coventure创始人：从睡大街到投资20家初创企业文档.doc

How CoVentures Founder Went From Sleeping In Union Square To Investing In 20 Companies CoVenture创始人：从睡大街到投资20家初创企业 It was 19-year-old Ali Hamed’s summer before sophomore year at Cornell, and instead of taking a summer job or going home to Southern California he found himself sleeping in Union Square Park. 这是阿里?哈迈德（Ali Hamed）19岁时在康奈尔大学读大二之前的那个暑假。他没有打暑期工，也没有回到自己南加州的家中，而是睡在了联合广场公园（Union Squre Park）里。 Hamed was a former athlete, attending Cornell to play baseball. His dreams of playing pro had been dashed earlier that year in a home run slide gone wrong — he broke his back in two places and would never play again. 哈迈德曾经是名运动员，到康奈尔大学念书的同时打棒球。他想要成为职业运动员的梦想在那年上半年的一次本垒打失误之后化为了泡影——他的背部有两处受伤，再也不能打棒球了。 And now, he was homeless. “We couldn’t make rent on our place in the Bronx so I ended up just napping in a Starbucks during the day and hanging out with my suitcase at night, ” says Hamed. 而后，他又陷入了无家可归的状态。“我们付不起布朗克斯的房租，所以我只能白天在星巴克打盹，晚上拖着箱子到处凑活。”哈迈德说。 He channeled his energies into a new passion: technology entrepreneurship. During the day he avoided the Barnes and Noble security guards, reading up on computer programming and hiding the books in the kids’ section where he hoped no one else would find them. 他将自己的精力投入到了一项新的兴趣之中：技术创业。白天，他想办法避开巴诺书店（Barnes Noble）的保安，阅读计算机编程相关书籍，并把那些书藏在儿童读物区域——他不希望别人找到这些书。 For a while, he was too embarrassed to tell anyone about his situation. “I was the kid starting a company, ” he remembers, ruefully. 有一段时间，他都不好意思告诉别人自己的处境。“我当时是个正在创业的孩子。”他回忆道，颇有些自怜自艾。 Hamed’s first company, which used natural language processing to extract sentiment from news articles, had tanked. He lost all of his cash. To get back on his feet, he persuaded a landlady in Brooklyn to let him rent her attic for $250 a month. He slept on the floor while doing consulting work. 哈迈德的第一家公司失败了。这是一家采用自然语言处理技术从新闻报道中提取观点的公司。他损失了所有的钱。为了重新站起来，他说服布鲁克林的一名女房东把自家阁楼以每月250美元的价格租给了他。哈迈德白天做着咨询工作，晚上就睡地板。 Fast-forward three years to 2013 — Hamed launches CoVenture. The idea of CoVenture is to build around