Must be interesting net Guolao: Suspend business for filial piety family won million angel investment

The film "China partner" has made many entrepreneurs see the big move. This year's 23-Year-old Yueyang Boy Guolao is one of them. Although young, Guolao has a wealth of entrepreneurial experience, from the film "Chinese partner", he seems to see his own shadow. 2011, is reading a sophomore Guolao processing, with a dream and only 1000 yuan money to Beijing to start a business. "What is entrepreneurship?" is to move away from the warm but restrained embrace and put the idea into practice! "Today, Guolao has its own company in Beijing's Zhongguancun and has earned an angel investment," he said. He used to pursue his entrepreneurial dream in the way of youth.

Motivation: Starting a business to honor your family

In Miluo Miluo Town Yan Tang Village, Guolao is also regarded as a "celebrity". He was first remembered by the whole village in 2009, Guolao admitted to Jishou University and became the only young man in the village who was admitted to college. Only the father of the primary school culture had a high expectation of Guolao, hoping that he would go to college, graduate to study PhD, and find a stable job.

However, after entering the university campus, Guolao found that the original university has so much free time. From childhood in the grandmother's parents big Guolao, decided to make use of free time to make more money, filial piety grandparents.

At the beginning of 2010, Guolao, who was a freshman, began his first business in life. When he comes home for the new year, one of his relatives is worried about the stock of Jian Li Bao drink, so he decided to go to school to sell Jian Li Bao, and give himself a title-"Jian Li Bao Campus General agent", through to each bedroom free door-to-door, the first consumption after the way of payment, he earned the first bucket of life gold.

Taste the sweetness of the Guolao began to ponder the Internet. Sophomore year last semester, Guolao set up the University of Jishou Shopping Network and Jishou University Campus network.

Choice: to suspend the north

Guolao to the Internet, in 2011, before the arrival of the junior school to submit a suspension application, decided to go to Beijing to learn programming technology. He through the telephone will suspend business decision told parents, immediately met the strong opposition of family members, friends and family persuaded telephone curl.

The goal of Guolao regardless of family objections, from Jishou sat for more than more than 20 hours of the train, alone came to Beijing "adventure", looking for entrepreneurial opportunities. "A person out of the station, see ' Beijing West Station ' four words, very excited, feel entrepreneurial dream will take off." That day, he took the subway from Beijing West railway station and came to the training school in Tin Tong Court.

After learning 4 months of PHP programming skills at a training school, a casual conversation with a training school principal Guolao The idea of creating a micro-movie website.

In the second half of 2012, Guolao successfully registered www.biquu.com. For the entrepreneur, the initial venture capital is a "threshold". Guolao and friends, in addition to their own money, also tried to apply for unsecured loans to banks, but did not succeed.

When he was a little confused, he met "garage coffee". "Garage coffee" is not just a coffee shop, where the 24-hour open network, many of the first to Beijing entrepreneurs gathered here, for their own entrepreneurial dream to fight.

Struggle: Successfully settled in Zhongguancun

After more than six months of efforts, April 2013, Guolao Beijing Network Technology Co., Ltd. was officially established in Zhongguancun, this is a dedicated to create a pleasing micro-film playback platform. "The fun must be interesting, and must go. Guolao explained the company's name.

May 2013, the network will be officially online. June 23, a set of CCTV and CCTV news channel "Justified World" column and broadcast the "colorful life: The Chinese Dream, my Dream" series of reports: "With Dreams, Youth," a special report on Guolao and his team's entrepreneurial story.

After that, Guolao's entrepreneurial path went more and more smoothly, and in November 2013 Guolao and his team got a millions angel investment. This allowed him to worry about money for the time being, and he was seen as a valuable endorsement. He put more effort into the construction of the network platform itself, "many micro-movies, are put on the video, the following comments." The focus of the web is socializing and making comments more interesting. ”

Dream: To be the industry benchmark

October 2013, the first micro-film creator conference hosted by the network was successfully held in Beijing, more than 30 micro-film famous enterprises and hundreds of micro-film production celebrities and enthusiasts participated in the conference. At this meeting, Guolao as a promoter, with many experts and scholars to talk about the future of micro-film.

"Whose youth has no dreams, whose future is not possible." In an interview with reporters, Guolao said his goal was to build the best micro-film social platform in the country. "This time I do is a micro-film aggregation platform, hope that through such a platform, so that users can see good micro-movies, companies, directors can better know the audience's preferences." "Hopefully in the future, our website can be the industry's target," Guolao said. ”