创新投融资平台AngelCrunch正在创造奇迹

本文为知名连环创业者Dennis在试用过Tech2IPO及其母公司PE.VC的重磅产品、创新投融资平台AngelCrunch之后，为Tech2IPO提供的试用感受。原文为英文，中文部分为译文。大家也可以查看文章末尾部分的英文原文，原文更精彩！

问题与需求：

中国互联网产业的造富运动已经产生了众多像马云和李彦宏这样的亿万富翁。很多的程序员和产品经理们都梦想着成为下一个马云和李彦宏，而每个稍有余钱的人也都想着能成为互联网领域的“天使投资人”大赚一笔。

欢迎来到中国的Wild Wild Web世界！抄袭者们把所有的好东西揉在一起就公然宣称“创新”，投资人们公然窃取你那价值亿万美金的创意，而创业者们都在为愚蠢的钱而奔波。。。。

“正常”的创业者或“正常”的投资人们还存在着。他们都想着跳过那些乱七八糟的环节，来“真诚”的赚钱。他们一个靠谱的产品和服务来帮他们来实现这个“简单”的愿望。但，有这种可能吗？

感谢上帝！是的。AngelCrunch，一个众包的天使投资平台，让这一切变的靠谱而简单，它就是中国版的Angellist。

解决之道：

这个创意非常“简单”。Angelcrunch就是一个面向投资人（包括VC和天使）和创业者的社交网络。创业者可以在上面发布他们的项目，而投资人可以选择他们去关注（Follow）其中的某些项目。假如创业者有一些很好的创意或者有一些很棒的经历，天使投资人们会想去关注（Follow）他，这一切就像大家在Twitter或微博上所做的一样。反之亦然，创业者也可以关注（Follow）投资人们。每个人都会发布自己的最新动态（Updates）,这些动态会被以广播的形式传送给关注他的每个人。

这也太“简单”了？是的，它就像Twitter和微博，至少形式上是这样。但运作起来会有更多的讲究。当某个投资人希望领投一个初创公司时，他会向他的关注者们（Followers）群发信息，而其他投资人们看了之后或许也会决定加入分享这场“盛宴”，大家一起分享股票、收益，当然也会一起承担风险。对于Twitter和微博来说，合伙做一个事的便利性就不用多说了吧？但这却又不是Twitter和微博这样的大众厂商所能完成的。

AngelCrunch的这种做法有助于帮助投资者们提高对初创公司的信任度，因为投资它的其他投资人的成功投资经历就是最好的背书。这也有助于帮助那些经验不多的新手投资者。同时，众多投资者合投一个初创公司也有助于化解风险，因为每个投资者本身出资额减少，承担的风险也会降低。举例来说，如果一个公司需要20万美金，每个人出2万美金，更多的投资人会带来更多的可信度，更多的资源，更专业的经验，从而提高投资和创业的成功概率。

靠谱的模式

这看起来非常像Kickstarter，你以天使投资人的身份在初创企业里拥有股权，尽管你不像Marc Anderson和Eric Schmidt那样有钱。当你投资完成后，你就变成了这家公司的股东，这比你买一件印有这家公司LOGO的T恤衫要好多了。你不需要很多不同LOGO的T恤衫，但你可以在很多公司里占有股权。够棒吧！

我的结论

在过去的那段岁月里，“天使投资人”这个称谓是像比尔盖茨那样的超级富翁的专利，现在每个人只要你有一定的技术悟性和有一些商业洞见就都可以投资那些高增长的科技公司。天使投资人也不再总是失败者，他们可以以同等的钱投资更多的公司，做更多的对冲，以提高他们的投资回报率（ROI）。假如某个投资人在某个领域有很多的资源和经验，那就更好了，他会给初创企业带来更多的附加值，这是多么双赢的选择！

这听起来是一个完美的新世界，让我们一起来见证AngelCrunch，让每个人都变成创业者和天使投资人的奇迹吧！这可能不会改变世界，但它至少会改变中国的互联网产业！

如果您对Tech2IPO和母公司PE.VC历时半年倾心打造的重磅产品创新投融资平台AngelCrunch有兴趣，请猛击这里进入申请体验。

附：Dennis英文原文

AngelCrunch Story

Problem

China’s Internet industry has produced billionaires such as Pony Ma and Robin Li. Many code monkeys, as they call themselves, want to be the next Ma and Li, everyone with some spare money wants to an Internet “angel investors”.

Welcome to the Wild Wild Web of China. Copycats, put-them-all-together innovations, confusing and chaotic terms, “investors” who rip off your billion dollar ideas, “entrepreneurs” who con your stupid money…

Would it be possible if a “normal entrepreneur” or a “normal investor” want to skip all that stuff and just want to create products or services and invest on them, and make some honest Yuan?

Thank God, here comes the salvation, AngelCrunch, the crowd-funding angel investment platform, to put it in a dead simple way, it is China’s Angelist.

Solution

The idea is simple. AngelCrunch is a social network for investors, both VC and angels and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs can present their projects and investors can choose whom to follow. If the entrepreneurs have some good idea or just good track record, angel may want to “follow” them like people follow other people on Twitter. Vice versa, entrepreneurs can also “follow” investors. Everyone can post “updates” and the updates are broadcasted among their followers.

Simple huh? It is just like Twitter. When some investor decide to lead invest in a startup, this is broadcasted among his/her “followers”, who can be other investors and they may decide to join the party, to share your stake, potential profit and of course, risks. It will add credibility to the project with proven investors’ investment.

It helps investors to invest on promising startups because you trust “proven investors”, this helps a lot with not so veteran investors. Meanwhile, it aliviate the risks when more investors crowd fund a startup because each investor only invest a fraction of the sum raised, for example, 20,000 USD for a total 200,000 USD needed. More investors bring in more confidence, resources, expertise and increase the investment possibilities of success.

Unique Model

It is like Kickstarter but the investors have equities in the startup as an “angel investor”, even if you don’t have a deep pocket like Marc Anderson or Eric Schmidt. You become shareholders when you invest, rather than just a tee with the company’s logo on it. You don’t need that many tees with different logos.

Conclusion

Gone are the days that angel investors need to be super rich as Bill Gates to invest in high growth tech startups, now everyone who are tech savvy and has business insights can invest. Angel investors are not losers too; they can invest in more startups with same amount of money, hedge their stakes, and increase their ROI. If one investor has expertise in particular areas, that will add value to startups and it is a win-win situation.

It sounds a wonderful new world, let’s watch AngelCrunch, the experiment that makes everyone entrepreneurs and angels. It may not change the world, but it at least will change China’s internet Industry.