"False Angels" in the Circle of entrepreneurs

"Long wings are not necessarily angels, but also may be bird people." "This network popular ridicule language, in the current bustling entrepreneurial environment, joking in quite a bit real meaning." Liang (a pseudonym) recently ran into something depressing. After the adoption of declarations, audits, competitions and other levels, Liang's enterprises joined a well-known third party venture alliance. The Alliance is committed to the selected enterprises to carry out targeted strategic grooming and planning guidance, and a large number of platform resources for corporate sharing, for the growth of excellent enterprises will also participate in the early Angel investment, this is just in the Internet start-up phase of the Liang, is undoubtedly equal to a more accelerated platform. In view of the above Alliance Trust, Liang will involve the enterprise present business model, the core technology, the expansion idea and so on specific content to inform the Alliance stationed the related service personnel unreservedly. However, let him not think of it, not long before he learned that the union inside himself formed a team, and Liang similar entrepreneurial projects, the original mentor instant unexpectedly become an industry competitor. Driven by the hottest entrepreneurial tide, a large number of entrepreneurial circles flow out, the operators behind these circles are mostly third-party entrepreneurial services, they serve the form of a platform for start-ups, and even the provision of early investment funds, which is precisely the most urgent to start early enterprise resources. On the other hand, it is one of the effective ways for these pioneering service organizations to contact a large number of early-stage enterprises through building a platform and find out the excellent growth prospects. It can be said that this is a win-win approach. However, because of this, many weeding also took the opportunity to infiltrate this group to try to profit. A person in the investment community told reporters that this group of people in the industry known as "false Angel", and there has been, they borrow for the name of the Enterprise services to lure sets of the core secrets of the Enterprise, its essence is to build their own team to replicate the entrepreneur's project, or to some of the start-up enterprises of the good ideas grafted to their own investment projects, There are also a number of these false angels in the name of the entrepreneurial support agencies, individuals or groups. Liang felt that he might have met the "false Angel", but when he tried to assert his rights and interests, he found himself in addition to the alliance with the relevant service agreement, there is no other binding provisions, and in the agreement has not involved in the confidentiality of the core content of the company's relevant provisions. Reporters interviewed a number of entrepreneurial services organizations found that in these services agencies rarely signed a confidentiality agreement with the practice. Even the agency insiders to reporters bluntly, do not sign confidentiality agreement is a guild. The reason he gives is that the first step into these entrepreneurial circles is to declare that companies are required to submit business plans when they declare, which is bound to involve the core content of some enterprises. Not only that, all the investment organizations understand that the first step in the venture is from the business plan. "If you follow this logic, it is obviously unrealistic to sign a confidentiality agreement with every business that submits a business plan," he said. "He said," PaulMost secret protocols exist only in the DD (due diligence) phase. On the other hand, these people also mentioned to the reporter, in fact, for early start-up enterprises, many of them in the beginning is not clear their own entrepreneurial direction, adjust the development direction of the situation often exists, once the change, the previous confidentiality agreement will become a piece of waste paper. However, even the few organizations that have signed a confidentiality agreement, many times the paper agreement is more like a placebo for companies. The deputy general manager of an early-stage enterprise support Service told reporters that it would involve a part of the confidentiality clause when signing a service agreement with the enterprise, for example, the enterprise can not leak each other, the organization does not disclose the core information of the enterprise. But he also told reporters that these provisions have no legal effect, whether to comply with the agreement on both sides of the personal credit, once the problem of leakage, it is difficult for enterprises to defend their rights. But there are entrepreneurs who don't have a cold. An entrepreneur told reporters bluntly, the company is afraid of the core content of the leak is only afraid of being overtaken by competitors, but in the business, there is no absolute unique entrepreneurial ideas, any one of the entrepreneurial thinking behind may have hundreds of similar enterprises were born, and any enterprises will inevitably encounter industry opponents of plagiarism, Imitation。 He cites an example of a company that has developed a core technology that will never be a barrier, because there will always be more powerful technical gurus. "It is not correct to expect a world-dominating approach, but it is only in the direction of more peers that it can promote the development of the industry. "The core barrier that businesses really care about is time, who can take the first step in time and who can stand firm." "The investment industry has suggested that start-up companies should first understand the reputation of the service providers before they join a third party start-up service organization," he said. At the same time, entrepreneurs can take reservations when communicating with these organizations in order to avoid problems that may arise in the future. "For example, it is not necessary to tell the organization the key information about the enterprise, in accordance with the organization of the service process and whether the company really enjoy the degree, and then gradually to the agency ' limpid ' is a safe way." ”