My Age of Investment

In the afternoon, it was Xia Jingxing's turn to give a speech, which attracted a lot of attention from the audience.

After Yang Zhiyuan, Xia Jingxing is known as the most successful Chinese Internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

In fact, he is an overseas Chinese, but how can foreigners be so clear, they are all called Chinese or ethnic Chinese, and the domestic media that are stupid and unclear will translate and reprint the wrong article.

Xia Jingxing looked at the black heads under the stage, and didn't feel nervous. He would be timid for the first few times on such occasions, but with more experience, he naturally took it lightly.

His deep male Chinese voice sounded in the hall: "Mr. Chen Hong founded the Huayuan Science and Technology Association six years ago. The starting point for the establishment of this association is very simple, which is to help Chinese and overseas Chinese entrepreneurs to raise funds.

In Silicon Valley, the Internet center of the world, financing and finding venture capital are as simple as eating and drinking.

actually not!

In the 1980s and 1990s, mainland students came to the United States to study and could only work in restaurants. After graduating, they joined a Silicon Valley company and got a decent salary. This became the affiliation of almost all mainland students. and external stereotypes.

Then, the labels of mainland students who can’t start a business, are not suitable for starting a business, and can only work part-time are attached to our group.

Is this the real reason?

no!

My personal statement today is to get rid of the saying that mainland students, overseas Chinese, and Chinese are not suitable for starting a business.

At that time, international students were unwilling to start a business. The real reason was that they could not gain the trust of investment institutions. "

Chen Hong, Deng Feng, Zhu Min, Xie Qing and others smiled wryly in the audience, recalling the past, they were deeply moved.

Although Shao Yibo had studied abroad, he started his business in China after all. He was not very clear about the hardships and difficulties of Chinese entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley at that time, so he hurriedly asked a few big brother-level people around him:

"Is what Jing Xing said true? If no investment institutions were willing to invest at that time, how did your companies develop so quickly and go public?"

Deng Feng glanced at the little brother, and sneered: "First we went to the Chinese bosses, but those people don't want to see us at all, and they have completely severed ties with China long ago.

These venture capital institutions in Silicon Valley,

At that time, it was all dominated by white people. To put it nicely, they didn't trust us, thought we couldn't do it, and were born to be workers.

To put it bluntly, it is racism! "

Shao Yibo took a deep breath and saw the serious faces of the four listed bosses beside him. He thought it would not be particularly difficult for mainland students to start a business in the United States?

Especially the one on stage, who broke the financing record repeatedly.

Xie Qing said with a smile: "At that time, I searched all over the investment institutions in the United States, including Chinese bosses, but no one was willing to invest in us.

Finally, there are various entrusted relationships. I found some Hong Kong and Taiwan businessmen, and the early development funds can be considered as a solution.

Then after the company developed, those white VCs who saw a profit were finally willing to join in.

It's just such a process, it doesn't sound like a big deal, but it really killed people at the time.

You can't raise capital, but your white counterparty can! We survive almost by technological innovation and leadership. "

Shao Yibo nodded, so there is such an unknown story!

Xia Jingxing on the stage continued: "In the past few years, as several seniors have sent their companies to NASDAQ, the inherent impression of Shaqiu Road on overseas Chinese and Chinese entrepreneurs has gradually changed.

One of my motivations for founding Vision Capital is that I feel the difficulties of overseas Chinese and Chinese in starting a business in the United States, and hope to provide some support;

The second is to hope that in the financial industry, some groups will break the inherent impression, arrogance and prejudice of overseas Chinese and Chinese. "

Then, Xia Jingxing began to introduce the meaning of Vision Capital's name and its Twenty-Four Solar Terms Fund.

After a little bit of advertising, I let it go, and continued to the main topic: "The typical feature of the WEB1.0 era is that the website generates fixed content, and the users are just browsers. The content is the center of communication, and it is biased toward elite culture.

But now it is transitioning to the WEB2.0 era, and it has begun to pay attention to the interaction of users. Users are not only the viewers of website content, but also the creators of website content.

Users can read and write on the website, emphasizing personalized service, social interconnection, people-oriented, biased towards civilian culture and long-tail theory.

I think that's where the newest entrepreneurial opportunities lie.

Whether in the United States or China, there are currently a large number of entrepreneurs stepping forward to embrace this era of change.

Facebook and YouTube are the two most typical WEB2.0 companies.

Some people always complain that it is too late to start a business now, and it is too late.

You know, when Google was founded, there were already a lot of search engine companies such as Infoseek (搜信), ALIWEB, and Altavista on the market.

But Google rises!

What I want to emphasize is that as long as you have insight into user needs, identify the market space, polish your products, and discover new technologies, it is never too late to start a business! "

Robin Li in the audience nodded heavily, because the Soxin mentioned by Xia Jingxing was his old company, where he laid the foundation for Baidu's future.

Moreover, Baidu was not founded too early, it was established in January 2000, far later than the three major portals and Yahoo China.

Sohu was the first website to participate in the classification and navigation of network information. It once had the reputation of "going out to find a map and surfing the Internet to find Sohu".

However, the first-generation search engine, such as manual catalog search, was directly rubbed on the ground by his "hyperlink analysis".

Robin Lee secretly reminded himself not to be dazzled by the upcoming listing, but to keep Baidu innovating and leading in technology.

Although Xia Jingxing is only 21 years old and has a total of three years of entrepreneurial experience, his achievements are relatively high!

As long as a person succeeds in starting a business, they will say that it is delicious.

Therefore, the young entrepreneurs in the audience watched intently Xia Jingxing, who was pointing out the country and talking about the way of starting a business. At the climax, there was thunderous applause from time to time.

"Finally, I wish every entrepreneur can reap their own success!"

Xia Jingxing ended the speech with a word of blessing.

But he couldn't step down yet. The hands of entrepreneurs and reporters in the audience were like branches in the jungle, and they were densely packed at a glance.

There is no way, except for Yang Zhiyuan, the guests who participated in this meeting are the most valuable, and the success comes so fast, everyone wants to get a glimpse of the wealth code.

Xia Jingxing stood on the stage and randomly selected a few questioners.

A weak-looking Chinese boy in his twenties who wore glasses got the chance to ask a question, and he asked very excitedly:

"Daren, I'm a graduate of the University of Southern California this year. I plan to return to China to start a business. I have a good idea..."

Xia Jingxing was very uncomfortable listening to the other party's mixed Chinese and English talk about his entrepreneurial project.

However, he has a better self-restraint, and he didn't interrupt halfway. After listening to the other party, he began to reply:

"You said you want to go back to China to start a business. I suggest that the first thing you do is to adapt to the domestic environment first. When you can speak all in Chinese, you will be one step closer to success."

Before the boy could react, the audience burst into laughter.

Hearing the ridicule, the boy with eyes reacted quickly, his face swelled into a liver color, and he argued: "Daren, this is in the United States, I can speak some English, is there a problem?

Do you usually communicate without English? Didn't you also take an English name?

I think you should respect others and learn to be kind. "

Xia Jingxing didn't expect that he would be educated by the other party. A boy who looked very weak had such an aggressive tone.

Xia Jingxing was a little annoyed, and his tone became a little more serious: "You are not familiar with the domestic market, and if you rashly apply the experience and model of the United States, you will definitely be uncomfortable.

Several American companies have already waded the way for you. If you still want to go your own way, it means that you have a mine at home. "

Countless applause erupted from the audience. The big coal province has become famous by now, and the Chinese can basically understand the meaning of it.

The boy still wanted to refute a few words, but the staff in the audience would not let him, grabbed the microphone and handed it to the next questioner.

Then there are not so many brain-dead, and the questions are all related to financing and venture capital, such as building an equity structure, the dilution ratio of each round of financing, which type of entrepreneurs the venture capital likes, and so on.

Xia Jingxing also patiently answered each questioner's question.

When it was a reporter's turn to ask questions, he asked: "Mr. Xia, many entrepreneurs in China regard you as an idol. Will Vision Capital consider entering China?"

"It will definitely!"

Xia Jingxing was also stumped by this question, he had already invested in three domestic companies, yet his reputation was still so obscure.

So he quickly explained to the reporter the three companies invested by Vision Capital, and by the way, exposed the advertisements.

While explaining, Xia Jingxing saw an interesting scene.

Old man Moritz was having a good chat with Shen Beipeng when he saw Xia Jingxing's eyes sweeping over him, he smiled and nodded at the young man who rejected him, and then pointed at Shen Beipeng, with the most obvious intention to show that he has found a suitable candidate.

Shen Beipeng followed Moritz's line of sight and met Xia Jingxing's eyes.

Xia Jingxing thought, the inertia of history is really great, Moritz finally found Shen Beipeng.

This made him feel that he was not waiting for me for a while, and the reporter just asked: "When will you return to China?"

He subconsciously replied, "Next week!"

The reporter nodded and didn't ask any more questions, but Xia Jingxing felt that he seemed to have been blamed.

Dear, click to enter and give a good review. The higher the score, the faster the update. It is said that those who gave the new full score found a beautiful wife in the end! The new version of the mobile station upgrade address:, data and bookmarks are synchronized with the computer station, no ads Fresh reading!