Li, Lu Xiaobo and Li Maoqing are outstanding among college entrepreneurs. Today, the companies they founded are doing very well. But at the beginning of their business, they also encountered the embarrassment that "a clever woman can't cook without rice". Working and accumulating, striving for venture capital, and applying for small secured loans, they walked out of financial difficulties in different ways and broke out of their own world-
Li: After working for 4 years, I gradually accumulated venture capital.
"When I was in college, I had the idea of starting a business. I haven't been idle for four years in college. I used my spare time to shoot wedding documentaries and accumulated 50,000 yuan of venture capital in four years. " On August 24th, Director Li of Hebei University said with a smile. At the beginning of the year, he founded the "Cultural Communication Service Center of Carving Insect Tales", mainly engaged in the production of advertising films and wedding albums. At present, the company's operation has been on the right track, and has established a cooperative relationship with provincial TV stations. His personal monthly income has reached more than 10 thousand yuan.
"When I was a freshman, I made a wedding album for the couple, and the income of one session was probably 150 yuan." I'm a little embarrassed to recall Li's hard work at school. "At that time, I had to go to the market to find customers, take a wedding, and edit later. It's hard, but it's also very fulfilling. Every day I feel closer to the goal of starting a business. "
In Li's view, four years' work experience in university not only raised venture capital for him, but also improved his personal ability and accumulated social resources and experience. "It is suggested that college students should not blindly start businesses. They can work at school or get employment first. This can not only raise venture capital, but also accumulate experience and resources. " Li Xiang suggested.
Lv Xiaobo: "Practical" Planning Win Venture Capital
Lv Xiaobo, a student of Grade 06 in Shijiazhuang Vocational and Technical College, and his classmates opened the "car home" automobile maintenance center in April this year, which has become a minor celebrity. In a few months, the maintenance center can provide maintenance services for more than 100 vehicles per week at most.
"At the beginning of our business, capital was indeed the biggest problem we faced." On August 23, Lv Xiaobo said in an interview: "You are too old to rely entirely on your parents. With the help of the teacher, we thought of applying for a venture capital fund from the school. "
In order to win the school's venture capital, it is necessary to stand out among the many students who apply for funds through the review and the audit of the project monitoring expert group. Therefore, Lu Xiaobo began to get busy-running the market, doing research and writing business plans.
"During that time, we stood on the side of the road almost every day, eating while counting cars." Lv Xiaobo said. In this way, Lu Xiaobo and his classmates made detailed statistics on the number of cars around the school and the maintenance needs of car owners, collected service opinions on the school website, fully grasped the situation of the school car maintenance market, and finally obtained a venture fund of 30,000 yuan with accurate data and market analysis.
The author found that many universities in Hebei University, Yanshan University and other provinces have policies to provide college students with venture capital. It is an efficient and feasible way to raise the "first bucket of money" for starting a business by winning venture funds. But at the same time, it also requires entrepreneurs to have enough strength to stand out from many applicants. In the words of Lv Xiaobo, "opportunities are only given to those who are prepared, and' down-to-earth' planning is the key to seize opportunities".
Li Maoqing: Small secured loans help enterprises break through the bottleneck.
"I put down the cultural communication company and set up the arc advisory group", which is a sentence in Li Maoqing's blog article "Who can join hands with me to realize my dream". "arc Advisory Group is a new project of the company, located in enterprise hospitals, providing consultation and diagnosis for the operation of small and medium-sized enterprises. My main energy now is on this. " On August 24th, Li Maoqing said in an interview.
In the eyes of many people, Li Maoqing is the best among college entrepreneurs. At the age of 25, he has grown from a junior college student who has just started a business to an entrepreneurial expert with multiple roles. The aura of executive director of Xingtianxia Culture Communication Co., Ltd., director of the Provincial Employment Promotion Association, and special experts of the Provincial Labor and Employment Service Bureau did not satisfy him. Instead, he chose to start a business.
When starting a business for the first time, Li Maoqing accumulated venture capital by working. For the second time, Li Maoqing chose to apply for a small secured loan. "A good entrepreneur should be good at using all kinds of capital conditions," said Li Maoqing. "In 2009, I went to the Provincial Labor and Employment Service Bureau for consultation and applied for a loan of 50,000 yuan. The provincial small secured loan management center provided me with a guarantee. " With a small secured loan, Li Maoqing quickly built supporting facilities for the new project and quickly opened the provincial capital market. At present, arc Consulting Group has long-term cooperative customers such as White Group, the provincial capital.
"Many people think that the threshold for applying for a loan is a bit high, but I think it is necessary." Li Maoqing said, "For entrepreneurs, applying for a loan is risky after all. Entrepreneurs must first recognize their ability to repay loans, so as to improve the success rate of applying for loans. "
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