车库里的14岁程序员：创业融资的第一粒种子

九月的蝉鸣还黏在杭州城西的老巷子里，林野蹲在自家车库的台阶上，手里攥着半瓶冰可乐，屏幕上的代码跳得他眼睛发慌。面前摆着的二手笔记本电脑是他用攒了三年的压岁钱买的，键盘边还贴着他上次去漫展买的动漫贴纸，C盘里存着半部没写完的校园互助APP，名字他早就想好了，叫“校园帮帮”。

The cicada cries of September still clung to the old alley in the west of Hangzhou. Lin Ye crouched on the step of his family's garage, holding half a bottle of iced cola, his eyes dazzled by the jumping code on the screen. The second-hand laptop in front of him was bought with three years of his saved lucky money, anime stickers from the last comic exhibition still stuck on the edge of the keyboard, and half of the unfinished campus mutual aid APP was stored in the C drive. He had already thought of the name: "Campus Helper".

<标签>创业故事<标签>

林野是杭州某中学初三的学生，爸妈都是互联网公司的程序员，平时管他管得严，怕他玩电脑影响中考，平时除了查资料根本不让他碰家里的台式机。他做这个APP的念头，是上学期生病请了三天假冒出来的：那天他烧到39度，请假在家躺了三天，回去上数学课听得云里雾里，找同桌借笔记，同桌记得乱七八糟，重点公式全漏了，他熬夜补了三晚上才跟上进度。后来生物课代表让他帮忙整理社团招新报名表，他手忙脚乱把三十多张表弄丢了十几张，被老师骂了一顿，放学路上他就在想：要是能有个工具，大家能在上面传笔记、登记信息、找丢失的东西，该多好？

Lin Ye is a ninth-grade student at a middle school in Hangzhou. Both his parents are programmers at Internet companies, and they are strict with him, afraid that playing with the computer will affect his high school entrance exam. Usually, except for looking up information, they never let him touch the desktop at home. The idea of making this APP came to him when he was sick and asked for leave last semester: he had a fever of 39 degrees that day and stayed at home for three days. When he came back to math class, he couldn't understand anything. He asked his deskmate to borrow notes, but his deskmate's notes were messy and all the key formulas were missing. He stayed up for three nights to catch up. Later, the biology class representative asked him to help sort out the registration forms for the club recruitment. He was in a hurry and lost more than ten of the more than 30 forms, and was scolded by the teacher. On the way home from school, he thought: if there could be a tool where everyone could share notes, register information, and find lost things, how great would that be?

他偷偷攒了三个月零花钱，又拿了自己存了三年的压岁钱里的三千块，买了二手笔记本，又花了五十块买了基础的云服务器，每天等爸妈上班了偷偷开电脑，晚上躲在车库改到十一二点。车库的灯坏了半盏，他就凑着笔记本的屏幕光改bug，夏天蚊子多，他腿上被叮了十几个包，都顾不上挠，有时候改到一半代码崩了，他气得想砸电脑，但是一想到第二天同学要用，又耐着性子一行一行查。第一个版本他只做了“借课堂笔记”一个功能，做了半个月就上线了，先给班里50个同学用，大家说好用，他才慢慢加了错题整理、社团招新、失物招领的功能。三个月下来，全校有1000多个同学都在用，每天打开APP的人有800多，连班主任都知道了这个工具，有时候发通知也让他在上面发。

He saved pocket money for three months in secret, and took out 3,000 yuan from his three-year saved lucky money to buy a second-hand laptop, and spent another 50 yuan to buy a basic cloud server. Every day, he would secretly turn on the computer after his parents went to work, and hide in the garage to modify it until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening. Half of the garage light was broken, so he relied on the screen light of his laptop to fix bugs. There were many mosquitoes in summer, and he was bitten by more than a dozen mosquitoes on his legs, but he didn't have time to scratch them. Sometimes the code crashed halfway through the modification, he was so angry that he wanted to smash the computer, but when he thought that his classmates would use it the next day, he patiently checked it line by line. The first version only had the function of "borrowing class notes". He spent half a month developing it and launched it. He first gave it to 50 classmates in the class to use. Everyone said it was easy to use, so he slowly added the functions of error sorting, club recruitment, and lost and found. After three months, more than 1,000 students in the whole school were using it, and more than 800 people opened the APP every day. Even the homeroom teacher knew about this tool, and sometimes asked him to send notices on it.

可新的问题很快来了：用户多了之后，基础服务器根本扛不住，有时候上传笔记传不上去，失物招领的图片加载不出来，一卡就是好几分钟，好多同学都吐槽。林野查了一下，升级成高级云服务器一年要3000块，他还想加个智能搜题的功能，找个会写前端的学长帮忙做，一小时要50块，做个功能要20小时，就是1000块。他算了一下自己的钱：买电脑花了2000，买服务器花了300，买APP图标花了200，剩下的压岁钱早就花光了，每个月零花钱只有200块，就算省吃俭用，也要攒一年才能凑够升级服务器的钱。可林野知道，他等不起：上次他听隔壁班的同学说，另一个中学的学生也在做类似的APP，要是等他攒够钱，别人早就把用户都抢光了，“校园帮帮”就没人用了。

But new problems came soon: after there were more users, the basic server couldn't support it at all. Sometimes the notes couldn't be uploaded, and the pictures of lost and found couldn't be loaded. It would be stuck for several minutes, and many classmates complained. Lin Ye checked it and found that upgrading to an advanced cloud server would cost 3,000 yuan a year. He also wanted to add an intelligent question search function, so he asked a senior who could write front-end code to help him do it. It cost 50 yuan an hour, and it would take 20 hours to do a function, which was 1,000 yuan. He calculated his money: he spent 2,000 yuan on buying a computer, 300 yuan on buying a server, and 200 yuan on buying APP icons. The remaining lucky money had been spent long ago. His monthly pocket money was only 200 yuan. Even if he saved money, it would take a year to save enough money to upgrade the server. But Lin Ye knew that he couldn't wait: last time he heard a classmate from the next class say that students from another middle school were also making a similar APP. If he waited until he saved enough money, others would have already grabbed all the users, and no one would use "Campus Helper".

<标签>概念解读<标签>

就在他一筹莫展的时候，表哥来他家拜年，看到他蹲在车库改APP，就问他做什么。林野把自己的事给表哥讲了一遍，表哥是做天使投资的，之前投过好几个大学生创业的项目，听完就笑了：“你这就是在创业啊，小家伙。”

Just when he was at a loss, his cousin came to his house to pay New Year's visit. When he saw him squatting in the garage modifying the APP, he asked him what he was doing. Lin Ye told his cousin about his experience. His cousin is an angel investor and has invested in several college student entrepreneurship projects before. After listening to him, he smiled and said, "You are just starting a business, kid."

“创业？”林野愣了，“创业不是得开公司、当大老板吗？” "Start a business?" Lin Ye was stunned. "Isn't starting a business about opening a company and being a big boss?"

“当然不是。”表哥坐在他旁边，指着他的电脑说，“创业的核心从来不是开公司，是解决真问题。你发现全校同学都有借笔记、传资料的麻烦，你动手做了个工具解决它，这就是创业。你看你们学校门口卖手账的小姐姐，发现大家都买不到好看又便宜的便签，自己从网上进货卖，这也是创业；网上那些做手工滴胶的博主，接定制单，也是创业。不用非得搞几百人的团队，不用非得租写字楼，只要你动手解决了别人的麻烦，顺便能赚到钱，就是创业。” "Of course not." His cousin sat down next to him, pointing at his computer and said, "The core of starting a business is never about opening a company, but about solving real problems. You found that all the students in the school have the trouble of borrowing notes and passing materials, so you made a tool to solve it. This is starting a business. Look at the girl who sells stationery at the entrance of your school. She found that everyone can't buy beautiful and cheap notes, so she goes online to buy and sell them. This is also starting a business; those bloggers who do manual glue drop online and take custom orders are also starting a business. You don't need to have a team of hundreds of people, and you don't need to rent an office building. As long as you take action to solve other people's troubles and can make money by the way, it is starting a business."

表哥接着说，很多人对创业有个误区，觉得一定要做“改变世界”的大项目，一定要赚大钱，一定要做成上市公司，其实不是。创业的最低门槛，就是你能解决一个至少十个人都有的麻烦，就够了。林野的“校园帮帮”现在解决了全校1000多人的麻烦，哪怕以后不扩大的，就靠卖文具、收广告费，也足够他赚零花钱，这已经是很好的创业了。 His cousin continued, saying that many people have a misunderstanding of starting a business. They think they must do big projects that "change the world", make a lot of money, and become a listed company. In fact, it is not. The minimum threshold for starting a business is that you can solve a problem that at least ten people have. Lin Ye's "Campus Helper" now solves the troubles of more than 1,000 students in the whole school. Even if it doesn't expand in the future, it can make enough pocket money by selling stationery and collecting advertising fees. This is already a very good business.

那什么是融资呢？表哥给林野打了个比方：你现在想做更大的事，需要更多的钱，但是你自己没有那么多钱，怎么办？你可以找别人给你钱，别人给你钱不是白给的，是要分你未来赚的钱的一部分，这就是融资。融资分很多种，你现在这个阶段，最合适的是天使投资。 So what is financing? His cousin gave Lin Ye an example: now you want to do bigger things and need more money, but you don't have that much money you