Yang Ning: Angel investment as art investment

Yang Ning, president and founder of the Air Network group, was elected "the most active angel investor in China".

The first "China's most active angel investor" award ceremony and forum was held yesterday in Beijing. The selection was jointly hosted by Sina, Tsinghua University's China Entrepreneurship Research Center, fastart entrepreneur, China Entrepreneurs magazine and First financial daily.

Yang Ning early and Zhou Yun-fan co-founded the Aerial network, had received from Tom Online e CEO Wang Reilei Angel Investment. "What we need most at that time is money. "Yang Ning recalls. Unlike some of the angel investors who are deeply involved in starting a business, Yang Ning is still in the business development period and has no more leisure to assist in managing the invested enterprise. Therefore, he believes that the key to investment is to see whether the project can be independently successful.

"The ability to succeed independently is important, that means you have a good idea, a good team and a job, and all you need is money, and I can provide money." "Yang Ning said. In his view, as an angel investors really can not invest a lot of time on the project, but only to play the role of "fuelling".

Yang Ning is also an avid fan of art collections. Located in Beijing Xizhimen Tengda mansion in his office, there are beautiful paintings everywhere. "Angel investment is similar to art collection, and it is also a way of investing and managing money." Yang Ning said, "but just as the art collection can't get into all the categories of artwork, making Angel Investments I only focus on two areas: the Internet and telecommunications." And the art collection I am good at modern oil painting, it is impossible to know everything. ”

As an angel investor, Yang Ning has invested in the billion Friends Net (yeeyoo.com). 2006, the world's first listed, Europe's largest dating site meetic.com to 20 million U.S. dollars bought billion friends 70% shares.

Yang Ning recently the most proud investment project is to provide video on demand and film download services, popular in the world's first launched a BT side of the bottom look. Yang Ning at the same time is Hao friend net, a listen to the net angel investor