Nearly a hundred maker spaces gather in Hangzhou and entrepreneurship and innovation are surging
In Hangzhou, more than 1,200 kilometers south of Zhongguancun, Beijing, entrepreneurship is steaming under the warm winter sun. Maker spaces are embedded in the corners of this city like torches. The Zhejiang University system, the Alibaba system, the overseas returnee system, and the Zhejiang businessman system all converge into the entrepreneurial "New Fourth Army" of Zhijiang. Creativity and ideas take root and sprout here. Tiannanhai Makers in the North have completed their transformation from fledglings to eagles in this hot entrepreneurial land.
Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times, and it remains as beautiful as ever. Gently flip through the map of Hangzhou maker spaces with your fingertips. In the High-tech Zone, Xihu District, Yuhang District, Jianggan District, and Gongshu District, nearly 100 maker spaces bring together talents, capital, projects, and brands, and provide various entrepreneurial activities. The storm is surging and various innovation competitions are in full swing.
Hangzhou was the city with the fastest growth in entrepreneurial projects in the country in 2015. There were 1,364 entrepreneurial projects in 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 32.4%, of which 503 projects received financing, accounting for 37%, which is the same as Shanghai The same, higher than Shenzhen’s 31.
At this time, Hangzhou is attracting makers from all over the world with a broader mind and returning to its original intention of entrepreneurship; it is also cultivating maker spaces and looking for development models with a more rational attitude. On the last weekend of 2015, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology issued the management measures for maker spaces. Maker spaces, which have grown rapidly over the past year, have a relatively complete development path. The definition, conditions, and evaluation system of maker spaces are all presented, providing guidance for them. The link is the moment, helping the sustainable development of maker space.
Before Yi passes away, Bingshen comes. What kind of entrepreneurial stories are happening in Hangzhou, a paradise for makers? We will choose Hangzhou to be part of the maker space included in the national incubator management system. First, we will explore the development model of the maker space, and second, we will get to know the makers and find that The original intention is to carry out the journey and use it in the heart.
Look, under the "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", the wind is blowing hard.
Maker Space: Shell Society
Location: Binjiang Haichuang Park
Character: Maker Li Hongbo
I want to do more Living as a human being?
On the banks of the Qiantang River, Liuhe Wentao. On the first floor of the north building of Haichuang Base on the south side of Wentao Road, sunlight pours down from the glass dome, passing directly through a tall green plant, and then you arrive at Shell Society, which is the country's first maker space focusing on the medical and health industry. .
One day after New Year’s Day, the reporter walked into Shell Club and saw that in a physical space of nearly 1,500 square meters, on the blue and green floor, two rows of long wood-grained iron-frame tables were arranged in depth. Next to two desks, the Chinese Pathology Network project team is preparing to move. In front of a vacant desk on the left is a new project, Eve Technology, which will be settled after New Year's Day.
Each entrepreneurial team is simply separated by a white bookshelf. On one side of the bookshelf is written "No matter how difficult the road is, we must persist to the end", which is very similar to the inner monologue of most makers.
In an office separated by glass at the end of the Shell Club co-working area, Li Hongbo, co-founder of the Huaxia Pathology Network project, was talking to clients about the project. This middle-aged man completely resigned from the country’s largest hospital last year. He moved from Guangzhou to Hangzhou as a senior executive of Jinyu Testing Group, a third-party medical testing organization, and chose to start a business in the year when he knew his destiny.
Why did you choose to start a business? This postdoctoral fellow in pathology talked eloquently. His life experience is like the tide of the Qianjiang River outside the window, moving according to the trend and still surging.
In the late 1980s, Li Hongbo followed China’s first wave of overseas studies and chose the United States to continue his studies, and obtained an American pathologist’s license, where he stayed for 17 years. In 2006, Li Hongbo fell in love with his hometown and chose to return to China, and then served as the chief medical officer of Guangzhou Jinyu Group.
In 2015, the wave of entrepreneurship was surging, and the enthusiasm for innovation was ignited one after another relying on the power of the Internet. At the beginning of the year, Yang Min, the former founder of Huaxia Pathology Network, approached Li Hongbo and said that he wanted to do something big in pathology and put pathological diagnosis on the fast track of the Internet. At that time, Yang Min had just quit her job at the largest listed pathology diagnosis center in Melbourne, and wanted to develop a remote pathology diagnosis platform based on the Huaxia Pathology Network.
Li Hongbo’s heart was moved, not for anything else but for the undying feeling in his heart over the years. ?For more than 20 years, I have lived for myself, and after that, I want to live for more people?, Li Hongbo said, this is a technological revolution in pathology. In our country, due to hospitals not paying enough attention to pathology departments and the absence of grassroots pathologists, the shortage of pathologists in the country has reached 100,000. Every day, many family members of patients go to big hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and other places with pathological slides. The hospital asked experts to confirm the diagnosis.
What Huaxia Pathology Network wants to do is to allow pathologists from all over the world to consult pathological specimens from all over the country through a remote pathological diagnosis platform and issue pathological diagnosis reports, thereby reducing medical risks. Will it bring good news to patients and the pathology community?, Li Hongbo said.
When the dream came together with Shell, in just one year, the Huaxia Pathology Network project, with the support of professional mentors and angel funds from Shell Club, realized a business from a website with a free public welfare operation model. Transformed and grown into a shining pearl in the medical field. In November last year, Huaxia Pathology Network received 30 million yuan in independent entrepreneurial financing, with a market valuation of 150 million yuan, nearly 15 times more than the market valuation when it first entered Beikeshe.
Li Hongbo still remembers the scene when he moved into Shell Club together with seven other projects. Today, in addition to the Huaxia Pathology Network, four other projects have successfully graduated and settled in the science and technology park. The other three projects, however, experienced brutal elimination and could no longer be maintained due to the project's own reasons shortly after they settled in. ?Twenty-three out of ten people succeed in starting a business, but failure is also the norm. And the maker space just reduces the startup costs for those with dreams and gives entrepreneurs a chance to try and make mistakes? This is what Li Hongbo said when he saw other teams leaving.
As a professional maker space in the medical and health field, Shell Society has identified the pain points of entrepreneurship in today's medical and health industry. If your medical and health idea is selected by Beikeshe, Beikeshe will provide you with free physical office space, early angel investment funds, entrepreneurial mentors, and a series of corporate, medical, investment institutions, training and other resources to help you start a business. It relieves your worries.
Shell Club is not only a physical space covering an area of ??1,500 square meters, but also an entrepreneurial industry chain integrating online and offline. Fan Zhiqiang, vice president of Shell Society, said that nowadays, the first priority for entrepreneurs is funds and resources, followed by education and space. The online Shell Society provides medical entrepreneurs with more opportunities to access resources and investment institutions by gathering various medical resources and investment institutions. Complete the qualitative change from scratch.
After New Year’s Day, Huaxia Pathology Network will officially settle in Tianhe High-tech Park in Binjiang District, with an office area of ??1,000 square meters. Li Hongbo is busy recruiting people at the moment, and his dream of starting a business is on the banks of the Qiantang River. Growing up, at this moment, Li Hongbo only had four words in his heart: "Be worthy of his original intention?"
Maker Space: Building Friends Association
Location: Yigao Entrepreneurship Building
Character: Cheng Feng For the deepest belief?
New Year’s Day On this day, Chengfeng was not idle for a moment. Early in the morning of the New Year, he climbed up into the hazy fog. Although he did not see the gushing sunrise, he enjoyed the tranquil mountain scenery of Hangzhou in the winter on the first morning of 2016. He said that this is a habit he has persisted for many years, and the new year should bring a new atmosphere.
However, 2016 is full of expectations for Chengfeng, because in late January, the new commercial design service platform? No. 7 Man?, a new version jointly created by Chengfeng and his friends, will be officially launched. This is Chengfeng A gift to myself in my thirties,
At this time, it was less than 10 weeks before Cheng Feng moved into the Maker Space of the Building Friends Association. In just over 2 months, Chengfeng's project progress has reached a new speed. All of this is inseparable from the Building Friends Association’s Maker Space.
Yigao Entrepreneurship Building, No. 29, Huanggushan Road, Xihu District. On the wall are raised patterns composed of computer chips and electronic originals, indicating that a group of entrepreneurial teams engaged in the Internet are gathered here. A wall with a green background says "Make it easier to start a business". This is the building space for building friends.
This space covering an area of ??more than 2,000 square meters has approximately 180 workstations and can accommodate more than a dozen small entrepreneurial teams. The open co-working scene allows the teams to know each other well, which team has raised funds, which team has gone to road shows, which team has launched a new product, and all the disturbances in the maker space, and the people who are in it. Makers know this.
The House Friends Club was officially launched in March 2014. Yigao Group creatively renovated its originally unpopular 4th floor shop into a place integrating entrepreneurial coffee, maker space, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. A new incubator operation platform that integrates services.
In October last year, Chengfeng moved into the building club with his team and ideas and rented several workstations. Before that, Chengfeng was a post-80s returnee with five years of overseas study and work background. With the new wave of returnees, Chengfeng left Sweden and returned to China to start a business, choosing Hangzhou, thousands of miles away from his hometown in Shandong. When the reporter asked why he chose Hangzhou to start a business, Cheng Feng’s answer was similar to that of many people: he was attracted by the ecological environment and entrepreneurial environment here.
Chengfeng team started from simply doing Internet web design, and finally expanded to a commercial design service platform, everything is in full swing. What the "No. 7 Man" project will do is to display the works of independent designers and serve as a trading platform. The ready-to-use platform connects domestic design needs with European independent designers, allowing Chinese consumers to obtain a super design experience at a reasonable price.
Currently, the "No. 7" platform has gathered 200 foreign design resources and 100 local Hangzhou resources. After the new version is launched, the overseas design O2O platform of Hangzhou Station will be opened. At that time, localized platform modules and reasonable prices will bring unexpected big-name designs to consumers.
On Christmas Eve, Cheng Feng and his partners were talking about projects at the Louyouhui Entrepreneurship Cafe. Outside, there was a new product launch conference of a start-up company. ?On the makeshift table in the cafe, the person in charge of entrepreneurship was talking about guitar, and the entrepreneurs and investors in the audience were chatting and laughing. This kind of atmosphere is something that no space can provide. It is inclusive, free and full of vitality. Of course, it is also more stressful. And motivation, Cheng Feng said, "There is no winter in entrepreneurship. If there is, it is because there is a lack of belief in entrepreneurship." ?
Nowadays, the Louyouhui Maker Space has also continued to grow with the entrepreneurial boom. It has successively operated the Louyouhui Maker Platform, Automotive Internet Maker Space (Wanda Project), and Ningbo, Taizhou, Shaoxing, Qingdao, More than 20 maker space projects, including Dalian, have deployed the resources of the Building Friends Association to second- and third-tier cities in order to leverage local innovation engines. It is reported that since the establishment of the Building Friends Association, *** has held more than 700 events, making it one of the entrepreneurial service platforms with the most activities in Hangzhou, and has successfully incubated more than 40 projects.
?Chengfeng? There will be a time to break through the waves, and hang sails directly to help the sea? This is also Chengfeng’s entrepreneurial attitude.
Maker Space: Zhejiang University E-works Entrepreneurship Laboratory
Location: Zhejiang University Science and Technology Park
Character: Lin Zixiang Success or failure depends on whether you persist to the end?
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At around one in the morning, Lin Zixiang was still waiting for financial statements in an office building on Wenyi West Road, while Alibaba, 2 kilometers away, was still brightly lit. It was almost two o'clock when he left the office. Lin Zixiang called an Uber. By chance, he once again got the same car as an employee who had just gotten off work from Alibaba. ?Every time at this time, I will tell myself, even a great company like Alibaba is still working overtime, what reason does our start-up team have for not working hard?
The first time I met Lin Zixiang was in Zhejiang University Science and Technology Park A Inside the E-works Entrepreneurship Laboratory on the second floor of the east area of ??the building. At that time, he had just taken a bus from Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, carrying a black backpack. After arriving at E-works, he turned left, put down the backpack in front of his workstation at the corner, and sat down quietly. Opposite me, a business card was handed over.
The big boy in front of me was born in 1994 in Lishui. Last year, he was recommended by Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan to Zhejiang University for graduate school. He is currently a first-year graduate student majoring in remote sensing at the School of Environment and Resources of Zhejiang University. Although Lin Zixiang is young, he has many entrepreneurial experiences. In his sophomore year, he cooperated with others to run cultural shirts. In his junior year, he helped promote the research results of his mentor, and accumulated a lot of experience in product promotion.
Lin Zixiang chose to pursue graduate school and entrepreneurship in parallel. In March last year, Lin Zixiang came to Zhejiang University in advance to do experiments with his tutor. Influenced by the entrepreneurial wave of Zhejiang University, Lin Zixiang established his own company, Hangzhou Fengfei Technology Co., Ltd., in May 2015. In July, after a round of roadshows, Lin Zixiang took his project to the E-works Entrepreneurship Laboratory of Zhejiang University and had three workstations. His project aims to "create an Uber" in the installation and maintenance industry. His APP called "e Repair Pigeon" was just launched in early December and received an angel round of financing of 2 million yuan.
Lin Zixiang is using the mobile Internet to develop the sharing economy. What does he imagine the future life of a maintenance technician to look like? After successfully receiving an order on his mobile phone in his spare time, Maintenance Technician A drove to the home of the maintenance resident. Along the way, Maintenance Technician A enjoyed his own life through Uber during the journey. Private cars, and then find residents to provide maintenance services at their doorsteps? People's time, skills, and private property are optimally allocated through the sharing economy.
However, starting a business is not smooth sailing. Almost every entrepreneur will encounter various "stumbling blocks". In the early days of starting a business, Lin Zixiang once encountered difficulties in the direction of project operations and personnel management. The local promotion of products had little effect and there was a large turnover of personnel, which once made Lin Zixiang feel helpless and confused. At that time, he had three minor traffic accidents while riding his electric bike back and forth between Zhejiang University Science and Technology Park and Zijingang Campus.
Sometimes I really feel physically and mentally exhausted, but whenever I have this thought, I will think of a sentence in Ben Horowitz's "Entrepreneurship is Hard": Success and failure lie in Do you stick to your original intention and tell yourself that you can do it? Lin Zixiang said. In addition, under the guidance of entrepreneurial mentors from the E-works Entrepreneurship Laboratory of Zhejiang University, Lin Zixiang chose to join JD Daojia, Dianping, Meituan, Taobao, etc. In just two months, the number of views on eXiuGe reached one million .
Relying on the Zhejiang University E-works Entrepreneurship Laboratory, many Zhejiang University students with ideas have realized their entrepreneurial dreams and successfully settled in major industrial parks. Currently, more than 40 projects are being incubated in the E-works Entrepreneurship Laboratory of Zhejiang University, and 30 corporate teams and projects have registered companies. ;