Entrepreneurs hard story a:
80 after the 3D printing entrepreneurial story, venture capital in the domestic 3D printing of the first investment project
The 80-year-old boy called He Qi, a self-proclaimed entrepreneurial community "pure losers" of young entrepreneurs.
After two years of entrepreneurship, he received 5 million yuan of venture capital from Yang Ning, the founder of Lobo Investment and president of China Young Angels, and he and his partner, Yang Cheng, became Yang Ning's disciples.
People in the investment community know that this is the first investment by a venture capital institution in the domestic 3D printing field in 2014.
Look at this self-proclaimed loser 80-year-old boy 3D printing business story
Tear off the work visa to go back to China to start a business
1 meter 82 tall, has not yet taken off the childish face, this is He Qi to the reporter's first impression. Unbeknownst to him, he has been working in the 3D industry for more than two years, which is considered to be a high-end industry.
"What work visa, what green card, we do not want, back to China! Do what we like to do." Before returning to China in 2007, He Qi and four roommates lying on the balcony of the 17th floor dormitory of a Canadian university, the work visa torn to shreds.
"Are they crazy?" My friend laughed at him, at that time, many people are trying to immigrate to Canada, want to enjoy the high welfare policies there.
"I don't want to be bound by reality, always have to fight a little bit, to create their favorite life." He Qi said.
After returning to China, he did not stay at home for one day, He Qi was "caught" by his mother to go to his father's company, as a packer. Then, he step by step into the company's core department division. "Now a large part of the company's management from his father's company's division." In his father's company for three years, He Qi's division will be sales of more than 10 million yuan, accounting for one-third of the entire company's output.
However, the obsolete business model, so dissatisfied with the status quo He Qi crazy, "can not simply do foreign trade, should have their own brand." In 2010, in the company's business ideas, He Qi and his father for the first time a conflict.
"At that time, Tmall just started, I think this is the best time for the company to brand, my family has 400 to 500 new styles each year, randomly pick a little to Tmall to sell, slowly will have their own brand?" He put his business plan in front of his father, did not expect to be rejected wholesale.
In his father's view, to do Tmall not only need inventory, but also need to operate the team, on the status quo, there are more than 30 million dollars a year to earn, there is no need to spare the energy to do business outside the thing.
In 2013, He Qi got married. He could have had a comfortable, smooth life. But in this year, he unexpectedly resigned and started his own business!
He Qi said, he is not a "good bird", but an eagle with wings.
In the spring of 2012, he and his father had an in-depth conversation, and put two business plans in front of his father, a single crystal copper project, a 3D printing project.
These two projects, He Qi in Canada during his studies have been in contact, which, his fiber laser also applied for the national "3315" program.
Because of the high investment in monocrystalline copper, risky, he finally chose the 3D printing project.
Marriage gift to do the start-up capital
He Qi did not ask his father for a penny, with the passion to start his entrepreneurial journey.
He will be married to the gifts received and his wife's dowry all out of the 1 million yuan, registered the company Ningbo Jock Brothers Electronic Technology Co.
His first partners were several doctors from Xi'an Jiaotong University. "They do research and development, the products are produced by Xi'an Jiaotong University, and both brands **** enjoy." He Qi said that the original form of cooperation was pure buddy cooperation.
At the end of 2013, because of the division of interests, the two sides stopped cooperation, He Qi's first entrepreneurial journey came to an abrupt end. He took his team to start looking for another partner.
Introduced by a friend, He Qi met his current partner, Yang Cheng, a graduate of Wanli College, who was also passionate about 3D printing.
"At that time, I was acting as a sales agent for a 3D printing company in Hangzhou, and as long as we had the need, Qi must help." Yang Cheng said that He Qi's straightforward character made him appreciate.
At the beginning of 2014, Yang Cheng simply shut down his own company and devoted himself to Jock Brothers.
"At the beginning of the company's formation, our team of 10 people were crammed into an office of a few dozen square meters." Today, in Yinzhou Chamber of Commerce Jock Brothers office has expanded to more than 100 square meters, they also rented a room on the first floor as a device display area.
3D printing into the field of jewelry
"China's 3D printing is very hot, but can not find a way out. 3D printing can do everything, but can not do anything." Yang Cheng said that as of now, low value-added industries are not suitable for 3D printing, and only high value-added industries can support the market.
They chose jewelry, a high value-added, high profit industry.
Because, the jewelry industry is still using the production method of lost wax casting (lost wax casting needs to be hand-carved wax mold casting), but the lost wax casting method is inefficient, costly, and complex. An ordinary carving division monthly salary of at least 6,000 yuan, a carving department needs 3 to 5 carvers, the cost of labor alone requires more than 100,000 yuan, and the completion of a wax block carving plate requires more than 5 hours.
"We can do 7 to 8 engraving plates in two hours with 3D printing, and a machine only costs 80,000 yuan."
Selling products into jewelry stores, creating a platform for three-way cooperation between stores, designers, and factories, and truly achieving private customization of jewelry.
He Qi estimates that this output value will reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the competition and Yang Ning formed a mentor and disciple
In the second half of last year, in the final of the Ningbo University Student Entrepreneurship Competition, Jock Brothers was the founder of Lobo Investment, the president of China Young Angels, Yang Ning's attention.
He Qi clearly remembers that on that day, they placed their equipment in the aisle at the entrance of the competition, and a young man turned around in front of their booth, at that time, they did not know that the other party was a well-known person in the investment circle, Yang Ning, and just left each other's numbers.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, Yang Ning and his partner mysteriously appeared in the conference room of Jock Brothers. "I was in the middle of a meeting, and I didn't expect him to personally visit a small company like ours."
"He didn't talk to us about the project at all, but about team management, and dealing with people in all aspects." He Qi said.
Soon, Yang Ning decided to invest 5 million yuan in Chalker Brothers, and accepted He Qi and Yang as disciples, but also provided Chalker Brothers with lawyers specializing in international affairs.
This year, Yang Ning will also recommend the Chalk Brothers to participate in the CES (North American Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world's largest electronics exhibition), introducing Lei Jun and other industry elites and their acquaintance.
After the Student Entrepreneurship Competition, Joker Brothers sales increased three or four times, but He Qi and his team are not satisfied with this, they began to jewelry market segmentation, with a new model to subvert the traditional industry.
In addition, they also worked with a scanning company in Hangzhou to enter the more lucrative dentistry, using 3D printing to change the traditional business model of dentistry.
Yang Ning said more than once on various occasions: "After the emergence of 3D printing, I have had close exchanges with many companies. What Jock Brothers is doing is different from most companies, they are focused on using 3D printing to change the existing industrial structure, and in this way to create more possibilities, their corporate culture also has a strong cohesion, we have very great confidence."
Entrepreneurial hardship story two:
Hangzhou Mijiao founder Mao Jingxiang, driving a Maserati to recruit talent entrepreneurial elite
Mao Jingxiang, Hangzhou Mijiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. undergraduate degree in Zhejiang University, the United States of America University of Pennsylvania master's degree, the Wharton School of Business MBA, the University of California, Berkeley, assistant researchers, the national "5050 program" of the national The youngest member of the "5050 Program", the youngest finalist in the history of Zhejiang Province's "___", was named by Forbes magazine as China's entrepreneurial elite under the age of 30, and the 2014 World Hangzhou Business Conference Young Leaders Top 20?
Beautiful resume, super high value, this Beijing boy, rooted in Hangzhou dream, want to become China's Elon Musk (Tesla founder).
16-year-old plan to take the road of entrepreneurship, the University of a small fight to lay the foundation
From childhood to adulthood, Mao Jingxiang's grades have always been very good, all the way to the bailout, the standard "school bully".
"In fact, I'm a lazy person, always thinking about? The first thing I want to do is to get the most out of my time and money. Always want to use the least force to achieve the greatest effect." Mao Jingxiang said with a smile.
At the age of 16, he planned that he must start a business in the future. "When I was studying, CCTV2 set has a program, Jack Ma, Robin Li have spoken on it about their own entrepreneurial path, at that time I think, an era has come, must seize the opportunity."
When he took the college entrance exam, Mao Jingxiang chose Zhejiang University, which is the same reason he chose Hangzhou to start his business. "There is a different culture here than in the north, and a freer entrepreneurial environment to toss around."
While his classmates were playing games, he set up a tutoring class and was handing out flyers off campus to solicit students. "When it does not affect professional learning, I will go outside the school, after all, only go out to grounded, only know what people need, what I can give." Mao Jingxiang said.
He saw that there was no small hotel near the Zijingang campus at that time, he ran a hotel-style apartments; when the outbreak of avian flu closed the school, the students have nowhere to entertain, he founded a gourmet workshop. Later, because he went abroad to continue his studies, he will be a small business to change hands, now, food workshop become the largest restaurant chain in Zhejiang University, serviced apartments also become six stores.
He rented a two-room apartment, which became the place where his dream began
At first, his family helped him plan for his future, which was to stay in the United States to find a random investment bank or a stable career in a state-owned enterprise. But he felt that young is capital, "no longer crazy on the old".
After returning to China, with the luggage straight to Hangzhou, four students together to rent a two-room apartment, eat, sleep and work circle inside, every day in the landlord left a small blackboard to start brainstorming.
"Entrepreneurship is painful, no smooth sailing, but learn to enjoy the process. Looking back, it is not the achievements that are remembered, but the bits and pieces of hard work." Mao Jingxiang said seriously.
As the only son of the family, Mao Jingxiang's childhood was pampered. Once his family took him to the countryside, he would get dirty when his feet stepped in the mud. at the age of 5, his mom sent him to a distant relative's house in the countryside for three months to experience life. "This is the real version of the Metamorphosis, after coming back or a little change, bitter ah tired ah, are not a thing." That said, he is now quite thankful for his mom's harshness.
Employees want to start a business I invested in the conference room meeting, are standing
Now, the main Internet advertising and gaming MiTech has been on track, the market value of 2 billion.
The success of an enterprise cannot be separated from the cooperation of the whole team, from a reasonable mechanism, and even more from an open corporate culture.
In MIC, Mao Jingxiang encourages all employees to start their own business. "Employees have good ideas good entrepreneurial projects, I will do early investment, failure, it is okay, continue to work well in the company." Mao Jingxiang said, the company is actually an incubator, the investment even if it hit the water is a normal thing.
In Mitch, the conference room is only a table, no chairs. Mao Jingxiang said, before sitting in the meeting, will be idle, the longest meeting opened 4, 5 hours, too much time. In order to improve efficiency, he will be all the chairs removed from the conference room, "standing tired, we are not willing to stand for one minute more, so it will be the words to be said clearly on the good, the efficiency is also high."
Mao Jingxiang in the company, repeatedly emphasized, do not lose the "wolf". Each founder will take out 2% -3% of the original shares, put into the betting equity pool. The company will conduct annual performance appraisal of the partners, did not meet the target, the equity will be diluted, do a better job will get more. "I'm not afraid that when the company goes public, I will become a minority shareholder, I'm only afraid that a few of us wolves placed inside the flock will gradually lose our wolfishness. A company that gets bigger and loses its passion for innovation and entrepreneurship will fall sooner or later." He said that instead of squeezing the labor of employees, it is better to realize the dream with entrepreneurial partners.
Driving a luxury car as a Uber driver, not to make money only to find talent
In 2014, the Hi-tech Zone (Riverside) Science and Technology Park circulated a story that the CEO of a company drove a Maserati as a people's Uber (uber) driver. Speaking of this incident, Mao Jingxiang laughed. He said, as the people's Uber driver is to recruit talent.
At that time, the company needed talents in user interface design, and students from the China Academy of Art were the most suitable. He then waited for a rabbit, specifically looking for students of the Academy of Fine Arts to pull the job. "Once on the car to talk, I asked people's specialty, whether they are interested in my company, and also told him about our corporate culture?" Mao Jingxiang said, he never charged money as a driver, simply want to recruit, I did not expect to be really recruited by him.
In order to recruit, he is also quite desperate. All the social software, he installed. He also let the company's male programmers pretend to be beautiful women on the network, accosting male programmers from other companies, and then prying the talent over.
Now, Mao Jingxiang occasionally on some programs, he said, he is not so high-profile people, but one of the benefits of participating in the program, is conducive to recruitment. "On a program, the microblogging fan volume is miso up, open private messages, is a few hundred, it is too late to reply."
Mao Jingxiang has a slogan , "I'm not a high-flying handsome, but I want my employees to become high-flying handsome!" Maybe it is because of this, many employees are dying to follow him.
Diamond fresh meat has a girlfriend ah, 40 years old, he has to help other people listed
Outside of work, he is also just a 27-year-old guy. He loves music, and not only can he write and sing songs, he can also play the piano, saxophone and guitar. He has studied art for more than ten years, and at the age of four, he won a gold medal in an international competition, and his works are exhibited in the China Art Museum. He also likes to play basketball and travel.
Gentle boys have a pet complex. Mao Jingxiang has a 7-month-old gray teddy named Duo Mi, often followed Mao Jingxiang to work.
Many people are concerned about the personal life of Mao Jingxiang, he is very real: "I have a girlfriend who has been in love for eight years, college classmates, the relationship has been very good."
His goal is, at the age of 30, the company listed, a company listed in the domestic A shares, a company listed on the NASDAQ, "After the listing, I will get married."
He said that at 40, he wants to help other people start their own businesses and go public. "It's rewarding to help others fulfill their dreams."