The first article, Huang Jianxiang Venture, was invested by 9.5 million yuan to promote football training O2O products.
While the stars are keen to invest in Internet start-up companies, Huang Jianxiang, a football commentator, has embarked on the road of hard work, devoted himself to the tide of Internet start-up, and used his own resources to launch the O2O product of youth football training "Move Football", and received 9.5 million yuan of angel investment.
This venture, Huang Jianxiang "is not alone", and several of his business partners also love football. One is Mr. Bai Qiang, who started playing football in college for more than 30 years and won the North American Chinese Football League. He is also a veteran of the Internet for 20 years. He served as CTO of UniView Technology Co Corp and vice president of Iflytek. The other is the star Sneijder, the active number of the Dutch national team 10.
Bai Qiang is the same age as Huang Jianxiang. They often exchange football on WeChat and scold each other which team is worse. They all like the German team. At the end of last year, Bai Qiang and Huang Jianxiang met in a cafe. Huang Jianxiang said that there are some entrepreneurial opportunities in sports, and he wants to use an O2O way to collect online education resources. For example, if you want to play football, you need to find a team, a venue, an opponent and a coach. In short, it is the Uber of sports.
Bai Qiang disagreed at first. He has played football for so many years that it is impossible to hire any coach. The team leader has to take care of the opponents in the venue. He also thinks that taxi matching is very simple, just from point A to point B, and the movement is very complicated. Some people want to make friends, some people want to be healthy, and some people just like it.
But Huang Jianxiang persuaded him at the macro level. "The sports industry is bound to break out and become a part of life, I admit it. At the same time, in China, mass sports does not have a well-known brand. Is it a super league? Not counting. " I don't know exactly how to do it. "Tie your shoelaces while running. If Iflytek had to figure out how to use his voice, there would be no Iflytek. "
So in 20041October 23rd, 20 165438 company was formally established, and it was named Sports. On April 2 1 this year, their first entrepreneurial project "Let's Move Football" was officially released in Beijing. It is understood that "Moving Football" has received an angel investment of 9.5 million yuan.
"Moving Football" is an application on WeChat platform. Its main functions are: on the one hand, football fans who are interested in teaching their children to play football in their spare time can apply on the platform, and after receiving professional training provided by the mobile bar for free, they can be upgraded to football players and teach at their posts nearby; On the other hand, parents who are interested in letting their children experience the football initiation course can choose the weekly football experience course nearby on the platform and sign up for it at a lower cost.
In terms of division of labor, Huang Jianxiang is mainly responsible for football resource development and brand promotion, Bai Qiang as CEO is mainly responsible for product building and daily operation management, and Sneijder is responsible for introducing the football enlightenment training methods used by cruyff system and Ajax club to seek international cooperation. What they want to do in the future is to become the first brand of mass sports in China and Uber. Every time he talks about ideas, Huang Jianxiang always holds Bai Qiang's hand excitedly: Laobai, this thing is stronger than the two of us put together all our lives.
Huang Jianxiang said that the project he really wants to do is "Move Sports", and "Move Football" is just one function of "Move Sports". In his view, "Sports" should be a sports social media similar to WeChat and Weibo.
Huang Jianxiang: Actually, people from all walks of life in the sports industry need to register to form a relatively rich ecological circle. It's early days, just like when Weibo and WeChat started. When there are few species in the ecosystem, you will feel as if there is no interaction and no social interaction. However, if this process can be accelerated, it will be like an open sports version of WeChat, or Didi taxi, or other social software, such as Momo.
According to Huang Jianxiang's plan, "Let's Move Football" is only a primary product. In the future, all the functions will be integrated into an APP product, and services such as finding venues, finding opponents, finding teammates and finding sparring partners will be provided through mobile internet plus. For Huang Jianxiang, it is the most natural thing to do "exercise" from football.
Huang Jianxiang: Starting from the football project, it's easier for me to make a thorough and solid work and make a successful model or sample.
Huang Jianxiang: There are many retired players and students who graduated from sports colleges. Their current jobs may have nothing to do with sports. They are useful, but because they may not work in the education system or sports system, it may be the most reasonable to coordinate these non-governmental forces by means of the Internet. Because only the Internet can choose and realize wireless social interaction, and it is impossible for any administrative department to reorganize these people who have been scattered outside the education and sports system and can teach football, because people already have their own jobs!
According to Bai Qiang, another founder of bar sports, they introduced the cruyff system and the football initiation training method used by Ajax Club from the Netherlands, which closely fit the characteristics of 4- 12-year-old children in China and specially created a set of bar football training plan, which will become the main content of pre-job training for bar football experts.
But in Huang Jianxiang's view, the work of such offline entities is not the focus of his future work. He said that unlike many educational O2O products, mobile sports will not be the next step online. All he has to do is build a platform.
Huang Jianxiang: All the offline entities we want to do have become a part of our ecological circle, making this Internet ecological circle more and more perfect and rich, and achieving a benign ecological balance. We don't want to do things that are pushed offline step by step. What we want is that all people in the sports industry need a dedicated social platform to help them find each other, and Weibo WeChat can't play this role now.
"O2O in public comment mode only tells me that there are several Sichuan restaurants in the attachment, but it won't let Sichuan restaurants know how many people love Sichuan food nearby. We will realize two-way interaction and make the information more equal." Huang Jianxiang said. "We hope to build such a platform to connect potential football resources such as teachers and stadiums with people who want to participate in football, and truly mobilize the football resources of the whole society in China through a low-cost user experience, and it is the most reasonable way to coordinate these resources with the network."
After 80' s, the Shanghai girl became an APP trader and attracted millions of venture capitalists.
After 80s, she has the experience of 70s, but she plays with the pan-quadratic expression of 90s. The signature of WeChat is a "big expression". She, a former schoolmaster, failed in the college entrance examination, but she was fortunate enough to be a high-paying Japanese company, an article "whatmattersyouthemost? What's the most important thing for you? The MBA application started the "frequency conversion" of her career until she embarked on the road of entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Expression me, Shanghai sister Ding Yan.
Start a business dream
As soon as I graduated from college, my monthly salary was 30 thousand
Ding Yan, 198 1 born, went to primary school at the age of 5, and was the youngest in the same grade at university. 200 1 graduation season, by chance, I first met Sony of Japan to recruit fresh graduates outside the mainland, when Sony was in its heyday. Ding Yan just handed in her resume, but I didn't expect to be accepted. That year, Ding Yan 19 years old, flew to work in Sony, Japan. "At that time, the monthly salary was equivalent to RMB30,000."
After working for Sony in Japan for six years, Ding Meng came up with the idea of going to the United States to study for an MBA. I remember that Stanford MBA only needs to write an article called "whatmattersyouthemost? What's the most important thing for you? ) "Apply for an article.
At that time, I was in a confused period of my career. Ding Yan wrote this English article for more than a month. "Later, I felt that I wanted to do consulting work after finishing my MBA, but looking back, since this direction was determined a few years later, why not start now?" Ding Yan gave up studying. 20 1 1, Ding Yan began to contact the mobile Internet plus. One day, the company set up a joint venture company and found Ding Yan, hoping that she could be the vice president of the joint venture company in China. Although the project finally failed, Dan Teyan's entrepreneurial dream was inspired.
Resign and start a business
The former boss became a member of the team.
Back in Tokyo, Ding Yan's boss Xiaoping invited her to dinner. When we met, the first thing I said was, "I came to resign from you." Ding Yan flew back to Beijing the next day, and she and her original team started a business project. Off-topic: Xiaoping Xin, the boss of that year, also joined Ding Yan's team last year as the Japanese marketing director and was one of the company's four overseas special forces.
At the end of 20 1 1, there were more than 20 people who went out alone with Ding Yan. They founded "apehills" company as a secondary development platform for mobile Internet software, and developed more than 20 apps a year, mainly for the Japanese market. Ding Yan's English learning app rushed to the first place in the Japanese classified app list as soon as it was launched. At that time, an app called "Xiang Yan Hua" was also developed, mainly to move street painters to the Internet, which was considered to have been involved in the O2O field very early.
However, Ding Yan said: "At that time, the team was very naive, developed a large number of products, and hoped to do which one. Many apps were on the list and looked very happy. However, there was no careful planning for the business model and how to make money at that time. Now that I think about it, app is actually on the list, but it is only the beginning of entrepreneurship. "
Move south to Shanghai
What I like is the atmosphere of Shanghai.
Ding Yan returned to her hometown of Shanghai on 20 13 after starting a business in Beijing for two years. On July 20 13, Ding Yan established Shanghai Siyan Painting Company.
Ding Yan said: "Before the establishment of the company, we made a difficult choice, whether to do education or painting. Education has a foundation in Japan, and the number of app users exceeds 1 10,000; Although there are only hundreds of thousands of users in the painting app, the growth curve is very beautiful, and about 3% are paying users. "
At that time, the market of cmnet was booming. On 20 13 in China, WeChat started. Ding Yan was very optimistic about the expression of WeChat and finally decided to paint.
On 20 13 and 10, Ding Yan received millions of dollars in venture capital from Beijing Zhenge Fund, Tianjin Yingnuo Venture Capital and Shanghai Relay Angel Venture Capital, which made Ding Yan's company have the first angel investment.
Expression decryption
An expression costs 299 yuan
At the end of 20 13, Ding Yan's team launched "Facial Expression Customization" on WeChat, which is an attempt in China market, and can help China users customize their avatars and emotional expressions, with a charge of 299 yuan.
"After several months, I have accumulated 2,000 users who are willing to pay, accounting for 2%." Ding Yan was very happy to see this, and found that after determining an avatar, users wanted to customize more dynamic expressions, not just emotions.
20/kloc-in March, 2004, the company launched a new function "My mm Show", where users can update dynamic expressions every week. After doing it for dozens of weeks, Ding Yan found that almost 100% of the 2000 paying users updated it every week, and was also inspired. Paying users are at the top of the pyramid, and some users may be blocked out because they are too expensive. The next step is to try to lower the threshold for users to obtain expressions and images.
Make an APP that screams after 90.
"Expression is just the need for chatting after 90." Ding Yan said that in June last year, the emoji me was separated from the Yan painting app and developed as an independent app, which was more targeted at the China market. One of the functions of this application is to let users spell their facial features and expressions. Ding Yan said that the expression me should be an app that makes the post-90s scream.
"The magic man and face will fire for a period of time because they have not formed their own closed loop, so they don't fire. When it's done, there's no more. In fact, users need to change their avatars frequently, and the demand for expressions is endless. "
The game should also have expressions.
In March of this year, the emoji me just launched a new function, that is, users can get a Meng Meng avatar of the emoji Me by taking photos with their mobile phones. The technology or logic behind such a simple function involves face recognition, feature capture, artistic generation and emotional change.
From 2065438 to February 2004, emoji won millions of dollars in venture capital from Shanghai Pusoft Huizhi and Beisoft Angel, which was regarded as a round of financing. By the end of March, 2065438+2005, my app had been downloaded more than 2 million times, with more than 1 10,000 users.
A few years ago, the throne of the world's youngest billionaire was always held by Facebook founder Mark? Zuckerberg monopolizes. However, this year, this title changed hands, Snapchat founder Evan? Spigel is in the bag. Snapchat is a mobile communication software, which features that messages will be automatically burned after 10 seconds, leaving no record. The software can also share messages, photos and videos, and the main users are mostly young people in Europe and America.
Reject Zuckerberg and change his title.
Recently, Snapchat received an investment from Yahoo, and its valuation was raised to $6543.8+$00 billion. This round of financing is not over yet, and Snapchat is still seeking investment from other investors. Previously, Snapchat had held financing negotiations with Alibaba, and this summer, it signed a financing agreement with the venture capital company KPCB.
Its founder, Spigel, with a net worth of/kloc-0.5 billion dollars, is the youngest billionaire in the new world, only 24 years old. Similar to the initial stage of Facebook, Snapchat photo sharing application founded by Spigel is also free and does not generate income, but its income-generating prospects and space are enough to attract the investment of many investors. As the son of a lawyer and his wife, Spigel was born into a powerful family, but now, the 24-year-old boy has turned down Mark? Zuckerberg is remembered by people.
Two years after graduating from Stanford University, the co-founder of Snapchat has reached the peak of many people's dreams, and the business empire he founded has received billions of dollars worth of takeover offers. It is reported that Facebook used $3 billion in cash to acquire Snapchat, but it was rejected.
Just a few months ago, the photo and video sharing application in burn after reading was valued at less than $800 million. The service sends 400 million messages every day, which is very popular among teenagers. Although they are still secretive about the specific number of users, in any case, sober venture capitalists have paid great attention to the company and given huge financial support, eager to cultivate the next Faceboook. So Spigel doesn't have to worry about the future development of the company in the short term.
No matter what else he did, the 24-year-old boy will always be remembered for rejecting Zuckerberg. No matter what the original intention is, for a young man, it really shows great confidence. However, if you are surprised, it only means that you don't know Spigel yet. "He is confident in his creativity, even a little stubborn." Leo, he is Spigel's classmate at Crossroads College of Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, California? Said there was. And when I grew up, Spigel never wavered in this belief, even if he was bold.
My childhood life was superior, and later I rebelled and loved luxury cars.
Spigel was born on1June 4, 990. His parents are lawyers. He grew up in a powerful family, and his mother Melissa was the youngest female graduate in the history of Harvard Law School. But when Spigel was born, she resolutely resigned as a partner in her law firm and became a full-time mother. Spigel's father, John, is also a partner in a famous law firm, so his income is enough to support his family to live a comfortable life. Their family lives in a wealthy area in western Los Angeles, and their house is worth $4.6 million.
Because of their well-off family, Spigel and his two sisters, Lauren and Caroline, not only have food and clothing, but also travel a lot since childhood. However, they are not playboys, but often do a lot of volunteer work. Generally speaking, Spigel has grown into an adaptable, ambitious and amiable young man.
But no one is perfect. When he grew up, Spigel was rebellious, often extravagant and quarreled with his father.
"You may not like my love for some things, such as cars. But don't forget how much you love Bose headphones. " Spigel said in a letter to his father on February 12, 2008. That year, he 17 years old.
At that time, Spigel wanted his family to buy him a BMW 535i, but his family was in turmoil at that time: his parents had ended their marriage for nearly 20 years. At first, Spigel chose to live with his father. They bought a house worth $4.25 million near his mother's old house. Old Spigel completely gave his son the right to decorate his new home, but at the same time he also appointed a professional GregGrande decoration company and arranged friends to be designers.
Spigel bought a big white double bed for his room, equipped with Venetian wallpaper, many bookshelves, top-class computers, two beautifully designed chairs and a customized cupboard. He also designed a home * in the basement, with a huge 8-foot screen that can be remotely controlled directly from his bedroom.
Like many young people, Evan? Spigel is also obsessed with luxury cars. But unlike many young people, he can still afford a luxury car.
However, when 17-year-old Spigel overdrawn his credit card many times and even wanted to spend $75,000 on a BMW 535i, his generous father couldn't bear it. My father bought him a new 2006 Cadillac Escalade for $56,000. But Spigel wants a smaller car because he "often drives in the city". These contents can be found in Spigel's parents' divorce documents.
At that time, Spigel Sr. gave Spigel Jr. a weekly allowance of $250. In addition to the new car, George W. Spigel also urged his father to give him $65,438+0,992 a month for car maintenance, meals, entertainment and clothes. He also wants a $2,000 "emergency fund" because "life is always full of unpredictable expenses".
As a result, Spigel didn't get what he wanted, and a fierce quarrel broke out with his father. Finally, he chose to move back to live with his mother. A few days later, his mother rented him a BMW of his dreams.
However, Spigel's studies have not been affected at all-even though he received a speeding ticket just after driving a BMW. His 10 English teacher recalled that Spigel's academic performance was first-class, and he even wrote an article about the novel teaching methods in Shikukou Arts and Sciences School, which won the appreciation of the teachers.
His efforts also paid off: he was finally admitted to Stanford University. Spigel was on vacation in Prague when he learned that he had been admitted.
Snapchat is the birth of going back and forth.
"Stanford's history has long been deeply branded with entrepreneurship. We have all heard the story of young white people dropping out of school to pursue their dreams. The desire for dreams made him experience the ups and downs of his life. He refused to be a screw in the machine. This romantic business fairy tale permeates the entire Stanford culture. "
These words came from Spigel, who told the audience at a Stanford business women's conference on April 7, 20 13: "This made me feel the charm of starting a business again. This allows me to combine my life with my work. My dream is far greater than accumulating wealth and must be realized by integrating into the consumer society and starting a business. "
Actually, long before I met Reggie? Brown and Bobby? Before Murphy, even before entering Stanford, Spigel's entrepreneurial dream had already begun.
At least when he was a teenager. In the summer of 2005, Spigel, aged 15, attended two continuing education courses in Otis College of Art and Design. One of the graphic design courses left a deep impression on him.
"Her design class uses practical methods to teach design thinking, which is revolutionary for students like me." Spigel later recommended mirka, who was teaching him at that time, on LinkedIn? Professor Brockheim said, "I will never forget the printing experiments we conducted in his class and the time we spent in the printing laboratory."
Spigel also went to the surrounding communities to sell advertisements to enterprises when he was working in the school newspaper of Crossroads Arts and Sciences School. At that time, the tutor said that although this was part of the homework of journalism students, Spigel's actual sales performance far exceeded his goal, and even taught other children how to ask adults for money.
In the third year of high school, Spigel people decided to work for Red Bull. "I like this brand and their lifestyle. I'm addicted to that wine, so I have to be one of them. " He said in a speech in April of 20 13, "So I found a friend who knew Red Bull employees and asked him to help me find a job. I repeatedly begged him that we are willing to do anything for Red Bull. "
Spigel's mother said that his unpaid internship helped Spigel learn marketing, and he also participated in many computer and graphic design projects. Spigel's own statement is naive: "I learned how to get together and I had a good time."
The summer before he went to college, he took classes in art center college of design, Pasadena. But after entering Stanford, Spigel encountered a conflict of interest. He works as a paid intern in a biomedical company. Later, he wanted to be a teacher, so he went to Cape Town, South Africa to teach students how to find a job.
Spigel was interested in entrepreneurship and technology for the first time, which was attributed to his relationship with Scott, the founder of Intuit. Cook conference. He attended a class in Stanford Business School on the recommendation of relatives and friends. It is said that Spigel begged Cook to give him a job, and the other party agreed. So, together with Cook and an engineer, he started a project called TxtWeb, which can get information through the Internet and send it to Indians who can't access broadband networks by SMS.
Since then, Spigel and Murphy of KappaSigma Brotherhood co-founded FutureFreshman to teach students, parents and counselors how to apply for universities. But Spigel said that no one used the service except his parents.
In the spring of 20 1 1, a phone call changed Spigel's life. Spigel discussed with Murphy on the phone, hoping to turn FutureFreshman into a photo sharing service of "burn after reading".
Thus, Snapchat was born.
Life is unfair. Business partners were swept out of the house.
The creation process of Snapchat is actually more complicated, and there is Brown's participation. This KappaSigma fraternity member came up with the idea of "burn after reading".
Brown told Spigel the idea, so Spigel found Murphy to write the code together. The three men then co-founded Snapchat in the summer of 20 1 1. This product originally named Picaboo was released in July, 20 1 1. Brown is an English major and doesn't know how to program. He can only be responsible for marketing and patent application.
According to Brown's own account, he was kicked out of the house a month later. Now, he is suing investors of Spigel, Murphy and Snapchat, hoping to get shares in the company. Brown said that Snapchat's logo and logo were designed by him.
But as Spigel said, life is unfair.
Just two years after the app was released, Spigel and Murphy moved Snapchat, which has 28 employees, to Venice, California, becoming one of the companies concerned by Silicon Valley, with a valuation of billions of dollars. Although the company did not disclose specific data, the Pew Research Center estimated that about 9% of adult mobile phone users in the United States use this service. For a product that has just been online for two years, this is indeed a remarkable achievement, not to mention that it has not included the most popular young users of Snapchat.
The tension between Spigel and his father has eased. Obviously, there is no need to bear the pressure of profligacy. He moved back to the house where he fell out with his father six years ago because he wanted to increase his pocket money. Although he lives with his father, Spigel is still the envy of people around him, not only because he is a billionaire, but also because of American country singer Taylor? Swift was revealed to be dating Spigel.
Snapchat's luck may be as fleeting as the service it provides, but judging from Spiegel's 24-year life experience, this star CEO from a wealthy family is really lucky.
Even without this luck, I believe he will still have a good life. "I am a well-educated young white man. I am very, very lucky. " He said in April this year, "But life is unfair. Since life is unfair, the key lies not in hard work, but in learning to manipulate the system. "
For ambitious Spigel, both Facebook and Google are old. The most valuable thing about Snapchat is that its burn after reading function allows post-90s and post-00s to find a platform to release themselves. To put it bluntly, young and rebellious nature makes him and his company have endless possibilities in the future.