Li Chaoren play with LED bulb difficult to drive Hongkong entrepreneurial road

"This year, in the end there is no one willing to be superman? "Li Jiacheng's business partner and confidant, Zhou Kaixuan, tells us that the answer is no," no one wants to be a hero this year. "

Over the past few decades, Mr. Li Jiacheng has been called "Li Chaoren", is the Chinese entrepreneurs, including the Chinese community in Hongkong. In recent years, however, the entrepreneurial spirit he represents has been challenged in Hongkong.

In fact, the entrepreneurial spirit of Hongkong ten years ago on the downhill. Chinese University Hong Kong Research Report on entrepreneurship in Hongkong found that the level of entrepreneurship unexpectedly low in Hongkong.

In 2002, covering 54 countries and regions worldwide "gem" international research shows that Hongkong's entrepreneurial activity penetration rate of only 3.4% of the adult population, global entrepreneurship is one of the lowest rates of regions and countries.

Even after the Hongkong ushered in the free line to bring the era of retail prosperity, entrepreneurial activity in the past ten years has not improved significantly. In 2009, the results of the study said that only 3.6% of adult residents in Hongkong in the early stages of entrepreneurial activity, lower than the United States of the United States, more than 18.8% of the mainland's entrepreneurial population level of 8%.

Li Jiacheng played with Nanoleaf company developed LED bulbs

A piece of Li Jiacheng's big jigsaw puzzle

At this point, the three young people from Canada are writing their entrepreneurial story, and Hongkong is only a passing bridge.

Nanoleaf (nano grid limited) was founded by three University of Toronto graduates, the invention of the world's most energy-efficient LED bulbs. The energy-saving LED lamp manufacturing company, last year won the Li Jiacheng and Zhou Kaixuan's favor, Li Jiachengqi became the VCs harbor investment (Horizons Ventures) only a Hongkong company has so far invested.

"Mr. Li and Solina (Zhou Kaixuan) are our best salesman. Nanoleaf founder and chief operating officer of Yan Sicheng said, "we are a company registered in Hongkong, but we are from Canada, Toronto, headquarters is located in Shenzhen, to be closer to the supply chain, understand the market information. "

As director of the Li Jiacheng foundation, the founder of Victoria harbor investment, Zhou triumph for the first time high-profile public appearances. In May this year, she took seven science and technology entrepreneurship projects in Beijing, Xi'an, Suzhou and Guangzhou, called the technology clip exhibition roadshow.

These seven science and technology entrepreneurship projects involving food, agriculture, energy, environmental governance, bio engineering, medical and big data and other fields, selected from the Victoria Harbor Investment in 57 projects. Victoria harbor investment is the flagship of venture capital venture capital Li Jiacheng, the cast of enterprises mainly from Israel and the United States, while Hongkong is only Nanoleaf can be regarded as an example.

Li Jiacheng's investment in the light bulb company, as well as in a media visit to play with the unique shape of the bulb, so that Nanoleaf overnight. Recently they once again raise the funds through the public to raise the brightness of the new site to adjust the brightness of the Internet, within 90 minutes to reach $300 thousand fund-raising target.

At present, the lowest price of Nanoleaf bulbs up to $35, a month to produce about 5000 bulbs, shipping time at least 60 days. Now the company is building a fully automated production line in Dongguan, hoping to lower prices.

Giants support small start-up companies, the profitability of the latter is not too much value. We were lucky enough to do the right thing at the right time. "31 year old Yan Si said," nobody wants to invest in small start-up companies, Mr Li and Solina have different views on the world, they learn about the latest technology, want to change the world, and we are just that they in a big puzzle. "

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