Go to the unknown world without fear! This quote from the American poet Longfellow has become the motto of many entrepreneurs who are curious about the world and have a spirit of continuous exploration, who have independent thinking, can discover unique value models, and strive to make it visible, audible, and perceptible.
On September 11th, the first "x-plan" I&T Superman Graduation Roadshow and the Greater Bay Area I&T Talent Development High-level Forum were held in Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, hosted by the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Foundation, and 21 outstanding entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and the Mainland officially graduated as the first batch of "entrepreneurial hipsters". Mr. Feng Dagang, President of 36Kr, attended the event as a representative of the co-organizers and presided over the Greater Bay Area I&T Talent Youth Forum, sharing their venture capital experience with outstanding representatives in the field of I&T.
Feng Dagang said that entrepreneurship will not be a smooth road, there will be a lot of physical and mental tests, "you may be facing the wind, but also face the big waves after the wind stops; you may have found a future problem, but before the demand is released, you have to silently survive all kinds of doubts and self-doubt." In the face of exhaustion, confusion, helplessness, loneliness... These entrepreneurs have to experience the challenges, in addition to the need for a firm and strong heart, but also need to be pulled by "people who come over" at critical times.
Hong Kong Science and Technology Park is an important incubator for I&T projects in Hong Kong, and its Head of Entrepreneurship Incubation Programme, Mr. Mok Wai-hsien, has witnessed the growth of many projects and knows how entrepreneurs can provide effective help and support when they encounter challenges and bottlenecks in the entrepreneurial process. Mo Weixuan said that the demand for start-ups is from the source of funds, capital institutions, business markets, talent training, office space, encourage entrepreneurship and other directions, the current fund is not the main problem plaguing Hong Kong entrepreneurs, the support for the development of I&T talents should also give more attention.
As a representative of entrepreneurs, Chen Jinglun, representative of x-plan students and co-founder and CEO of Farseer Insight Technology, also shared some of his experiences in the process of starting a business. Chen Jinglun said, "Many things on the road to entrepreneurship to return to demand, different stages of everyone's attention to different things, after the amount of foundation, you may have to think about how to better build the team, according to user needs, development planning to do subtraction of business, the entire development speed is needed to be constantly revised, adjusted." ”
It should be noted that now not only the Greater Bay Area, more and more Hong Kong youth have also come to Beijing, Shanghai and other mainland cities to start a business, Qianfang qfpay co-founder and CEO Li Yinghao is the representative of the early north entrepreneurship, when talking about the opportunities and challenges of starting a business in the north, Li Yinghao said that when he first went to Beijing to start a business, some investors had suggested that he find a local partner to understand the local area better, and the early experience of starting a business in the north did bring him a lot of opportunities. But now many industries are in the state of fierce competition in the Red Sea, at this time the Greater Bay Area provides a good development platform for start-up enterprises, not only local policies, industrial advantages, but also an important window to help many enterprises go global.
Feng Dagang said that although the industry is different, the experience is different, and the direction is different, entrepreneurs always have some commonalities, some experiences and feelings that can be shared with each other, and there will also be some common demands of entrepreneurs, which need more attention and support from relevant parties. This requires the multi-party cooperation and support of various institutions in the innovation and technology ecosystem such as officials, industry, academia, research and media to create a talent-friendly venture capital environment.
In the discussion on "what kind of urban environment is most attractive to I&T talents", Shang Hailong, president of SenseTime Hong Kong, said that Hong Kong should not only welcome international capital, but also welcome international talents, and a city should not only praise success, but also tolerate failure, and provide more possible scenarios for makers' products and services. Chen Kuan, founder and CEO of Speculative Technology, said that demand and talent are factors that entrepreneurs are very concerned about, and Hong Kong has a good combination with the international market, "the products or models made in Hong Kong can be quickly landed in other countries or regions close to Hong Kong, thereby enhancing Hong Kong's attractiveness to entrepreneurs."
36Kr has also been committed to helping high-quality projects find the most suitable entrepreneurial soil and effectively docking the landing of industrial projects. A few days ago, 36Kr has just helped the project of the excellent logistics capacity trading platform to land in Xiuzhou National High-tech Zone, promoting in-depth cooperation between the two sides at multiple levels such as technology, resources and markets, with a total investment of 500 million yuan.
The entrepreneurship support event invited many guests from politics, business, academia, research and investment, including Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Leung Chun-ying, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam, Sequoia Capital's Global Managing Partner Shen Nanpeng, Professor Li Zexiang of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, to witness the development vitality of entrepreneurial projects in the Greater Bay Area, and the relevant parties also jointly launched the "Greater Bay Area Innovation and Technology Talents 'Hand in Hand' Support Program", which will join hands to give more support to high-quality venture capital projects in the future.