Liu Chengcheng's resume.

Liu Chengcheng, 1988 was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, and he was obsessed with the novelty in the high-tech field of the Internet since he was a child.

In 2005, 17 years old, still a sophomore, wanted to start a business in Zhongguancun with two classmates. Unfortunately, the night before going to Beijing, the escape plan leaked out and was caught by the teacher in the dormitory. "At that time, IT and the Internet had just started in China. My deskmate was crazy at that time. He can write some code. I also learned C language and started to write code. Learn to learn and you will feel like an ox. At that time, many companies in Zhongguancun were on fire. In 2007, I read Ling Zhijun's book "China New Revolution" (about the history of IT development in China with Zhongguancun as the background), which was very encouraging. " Liu Chengcheng said, "I didn't think much about starting a business at that time, but I liked new things and unique companies. The business I want to do is not to make money in restaurants, but to do things that can be created. "

Later, he was admitted to the programming major of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, but his impatience with the status quo rekindled his entrepreneurial passion. First, I started a group buying website with some friends, but I soon quit. Now the website has been closed. In his senior year, he founded 36Kr.

Regarding the strange name of 36Kr, Liu Chengcheng explained: "The name of 36Kr comes from the 36th element of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements' Kr' (chemical symbol is KR), and the legendary Krypton is the hometown of Superman." He thinks that people who can start a business are all people with super powers. "Especially when they are young, it is more important to toss and turn, and opportunities will only be obtained in the process of experience. People who can leave one step earlier will always have more market and competitive advantages than their imitators. "

After graduating from undergraduate course, Liu Chengcheng did not look for a job step by step like ordinary people, but chose to enter the Chinese Academy of Sciences for postgraduate study.

During his graduate studies, he focused on the operation of 36Kr. 20 1 1 This year, when various new applications broke out, 36Kr followed closely the reports of the world's cutting-edge scientific and technological products, which made domestic Internet entrepreneurs feel refreshed. The reporting principle of 36Kr is "products, no nonsense, no press releases and soft articles". The objective and fair report makes 36Kr's influence in the field of science and technology increase day by day, and becomes an important channel for Internet entrepreneurs and TMT investors to understand the development trend of the Internet and the frontier information of science and technology. However, Liu Chengcheng does not seem to be satisfied with this. On July 20 1 1, Liu Chengcheng set up a team of four people, all born after 1985, with no working experience in science and engineering, and Liu Chengcheng started to operate 36Kr full-time.

The original 36Kr, like many startups now, came out of the "residential office". Different from now, the entrepreneurial atmosphere of 20 1 1 is not so strong, because working in residential areas, 36Kr has been mistaken for a "liar company" many times. Liu Chengcheng once told an experience in the China Business Revelation program: "At the beginning of our business, we wanted to recruit a clerk, a girl who just graduated. When the appointed time came, the girl called and asked me in a very uncertain tone,' Hello, I walked into a community, did I find the wrong way?' . I told her that it was right and asked her to ask the specific location of passers-by. About 10 minutes later, we received a second call from this girl,' I decided not to go for an interview. My boyfriend says you are unreliable, maybe it's a pyramid scheme company.' We have experienced a lot of such things, and we all understand them. After all, there are not many' lunatics' like us. "

20 1 1 year 1 1 month, 36Kr received an angel investment of 1 10,000 yuan provided by Liu Chengcheng's brother Wang Xiao in Beihou. Wang Xiao is a member of the founding team of "Baidu Seven Musketeers". 20 10 officially left Baidu and later founded Jiuhe Venture Capital. Now focus on angel investment in the field of mobile Internet. In Liu Chengcheng's view, "Wang Xiao mainly took a fancy to our team and felt that the people in the team were more reliable and had ideas".

From 20 1 1 to 20 15, 36Kr and Liu Chengcheng have been "changing", but what remains unchanged is his persistence.

20 1 1 This year, when various new applications broke out, 36Kr followed closely the reports of the world's cutting-edge scientific and technological products, which made domestic Internet entrepreneurs feel refreshed. Liu Chengcheng believes that translation is not the key, but what is the key. For example, 36Kr first reported the voice message APP TalkBox, and then many domestic entrepreneurs began to pay attention to voice messages. Later, Liu Chengcheng and his team began to make original reports on domestic new Internet entrepreneurial projects to help them improve their exposure. "Say products, don't talk nonsense" has become a principle of 36Kr's report. 36Kr clearly stated: "No press releases, no soft articles."

For Liu Chengcheng, the media is used as a tool to attract traffic and build a brand image serving entrepreneurs, while the financing platform is open to submit business plans online. The basic model framework has been established, but Liu Chengcheng is not satisfied. In 20 13, he had the idea of being an incubator. First of all, this is a requirement put forward by many early entrepreneurs. Secondly, he also wants to establish a deeper relationship with entrepreneurial projects. At that time, incubators were everywhere in China, and Liu Chengcheng put forward the "no charge, no share" incubation model, which created a space for early entrepreneurial teams to concentrate on entrepreneurship.

In April of 20 14, 36Kr was officially launched in krypton space, and the incubation mode of "no charge, no share, three months for each period" was adopted to serve start-up enterprises, so as to integrate all kinds of start-up services for start-up companies and solve the problems of early start-up resources including office, legal affairs, industry and commerce, docking investors and so on. By the end of July, 20 15, Krypton Space had received more than 5,000 project registrations, and 72 projects were selected and successfully hatched. Up to now, a total of 70 projects have obtained venture capital, and the financing success rate is close to 100%. The average financing amount of the project is more than 8 million, and the total financing amount is 600 million. Among them, 60% of the projects have been invested by top venture capitalists in China 15. Krypton space has also been highly appreciated by leaders such as the State Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology. In April 20 15, krypton space expanded nationwide, and it is planned to expand to 20 cities in China. By September of 20 15, krypton space had settled in seven cities except Beijing: Suzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin and Hangzhou. In the next few years, Krypton Space will complete the goal of incubating 5,000 enterprises every year and gather the best entrepreneurs in the world.

"The incubator is not effective immediately, so it will be very tangled. I don't know if I am doing this right or wrong. " Liu Chengcheng told Southern Reporter in an interview that he was under the pressure of "public opinion" during that time, and it was not until the first incubation period of three months ended that the report card of 1 1 was handed over and the project of 12 was financed that the dispute was finally settled. Looking back now, he is still glad that he insisted at the beginning: "Although the incubator is not a necessary option for the entrepreneurial service platform, after doing it, he will find that it is more closely bound to the enterprise. I regard this as a kind of social value. If I make social value, I won't worry about having no commercial value. Many companies have only one person when they enter the incubator, and they have already recruited more than 20 people when they go out. "

During this period, Liu Chengcheng found that many entrepreneurs have financing needs, so he introduced some investors to entrepreneurs through personal relationships and recommended high-quality entrepreneurial projects to investors. However, the personal resources of Liu Chengcheng and 36Kr employees are limited after all. 2065438+In March 2005, 36Kr financing platform was launched. Liu Chengcheng said, "We let entrepreneurs and investors establish contact on the 36Kr financing platform. Many investors also found us and asked us to introduce the project. We are equivalent to the upstream of investment institutions and are project suppliers. We charge a certain fee according to different companies and different service stages, but it is not high. " By the end of August, 20 15, more than 33,000 startup companies had gathered on the 36Kr financing platform, and more than 4,400 financing companies were being listed, which almost monopolized the entire TMT entrepreneurial field. Only in the first half of 20 15, nearly 100 enterprises were helped to complete financing.

20 15 June15, 36Kr private equity investment platform (z.36Kr.com) was launched. This is a "small crowdfunding" equity investment platform with the best quality projects in China. Through innovative modes such as lead investment+follow investment and old stock issuance, we will help entrepreneurs maximize financing and provide investors with quality projects. By the end of 20 15 and 10, the financing amount has exceeded 10 billion RMB.

2065438+On July 27th, 2005, the 36Kr index went online. As the first professional tool to analyze the company's investment index in China, the 36Kr index makes a multi-dimensional analysis of the Internet segmentation field and the development trend of startup companies for the primary market, helping investors to screen projects, reduce investment risks and establish a professional evaluation system for startup companies.