Can Shenzhen become a hardware entrepreneurship paradise?

Never read an article, but from my previous work, in China, Shenzhen is really the best place to do the hardware.

First of all, the most convenient component procurement, in addition to those foreigners specifically legislate not to buy military-grade components, if you do not buy in Shenzhen components, in other places you can not buy the basic. So Huaqiang North in the electronics engineer's opinion, no less than Silicon Valley as for the program ape.

Of course, now have Taobao, some people feel that can be obtained by courier. However, in the research and development phase, some new components procurement needs to be determined through constant comparison. Taobao bought a component, you do not know whether it is authentic, do not know whether he is suitable, also do not know it in Huaqiang North real price. If you get a fake or a component, you can give a bad comment, you can call a meal to scold a seller to send him a good product. But what you lose is the most valuable time cost, which means that your research progress will be delayed.

It is the last thing a boss wants to see for a start-up company, a business that throws money out of the box every day.

PS: That year in the Royal Park, the company to separate our research and development department from Zhongguancun to sheep Shop Road, we are old unwilling to. Buy a precision resistor are bus + subway run half-day to Haidian Huang Zhuang ...

Secondly, Shenzhen and its surrounding Pearl River Delta region, is the most various generations of factories, processing plants, PCB printing plant ... Whether it is initial cooperation or old customers. In the new development of the sample PCB playing board, electrical processing, structural open mold, sheet metal processing ... All need your research team to check the production process with the factory--otherwise you'll have to spend two or three times times the price and time to wipe your butt.

Say more than tears!

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Add one more point:

That is the price, we all feel that there is no water and electricity shop rent costs, the price will certainly be cheaper than physical stores. But in fact, most of the online shop is actually in the real store people in the run. In the electronic components price, online shop is not necessarily cheaper than the physical store. A often mixed electronic city engineers, in the purchase of goods than goods can learn some components of the identification, but also with the boss face-to-face bargaining. The most important thing is to know more about the mixed electronic city of people, for the later electrical installation, processing and other stages can also provide some useful information. Because some electronic city bosses also do electrical installation and structural processing. If your package gives them the rest of the process, you can also put down the prices. And what the manufacturers choose to install, can also be in the electronic city for primary, otherwise only the internet aimlessly looking for.

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Declaration of interest: I work six years to date, not working in Shenzhen for a day, but previously engaged in a variety of projects upstream chain are related to Shenzhen.