Garage coffee is made for young founders.

Business roadshow, product promotion, salon, exhibition, recruitment. With a variety of activities, garage coffee has become a start-up incubator and a small exchange. "Resource circle + creator platform + crowdfunding", garage coffee is Qingdao "Qingchuang Action" training base, Qingdao youth entrepreneur resource platform, youth creator service platform.

Crowdfunding of 100 entrepreneurs in the island city

When the reporter came to the garage coffee, he saw the simple layout, elegant decoration, podium, clipboard, and conference table. This is not a coffee shop that sells coffee for profit. It brings together entrepreneurial tutors to hold business training, project roadshows, salons and other activities. Garage coffee is formed by 100 entrepreneurs and shareholders of Qingdao Youth Entrepreneurship Promotion Committee, Qingdao Youth Entrepreneur Association and listed enterprises of Blue Ocean Equity Trading Center. including industry leaders, investors, well-known entrepreneurs, media opinion leaders and other fields of Qingdao industry influential people, to create an elite entrepreneurial mentor team. Planning youth development, youth entrepreneurship "social welfare undertakings."

Garage Coffee discovers and helps young founders' future stars through the membership system, and creates a valuable circle of friends for the exchange of ideas, cooperation and mutual assistance. Garage Coffee carries out various activities to expand contacts, integrate resources, increase cooperation opportunities among entrepreneurs, build a service platform for young entrepreneurs, and form an ecological circle conducive to entrepreneurship. A group of people with common values come together to collide with wisdom, feelings, and the future. Garage coffee is just the beginning, the core is "resource sharing + crowdfunding project", integrate the resources needed in all stages of entrepreneurship, and improve the success rate of entrepreneurial projects.

Build a service platform for young creators

The person in charge of garage coffee, Guan Yi, told reporters that more than two months after the opening of garage coffee, entrepreneurial students have signed more than 20 pairs with their mentors, and there can be 2-3 activities a week, with more and more activities. Guan Gungungg is planning boutique activities such as "Entrepreneurship Story Society" and "Voice of Creator" to share entrepreneurial stories and help entrepreneurs to connect with entrepreneurial students. Recently, Dr. Haida, who helped do the "antimicrobial peptide" project, signed a contract with Daxue search to help Dr. Haida do research in ways such as living expenses, sponsored venues, laboratories, and so on. Garage coffee matchmaking enterprises to understand and dock youth entrepreneurship projects, but also to provide resources for enterprises, last week to help Daxuai search to achieve the intention of financing 10 million yuan.

The Communist Youth League Committee has established an innovation and entrepreneurship alliance for college students in China Petroleum (601857, Stock Bar) University, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao University and other universities. Guan will send the activity information of garage coffee in the WeChat group of Qingdao College students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance, and young entrepreneurs in the group who are interested in entrepreneurial information will come to participate in the activity. Among them, entrepreneurs who need investment and financing, docking mentors and docking resources can get key guidance. Enterprises invest in entrepreneurial youth and entrepreneurial projects in garage coffee to achieve a sense of social responsibility and mission.

Post-90s "bounce out of bed" to start a business

Guo Qiang, president of Qingdao Entrepreneurship Promotion Association, has given Guan a lot of guidance from the investigation of the early garage coffee project, the determination of business ideas to the location, decoration, positioning and so on. Guan Xun, a post-90s, worked as a sales director in a cultural company and founded a management consulting company himself. When Guan was in school, he often focused on winning competitions such as "winning in China" and "winning in Qingdao". Inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit, he participated in the second Youth Entrepreneurship Competition of "winning in Qingdao". When he entered the top 12, he felt unconvinced. Participated in the third "win in Qingdao" Youth Entrepreneurship Competition, won the second place. Auditions, ERP sand table simulation operation, commercial actual combat, TV finals and other links enable Guan to improve his personal ability in paying attention to project feasibility, market prospects, speech and behavior.

Talking about the quality of starting a business, Guan said: "I am not smart." Opportunistic, exploiting loopholes, seemingly smart, but actually not, I require myself to have a down-to-earth attitude, including down-to-earth, diligent, patient, persistent. Because laziness is the most shameful thing to lose. " Guan likes what Jack Ma said: "if you succeed one day, others can copy your model, copy your products, copy your team, others can never copy one thing, and that is your core competitiveness." that's the pain you've been through. " He believes that the losses and tribulations he has suffered on the way to starting a business are the most precious, and he is willing to try more, listen more, think more, learn more, and improve his situation. "from the hair to the toes are tight, full of drive, fall asleep may suddenly think of something immediately bounced out of bed to do, not do not want to eat, but sometimes there is too much work to do forget to eat, this is the state of entrepreneurs."

Yang Ning, a reporter from Qingdao Financial Daily / Qingdao Financial Network.

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