Regarding the downstream factory construction, Chen Yuanming and Yan Qiaosen had some very detailed discussions, and then decided to focus on Chen Yuanming, supplemented by Professor Yan, and look for partners near Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen. Development, MPeg-2 into the development, and then cut into the chip factory framework. However, the specific details still need to be informed to Meng Lisheng, and the factory partners must also be carefully selected, so today's achievement is just an intention, and later planning requires great effort.
After talking about business, it was already dark. This time, Professor Yan was the host, and the group went to a famous steakhouse nearby, but it was also a Michelin-star restaurant. The dining atmosphere here is too far from Wall Street. Suits and evening dresses can’t be seen at all. There is no such thing as being polite and pretending to be diners. I saw groups of three or five young people in jeans and T-shirts, more than half of them wearing heavy spectacle frames and a mess of hair that was comparable to a bird's nest. The high-end restaurant does not match the casual atmosphere at all, and it seems that it accidentally broke into the scene of a college sorority.
Facing such a relaxed and comfortable dining environment, Chen Yuanming felt a little emotional. The surprising contrast between the two gold rush holy places on the east and west coasts of the United States is not an interesting reflection of American culture. In this noisy and lively restaurant, Chen Yuanming kept smiling and finished the delicious steak in front of him.
The next day, without calling Professor Shangyan, Chen Yuanming started his own trip to Silicon Valley. This time, his travel destination was not any well-known high-tech company, but the famous street in Menlo Park, Shashan Road.
Walking on this road that is only two or three kilometers long, high and low buildings come into view. It is not like the concrete jungle of skyscrapers on the east coast. Most of the buildings are soothing and comfortable, with very rich vegetation and green space. It seems that they are facing each other. Not the great venture capital center known as "Wall Street on the West Coast", not the financial giants that determine the fate of Silicon Valley, but a leisure-centered villa area.
There is not much to describe the rushing office workers on the road, but it is vaguely seen that some typical "Silicon Valley" dressed young people are walking through the street in excitement or depression, and those famous luxury cars take their little broken cars and bring them with them. Leave this adventurer's paradise with a dream or a dashed hope. Chen Yuanming smiled, without delaying too long on the road, he went straight to his goal. His choice this time was not a large venture capital firm such as Sequoia Capital or KPCB, but an angel investment agency with a very good reputation in the industry.
Speaking of angel investment companies, many people may be at a loss for a while. In fact, for the venture capital community, this is the starting point for venture capital, and it is also the real ore. Those small companies, cooperative teams or individuals who are in the initial stage probably do not even have basic startup funds except for the genius ideas in their heads. They need not a huge financing of millions or tens of millions, but a simple goal: to survive .
Angel investors are aimed at such poor small groups. These people with excellent vision in the industry have seen the potential that technology can bring through rough plans, and made the first round of investment in entrepreneurs - as little as tens of thousands of yuan. , as many as one hundred million US dollars - through this money, you can raise those rising stars, and when the company matures, it will either conduct a second round of financing, or directly list and cash out, and obtain more than a hundred times higher profits.
While making unimaginable profits, these investors also saved young people who only had dreams but were unable to put them into practice, so they were naturally named "angels". I just want to be an angel, but sometimes the risks are even higher. After all, there are still a lot of misunderstandings and money wasted. Therefore, angel investment companies are very different from real big venture capital companies in terms of funding sources, and they often do not. Favored by big foundations.
Walking into this building like a garden villa, a beautiful receptionist greeted her. Being able to receive reception, of course, is quite transparent in the world. With just a glance, this beauty realized that the young Chinese people in front of her were not really looking for investment and entrepreneurs - after all, bodyguards with elegant custom suits and sunglasses are not something that poor tech houses can have - but Like a real rich man, is this an investor
"Sir, is there anything I can do for you?" The beauty was impeccable and her voice was clear and sweet, with sincerity and friendliness.
Chen Yuanming raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Yes, I want to do some investment business recently. I heard that this is an investment team with a good reputation in the industry, so let's check the situation."
"Aaron Investment Company has a mature angel investment team and information channels in the industry." The smile on the reception lady's face became sweeter, "Please take a moment and let me contact Mr. Jonathan, the senior partner of the company, and he will give you detailed answers. ."
After sitting on the comfortable leather sofa for a few minutes, a blond man in his early 3 years walked down from the second floor and saw Chen Yuanming with a big smile, "Wow, you are the Mr. Chen that Suzy said. , younger than I thought. I am Aaron Investments Evan Jonathan, one of the senior partners, please come here, we can discuss in detail about angel investing."
Under the leadership of this attentive partner, the two walked into a reception room at the corner of the second floor. Unlike other rooms on the first floor, this reception room has an obvious Wall Street style, simple and smooth, but full of low-key luxury. . Seated on the sofa chair, the hand-ground Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is placed in front of the table, and the pleasant fragrance wafts into the nose. On the opposite wall, there are more than 2 Lg in three rows, indicating that Aaron Investment has successfully invested in projects, and some of them are even familiar to Chen Yuanming.
Jonathan is a rather talkative professional manager with a natural tongue, not like a typical Silicon Valley engineer or Wall Street financier, but a bit like a senior lawyer. He systematically introduced the current status of Aaron Investments to Chen Yuanming in detail. This is a personal joint investment group, usually with 8-12 investors, more than half of whom are executives or founders of well-known companies in Silicon Valley, and the rest are General partner who has a strong interest in high-tech, is responsible for screening the projects submitted every day, finding out those other partners who are not very interested but have potential projects, and then raise funds, contact financiers or the rich to inject capital, success stories Charge high commissions.
Jonathan is the latter, specializing in fundraising. Potential customers like Chen Yuanming have always been his big goal. This time, he was delivered directly to his door, which naturally made him overjoyed. Although the Silicon Valley venture capital industry is not unpopular at present, the venture capital companies often target those companies that need secondary financing for development, not the poor and high-risk chicks. Aaron has also faced the dilemma of lack of funds for a long time.
Listening carefully to Mr. Jonathan's introduction, Chen Yuanming is generally familiar with the basic structure of this company. Today, his Silicon Valley network is still very narrow. Even with the help of Professor Yan, it is difficult to find a real worthwhile investment project. Therefore, it is almost impossible to have such an intermediary agency. Not so good.
After the introduction finally came to an end, Chen Yuanming nodded with a smile, "It's a good company, very similar to what I imagined. But there is one thing I want to ask clearly, whether an investor from a non-Silicon Valley like me can directly participate in the project selection and selection. Do you like planning, rather than hosting it in the form of a fund?"
Jonathan was stunned for a moment, but still replied, "Mr. Chen, I understand your willingness to control the direction of funds by yourself. This can be said to be the initial goal of every angel investor, but high-tech is not like other traditional industries. It's a great payoff to invest, so you're taking a big risk if you choose the project yourself."
Chen Yuanming's smile deepened a little, "Since I'm here to play venture capital, I naturally want to have enough fun from this kind of adventure, so I don't need to worry about it, I have full control over the funds at hand, and it is within my tolerance to lose or gain. ."
Jonathan blinked, not letting the wry smile in his heart spread to his cheeks. He has now discovered that this young man may have obtained a large amount of inheritance or a wealthy second generation of entrepreneurial funds through some means, and he is impatient with the old-fashioned funds on Wall Street. Operation mode, I want to come to Silicon Valley to try my luck and squander my ancestral property by the way. However, the other party's eyes are not what he needs to care about. No matter what kind of investment, they are currently welcome.
"Of course, Mr. Chen." When he spoke again, Jonathan had put on a proper tone of appreciation, "Risk is indeed the fun of this kind of investment. If you choose a project by yourself, then we will only charge 5% of the total investment amount every year. Commission commission , and a 2% profit share. But again, the investment risk needs to be fully borne by you.”
"It's a fair deal." Chen Yuanming clapped his hands lightly, "Then I'll put in two million in advance and see what surprises there."
two millions! Jonathan blinked again, so he couldn't hold back the smile on his face. Aaron's current venture capital investment generally ranges from 100,000 to 500,000. It is rare for more than one million individuals to invest. This amount of money alone is enough to support a small amount of money. Then 4, and as many as a dozen small companies have invested. This is still the "early stage". Do the young people in front of us know what they are doing? !
Taking a deep breath, Jonathan twitched his cheeks a little, showing a slightly embarrassed smile. "Then does the money need your lawyer to approve the payment, or..."
"Oh, no need to bother about this." Chen Yuanming sat up straight, took out a small notebook from his pocket, wrote a few scribbles on it, then tore off the note and handed it out.
A bank check with a face value of 2 million US dollars appeared in front of Jonathan. This time he didn't even blink his eyes. He kept his stiff smile and stood up politely, "I will immediately notify the company's lawyers and finance, check your check, and sign it. cooperation agreement."
After he finished speaking, he turned and walked away, although he seemed to be running away. Chen Yuanming shook his head slightly and put the check on the coffee table in front of him.
After a while, the contract was taken out. After carefully checking the above contents, Chen Yuanming signed his name, and the check was verified. The agreement was formally established.
Has recovered to be indifferent. When Mr. Jonathan handed the backup contract to Chen Yuanming, he had a real smile on his face. "Then Mr. Chen, what kind of projects are you interested in? We receive project applications from states all over the country every day, sometimes as many as dozens of applications in a month. Since you want to select projects by yourself, we will naturally put them together. The things you are interested in are handed over to you."
"Oh, in terms of personal computers, I'm quite interested in computers." Chen Yuanming answered truthfully.
The expression on Mr. Jonathan's face stiffened again, "Uh, the computer project is actually very popular, so there will be many, many letters of this kind. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, please delineate a general range, and we are ready to deal with it. Material."
"Is that so, then software and hardware related things." This time the answer was succinct.
Jonathan couldn't speak for a while, and after a few seconds, he seemed to resign his head and nodded, "I will send the relevant project plans to your hotel tomorrow, and after you have selected the project, we will send someone to get it from those companies. Contact to discuss further investment matters.”
Of course, Chen Yuanming has no objection to this answer. But the next day, when he saw mountains of data boxes piled up in his guest room, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. He is selfish, and wants to take advantage of his foresight to select companies or projects that may be profitable in the future, but it is definitely not like this, which is full of seven large cardboard boxes and piled with project agreements. The power of popularity is really endless...
However, even though the task was more difficult than he imagined, Chen Yuanming still did not flinch, but started to read one by one. Now what he wants to do is something like picking up leaks in the antique street, and there is no way to escape from the massive selection. But reading these strange project plans one by one is really a headache. Most of these little guys who sent them to plan only have passion and dreams. They have no mature plans, no specific business goals, or even lack of vision for the future, and they live entirely for the sake of interest. Even though there are tons of great ideas here, the bad, grotesque way of describing it is hard to believe.
It took Chen Yuanming three days to find 3 or 4 items that might come in handy from this pile of plans, just like rummaging for gold mines in a rubbish heap. One is about the idea of computer universal serial line. In layman's terms, it is specializing in sB interface planning. One is an instant messaging software similar to the low-level version of ICQ, but the current structure is very sloppy, has not really taken shape, and can only operate in a short distance under the Ds system. The other two are rough programming, but both are based on the current C language, which is still very trendy, and have a certain degree of compatibility.
Except for the sB interface project, these three plans have not even established a complete prototype, so naturally they will not be favored by any investors. SB itself requires several major computer manufacturers to jointly agree and jointly formulate standardized interfaces, and individual small teams cannot succeed. However, based on the prospects of these ideas, Chen Yuanming was still willing to give it a try, and finally kept them all.
The seven boxes of documents were turned slowly, but they would eventually be finished. When I saw the last box and wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, a strange folder suddenly appeared in front of Chen Yuanming. It was a specially tailored large notepad with a very decorative cover. The style font is marked with the words "Silicon and Nerve Key", and next to it are hand-painted images of three short and stout Vikings.
Chen Yuanming frowned, patiently opened the binder, and saw a brief introduction about the game, about the company's current progress in the development of "Lost Vikings", the revenue from the development of two previous games, and the idea of the next game. . The whole project is full of similar artists and technocrats. As a project, it can be said to be a complete failure, but as a game introduction, it is somewhat interesting. However, this year PC games have not yet begun to emerge, and the possibility of this project being appreciated is very small.
However, when turning to the end of the page, Chen Yuanming's eyes suddenly widened. The next few pages describe a real-time strategy game in the next game plan, without too much detail. The outline of the story is probably about the battle between humans and orcs. A rough character design sketch. It's just that at the end of that paragraph, a less eye-catching predetermined name was added: World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft? ! With a bang, Chen Yuanming jumped up from the sofa, that World of Warcraft? ! !
He hurriedly turned the planning book back to the cover again, staring at the extremely weird company name, Chen Yuanming grinned, if it is, you will know if you see it with your own eyes!
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