Under the strategic background of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurship has become a new social craze. However, the winter of capital is not far away. How to help entrepreneurs connect with investors, so that entrepreneurial projects can have a broader display platform, in this point, the performance of Dream Acceleration (the original Le Chuang Dream Workshop) is obvious to all. Not to mention that Cui Lei, the founder and host of the program, is a well-known venture capitalist himself. From the big names participating in the program to the composition of the content structure, it can be said that Acceleration of Dreams has found new targets for entrepreneurs and investors through different topic discussions.
In the latest episode of the program, Cui Lei discussed with entrepreneurs and investors, "Can a single breakthrough in enterprise group building activities impress investors?" This topic deeply analyzes the problems and solutions encountered in the process of entrepreneurship, and fully presents the latest Internet entrepreneurial ideas and the spirit of makers in the new era to more offline audiences. Cui Lei believes that this kind of live-streaming mode of venture capital docking is conducive to maximizing the expression of entrepreneurs' "idea", and has positive significance for spreading the spirit and culture of makers and promoting the deep integration of "talent + capital".
"Dream Acceleration" host Cui Lei
Since its inception, the program has uploaded 375 episodes and invited hundreds of entrepreneurs from different fields to the broadcast room. According to statistics, up to 30% of entrepreneurial enterprises have successively won the favor of the capital market. In addition to the influence of the program itself and the attraction of the creative ideas of entrepreneurs, Cui Lei's hosting has also contributed greatly. Audience members have commented that the host asks many questions that entrepreneurs and investors are concerned about, avoiding the impact of unclear information in the process of connecting venture capital.
Faced with such comments, Cui Lei laughed that the entrepreneurs he contacted were different in age, education background and industry. For example, the program had invited an entrepreneur with research background, who was relatively unfamiliar with the market operation of venture capital and did not communicate well with investors. As the host, while controlling the audience, You also have to play the role of a generalist.
With the opening of G20, the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province has taken on a new look in front of the world. Cui Lei said that there are also a lot of entrepreneurs in Zhejiang Province, especially in the Internet ecosystem formed by Alibaba. Hangzhou can be said to be the dream paradise for entrepreneurs after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Perhaps because of such a unique entrepreneurial environment, Cui Lei has reached strategic cooperation with 45 investment institutions such as Jingwei China, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank China Capital, Cerberus, Zheshan Venture Capital and Le Venture Capital since the launch of his Dream Acceleration. So far, more than 40 investment agreements have been made for entrepreneurs and investment institutions, with the amount of investment exceeding 100 million yuan.
Since its inception, the program has been ranked No.1 in the financial programs of Himalaya for 39 consecutive weeks and has been viewed over 100 million times. When talking about the "acceleration of dreams" set this record, Cui Lei is very low-key and modest, he said, entrepreneurship is not conceptualized things, is to spend money to do things, in the era of Internet entrepreneurship, for entrepreneurs only gather multiple resources, learn experience, in order to achieve the rate of entrepreneurial dream step by step up, through the "acceleration of dreams", I am also constantly growing and learning.
