Cengyu: Angel investors can not be a faction entrepreneur

"China Entrepreneur Network" ancient Mulan father joined the army, now has "Mulan" fight shopping malls. Looking to the Chinese business sector, more and more "her strength" to stand out, with perseverance and commitment to the spirit of the pursuit of their dreams, to become no fire smoke on the battlefield eye-catching and bright scenery. The Cengyu, which has been confirmed to attend the annual meeting of Chinese business leaders at 2012 (11th), is the "female warrior" who is active in the field of investment and is the first batch to start early.

Cengyu, who has defined himself as a thinker and entrepreneur in the investment community, has spent ten years in the private equity fund industry, saying, in her own words, the love of the industry is "can be exchanged with life, this is our ideal, it is calm and generous." ”

How does a woman's paper survive in a heap of old merchants? Cengyu says her weapon is: "You penetrate directly when it is sold off, and you believe it indirectly when it sells." She said that the investment community is a positive circle, the first choice to enter, so that they have benefited from the present.

Those years, in Cengyu view, every day is overloaded work, every day there are different challenges, often in the flying, "more than 10 days out of luggage, no gold and silver valuables only black and white clothing, five minutes to clean up all over." I don't know if I should be happy with this kind of efficiency, or should I be discouraged by such a man? Well, in a fierce struggle. ”

2010, "China entrepreneur" magazine to the "Business Mulan Award" awarded to Cengyu, the same time the award of the Zhuhai Gree Electric Co., Ltd. President Mingzhu, Chongqing Longhu Real Estate Co., Ltd. Chairman Yajun, Shenzhen Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Chairman Yafang, Wang, chairman of Taiwan's Granville Group, and other 30 outstanding women entrepreneurs.

How is "investment Woman" tempered? "Southern People Weekly," an interview with Cengyu's article, about her reputation behind the growth experience. Born in Chongqing military family Cengyu, is the third girl in the family, parents love, make her character unrestrained, a little boy, with her own words to say "character stuffy, dare to risk".

After graduating from college, Cengyu's first job was a futures trader. "It's a job that's completely working with people, and it's a fully leveraged business," he said. For the fledgling girl, the job undoubtedly increased her professionalism in the investment circle.

The job Cengyu for two years and then goes to the messy stage of finding a job, leaving a job, and looking for work. To further enrich himself, in the summer of 2001, Cengyu all enrolled in the Fall 2001 EMBA Program held in Beijing by the Hayward branch of California State University.

The project required students to study in the United States for two months, Cengyu was empty pocket, unable to travel. In class, Cengyu actually got some connections. In the end, she did not take the "Hayward EMBA Program" organized by the exam, did not get a diploma.

Because of this experience in Beijing, Cengyu is often labeled "returnees". If asked, she will be anxious to argue that she is not "returnees." Around 2002, the internet bubble was punctured crisis, a lot of PE, VC closed, or left China. This let not get a diploma Cengyu, the road to job search worse.

When a door closes, there is always a window open. At that time Cengyu learned that the "Chinese Venture Capital Association", which was set up by Tan Weijian and others, was recruiting. "That's how I got into the investment business. "When cornered, Cengyu decided to bo a." The experience of the association was crucial to her development. "The six or seven people on the board of the Association have now become the big guys in the investment world, and in the time when they were working with them, each of them had a subtle influence on my personality, moral standards and professional ethics." ”

She was not able to talk to the big boys, even in public, and she sat down in the back seat. In the back, Cengyu, like a sponge, quickly absorbs expertise and expands his network until she is mature, confident and in the middle of a big guy.

Two years later, Cengyu choose "Solo", eagerly embarked on the road to entrepreneurship, the creation of their first company Maple Valley Investment Co. Then successfully for the Yintai department stores, Qiao Jiangnan, Green Source, Lakara and other companies to finance hundreds of millions of of billions of dollars, a series of shiny cases appear in people's vision.

Zeng Yushan Communication, in the Private equity fund field, always can beats. Since 2005, Cengyu has launched the "China Angel Investor Club" with the Chinese entrepreneur magazine and the Chinese Entrepreneur Club, with a view to building a truly angel investor platform in China. So far, Sharon has been held several times, with a total of more than 100 angel investors involved. 2010, Cengyu also launched and Yu Yuan compound fund.

With the experience of actual combat, Cengyu the present situation of angel investment in the present several suggestions: first, it is best to make it clear that angel investment is a private investment behavior, it is best not to institutional operation; the second is that angel investors in the entrepreneurial team is not easy to hold a large proportion of the stock, preferably not more than 30%; the angel investor It is best to use your own "big resources" to help "small entrepreneurs", rather than the "fish" of the entrepreneurs, the four is to create a better "respect for innovation, support entrepreneurship, transmission inheritance," The culture of angel investors, such as allowing more middle class and professional people can participate in the cause of angel investment.

Today, children and women are two major topics of Cengyu attention. She once said, "It is best to give business to women, she is most likely to surpass her gender." In her view, compared with the general men, female investors have a number of gender-specific characteristics, such as more comfortable to put down the so-called "face" and the ego, the heart is more powerful and tolerant, with the inherent compassion to the social responsibility and public welfare of the real understanding and action, etc.

In the spring of 2010, the woman had another role: Mom. Since then, even when she was busy with her work, she got up early at 6:30 every day, accompanied her son for a while to go to work, and sometimes took the child out of the long run. Although she said that if you want to write with a child travel strategy, the end must be: Can not take the best without.

"Do your own proficient and like things, write a little scarf, a little bit of live, very good." I am not a successful person, I am happy in the path to the dream of the people. "Cengyu know that they are not women alone in the fight, there are family and children around, as long as there is love and self-confidence."