Entrepreneurship 101 Incubation Camp Series 3 Legal and Tax Basis

The great heroes of the era have come forth in large numbers, calling for the stars of the future!

Do you also have innovative ideas and technologies that make your heart surging, see others standing on the top of the wave countless times, and imagine that you can turn your ideas into a lifelong business in the future?

Have you just stepped into the door of entrepreneurship, but found that on this difficult and dangerous road, from building a team to external investment, if you want to gain more experience, there is no shortcut other than making mistakes yourself?

Starting a business is difficult. Instead of looking at the high wall and hesitating, it is better to see the road under your feet and take action!

The third season of 2022 MIT CEO Entrepreneurship 101 has officially kicked off. We invite you to explore and grow together!

MIT CEO's annual flagship event - "Entrepreneurship 101" Public Welfare Entrepreneurship Incubation Camp, starting from the establishment of the most basic entrepreneurial cognitive framework, systematically and thoroughly explains how to understand venture capital and technological entrepreneurship, help you plan entrepreneurial development, and solve problems on the way to entrepreneurship. stumbling block problem.

Assemble top entrepreneurs and investors, accompany you for ten weeks, face to face for you to dismantle the core issues in the entrepreneurial process: what kind of person is "suitable" for starting a business; how to prepare from students/professionals to entrepreneurs; from idea to startup Where to start; how to position products and markets; how to decide on a long-term development strategy; how to build a capable team; how to raise capital and allocate equity; ....All entrepreneurs and investor mentors in this charity camp are volunteers to participate in sharing and guidance. I sincerely thank all the guests for their support to the MIT CEO and the broad community of early entrepreneurs!

In addition, there are a wealth of online/offline interactive sessions and 1v1 office hours with guests to analyze and answer specific practical situations in entrepreneurship, including market strategies in different industries, management adjustments in company development, technology Route product adjustment, crisis response, etc.

Course targets

1) Systematically sort out and establish an entrepreneurial cognitive framework

2) Improve the practical ability of various practical problems in entrepreneurship

3) Understand the logic of investment institutions and improve the success rate of financing

4) Establish a network of contacts in the venture capital circle for in-depth exchanges and communication

4) Gather the same students of "Entrepreneurship University" to find mentors, bosom friends and peers on the road to entrepreneurship

Course overview

The Entrepreneurship 101 series of public welfare courses is divided into 10 lectures. From July 8th to September 10th, 2022, there will be 1 lecture per week. Generally, it will be held at 9:00 pm on Friday/Saturday/Sunday in the United States, 2 hours each time. Including explanation and Q&A. Each issue has a theme, and 10 issues become a curriculum system. In addition, there are usual assignments, Q&A groups, and guest Office hours.

At the end of the Entrepreneurship 101 course, we arranged an online Demo Day gathered by celebrities to help small partners gain practical experience. Student projects also have the opportunity to communicate with top investors through this stage and even get financing immediately!

All classes are online via Zoom.

Guests and course setting

Li Feng is a founding partner of Fengrui Capital, focusing on investment in consumer/TMT, high-tech, and biomedical fields. He has rich experience in the field of venture capital, and has unique insights and judgments on long-term economic trends. Before founding Fengrui Capital, he worked at IDG Capital as a partner and member of the investment decision-making committee.

Over the past ten years, Li Feng has been responsible for investment and management projects including CreditEase (listed on the NYSE), Liulishuo (listed on the NYSE), 360 Digits (listed on NASDAQ), Bilibili (listed on NASDAQ). , secondary listing of Hong Kong stocks), Three Squirrels (listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange), Unity (listed on NYSE), Bairong Yunchuang (listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange), Coinbase (listed on NASDAQ), etc.

Feng Li holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Peking University and a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Rochester, USA.

Dr. Wang Mengqiu is the founder & CEO of Zero Zero Technology. He is an expert in the field of artificial intelligence. He holds a Ph.D. Champion, selected for Hangzhou "521" Talent Program, Zhejiang Province "Thousand Talents Program", 2020 Leading Figure of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Overseas Chinese Community, and won the 2016 China Information Industry Annual Elite Award by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Dr. Wang Mengqiu led the research and development team to concentrate on research, independently developed and designed the Hover Camera (little black man follow-up drone), and led the team to develop the V-Coptr Falcon in 2020, a new V-shaped rudder surface tilting double rotor unmanned , a record-breaking 50-minute long battery life for consumer drones. The product won the German Red Dot Best Design Award; the German "iF DESIGN AWARD" award; the CES Innovation Award known as the "Electronic Olympics"; RotorDrone Best Cool Tech CES 2020, DroneDJ Best of CES 2020, Engadget CES 2020 Best of Robots or Drones; "China Design Intelligence Award 1 million yuan 'Golden Wisdom Award'", and was awarded the honor of Yuan Jiajun, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Acting Governor.

Dr. Gong Chaohui is a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on artificial intelligence. He has developed the planning and control theory of complex multi-degree-of-freedom systems for the decision-making and scheduling of complex systems. This technology can be widely used in various manufacturing management and robot control. , and published more than 40 papers in major academic journals around the world, including the world's top journals Science, PNAS, etc. He has led intelligent supply chain and intelligent manufacturing projects such as Boeing and BMW. During the postdoctoral period, he served as the head of Foxconn's intelligent manufacturing project.

He has been selected as 35 young people in Shanghai science and technology, and won many awards such as Capek's new entrepreneur, the annual pioneer of digital transformation, and the TOP30 global scientific entrepreneurs.

BITO Intelligence is a high-tech company that provides flexible manufacturing and intelligent logistics system solutions with intelligent algorithms as its core. The main founding members of BITO are from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, which has accumulated internationally renowned robotic core technologies and developed excellent genes. BITO masters key technologies such as artificial intelligence algorithms, visual recognition perception, robot software architecture, and electronic hardware control, empowering all walks of life.

Ren Bobing serves as the executive director of Innovation Works and general manager of the Frontier Technology Fund. He has more than seven years of work experience in technology investment. The Frontier Technology Fund has invested in or incubated more than ten cutting-edge technologies covering AI, enterprise services, robotics, biology, new energy, etc. Early project. Previously, he was responsible for investment in the technology field in Baidu Venture Capital, Qingyun Venture Capital and other institutions, and led and participated in dozens of technology projects. Undergraduate and postgraduate respectively graduated from Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Guojuan Liao graduated from Nankai University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Tsinghua University. She obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry and cell biology from State University of New York at Stony Brook, and then did postdoctoral research at Columbia University. Dr. Liao co-founded GENEWIZ in 1999 with his partners. In 2018, GENEWIZ was successfully acquired by Brooks. Dr. Liao served as the president of GENEWIZ, and then served as the president of Brooks Life Science Services until the end of 2021. Currently, Dr. Liao has started a new business and is the co-founder and CEO of Couragene.

Dr. Liao has received many honors and recognitions during his career. In 2020, Dr. Liao received the Wallace A. Coulter Innovation Achievement Award from the American Society of Biomedical Engineering. In 2010, Dr. Liao and co-founder Dr. Zhongping Sun were awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (New Jersey).

Graduated from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. in EECS from the University of Minnesota. He has been engaged in R&D and management for many years in the fields of machine learning, big data systems and software systems engineering. Former Yahoo VP of Engineering. Turn (acquired for $310 million), technical founder of ID Analytics (acquired for $170 million). Former Vice President of Tsinghua Entrepreneurs Association West America, Founding President of North American Tsinghua Automation Alumni Association. Early investor in tech startups Plus.AI ($3B), Weride.AI ($4B), Certik ($2B).

The investment team led by Zhang Lu is mainly from Stanford background, bringing together outstanding entrepreneurs, investors in Silicon Valley and academicians of the American Academy of Engineering, etc., and many invested companies have successfully listed and exited through mergers and acquisitions. In 2018, Zhang Lu was elected as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum (Davos). In 2017, Zhang Lu was included in Forbes America's 30 Under 30 Elite List and Forbes Asia List. Zhang Lu is also one of the top 50 modern influential women in the United States by T&C in 2017, and was selected as the top 30 early investors in Hurun Investment in the same year. In 2021, Zhang Lu was selected as one of the top 25 female early stage investors in the United States by Business Insider, and was also included in 100 Women in Finance.

Before founding Fusion, Zhang Lu founded a medical device company and served as CEO (acquired at a high price in 2013). Zhang Lu not only serves as a mentor in several innovation projects of Stanford University and well-known innovation centers such as NASA's Singularity University, but also serves as the rotating chairman of the Youth Council of the Future Science Awards and Future Forum, and serves as the jury director of Cartier Women Initiatives and Young leader Award. .

Zhang Lu graduated from Stanford University's School of Engineering. He founded Fusion Fund in 2015 and now manages nearly US$300 million in capital.

Mr. Shaolong Sui holds a bachelor's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from UM-SJTU and University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked as a battery engineer at Tesla Motors and a camera engineer at Apple.

Mr. Sui founded Beijing Tuojiang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. in 2018, a technology company focusing on remote unmanned driving of construction machinery. The core product is a remote intelligent control system specially designed for construction machinery. This system can greatly improve the working environment of construction workers and at the same time achieve safer and more efficient construction operations. Tujiang has always been adhering to the service concept of "adopting cutting-edge technology to create practical product solutions", and is committed to fundamentally eliminating the hidden safety hazards in the use of construction machinery. The Tuojiang remote intelligent control system uses 4G/5G, augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), automation technology and cloud computing platform to provide automatic assistance for various types of construction machinery and equipment while realizing the remote unmanned function. Job function.

Mr. Wang Jing has 13 years of investment and 5 years of Internet entrepreneurial experience, focusing on corporate services, industrial Internet, industrial Internet, cutting-edge technology and biomedical fields. The main investment companies include Jumei Youpin, Zougang, WeRide, 51WORLD , Fast Plastic Network, ZEPP, Hongjing Zhijia, Oriental Space, RootPath, etc.

Mr. Wang Jing also founded and served as the head of Cloud Nine Capital CIC (Combat Information Center). CIC aims to provide quick and accurate intelligence support for investment teams by comprehensively collecting, sorting, analyzing, judging and distributing market information, thereby assisting in the high-quality and efficient completion of daily investment work.

Before joining Yunjiu Capital, Mr. Wang Jing served as the investment manager of K2VC and assisted in the establishment of the first phase of the K2VC Angel Fund. In 2014, he joined Lightspeed Anzhen China Venture Capital as a vice president.

Mr. Wang Jing graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics majoring in computer science.

Hu Qichao is the founder and CEO of SES, the world's leading next-generation battery company. Since its establishment in 2012, SES has always aimed to surpass lithium-ion batteries, focusing on the R&D and manufacturing of lithium metal batteries with high energy density and large-scale commercialization potential, helping the technological progress of the new energy vehicle industry and the development of future transportation. Electric transformation and sustainable development.

Under the leadership of Hu Qichao, in 2021, SES will become the first company in the global battery industry to develop a vehicle-grade lithium metal battery above 100Ah, and has signed the world's only three lithium metal batteries with General Motors, Hyundai Motor and Honda. A sample joint development agreement. In early 2022, SES will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SES). With its strengths in materials, cells, modules, AI security algorithms and battery recycling, SES has won awards from leading global automakers such as GM, Hyundai, Honda, Geely, SAIC, Foxconn, as well as SK, LG, Temasek, and Tianqi Lithium. Support from financial investors such as industry. SES implements a global strategy and is headquartered in Boston, with operations in Shanghai, Seoul and Singapore.

Before founding SES, Qichao Hu received a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT in 2007 and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 2012.

Hu Qichao was selected as one of Forbes' "30 Under 30 Elites" and "MIT Technology Review's "Technology Innovation Under 35" list.

Mentors and judges of entrepreneurship and innovation competitions such as Hyundai, ICBC International, and Shenzhen Innovation Competition

Co-author of Fudan University MBA Entry Case

Translator of Stanford Publishing "AI Marketing Canvas" (published in 2023)

Worked in the Fed, KPMG and the oldest central enterprise strategic investment department

Former Head of South China of Tsinghua-Country Garden Science and Technology Innovation Fund

Dr. Emory dropped out

She graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree and obtained a master's degree in law from the University of California, Hastings School of Law. Licensed lawyers in California and New York, and licensed in China.

Assisted more than 600 technology start-ups with legal services for company establishment, financing and acquisition. In her spare time, she founded "I'm a Lawyer in the United States Series Interview", which has 100,000+ subscribers, and has become a must-subscribe Chinese self-media program for Chinese and American lawyers.

Mr. Liu also produced a series of videos titled "20 Lectures on US Company Law", which became the first Chinese program to comprehensively and systematically introduce US company law.

Wang Zhen currently runs 2 start-ups. Among them, since 2018, Wang Zhen has developed a set of comprehensive software specially serving start-ups to apply for corporate R&D tax rebates with his 10 years of professional tax knowledge in Ernst & Young. Since the establishment of Technology Credit in 2018, the company has gone through the creation of product development, product research, user experience, and user delivery. Without any financing, the company achieved a 10-fold increase in business volume in 2020, with annual revenue exceeding 1.2M USD.

In addition, in 2019, based on the knowledge and exploration of different start-up fields, Wang Zhen and 2 other founders co-founded another start-up, Cheese Financial, to give new immigrants and students in the United States a new debit card to use experience.

In addition to being a start-up, Wang Zhen is also an entrepreneurial mentor for many well-known accelerators, including Lair East Lab in New York, Wavemaker Lab in California, UCI Innovation Lab, Long Beach Accelerator, Founder Institute, and the oldest Idealab.

Before diving into the abyss of entrepreneurship, Wang Zhen was a senior tax expert in Ernst & Young's Los Angeles office in Southern California, with 10 years of tax experience. Mainly responsible for R&D tax rebates and the compliance management of various fiscal and taxation programs that help Chinese-funded companies land in the United States.

Wang Zhen graduated from Brigham Young University in Utah with a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in taxation. Currently a CPA in California.

Co-founder of Zhen Fund, Co-founder of New Oriental Education Technology Group (NYSE: EDU). Wang Qiang is also a well-known Western ancient book lover and collector. He has written and published books such as "Reading Destroys Me" and "Books and Beetles in Oxford", which have far-reaching influence.

In addition, Wang Qiang is currently the executive director of CCG China and Globalization Think Tank, and a donor of the Future Science Prize. Chaoyang Phoenix Ambassador, President of Phoenix College

In 2015, Wang Qiang was awarded the Cornerstone Fellow (lifetime honorary title) by Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.

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