Chapter 367: Only Paranoiacs Can Succeed and Invite Lin Muqiu

"Director Li, what are incubators and accelerators?"

Seeing how lively Li Xiaofan and Dr. Mao Siming were talking, Dr. Pan Zhanlong finally couldn't hold back and asked.

Li Xiaofan then remembered that it was now 1996. Unlike in previous lives, incubators, accelerators and other entrepreneurial spaces were no longer on the streets.

Li Xiaofan explained: “The English name of business incubator is incubator, which originally refers to the equipment for artificial incubation of poultry eggs. Extended to the field of entrepreneurship, it means that we provide some physical space for some outstanding early entrepreneurial projects and entrepreneurs. In the early stages of the project or when developing, When reaching a bottleneck, we provide angel investment, capital, management, contacts, market and other resource support to help entrepreneurs develop their projects. This type of business is generally called an innovation center in Europe..."

Li Xiaofan continued: "The space in incubators is generally relatively small, and we can only provide limited space to early entrepreneurs. Projects that have matured from incubators will enter the expansion period, but they are not yet old enough to purchase factories or land for development. The strength and degree of construction require someone to provide assistance in large-scale production, large-scale management team office, etc. This is the function of an accelerator. In this sense, an accelerator is a technology park between an incubator and large-scale industrialization. A form of business between.”

"Zhanlong, do you understand? For the magnetic sensing project that Dr. Mao is currently leading, Seagate's laboratory is like an early incubator. Because it is relatively mature, it can be accelerated directly at our current Singapore Science Park. After the acceleration is completed at the Singapore Science Park and the product development is mature, we can take the project back to the domestic Kaohui Industrial Park for mass production. The advantage of this is that there is a connection between the accelerator and the domestic industrial park. A firewall…”

"Well, Director Li, I probably understand!"

After the meeting, Li Xiaofan wrote an email to Tang Xinyi, who was staying in San Francisco, asking her to help her find out what well-known entrepreneurial incubators or accelerators there were in Silicon Valley in the Bay Area. When she had time, she could find a real estate agent to find out about the ones near Stanford University. Is there a suitable job space that can be used as a business incubator...

Late at night before going to bed, Li Xiaofan received a call from Tang Xinyi from San Francisco.

"Dear, I received your email. Then, I asked my third sister to help you inquire about it, and I actually found such a business incubator called idealab. The information about this incubator has been sent to your email."

"Wow, it's so efficient, great!"

"It's a coincidence that the founder of Idealab's business incubator is called Bill Gross. He likes Chinese food very much and often eats at Sanjie's restaurant, so Sanjie is a little familiar with him."

"Oh, what a coincidence?"

"Well, the third sister told me that Bill Gross is also a very legendary figure. He likes to start a business, a bit like Mr. Sun from SoftBank Group. Bill Gross founded a company called SolarDevices when he was in high school, specializing in designing solar products. and configure this This earned him most of his study expenses at Caltech. When he entered Caltech, he applied for a speaker design patent and founded a company called GNP, which was named "Inc." Magazine" ranked 75th among the 500 most promising companies in the United States."

"Later, a research project called HAL he created was acquired by Lotus Software Company for $10 million in 1985 because it greatly enhanced the functionality of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Then he worked at 1wledgeAdventure Knowledge Discovery grew to become the third largest educational software publisher in the United States..."

After listening to Tang Xinyi's introduction, Li Xiaofan said: "Dear, please ask your third sister to contact Mr. Bill Gross. I may want to come to San Francisco in a few days to inspect the idealab business incubator created by Mr. Bill Gross. In addition, in the email I mentioned to you that I have plans to come to San Francisco to establish Yifan’s own Silicon Valley startup incubator..."

"Wow, that's great, my dear, I'll be able to see you again in a few days!"

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After talking to Tang Xinyi on the phone, Li Xiaofan lay in bed and thought about the stories of the two founders of ADI, as well as outstanding entrepreneurs such as Bill Gross and Masayoshi Son of SoftBank. They all have something in common, just like the founder of Intel. Andy Grove once said, "Only the paranoid survive!"

In his previous life, Li Xiaofan read Andy Grove's masterpiece "Only the Paranoid Survive". The book specifically discussed how to deal with the revolutionary changes in the industry, and every word of it was exquisite.

Kai-Fu Lee, the founder of Innovation Works, once said: He found that successful people are "paranoid"!

After get off work the next day, in the evening, Li Xiaofan made an appointment with Lin Muchiu from Ascendas Group to have dinner at a newly opened Spanish restaurant near Holland Village.

Because the Dutch Village Spanish Restaurant where she ate was very close to Lin Muchiu's home, she went home first to take a shower and put on a beautiful floral skirt to attend the dinner.

When she walked to the restaurant, Li Xiaofan was already waiting inside.

There is a saying among the foreigners in Singapore: live in France, travel in the United States, and eat in Spain.

Because, it is said that the Spanish spend more time eating than sleeping.

This newly opened Spanish restaurant in Holland Village uses fully customized Mediterranean furniture, hydrogel tiles imported from Spain, and herringbone solid wood floors. The entire decoration is full of the Mediterranean style of heat waves and sunshine.

With a pleasant smell of perfume, the graceful Lin Muchu sat down opposite Li Xiaofan and smiled:

"Mr. Li, you are so busy, how come you have the leisure to treat me to dinner today?"

"I have time today, so I invite you to have a meal together to thank you for your care and help since our company moved into Singapore Science Park!" Li Xiaofan smiled.

"Mr. Li, you are too polite! After we recruited you, all the entrepreneurial projects you set up in our science park were so successful. Recently, your Pacific Online Bookstore will be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market in the United States, and will soon become the first Internet project in Singapore and the first in Asia to be listed on Wall Street in the United States! Now, in our group and in front of guests, Zheng Shujia and I are proud to mention you. Mr. Li, you are the pride of our park!"

"Haha, Mu Qiu, you are too kind! You and Shujia also contributed to this. The service is so thoughtful that we feel very comfortable working in the park."

"Mr. Li, don't be polite. It is our duty and responsibility for me and Shujia and other colleagues to provide you with service. This is our job responsibility and duty!"

Li Xiaofan handed the menu to Lin Mu Qiu and said, "Mu Qiu, take a look, what do you like to eat?"

The waiter next to him introduced that ordering food in this Spanish restaurant can be very casual.

From the national quintessence of Spanish cuisine, Tapas, to the staple food, Spanish cuisine seems to have overturned the stereotype of Western food. Without those conventional rituals, a piece of bread, a dish of sauce, a piece of ham, you can also DIY a unique Tapas...

Lin Muchu ordered a piece of low-temperature slow-cooked beef cheek for the staple food.

This is a piece of beef from Costa Rica, cooked at 72 degrees, with a secret sauce. When cooking, sweet and refreshing botrytis white wine is dripped into the meat. The fresh fragrance completely takes off in the alcohol fermentation, and then served with mashed potatoes with scallions, perfect!

When the waiter brought it up, the beef was still emitting the aroma of fat. Lin Muchu cut it with a knife, and the texture of the fist to the meat just filled the whole vision. The moment the juice flowed down, Li Xiaofan on the opposite side couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

The tender beef was served with a special chili sauce and sent into Lin Muchu's mouth.

After taking a bite, not to mention the imported texture, the comfort of the sauce alone was enough to make Lin Muchu's taste buds tremble infinitely.

"It's delicious!" She couldn't help but sigh.

Li Xiaofan raised his glass and said, "Muqiu, cheers!"

"Thank you!"

Lin Muchu took a sip of iced white wine, and the sharp taste slid down her throat into her stomach.

"Wow, so refreshing!"

Seeing that Lin Muchu was eating so sweetly, Li Xiaofan took a sip of iced white wine and said to Lin Muchu:

"Muqiu, I'm looking for you to have dinner tonight. In fact, there is something very important to discuss with you..."

"It's very important, Mr. Li, what is so important?" Lin Muchu stopped the knife and fork in his hand and asked curiously.

"I want to invite you to work in our company and help me take charge of the business of the industrial park!"