The first regional mass creative space alliance was born in Shanghai.

"Let's go, guys, let's go and sit down on the first floor of Hatch Coffee." at more than 11:00 on March 29th, the country's first regional mass innovation space alliance has just been established in the Shanghai Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center. Out of the lecture hall on the fifth floor, the entrepreneurial partner is still not finished. These first members of the "Shanghai Zhongchuang Space Alliance" and the leaders of dozens of private entrepreneurial service organizations went to the ground floor to start a business bar to "hatch coffee"-- build a table, drink coffee, and start a business.

Hu Dong, co-founder of "Qi Chuang China", is one of them. Holding the bronze medal of the founder's space with a "red cap" in his arm, he excitedly told reporters at a super-fast speed that mass entrepreneurship and innovation. The new word "mass innovation" mentioned by the prime minister this year was immediately organized. "the media used to leave less' space 'for entrepreneurship, but now the social attention is much greater." Hu Dong is also an entrepreneur, but he has failed partially, or is not so successful. As a result, he turned the ideal of singles to make money for himself into the ideal of helping others to make money for more of his peers. As a result, more than 50 mass creative spaces in Shencheng have formed a new type of small and micro incubators.

Hu Dong came to the scene from a "Creator Marathon". Starting from the past Friday night, the 54-hour "Creator Marathon" fired the starting gun in the creative world. 120 private creators "ran" from a not-so-large conference room to drink coffee, eat snacks and even stay up all night to incubate business plans and accept market-oriented talent shows during the ultra-long race of weekends plus six-hour weekend nights.

From the "Wealth Cat" POS card swiping machine to the special adjustment software for husband and wife "Cold War", it only takes a few seconds for each person to fill out a form, briefly describe innovative ideas and paste them on the wall. Then, yell out the business plan and attract the business partners, at least 5 people can form a team, otherwise you will have to drop out of the game. As a result, only 15 of the 35 ideas on the wall succeeded in forming a team. "I am a technician, you are a designer, he is a marketer, and 'crowdfunding space' means' crowdfunding talent'."

As organizers, the creative space opened by Hu Dong and his partners is public welfare, accepting any grass-roots who are interested in starting a business. After the mass creation space is connected vertically and horizontally, more capable people are attracted and more awesome people are found. "Ducks with warm water in the river are the first to feel the smell of spring." Hu Dong found that this "Creator Marathon" had not only many participants, but also many investors, and even unofficial incubators outside the system also came to watch the race. This is not, at 14:00 that day, he rushed back to Yangpu from Xuhui, because after 15 teams stayed up late, the modular business plan had been newly released, waiting for a "roadshow" to various heroes with all kinds of resources.

Now in Shanghai, every weekend or even weeknight, there are grassroots entrepreneurs with dreams to "go to the market" and enter the mass creation space to provide the first service of low-cost entrepreneurship. On Yuyuan East Road, next to a 24-hour convenience store, there is a more than 100-square-meter workshop called "New Workshop," with various hardware tools and electronic components on one console after another, much like the scene in the popular American TV series the Big Bang Theory. Founder Li Dawei, a Taiwanese who started a business in Shanghai. The software engineer, who has worked on many websites, is now obsessed with hardware. Together with the regular customers of the "new workshop", he also disassembled and assembled various electrical products after work to create the prototype of the goods in his mind.

"provide space for creators to collide with open source hardware platforms, open laboratories, processing workshops, product design and creative ideas." In the "Entrepreneurship Pujiang" action plan disclosed on March 29, creator spaces such as "New Workshop" were finally listed as the promotion and construction mode of "City-wide Creator" action. Li Dawei said that there are probably more than 1000 creators in the world, with 1 million active creators, and there can be no shortage in China.

"some people call this kind of mass creation space a 'coffee shop incubator'." Yan Xiong, deputy director of the Municipal Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center, told reporters that according to the previous criteria for evaluating incubators, most of them could not meet the standards because of their small size or even lack of fixed venues, so they could not enjoy government-purchased services. In this early spring, Yan Xiong really invited some creative space leaders for coffee and hatched the idea of creating an autonomous alliance. For the members of the alliance, the Municipal Science and Technology Commission will contribute 3 million yuan to subsidize the public welfare services provided by them. Next year, subsidies are expected to be even stronger.

From "starting China" to "New Workshop", they have become several directors of the Shanghai Zhongchuang Space Alliance. This covers the edge of the innovative entrepreneurial circle of friends, calling for partners to drink coffee to start a business, so that entrepreneurial passion is more sincere and reliable, so that the quality of starting a business for the first time continues to improve.

Source: Shanghai, China