightenment Venture Investment, Tsinghua Science and Technology venture capital set up five angel investment funds, with tens of millions of to pry a few billions of funds, through these venture investment institutions to carry out entrepreneurial projects.

In addition, in 2011, Zhongguancun CMC initiated the Gold Seed project, let innovation incubator to select several innovative projects, and then provide the corresponding policy and financial support for this group of projects, so as to achieve the realization of outstanding innovative projects and landing.

Ma Yihong that Zhongguancun model is not replicable, because the formation of zhongguancun entrepreneurial atmosphere after decades of accumulation, rather than overnight. Zhongguancun first generation of entrepreneurs, should be counted Liu, Wang Wenjing, such as a group of very successful entrepreneurs, then Zhongguancun is still in the state of the intellectual sea. Zhongguancun second batch of entrepreneurs, should be regarded as Li, Lei generation of entrepreneurs, when the Zhongguancun Industrial park has just been established, many returnees began to return to business, the current Internet, one of the three giant Baidu was born in Zhongguancun. The third generation of Zhongguancun entrepreneurs, is a new type of entrepreneur, more imaginative and creative, and garage coffee itself belongs to a new type of entrepreneurship, as Su Ying said, garage coffee is the world's first to open a café for entrepreneurs.

To Zhongguancun entrepreneurs, not only from the University of Zhongguancun-intensive students, as well as returnees to return to entrepreneurship, and even from all over the country entrepreneurs, Zhongguancun has gathered from all sides of the entrepreneurs, but also attracted many for the entrepreneurial service institutions and individuals, this is a virtuous circle. In Ma Yihong's view, the formation of the ecosystem must be accumulated and precipitated, in Zhongguancun, every day in the staged success and failure of the various stories, it is these rich stories of the formation of the zhongguancun ecosystem of the soil.