Building Friends Association Cafe: building a gathering place for entrepreneurs in Hangzhou

When it comes to cafes, do you first think of Starbucks, Costa or cross-strait coffee, or those personalized cafes by the West Lake, such as Momo, Peach and Pirate Coffee? Then you will be out. There is such a cafe in Hangzhou, which not only provides fragrant coffee, but also provides financing docking for entrepreneurs. It is impossible to say that one day you will be able to bump into the boss of the investment community while drinking coffee here. This is the coffee of Hangzhou Building Friendship Association.

Use Coffee to start a Business

The coffee club of the building is located on the fourth floor of Yigao Entrepreneurship Building, that is, Wen Sanyi Street, from which the great entrepreneur Jack Ma came out, and there is an inherent entrepreneurial atmosphere here. Entering the door of the building friends' association coffee shop, a strong mellow fragrance came in the face. at the same time, a huge wall painting appeared in front of him, attracting the attention of the eyeball. here depicts the memory that belongs exclusively to Wen San Jie, from the scene in the early days of the business to the glory of success now. Closer are conference rooms, tables and chairs, bookcases, an old wall, a motherboard wall and a statue in a booth. The small details perfectly reflect its brilliance.

"We have what we have in normal coffee shops, and we also have what we don't have in other coffee shops." The manager of the cafe told reporters that the real identity of the cafe is a "start-up cafe". In addition to gathering friends and taking a break, it is also a platform for entrepreneurs to work, exchange, capital docking and business negotiations. It also provides a series of supporting services, such as registered company, financing docking, background support and so on. Therefore, it is not surprising to run into some well-known investors and enterprises here. The Yigao High-Tech Entrepreneurship Park, which is qualified as a national high-tech business incubator, has provided stronger support to entrepreneurs. This can be called "the institution of higher learning in entrepreneurial coffee".

According to statistics, nearly 100 activities will be held in this coffee shop every year, many of which are industry tycoons. Alibaba, Tencent, Block B, 12th floor, JD.com, Letv TV and so on have all chosen here. "there will be a commercial real estate party on Wednesday afternoon, an angel dating party on Thursday afternoon and a book club for Zhou Xiaobo on Saturday afternoon." The manager opened the appointment list and this week's activities are already full. "as such an entrepreneurial circle and a place full of awesome people, real estate friends' coffee can provide free activity venues, gathering wisdom, rich resources, abundant capital and quality services, and provide offline service bases for friends in the circle."

Entrepreneurial cafes are springing up everywhere

If you spend an average of 30 or 40 yuan a day on coffee, you can enjoy a day's office conditions and entrepreneurial atmosphere, regular salons and frequent visits by investors-- such cafes are called start-up cafes, and they integrate local resources. for entrepreneurs In particular, mobile Internet, e-commerce, new media, communications entrepreneurs and investors have set up an innovative entrepreneurial incubation service platform with information symmetry, project docking and capital docking, which has the functions of public living room, trade association and entrepreneurial incubator.

The earliest start-up cafe in Hangzhou began in 2009 and was founded by Beta Coffee funded by several Alibaba employees. Since 2010, entrepreneurial cafes have sprung up in China. In 2011, garage coffee in Zhongguancun in Beijing became famous, and since then, from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen to Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha, Jinan and Zhengzhou, entrepreneurial cafes have burned from first-tier cities to provincial capitals. Hangzhou also offers such as Yun Coffee, Fuyun Coffee and so on.

"We hope that entrepreneurs, investors, entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life can exchange ideas and collide with each other on the open, free, convenient, relaxed and active platform of the Real Estate Association Cafe." The manager of the building friends' association coffee shop said that they want to turn the building friends' association cafe into an innovative venture capital platform and an incubator for entrepreneurs.