Shanyou recently joined China-Europe International Business School and founded the Central European Venture and investment Center. Shanyou as executive director of the Center, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship. He is making business training programs for entrepreneurs a new investment and financing platform.
His first "product" is called "new generation entrepreneurial leader Growth Camp". In this growing camp, entrepreneurs pay 50,000 yuan per person tuition fees can participate in a year-long entrepreneurial related courses training, with a number of investors in-depth exchange of investment institutions, if the entrepreneur can complete the full course tuition fees will be returned in full.
"It's not a good model to collect tuition fees directly from entrepreneurs, we don't charge entrepreneurs, we charge investors." Shanyou laughs that he is introducing the free Internet model into business education.
In addition to matchmaking, the project has also linked professional service providers, such as the selected accounting firm's law firms, to venture-capital consultants such as business start-ups.
In Shanyou's view, entrepreneurship education in China is very backward. "Why are there so many great startups in America because they have a very strong entrepreneurial ecosystem?" Charles Zhang's generation has a very important role in the introduction of venture capital into China, and the new opportunity we see is that entrepreneurship education is the time to explode. ”
The United States is the first country to carry out entrepreneurship education, about 1600 universities offer courses on entrepreneurship, and more than 200 universities offer degree education in entrepreneurial innovation. At American universities there are more than 100 research centers and institutes of entrepreneurial research institutes.
At present, the world's top 100 business schools, 56 business schools involved in entrepreneurship and innovation degree education, of which there are 49 master's education, there are 10 doctoral training. In China, the system of entrepreneurial education is still a handful, the current similar education products only Lenovo star entrepreneur Black Horse growth camp and so on a few.
"The founder and his learning ability and desire to grow are the most effective engines for a start-up, but once the founders are no longer learning, nervous, and excited, they are stuck in their own thinking patterns and behavior patterns, and he will be the biggest shackle of the development of a start-up enterprise." "Shanyou said.
In Shanyou's view, entrepreneurship education has given him a new meaning and purpose in life. "In China, the first thing to succeed in entrepreneurship is to qualify for entrepreneurship, which is exactly what I can do." Through this program, we combine business and education skillfully to help entrepreneurs succeed. ”