Investment Life

Regarding the establishment of the downstream factory, Chen Yuanming and Yan Qiaosen had some more detailed discussions. In the end, it was decided that Chen Yuanming was the main, with Professor Yan as the supplement, and he was looking for a partner near Huaqiang North in Shenzhen. After the development of the vcd industry, mpeg-2 entered the development, and then cut into the structure of the chip factory. However, the specific details still need to inform Meng Lisheng, and the partners of the new plant must also be carefully selected, so what is reached today is only an intention, and later planning requires more effort.

After talking about the business, the sky has been wiped out. This time, Professor Yan was the owner, and the group went to a well-known steakhouse nearby to dine, but it was also a Michelin-starred restaurant. The eating atmosphere here was too far from Wall Street. Suits and evening dresses could not be seen at all. There is no such thing as a courteous and hypocritical diner. I can see that there are three or five young people in jeans and t-shirts. More than half of them are wearing heavy spectacle frames and a bird's nest. The mess, with a casual atmosphere completely incompatible with high-end restaurants, seems to accidentally broke into the scene of a college sorority.

Facing such a relaxed and comfortable dining environment, Chen Yuanming had some small emotions. The amazing contrast between the two gold rush sites on the east and west coasts of the United States is not an interesting reflection of American culture? In this noisy and hilarious restaurant, Chen Yuanming kept smiling and finished eating the delicious steak in front of him.

The next day, no longer named Professor Shang Yan, Chen Yuanming started his journey to Silicon Valley. This time he traveled not to any well-known high-tech company, but to the famous street, Shashan Road, in Menlo Park City. (Sandhillroad).

On this road that is only two or three kilometers long, high and low buildings are in sight. Unlike the concrete jungle of skyscrapers on the East Coast, most of the buildings are soothing and comfortable, with very rich vegetation and greenery. It seems that they are not facing the great venture capital center known as "West Coast Wall Street", not the financial giants that determine the fate of Silicon Valley, but a leisure-oriented villa area.

There aren't many descriptions of rushed office workers on the road, but they vaguely dated to see some young people dressed in typical "Silicon Valley" with their own data, or excited or frustrated crossing the street, picking up next to the most famous luxury cars Take your own broken car and leave this adventurer's paradise with dreams or dashed hopes. Chen Yuanming smiled, didn't delay too long on the road, and went straight to his goal. He chose not a large venture capital company such as Sequoia Capital and KPCB this time, but an angel investment agency with a very good reputation in the industry.

Speaking of angel investment agencies, many people may feel a loss. In fact, for the venture capital community, this is the starting point of venture capital, and it is also the real raw ore. Those small companies, cooperative teams, or individuals who are in their infancy may not have the most basic venture capital except for the genius-type ideas in their heads. What they need is not huge amounts of millions or millions of financing, but rather One simple goal: survive.

The angel investors are targeting such poor and small groups. These industry professionals with excellent vision have seen the potential of new technologies through a rough plan and made the first round of investment in entrepreneurs. ——At least tens of thousands of dollars, up to one million dollars—Through this money to raise the stars of tomorrow, when the company matures, or conduct a second round of financing, or directly go public to cash, more than one hundred times High profits.

While gaining unimaginable profits, these investors also rescued young people who had only dreams but could not put them into practice, and they were naturally named "angels". I just want to be an angel, and sometimes face higher risks. After all, there are still many when I look away and throw money away, so angel investment companies are very different from real big venture capital companies in terms of funding sources. , Often not favored by large foundations.

Entering into this building like a garden villa, a beautiful reception lady welcomed her. Being able to receive, of course, is quite transparent in dealing with people in the world. After only a glance, the beauty found that the young Chinese American is not an entrepreneur who is really seeking investment-after all, the elegant and elegant custom suit + sunglasses bodyguard are not those poor What a tech house can have-and like a real rich man, is this an investor?

"Sir, is there anything I can do for you?" The beauty of the beauty is impeccable, her voice is crisp and sweet, and she is sincere and friendly.

Chen Yuanming raised his lips slightly. "Yes, I want to do some investment business recently. I heard that this is an investment team with a good reputation in the industry. Let's find out."

"Aaron Investment Company has the most mature angel investment team and information channel in the industry." The smile on the face of the reception lady is even sweeter. Your most detailed answer. "

Just sitting on a comfortable leather sofa next to it for a few minutes, a blond man in his early 30s quickly walked down the second floor, and saw a huge smile when he saw Chen Yuanming, "Wow, you are Susi said Mr. Chen, who is younger than I expected. I am Evan Jonathan, one of the senior partners of Aaron Investment. Please come here, and we can discuss in detail about angel investment. "

Led by this attentive partner, the two walked into a reception room on the second floor corner. Unlike the warm and pleasant atmosphere of the other rooms on the first floor, this reception room has a clear Wall Street style, simple and smooth, But full of understated luxury. Sit on the sofa, and in front of the table is the hand-ground Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, with a pleasant aroma floating on the nose. The opposite wall is decorated with a total of more than 20 logos in three rows, which shows that Aaron Investment has successfully invested in projects, and even several of them are even familiar with Chen Yuanming.

Jonathan is a rather talkative professional manager with a natural and natural tongue. Unlike a typical Silicon Valley engineer or Wall Street financier, he is a bit like a senior lawyer. He detailedly and systematically introduced the current status of Aaron Investment Corporation to Chen Yuanming. This is an individual joint investment group, usually with 8-12 investors. More than half are executives or founders of well-known companies in Silicon Valley. The next is a general partner who has a strong interest in high technology. It is responsible for screening projects that are submitted daily, identifying those projects that other partners are not interested in but have potential, and then raising funds, contacting financiers or the rich They inject capital and receive a high commission if they succeed.

Jonathan is the latter, who is responsible for fundraising. Potential customers like Chen Yuanming have always been his biggest goal. This time he was delivered directly to the door, naturally he was overjoyed. Although the current venture capital industry in Silicon Valley is not unpopular, venture capital companies often target development companies that require secondary financing, rather than poor, high-risk fledglings. Aaron has also faced a shortage of funds for a long time. Dilemma.

Listening to Mr. Jonathan's introduction very seriously, Chen Yuanming is generally familiar with the basic structure of this company. Now his network in Silicon Valley is still very narrow. Even with the help of Professor Yan, it is difficult to find projects that are really worth investing. One such intermediary can't be better.

At the end of the introduction, Chen Yuanming nodded with a smile, "Nice company, very similar to my imagination. But I want to ask whether investors like me who are not from Silicon Valley can directly participate Project selection, pick your favorite project instead of hosting in the form of funds? "

Jonathan froze, but still answered dutifully, "Mr. Chen, I understand your willingness to control the direction of funds on your own. This can be said to be the initial goal of every angel investor, but high technology is not like other traditional industries. , Not every money you invest will yield a satisfying harvest, so if you choose your own project, you will face greater risks. "

Chen Yuanming ’s smile deepened a bit. “Since I ’m here to play venture capital, I naturally want to have enough fun from this kind of adventure, so I do n’t need to worry about it. I have full control over the funds at hand. Within my tolerance. "

Jonathan blinked and did not let the bitter smile in his heart spread over his cheeks. He has now discovered that the young man may be a rich second generation of a large number of inheritance or venture funds by some means, impatient of the old-fashioned Wall Street Mode of operation of the fund, want to come to Silicon Valley to try their luck, by the way splurge on the ancestors. However, the purpose of the other party is not something he needs to worry about, no matter what kind of investment, they are currently welcome.

"Of course, Mr. Chen." When he spoke again, Jonathan had put on a proper appreciation. "The risk is indeed the joy of this investment. If you choose a project by yourself, we will only charge the total investment amount 5 % Commission and 2% profit share. But again, the risk of investing requires you to take it all. "

"It's a fair deal." Chen Yuanming gave a flick of his palm. "Then I will invest two million yuan in advance and see if there is anything surprising here."

two millions! Jonathan blinked again, so that the smile on his face could not be supported. The current venture capital of Aaron Company generally starts from 100,000 to 500,000. Rarely has more than one million personal investments. This money alone Sufficient enough to support at least 4 and more than a dozen small companies invested. This is still "advanced". Do the young people in front know what they are doing? !!

Taking a deep breath, Jonathan twitched his cheeks a little bit awkwardly. "So does this money need your lawyer to approve the payment or ..."

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"Oh, this is not a problem." Chen Yuanming sat upright, took out a small notebook from his pocket, brushed a few pens on it, then tore off the note and handed it out.

A bank cheque of $ 2 million appeared in front of Jonathan. This time he didn't even blink his eyes. He still smiled stiffly and stood up politely. "I will immediately notify the company's lawyers and finances to check you. Checks and sign cooperation agreements. "

After speaking, he quickly turned and left, although it seemed a bit deserted. Chen Yuanming shook his head slightly and put the check on the coffee table in front of him.

After a while, the contract was taken out. After carefully checking the above content, Chen Yuanming signed his name, the check was also verified and the agreement was formally established.

An indifferent group of Mr. Jonathan had passed the backup contract to Chen Yuanming, with a real smile on his face. "So Mr. Chen, what kind of projects are you more interested in? We can receive project applications sent from states across the country every day, sometimes as many as a few dozen a month. Now that you want to select projects yourself, we naturally Will deliver what you are interested in. "

"Oh, personal computers, I'm interested in computers." Chen Yuanming answered truthfully.

The expression on Mr. Jonathan's face stiffened again, "Uh, computer projects are actually the latest trend, so there will be a lot of such letters. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, you'd better draw a rough range. And we are ready to prepare the relevant materials. "

"So, then what about software and hardware." This time the answer was even more straightforward.

Jonathan was unable to speak for a while. After a few seconds, he seemed to nod his head frankly. "I will send the relevant project plan to your hotel tomorrow. After you select the project, we will send someone to follow you. Those companies get in touch to discuss further investment issues. "

Chen Yuanming certainly has no objection to this answer. But the next day, when he saw the mountain of information boxes in his guest room, he couldn't help laughing. His selfishness is there, and he wants to use his prophet to choose those companies or projects that may be profitable in the future, but it is not like now, full of seven large cardboard boxes, full of project agreements. The power of the hit is endless ...

However, even though the amount of tasks was more difficult than he thought, Chen Yuanming still did not flinch, but read them one by one. Now what he wants to do is something similar to picking up leaks in antique streets. Natural selection cannot be avoided. But reading these strange project plans is really a headache. Most of these little guys who sent the plan only had the blood and dreams of a cavity. They had no mature plans, no specific business goals, and even lacked a vision for the future. They lived purely for interest. Even if there are countless wonderful ideas here, the bad and grotesque way of describing it makes people unbelievable.

Just like digging for gold mines in the **** dump, it took Chen Yuanming three full days to find three or four copies of things that might come in handy. One is about the idea of ​​a universal serial cable for a computer. In simple terms, it is a plan that specializes in the USB interface. One is an instant messaging software similar to the low-level version of icq, but the current architecture is very sloppy, has not really taken shape, and can only operate short-range under the dos system. The other two are rough programming, but both are based on the c language, which is still very trendy, with a certain degree of compatibility.

In addition to the projects of the USB interface, these three plans have not even established a complete prototype, so naturally they will not be favored by any investors. The USB itself requires a standardized interface jointly formulated by several major computer manufacturers, and a small personal team cannot succeed. However, based on the prospects of these ideas, Chen Yuanming was still willing to try them out, and eventually left them all.

The seven boxes of information turned very slowly, but after all, they would still be turned over. When we saw the last box and were about to breathe a sigh of relief, a weird folder suddenly appeared in front of Chen Yuanming. The very decorative font is marked with the large characters "Silicon and nerve keys", and next to it are three hand-painted Vikings.

Chen Yuanming frowned, and opened the binder with patience. I saw a brief introduction about the game, the current progress of the company's development, and the benefits of the two games that were developed before. Is not much), and the idea of ​​the next game. The whole project was full of fanatical enthusiasm of artists and technical houses. As a plan, it was a failure, but as a game introduction, it was somewhat interesting. However, PC games have not yet begun to show up these years, and the chances of this project being appreciated are extremely small.

However, when turning to the end of the page, Chen Yuanming suddenly opened his eyes. In the last few pages of the plan for the next game, he described a real-time strategy game without too much detail. The story is probably about humans and orcs. Battle, there are several rough character design sketches. Just at the end of that text, a less prominent predetermined name was added: World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft? !! Suddenly, Chen Yuanming jumped from the sofa, that World of Warcraft? !! !!

Hurrying to turn the plan book back to the cover, staring at the weird company name, Chen Yuanming grinned, is it right? See for yourself!

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