He walked around the entire exhibition hall and saw everything he needed to see.
There was still a bit of time before the scheduled meeting with Chen Yushan. Lu Zhou thought about the project roadshow that President Gong mentioned, so he followed the map on the booklet and walked around.
The place where the roadshow was held was in a moderately sized conference room in the side hall of the conference center. It could accommodate around 120 people. Compared to the bustling exhibition hall outside, the professional and serious atmosphere here blocked a lot of people, making it look very cold and cheerless.
When Lu Zhou walked in from the back of the conference room, he looked up and saw that 80% of the seats were filled. More than half of the tables had signs on them that stated the identity of the participants and the companies they represented.
Lu Zhou roughly looked around. The people sitting here were the general managers of some large investment banks or venture capital companies. Some were even partners. There were also some angel investors that represented themselves.
Not only were the participants not ordinary, but the projects on stage were also not ordinary.
A project that could bring a PowerPoint presentation here was much more reliable than a roadshow on a stage set up in a random hotel.
First of all, the background of a famous school was a must. The qualifications of the founders were also one in a hundred. Most of them had a halo around them. Even the honor of winning a national mathematical modeling competition was not enough to write a resume. The first prize of a college student entrepreneurship competition was barely worth mentioning.
In short, the projects here were not lacking in anything other than money. They just needed people to invest in them!
Of course, even after going through layers of screening, the number of projects that could pass this stage and survive in the end was less than one in a hundred. Even if they were favored by international capital such as Suguo and SoftBank, not every startup could eventually become a BAT.
However, Lu Zhou was not very concerned about whether or not there would be a BAT here. He was just here to watch and did not plan on joining in the fun.
He sat in the venue and felt the atmosphere. He suddenly realized that although the layout here was not much different from the academic conferences he had attended before, it could even be said that it was very similar. One person would go on stage first to give a PowerPoint presentation and then let the people below criticize him. However, the atmosphere was completely different.
How should he put it?
Just sitting there made Lu Zhou feel like he didn't fit in with the atmosphere here.
Just as he was thinking about what made him feel this way, the man in the suit sitting next to him was secretly looking at him.
He wasn't sizing him up for some strange reason, but he simply felt that this face was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember the name.
Lu Zhou noticed Lu Zhou's gaze, so he turned to him and spoke with a friendly smile.
"What's up?"
Seeing that his prying eyes were discovered, the man smiled and extended his right hand.
"I'm Xiang Hongchuan, a partner of Zhujiang Venture Capital. May I know where you work?"
Lu Zhou shook his hand and replied casually.
"University professor."
This move was very effective.
Lu Zhou obviously noticed that after hearing that he was a university professor, the man lost interest in him at a speed visible to the naked eye. The man ended the conversation after a few words of greeting.
Obviously, in his opinion, Lu Zhou was here to cheer for a student who was going on stage. It was even possible that the student who was about to go on stage was actually Lu Zhou himself.
Lu Zhou was grateful that this person did not disturb him. He began to watch the performance on stage with interest.
Yes, it was a performance.
However, it had to be said that students from these famous schools were very capable. Some of the roadshow projects were indeed quite interesting, just like what President Gong said.
For example, a certain guy walked onto the stage with a drone. He was very direct when he came on stage. He straightforwardly expressed the market prospects of the future civilian drone, such as the Dajiang drone, etc.
It was rare for a startup to even produce a product, which could be regarded as a plus point. Unfortunately, he did not clearly explain how he planned to take over the market from Dajiang. He did not let the venture capital managers in the audience see hope that he could beat the target company.
After the five-minute PowerPoint session ended, the venture capital manager sitting in the audience only asked a few questions before the man quickly gave up.
When Lu Zhou saw this young man's expression, he couldn't help but think of Fatty Wang, who worked on a part-time job for him. He thought of the gadget called Campus Assistant that he created with his university alumni, and he also thought of his lost youth.
Up until now, many juniors at Jin Ling University still used the timetable he made. They just didn't know that the timetable was made by a very powerful senior.
Should I support this young man's dream?
Just when this thought popped up in Lu Zhou's mind, the college student who went on stage to participate in the roadshow didn't even give him a second. He couldn't stand the awkwardness of being left on stage, so he quickly slipped away.
…
Twenty minutes passed by.
The fifth roadshow began.
A young man in his mid-twenties walked to the front of the stage and showed his PowerPoint on the screen.
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Li Tinghui, I graduated from the electrical engineering department of Aurora University. My master's degree was in the design of charging stations. The original intention was to design a charging station that could be easily and quickly charged by users. Later, during my internship, I discovered …"
There was a total of five minutes for the PowerPoint presentation. Many people in the audience were already getting impatient before they even got to the main point.
The speaker finally introduced the concept of "wireless charging stations" after a one-minute self-introduction and introduction of the project's background.
Unfortunately, by the time he realized what was going on, it was already too late.
For the capital world, they didn't care about the origin of the project or the original intention of the founder of the project. They only cared about the market space of the project, the future prospects, the competitors, which company the target was, and most importantly … if the project could survive, how much return it could bring to their investment.
Using a minute to talk so much nonsense, the entire project could already be sentenced to death.
It was obvious that this Li Tinghui was probably a novice. At least, he didn't have much experience in entrepreneurship.
Sure enough, because he spent too much time at the beginning, he didn't have enough time to explain the project in detail. As a result, most of the 40-page PowerPoint presentation was wasted.
But then again, this guy was too straightforward to make such a long PowerPoint presentation with only five minutes of project introduction time.
Who in the audience could understand the design drawings of the charging stations? Also, who cared about the design of a master's student? As long as there was enough money, this could be done by a professional design team.
Want to conquer investors with technology?
Sure!
But even if he wasn't a Changjiang Scholar, he had to be an engineering professor at a famous university, right?
Also, he had to have a core technology patent and a special support policy for the transformation of national patents.
The partner of Zhujiang Venture Capital, who was sitting next to Lu Zhou, smiled and shook his head. He whispered to his partner, who was sitting on the other side of the table. His expression was like a death sentence for the project on stage.
Lu Zhou was the only one in the entire venue. He had a slightly interested expression as he watched the entire presentation. He even looked at the drawings on the PowerPoint presentation.
All in all, it wasn't easy for a master's student to design a product like this. However, from his level 6 engineering point of view, these designs were creative, but they weren't interesting enough.
For example, wireless charging might be a good technology, and it might be very convenient.
After all, humans were born to save trouble. If they could save users the trouble of plugging in and out of the charging cable, many users would be interested in it. It would be perfect if he could integrate this wireless charging and the exclusive parking space for alternative energy vehicles.
However …
How could they convince other electric vehicles to accept their wireless charging ports?
Design their own batteries?
That's too …
Wait a minute!
Lu Zhou frowned and suddenly remembered that Zhongshan New Materials, a company that Star Sky Technology invested in a few years ago, had also started producing lithium-sulfur batteries?
It seemed that Liu Wanshan from Zhongshan New Materials had told him about it when he was climbing the mountain.
The staff member standing next to the podium reminded Li Tinghui that time was up.
Due to the time limit, Li Tinghui could only end the PowerPoint session by saying, "Our company really needs money to purchase experimental equipment. The funding target is five million yuan."
Actually, his original funding target was ten million yuan.
However, looking at the atmosphere in the audience, it was almost impossible to raise ten million yuan.
Soon after, the PowerPoint session ended. The on-site staff announced that the presentation was about to enter the interactive segment between the investors and the project, which was the Q&A session.
Just like he expected, the venue was very awkward, and no one asked a question.
Li Tinghui had a bitter expression on his face.
Even though he considered the possibility of failure, he didn't expect the venture capital company managers and angel investors sitting in the audience to not even ask a question.
Seeing this scene, the staff standing at the side already knew in their hearts that no company was optimistic about this project.
But out of procedure, he still asked.
"Is anyone willing to invest?"
As expected, there was no movement below the stage.
The staff member gave Li Tinghui a look of encouragement and comfort. He was about to signal Li Tinghui to leave when a clear voice came from the back row.
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