Dr. Chongqing runs a garage cafe.

The garage cafe, the cafe with the theme of entrepreneurship and investment, means that entrepreneurship starts in the garage (because Jobs started his business in the garage). Entrepreneurs only need to order a cup of coffee here to enjoy a free open office environment for a day. Garage Cafe is not only a low-cost office space for entrepreneurs, but also a project library for investors. On February 2, the Zhiku Coffee returnee party attracted more than 30 returnees from the whole city to attend the event.

Li Zhifeng is a famous figure in the circle of overseas students in Chongqing. he already has a doctorate in high energy physics from the University of Vienna in Austria in his early 30s. For more than five years of studying for his doctorate, like the otaku scientists in the popular American TV series the Big Bang Theory, he has been dealing with esoteric string theory and particle physics every day.

But after returning to Chongqing for development, Li Zhifeng opened a garage coffee and set up Chongqing's first returnee club.

Establish the largest returnee circle in Chongqing

Yesterday afternoon, Chongqing Morning Post reporter walked into Shiqiao shop Zhiku coffee, the boss Li Zhifeng is the city's well-known returnee party sponsor. A party for returning students has just been held here on February 2nd.

"when I returned from Austria in 2010, I first went to Beijing, where there were so many parties for foreign students every week that they were even refined to European and American students or other classification methods." However, after Li Zhifeng returned to Chongqing in early 2012, he had no place to participate in returnee activities for some time, which made him a little uncomfortable. Therefore, he simply set up a group on his own and took the initiative to look for the figure of local returnees.

"in less than a year, there were more than 100 members, all aged between 25 and 40." His Chongqing returnee club has gradually grown into the largest returnee circle in Chongqing, holding parties every week.

Provide exchange venues for entrepreneurs

Two months ago, Li Zhifeng opened Zhiku Coffee, the first garage cafe in Chongqing, which provides a venue for entrepreneurs to communicate. "this is also due to my experience in Beijing. I often go to make garage coffee after I have the idea of starting a business." ask for help from a variety of professionals. "

Now, Li Zhifeng is helping people incubate patents and start-up projects in the garage cafe, as well as hosting foreign student parties here. People who go to garage cafes are basically divided into three categories: returnees, technical personnel and entrepreneurs.

Zhiku Coffee is located on the third floor of IT Micro-Enterprise Incubator of Chongqing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base. It is a transparent glass room with a large number of young IT and creative talents. And Zhiku Coffee, which is located in the middle of area An and B, has a rich dessert flavor and literary style.

On the book wall of the cafe, Feng Lun wrote a handwritten gift saying, "Zhifeng: entrepreneurial strength, barely become a national instrument." In fact, during a period of time in Beijing after returning home, Li Zhifeng worked with many famous people such as Feng Lun.

"my cafe has been open for more than a month and has introduced three projects to the start-up industrial park." Li Zhifeng's cafe has a strong aroma of coffee and elegant light music. He said that if the atmosphere is relaxed, the effect of conversation will be better. "Chongqing's demand and resources in this area have exceeded our previous estimates and are developing smoothly. In the future, we welcome more people who have entrepreneurial ideas, patented technology or background of studying abroad and hope to come here to make friends for coffee."

When a bored man likes to deal with people.

Li Zhifeng's hometown is in Shanxi, but since he was admitted to the Department of Applied Physics at Chongqing University in 1995, he graduated as a graduate student in 2002 and continued to study for a doctorate in 2003. Chongqing has become Li Zhifeng's second hometown.

In 2004, Li Zhifeng won a scholarship from the University of Vienna in Austria to study for a doctorate in Austria for more than five years. His research direction is basically similar to that of the otaku scientists in the popular American TV series the Big Bang Theory.

"We all study theoretical physics, and as long as we have a computer with Internet access, a pen and a piece of paper, we can start calculating." Yesterday, Li Zhifeng said with a smile that the University of Vienna has the longest blackboard in Europe, which is 100 meters long and is specially used to copy super-long calculation formulas. He has also had the experience of writing formulas on this blackboard many times. Writing is a complex calculation symbol, and the layman feels dizzy when he looks at it.

However, Li Zhifeng does not like this kind of life. Before returning home, the doctoral tutor invited Li Zhifeng to stay and continue to work in the research lab, but he was politely declined. "I want to do some work with a wider range of social contacts and deal with people more. It is also my hobby to be more interesting." As a result, Li Zhifeng first filmed in Beijing for more than a year as soon as he returned home, and then returned to Chongqing to run a returnee club and garage cafe.

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