Which one of the most famous start-up coffee in the country has you ever had?

A cup of coffee can drink a startup company; a cup of coffee can drink the next big coffee in the industry. You know, coffee is not just coffee anymore, coffee has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. When capital is looking for entrepreneurial unicorns, entrepreneurial unicorns are suffering from Bole, entrepreneurial coffee is already extraordinary. Here, let the two meet like lovers.

I. 3W Cafe

In 2011, 3W Cafe founders Ma Delong, Bao Aile and Xu Shan, with an Internet background, called on Weibo to solicit capital to open a cafe dedicated to Internet industry gatherings. This move, has been a lot of industry "boss" support, 3W shareholders increased to more than 100 people. At the end of 2011, 3W Cafe opened in Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing.

3W soon became a gathering place for Internet people, and many Internet entrepreneurs came here. 3W used its "circle" to launch "investor afternoon tea" for entrepreneurs. They invited investors to ensure that entrepreneurs with financing needs can see investors in cafes. And entrepreneurs will find that regardless of whether the other party is willing to invest or not, they are willing to communicate with entrepreneurs, and even give advice and help, which is the consensus reached with investors before 3W. In addition, 3W also offers "3W Open course", which invites middle and senior managers of large enterprises to talk about their own fields and attract entrepreneurs in the same field to listen, which also expands 3W's brand influence.

Founder Guan Lei revealed that although 3W has a lot of exploration for profit, for now, the whole cafe is not self-financing. "it is not realistic to make a lot of money on this platform." Having said that, Guan Lei is still a little "unrepentant". He said: "our main energies are on incubators and investment and financing, which is what we can really do for a lifetime and the focus of 3W's future work." 3W currently has a branch in Shenzhen, and Guan Lei said they are planning to open a third one this year, and they are still talking about where to open it. In 2014, 3W is preparing a number of cross-border transitions to enter traditional industries and integrate them with the Internet. In the future, we may be able to see the entrepreneurial cafes in the catering circle, the car circle and the clothing circle, which will become new landmarks, depicting the entrepreneurial picture of a city. On May 7 this year, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang came to Zhongguancun Entrepreneurship Street to inspect the situation of entrepreneurship and innovation. During this period, Premier Li Keqiang came to 3W Cafe to communicate with the founder. The coffee cup is emblazoned with the simple words of 3W Coffee founder and Chairman Xu: "Life goes on, there is no end to trouble." Yang Le, co-founder of dim sum loan, remembers that the premier noticed this sentence after he got the coffee and read it with a smile. Meng Yiting, manager of 3W Coffee Shop, said that after the prime minister left, the same coffee sold well and sold more than 40 cups in 2 hours. Vanilla ingredients ran out instantly, and later had to be replaced with hazelnut lattes with the same "3W" flowers.

Second, garage coffee

On April 7, 2011, the garage coffee in Zhongguancun, Beijing, officially opened, and its 10 shareholders came to celebrate-this is not an ordinary coffee shop, or not a coffee shop, but to provide an open office environment for early-stage entrepreneurs and connect with early-stage investors. In a way, it is more like the incubator of private capital.

In June 2010, the founder of garage coffee came up with the idea of an "open office environment". On January 7, 2011, after more than half a year of planning, garage coffee officially opened. Garage coffee covers an area of 800 square meters and can hold about 150 people. Its positioning is not a coffee shop, it is just a form of expression, a pricing standard, which makes it feel more open.

"Let entrepreneurs work at the cost of one cup of coffee a day. We are also trying to integrate more office resources and conditions to reduce the investment of office space and equipment for entrepreneurs as much as possible. " Su Di, one of the founders of garage coffee, said. "what does the startup team need at the beginning? Capital + social + resources + people. For entrepreneurs, it reduces office costs on the one hand and social costs on the other. Venture capital activities and technology exchange activities are often held here in the evening, saving entrepreneurs' time and transportation costs from the office to the event site; teams can also communicate with each other, discuss technical issues, and enhance the team's social skills. " "our goal is for entrepreneurs to stay here for a day." Su said that in order to achieve this goal, he is thinking and exploring every day, such as launching the entrepreneur package: a cup of coffee in the morning, a lunch, a cup of tea in the afternoon, plus some snacks. Su said frankly that if you rely on the coffee shop model, an entrepreneur spends about 20 yuan a day. Due to the cost of water, electricity and rent, garage coffee lost money in the first month. "but the investment in the future will be of great value. Also hope to make a flat venture capital channel for the industry. "

Fuyun Coffee

In April 2012, Fuyun Cafe in Hangzhou Fudi Entrepreneurship Park officially opened. Similar to 3W, Fuyun's original intention was to give Hangzhou Internet entrepreneurial circle a place to meet and exchange. Li Zhiguo, one of the founders of Fuyun and the former founder of word-of-mouth, said that it is in an open environment that new ideas can be fully exchanged and demonstrated, and the success rate of entrepreneurship will be significantly improved. "only in an open environment can investors encounter better projects." Shou Yuan, executive director of Fuyun Coffee, said: "Entrepreneurship Cafe has two major functions: one is to hold activities, such as lectures, salons or undertaking entrepreneurial projects, and the other is the function of investment and financing." Every day, Shouyuan, executive director of Fuyun Coffee, works with all kinds of people, including entrepreneurial teams and investors. He believes that some people will have business opportunities. "our focus now is to do investment and financing services, that is, to be an intermediary between entrepreneurs and investors." "some entrepreneurial teams lack experience in business negotiation and do not understand the needs of angel investors, and many investors are struggling to find excellent projects," Shouyuan said. Our value lies in relying on contacts and experience to help both sides match more professionally so as to save time and improve efficiency. " Fuyun is near the window on one side and the office area on the other, and on the remaining two walls, Shouyuan, executive director of Fuyun Coffee, wants to turn them into a distribution center for Internet brands. A travel APP has been successful through advertising space financing. Business incubation, like the next golden egg, requires the cooperation of all parties. The platform of Entrepreneurship Cafe has the right time and people to do this. Shouyuan, executive director of Fuyun Coffee, said that the imagination of Fuyun's profit in the future is big enough.

Fourth, Optics Valley Venture Cafe

On the first floor of Wuhan Optical Valley Capital Building, there is a small cafe of about 300 square meters, the layout of which is not much different from that of ordinary cafes, except that there are a lot of inspirational pictures and poems on the cultural wall on the left. Upstairs around the corner, there is a large office divided into four areas by gray desks. Computers, printing, telephones and other office facilities are available. This is not the office of the cafe, but the home of four entrepreneurial teams. They can use these office equipment free of charge, and they can also get professional guidance from law, accounting and so on. In addition to the resident team, other entrepreneurs come here to order a cup of mocha for 10 yuan and can also work for a free day. The owner of this cafe is precisely two angel investors: Lei Jun, the first angel investor in China, and Li Ruxiong, chairman of Optical Valley Software. Lei Jun and Li Ruxiong invested 10 million yuan in the first phase to establish Wuhan Guanggu Coffee Venture Capital Co., Ltd., which is one of the stores. There is also a 3000-square-meter coffee shop chain in Guanggu Financial Port. Lei Jun provides guidance on some entrepreneurial projects, while Li Ruxiong is responsible for the operation and management of the cafe. They are not only coffee shop owners, but also entrepreneurial headhunters. "here, I can get along with the entrepreneurial team for a long time and learn about their details, including whether the team is United, diligent and proper. These situations are more important than technical capabilities. " Li Ruxiong said that the most important thing for cafes is not to sell coffee, which is their carrier and platform for venture capital, hoping to dig out potential start-up projects from Wuhan.

Beta Coffee

Beta Coffee was founded in 2009 and is one of the earliest Internet-themed cafes in China. At present, it has branches in Hangzhou, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, with more than 100 shareholders in the four places, all of whom are composed of TMT industry elites. As the first IT-themed cafe in China, Beta Cafe regularly holds forums, salons, investment meetings, photography sharing meetings, etc.

At present, Beta Coffee has held many sessions of China E-commerce Mid-end Forum, inviting COO, product director, design director, etc. from time to time to give participants the most pragmatic practical operation guidance. As the first IT-themed cafe in China, Beta Cafe regularly holds forums, salons, investment meetings, photography sharing meetings, etc. At present, Beta Coffee has held many sessions of China E-commerce Mid-end Forum, inviting COO, product director, design director, etc. from time to time to give participants the most pragmatic practical operation guidance. But beyond that, beta coffee seems to give more. For a cup of coffee, IT youth can hold computers here for a day. Having entrepreneurs work for the cost of a cup of coffee a day reduces office costs on the one hand and social costs on the other. Venture capital activities and technical exchange activities are often held here in the evening, saving entrepreneurs time and transportation costs from the office to the event site; teams can also communicate with each other, discuss technical issues and enhance the social ability of the team. Not only that, but there is also a recruitment wall in the cafe, on which you can directly post recruitment advertisements. There is such a story, Beijing Beta coffee just opened not long ago, there is a young man came here early in the morning, before the coffee shop opened, holding a sign that reads "angel" sitting at the door. Although he did not meet investors, his persistence moved the manager of Beta Cafe at that time. Eventually, the manager introduced the young man to a veteran entrepreneur who frequented the cafe. Although no one knows what happened next, beta coffee has actually become a frequent haunt for venture capitalists. In the past year or two, with the rapid development of e-commerce and mobile Internet, groups of Internet elites have chosen to leave their jobs to start businesses, and more and more investors have come from the Internet circle. But for an investment manager, seeing three or four projects a day is efficient, but at Beta Coffee, he sees eight to 10 project leaders a day, and Beta Coffee inadvertently becomes an important part of the entrepreneur's growth ecosystem.

VI. 5F Chuangka

On January 11, 2015, 5F Venture Cafe, the first venture cafe jointly invested by many Internet entrepreneurs in Anhui Province, opened in Hefei 5F Entrepreneurship Park. 5F Chuangcaf is so far the first entrepreneurial cafe in Anhui Province jointly invested by 25 Internet bosses through crowdfunding, and its dream is to become the "most compelling" entrepreneurial platform. For entrepreneurs, 5F is not only a platform for talents, projects and investments, but also the feelings of 25 Anhui Internet tycoons and the home of creative guests. Brothers are in high spirits to pursue entrepreneurial dreams together!

From the beginning of its preparation, 5F Creator has attracted the attention of many Internet bigwigs in China. When it opened, it specially invited nine heavyweight guests, including Chen Tong, vice president of Xiaomi, and Liu Ren, a well-known Chinese angel investor, to attend the scene. At the same time, they also received special attention and support from the relevant leaders at the provincial and municipal levels, who also came to the scene to witness the sailing of 5F Chuangcaf. 5F Chuangcaf can undertake meetings, lecture meetings, annual meetings, party and other activities, and the venue is provided free of charge, only a small amount of tea fee. If you order a cup of mocha for more than ten yuan in 5F, you can work for a day for free, and you can also feel the warm service of baristas and beautiful store managers who are studying in Germany. The coffee and light meals of 5F Chuangcaf are provided by the famous domestic coffee chain. The coffee is mellow and silky, and the simple meal is also very good. Drinking coffee with like-minded friends in the warm and active atmosphere of 5F, chatting about the memorabilia of the Internet while planning a bright future. 5F Chuangka holds regular start-up salons to invite famous celebrities and entrepreneurs to share their ideas and the latest dynamic information. Entrepreneurs in this platform can not only get close contact with bigwigs and entrepreneurs, but also get their advice and help to realize their entrepreneurial dreams! Anhui is a big incubator, where there is no shortage of seeds of innovation and entrepreneurship. 5F Chuangka has built a large entrepreneurial interaction and exchange ecosystem. In this ecosystem, it is necessary to integrate enterprises, universities, venture capital, finance and other superior resources, so as to effectively integrate all kinds of resources and services in a system to form an interactive ecological circle suitable for entrepreneurs' entrepreneurship and enterprise development. 5F Entrepreneur can provide opportunities for entrepreneurs. 5F Chuangka is the gathering place of talents, funds and projects, information coexistence and resource sharing. The power of a person is small. 5F Creator brings together all kinds of heroes to provide opportunities for those who want to start a business. This is the place where dreamers who want to start a business dream to set sail.

7. IPOClub

IPOClub, the first 24-hour startup cafe in China, was officially opened in Shanghai on October 31, 2014. IPOClub has 650 square meters of offline physical activities and social space, which is a communication platform and escort "harbor" for entrepreneurs. Named IPO, which means the first public offering of a company, is a milestone in the success of entrepreneurs and encourages more entrepreneurs to forge ahead and seek greater success.

Unlike many start-up cafes in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and other start-up cafes to attract many entrepreneurs only by providing venues, IPOClub provides many soft services for entrepreneurs in Shanghai and even the whole country. IPOClub provides a lot of help to entrepreneurs, including company registration, banking, legal aspects, as well as talent recruitment and capital docking. "IPOClub, as a new type of entrepreneurial service organization, coalition government, social organizations and entrepreneurial service agencies, forms an online and offline entrepreneurial service platform to create an interesting, informative and warm entrepreneurial space for startups in a relaxed and harmonious atmosphere." Wang Jun, founder of IPOClub, said. IPOClub and InnoSpace are an organic combination of entrepreneurs' ecological chain. InnoSpace is a start-up service platform focusing on the Internet, ultra-short-term, cellular projects. InnoSpace combines angel investors, venture capital institutions, entrepreneurial mentors and technical mentors, while making use of the resources of mature enterprises in the park and surrounding universities to help start-ups grow. IPOClub Cafe discovers outstanding entrepreneurs through early contact, helps them complete the pre-construction, and then gives it to InnoSpace to further incubate. Through the support of a series of characteristic services, it aims to become the most open and international incubator of early Internet projects in Shanghai. At present, Bank of China Shanghai Branch has been stationed in IPOClub to provide services to all kinds of entrepreneurial teams through mobile office. Intel, a world-renowned hardware manufacturer, has also partnered with IPOClub to jointly promote related smart hardware projects.

8. Starting Coffee

Walking into the starting point coffee, I saw an open-plan office area, each desk was equipped with a network cable and socket, and young entrepreneurs gathered in groups of three or five to work and communicate. Soft lighting, relaxed music filled with the atmosphere of freedom, sharing.

Huang Qinghua, founder of Shenzhen Wanlian Co., Ltd. and founder of Star Company, which grew up in Qidian Coffee, said that his company name was registered with Qidian Coffee. At present, the company's "Remote Guard" project is progressing rapidly. The continuous growth of Shenzhen entrepreneurial groups attracts entrepreneurial coffee to settle in one after another, and the landing of more and more entrepreneurial coffee also creates a more active innovation atmosphere, providing more choices for Shenzhen entrepreneurs and various groups. Starting Coffee is the earliest start-up coffee shop in Shenzhen. Subsequently, Beta Coffee, which is co-founded by 3W Coffee and Alipay Designer White Crow and other IT personages relying on the background of many investors, opened chain stores in Shenzhen. Qidian Coffee has always positioned its role as an "incubator". Its biggest feature is that it can provide office space for entrepreneurs by relying on its 800-900 square meters area. " The office space is fully open. Every location can be plugged into the computer power supply. Even if you don't drink coffee, you can use it for free." In addition to open office space, Start Coffee also has an incubator area, and the rent is much lower than the market price of office space outside. The reporter saw that each room in the area is a small enterprise, there are mobile game development teams, there are also tourism project teams, etc. At present, all office rooms are full. Since one of the investors of Qidian Coffee is the National High-tech Industry Innovation Center under Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission, Qidian Coffee has many advantages. Wang Chuan introduced that starting coffee draws lessons from the garage model, but the difference lies in paying more attention to the support of entrepreneurship "full chain".

9. Umbrella Coffee

Umbrella Coffee is a different start-up cafe. The full name of Umbrella Coffee is Shenzhen Umbrella Coffee Entrepreneurship Service platform. As a supporting service organization of high-tech zone, Umbrella Coffee provides services ranging from catering, coffee and desserts to books, gifts and friends' circles and activities. Umbrella Coffee has a business area of about 500 square meters. Umbrella Coffee creates a fragrant and pleasant service environment like Starbucks, attracting guests, including venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, accountants, lawyers, engineers, technical professionals, management consultants, angel investors, people who want to make friends, people who want to study, people who want to start a business, people who want to look for projects. Focus here. Umbrella Coffee is an entrepreneurial network field, and only people can develop.

Yan Jie, founder of Umbrella Coffee, introduced the unique umbrella spiral service to the guests: using Umbrella Coffee as the exchange platform, Umbrella Fund as the investment tool, and the "package" service model with Umbrella circle as the entrepreneurial mentor group. it was praised by many experts of the Thousand talents Plan at the meeting. As an entrepreneurial service platform, Umbrella regards helping start-ups to raise funds successfully as its core business. In addition to setting up its own limited partnership angel investment fund, it also adopts the strategy of cooperating with external VC and angel investment institutions to help high-quality project financing, which not only solves the problem of lack of money, but also provides value-added services to promote enterprises to become stronger and bigger. A number of responsible persons, including Li Guolin, general manager, are emphasizing that this entrepreneurial service platform is like an umbrella. The umbrella top is a network of entrepreneurial mentors, the umbrella pole is an angel investment fund, and Umbrella Friends Coffee is an activity platform. It is not difficult to see that unlike other entrepreneurial platforms, the most distinctive feature of Umbrella Friends is its original network of entrepreneurial mentors. At present, Umbrella Coffee Entrepreneurship Service platform has more than 500 entrepreneurial mentors. Since moving into the virtual university park, it has become more than 20 start-ups to provide entrepreneurial mentors and investment and financing services. There is a certain "threshold" for the selection of entrepreneurial mentors, and they must be executives of enterprises in related fields, and they are willing to pay attention to the practice of start-ups. Moreover, all the activities of these mentors are voluntary. Wei Yuekun, director of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Financial Service Center, believes that about 60 domestic and foreign universities have settled in the virtual university park, and relying on this huge "intellectual treasure house", Umbrella's network of entrepreneurial mentors will certainly become more and more developed.

Platforms 10 and 8

Platform 8? Chengdu Entrepreneurship Salon, established on December 8, 2012, is jointly founded by the Chengdu Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and Borey Investment Group, a subsidiary of Chengdu Media Group. Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau, Chengdu Business Daily, Tencent Dacheng, Daily Economic News and other units and institutions to participate in and build, is the exclusive investment and financing exchange and business incubation growth platform for innovative start-up enterprises. Wuhou District is currently the only one focused on the project pre-incubation of entrepreneurial nursery.

Since its establishment, platform 8 has brought together more than 200 start-up financing projects, as well as a large number of Internet and mobile Internet start-up teams, and more than 20 start-up teams have entered the platform. Three teams have received a total of more than 5 million angel investment through the platform, and there are still nearly 10 hatching seed teams on the platform. A number of responsible persons, including Li Guolin, general manager, are emphasizing that this entrepreneurial service platform is like an umbrella. The umbrella top is a network of entrepreneurial mentors, the umbrella pole is an angel investment fund, and Umbrella Friends Coffee is an activity platform. It is not difficult to see that unlike other entrepreneurial platforms, the most distinctive feature of Umbrella Friends is its original network of entrepreneurial mentors. At present, Umbrella Coffee Entrepreneurship Service platform has more than 500 entrepreneurial mentors. Since moving into the virtual university park, it has become more than 20 start-ups to provide entrepreneurial mentors and investment and financing services. There is a certain "threshold" for the selection of entrepreneurial mentors, and they must be executives of enterprises in related fields, and they are willing to pay attention to the practice of start-ups. Moreover, all the activities of these mentors are voluntary. Wei Yuekun, director of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Financial Service Center, believes that about 60 domestic and foreign universities have settled in the virtual university park, and relying on this huge "intellectual treasure house", Umbrella's network of entrepreneurial mentors will certainly become more and more developed.

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