New Silicon Valley: Zhongguancun Special Café "modulation" grassroots entrepreneurs dream

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After 18, the whole of China, including Beijing, will enter a new period of development. Every possibility of the future is conceived in today's many choices. At present, every layout, every measure, every breakthrough, every innovation, have combined to shape the new pattern and new structure of Beijing's development, and then decide the speed, breadth and depth of the future development of Beijing, as the opening of new tourism, the construction of New town south, the rise of Silicon Valley, the exerting force of new energy and so on, are paving the road to Beijing's big city weather and world city dreams. The future, at the foot.





in Zhongguancun, with such a few cafes, in addition to the modulation of delicious coffee, but also "modulation" The dream of many grassroots entrepreneurs. Garage coffee, visiting entrepreneurs have broken thousands of people; Beta Coffee, an investment manager can see 8-10 project leaders a day ... These special cafes, whose significance has already surpassed the coffee itself, the idea of a zhongguancun investment and financing business Avenue emerged.





in the Beijing "NPC and CPPCC", on behalf of the Mayor Anshun to the Municipal People's Congress for the government's work report, pointed out that the core of Zhongguancun as the focus, to create scientific and technological financial functional areas, speed up the construction of national science and Technology Financial Innovation Center.





Zhongguancun, which brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and various resources of innovative platform, with its active thinking, firm pace to let more people see hope.





Café became an entrepreneur's paradise





Zhongguancun Haidian Book City pedestrian street inside Xin Ding Hotel two floors, is called "Folk incubator" garage coffee low-key hiding here.





six months, with the entrepreneurial dream of Lotte (alias) Almost every day will patronize here. Through the Garage Coffee founder Su Ying Introduction, Lotte recently met another entrepreneur Tiger, two people chat very congenial, became a good friend. In the process of contact, Lotte learned that the Tiger developed a social game, is looking for investment, so he knew the investors introduced to the Tiger. "It was here that the two met and talked for less than two hours before finalizing the cooperation." "Lotte pointed to the reporter next to a table," This is a very successful team, until now still works very well, investment can be successful this is the same as love, indeed to see fate. Lotte is also proud of being a matchmaker.





in the café, which is named the innovative incubator in Zhongguancun, such stories happen almost every day.





in the whole of Beijing and even the country's venture capital industry, garage coffee, 3W coffee and beta coffee, the names of three cafes are already thunderclap. The reason is because this is a paradise for entrepreneurs and investors.





Garage Coffee was founded in April 2011, at the age of 30, founder Su Ying abandoned the Nasdaq listed company Blue Flood investment director's work, embarked on the lonely entrepreneurial road.





Su Ying told reporters that the original choice of coffee shop in Zhongguancun, is because here is the most concentrated Beijing entrepreneurs, the goal of the Su Ying is to make the garage coffee as investors and entrepreneurs more flat docking platform.





benefits from Zhongguancun's unique capital and innovative environment, as well as garage coffee, 3W coffee and beta coffee are often frequented by entrepreneurs and investors. Among them, 3W coffee to venture capital as a platform, bringing together a large number of resources. When the beta coffee was opened, a young man came up here early in the morning and sat at the door holding a sign that said "Angel" before the café opened. Although did not meet the investor, but his persistence moved the Beijing branch manager Zhaokon. In the end, Zhaokon introduced the young man to a veteran entrepreneur who often came to the café.





"Folk incubator" Beijing Experience National Replication





This is the second time after six months after the reporter visit Garage coffee, in the past few months, with the capital market decline, the PE industry has withstood an unprecedented round of blows, which also makes the investment environment of the internet suddenly cooling. But it did not affect the atmosphere here, the temperature in the garage coffee is not low.





from last March or April, grassroots founder Zhang Kaixin has a dream to come to the garage coffee, early incubation of the small six months they did not rent office, Garage Coffee will become their office site. Here, Zhang Kaixin not only found the team's it partners, but also found other team members. As a traditional industry team, Zhang Kaixin recently received the largest investment in auto parts agents in the country. In Zhang Kaixin's view, the environment of the garage coffee has played a role in starting a team and investing in it today.





Su Ying told reporters that since last April, garage Coffee began to launch a new initiative for the entrepreneurial team, they and many manufacturers to discuss cooperation, as far as possible, to bring together a variety of resources useful to the start-up team to support the development of the entrepreneurial team. Coffee in the garage now, through the screening of the certification of the entrepreneurial team to pay only 1200 yuan annual fee, in addition to the All-weather office here, the use of various resources here, but also to enjoy additional garage vendors to provide a variety of free services, such as Microsoft's legitimate software, a number of large vendors to provide server bandwidth, Even the details of the printed business card are included.





because of the growing popularity in Beijing, 3W Coffee decided to extend the Beijing experience to the whole country. Last August, opened a branch in Shenzhen, developed in the investment industry, and plans to open a shop in Shanghai this year, according to the 3W Coffee co-founder Bao Chunhua, 3W Coffee in the café is also set up a seed fund, cafes both to provide coffee, their own investment. And after June this year, 3W Coffee will have a new three-storey office area on the Haidian pedestrian street.





"Zhongguancun Investment and financing pioneering road" plan will be





three cafes are becoming more and more famous, their model on the news broadcast reports, in Xiamen, Wuxi, Wuhan, Xian, these cities have some similar innovative institutions and people to find 3W three founder. Other districts in Beijing, such as the Economic development zone, also come to visit, hoping to learn their model.





more and more famous, three cafes attracted the attention of the Government, here has become the Haidian District Committee and Zhongguancun Administrative Committee at all levels officials often come to. It is in this interaction between the government and cafes, a promising regional rules are brewing: the future of the three cafes as the core of Zhongguancun hinterland, will become the investment and financing entrepreneurial cluster of Haidian West, a "Zhongguancun investment and financing Business Avenue" plan will be released.





in fact, the concept of investment and financing pioneering avenue originated from the other side of the ocean called "Sandhill M.I." Dune Road. There is an angel investment street around Stanford University in the United States, one of the most prominent roads in Silicon Valley and the United States, which brings together the most important venture capital institutions in the US. The idea of investing and financing entrepreneurship Avenue originated in a conversation about coffee in the garage.





"Once Zhongguancun leaders came to the garage to visit, we chatted about the place where the street was built for entrepreneurs and investors," he said. "Su Ying recalled his own advice at that time and seemed particularly relaxed and confident," everyone thought very good, this street in ten years ago is a resort, Haidian book City Trading books, now began to decline, Zhongguancun is more entrepreneurial and investment gathering place, efficiency will be higher, the garage only to do 800 square meters, Assuming that this street has more entrepreneurial and investment clusters, it will be a driving force for the entire region. ”





in the Haidian District committee's blueprint, in the near future, this simple street until the entire Haidian West area may become the whole Chinese investor and the entrepreneur most gathers place. From this blueprint is not difficult to see, the future of investment and financing Entrepreneurship Avenue is not just a simple traffic geography concept, but also a regional concept.





"There is an idea in the area, want to play the west side to create a very high degree of entrepreneurial innovation, a pioneering road." Western sector as a science and technology services industry, not only this one, from the elements have been formed, including research institutions such as research and development, science and technology consulting, PE building, intellectual property, International technology Transfer Center, all the relevant elements of science and technology services in this form a better gathering. "Haidian Garden Management Committee deputy director of the service System Construction Department Director Shomin explains the blueprint that has been in preparation."





frequented the garage coffee of Zhongguancun Management Committee, the director of pioneering services Yang Yanju also introduced, the past Haidian Pedestrian street is the book city, now has a garage coffee, on the CCTV, the influence is particularly great, innovation incubator in another very influential 3W coffee will also move to this street. Haidian District Government in the adjustment of the industry, but also to build, including garage coffee in the street as a starting point, so that more entrepreneurs, angel investment in the West cluster, active atmosphere, gradually formed an angel, entrepreneurs, investment institutions gathered.





"The street where the garage coffee is located, though very humble, but there is the feeling of calm, both a long history of the cultural accumulation of book City, there are large companies with resources, if grassroots entrepreneurs can gather, and then more angel investors gathered here, will make more entrepreneurs shorten the distance. Therefore, Zhongguancun leaders in the garage after the coffee visit, want to build a better than the United States Dune Road, the creation of a good place to gather, this is the original idea. "Yang Yanju said.





in depth interpretation of





Myth refracts zhongguancun Development Miracle





The development of Zhongguancun demonstration area has become one of the hot issues in Beijing "Two sessions" this year, in the work report of Beijing Municipal government, the representative mayor Anshun has mentioned Zhongguancun demonstration area many times, and described the achievements of Zhongguancun demonstration area and the blueprint of future development.





government work report in summing up the work achievements of the past five years, mentioned that Zhongguancun National independent innovation Demonstration Area construction made great progress, realize the total income of enterprises 2.4 trillion yuan, is 2.7 times times 2007.





last August, the Beijing municipal government and the nine ministries issued the "on the National Independent Innovation Demonstration area of Zhongguancun National science and Technology Financial Innovation Center," stressed to support the development of Angel Investment, the expansion of angel investors team, to promote the accumulation of venture capital institutions.





Yang Yanju to the reporter, Zhongguancun has angel investment guidance Fund and more experienced investment team to work together to invest in early pioneering projects and entrepreneurs, in order to strengthen the investor team, this year to continue to expand with angel investment institutions and the size of the fund, the size of the funds may be around tens of millions of.





Zhongguancun, the land of the rising and falling of the myth of Creation, to explore the formation of the "incubation + venture" model, which is represented by the Enlightenment incubator and so on, with the "pioneering mentor + shareholding incubation" mode and the "Boao" model, which is the core link of the value chain, one-stop incubator "model, garage coffee" project + Capital Open link "mode and many other entrepreneurial service models.





only in the first three quarters of last year, there were 209 cases of venture capital and equity investment in Beijing, still the largest in the country. And most of the cases in Zhongguancun this piece of China's "Silicon Valley" to achieve, the park's venture capital enterprises continue to be active, venture capital cases, investment accounted for 1/3 of the country.





learned that, with the "IPO incubator," The Zhongguancun agency shares transfer system pilot work since the formal launch in 2006, the overall smooth operation, good order. Up to now, participating in the pilot enterprises up to 177, listed enterprises 122, the cumulative directional financing of 1.96 billion yuan.





The director of the Beijing Monetary Bureau's Securities and Futures service, Zhan Long told reporters that the pilot of the transfer of shares to the unlisted company provides an orderly share transfer service platform, good news Feihong (300213), long its software (002279), North Land Pharmaceutical (300016), Century Rui Seoul (300150), Violet Huayu (300271) and so on a number of enterprises involved in the pilot has successfully landed in the capital market, the agency's transfer of the pilot "incubator" and "cistern" role is emerging.





authoritative Voice





financial and technological integration needs "mechanism design"





Zhongguancun Management Committee director Guo Hong in Beijing "Two sessions" Haidian group discussion gap in the interview, said the government work report specifically mentioned to increase Zhongguancun National Science and Technology Financial center construction, the future key work is to gradually implement this opinion.





Guo Hong said that in the Haidian district, the periphery began to form a gathering area of science and technology finance, including the Regional Equity Exchange center, venture capital institutions, securities brokers for listed companies, commercial banks, and the Wealth Management center of the technical Personnel service.





on how to further deepen the construction of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Financial center, Guo Hong said that in order to further integrate science and technology and finance, we should not only pay attention to the establishment of institutions, but also through mechanism design to promote.





"Financial institutions, investment institutions encounter great risks, the low income is afraid to do, the bank released loans but even the principal and interest are not returned, the benefits are particularly low, nature is not willing to support the science and technology enterprises, so you need to design the corresponding mechanism, the most important thing is to establish the credit system, credit mechanism and incentive mechanism to introduce, Let enterprises obtain financial resources at a lower cost. "he said.





Guo Hong also believes that "a functional area of innovation and active degree of four core indicators, the number of new start-up enterprises, the number of patents per million engineers authorized, the number of IPOs and the strength of venture capital, I personally think there are two more important indicators, one is a continuous regional entrepreneurs, Another is the number of angel investors. "





  Guo Hong revealed that Zhongguancun currently has more than 300 days to make investors, although compared with the size of the United States hundreds of thousands of is still very small, but in the country is far ahead, there are more than 200 listed companies in Zhongguancun, which entrepreneurs and team many people have become angel investors, Zhongguancun has gradually formed a trend, more and more experience, Entrepreneurs who have the ability to know people and have the passion to help young entrepreneurs join the angel investor team.
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