Prince Charles failed to start a business, saying that the entrepreneurial environment of the rotten country is too bad.
A long time ago, about 30 years before China proposed mass entrepreneurship and innovation, Prince Charles started his own business.
He set up an eco-agricultural project.
In 1986, Prince Charles bought a piece of open land full of devastation, ruins and abandoned churches and named it Heygrove Manor. At that time, the beauty around him was Diana.
And then, one is 30 years, until the land is shaped like this.
The growing apples in the garden
Walking promenade
Heygrove Manor is full of natural wild interest.
Niuniu are eating grass comfortably, and wild minks are leisurely frolicking with the fat koi in the pond.
In addition to not destroying the local ecology, many plants and insects naturally form a complete small ecosystem.
The estate also has a vegetable garden, which relies entirely on mixed fertilizers and natural fertilizers extracted from Arnebia and seaweed, supplying fruits and vegetables all the year round on the basis of self-circulation.
In addition to solar panels for heating and hot water, the estate also has firewood-heated boilers, double-insulated windows and ecologically insulated devices.
This is a beautiful resort, but it is an unsuccessful start-up project.
Prince Charles is not the second generation of officials who play with tickets. He is a loyal fan of anti-GM food, a flag bearer of organic agriculture, a walking health post, and an entrepreneur of ecological agriculture.
In 1990, Charles founded an organic farm and food company based on Heygrove Manor to grow and cultivate organic food without chemical compounds, and launched the "Duke original" brand.
The Duke's original potatoes, carrots and other vegetables planted by the prince are supplied to hundreds of supermarkets across the UK. Over the next 19 years, the Duke produced more than 200 original products, including food, beverages, gardening tools and furniture, all of which were "organic".
The prince has been working hard to create momentum for the Duke's originality. Prince Charles, like an Amway salesman, advises heads of government, officials, and businessmen not to eat genetically modified food, because he "never eats it, nor will he provide any genetically modified food for guests or family members."
In the old manor, the beauty pedal ten centimeters high, shaking white wine, looming career line, facing a prominent prince. When the sun was setting and the sun was shining on their blond hair, the prince suddenly said, "have you ever eaten the organic potatoes I planted?" . The picture is so beautiful! Dare not look!
Prince Charles also regularly attends seminars on genetically modified foods, saying that the food is "unproven and potentially dangerous".
In a gesture of holding up the red treasure book, he refuted the remarks made by two biologists that "GM food is harmless" and even called on all Britons to unite to make the British Isles a pure land free from "GM food contamination", advising all citizens to eat pollution-free organic food. He also cited himself as an example, praising the benefits of eating "organic crops" that do not apply chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
When he and Camilla visited India, they did not even go to the Taj Mahal. Instead, they visited a local agro-food science and technology park named after him, which is mainly to help and promote the sustainable development of local agriculture.
To increase the stickiness of the brand, Prince Charles also wrote an organic cookbook. Recipes are classified according to the four seasons, and the food ingredients are, of course, organic vegetables and fruits advocated by Charles.
However, such a big IP, which focuses on the concept of health, is unexpectedly difficult for Nima to carry out.
First, the prince's family are very unhappy with his start-up project, and of course, they may also be very upset with his start-up itself.
Princess Anne said in an interview with the famous British shopping magazine "grocery store": "Let everyone in Britain eat organic food?" This is ridiculous! What's more, there is no evidence that GM food is harmful to people. Charles himself is not an expert in biology, and he is wrong to criticize GM food. "
Philip also told reporters at Windsor Palace: "genetically modified food is not harmful." If you think about it, all plants and animals in the world are the result of natural selection. The genes of living things are constantly changing in the process of reproduction, and they survive with strong adaptability. It can be said that all foods are genetically modified foods. I never haggle. I eat anything! "
The British media are also very unhappy with the prince selling vegetables. The British media have reported heavily on his start-up project with negative headlines such as the commercialization of the British royal family and shops tarnishing the royal family.
However, after the prince made the sacrifice of "commoditization of the British royal family", consumers did not fully buy it. Some people who don't give face think his potatoes are ugly.
British supermarket giant Sainsbury also announced that it would abandon Prince Charles' organic food because his vegetables did not meet supermarket standards. Of course, the standards are based on the products handled by the industrial system.
Then, in the cold winter of capital, the 2008 financial crisis, Prince Charles was forced to close his vegetable store "The Veg Shed" because of the economic downturn at home.
A spokesman for Prince Charles said that "the price of organic vegetables is higher than that of ordinary vegetables in supermarkets, so there is little demand from consumers and shops have to be closed", but will continue to operate on the Internet.
In turn, Duke's original brand, whose profits have been hit by the continuing economic recession, has to announce an alliance with the UK's high-priced chain Super Waitrose.
It's called alliance, and it's basically selling your body. Waitrose has won the exclusive right to create, manufacture and market "Duke original" products in the UK, and even the brand name has been changed to "Duke original" (Duchy Originals from Waitrose). Waitrose invests millions of pounds a year to develop and improve "Duke's original" products.
The prince's entrepreneurial project ended hastily in this way.
After reading this bumpy entrepreneurial story, I just want to say that Prince Charles was really born in the wrong place. how grand would he be if he started a business in China?
If Prince Charles transplants this eco-agricultural start-up project to China, there is no need to elaborate on how investors will squeeze into the project. It is estimated that it will not be difficult for the Angel Round to be valued at US $200 million. Round A properly enters the ranks of unicorns.
On the first day of Charles' business, the entrepreneurial title, which is a mixture of chicken blood and dog blood, will be scrubbed on the screen. For example, "he failed two marriages, suspected to come out, and found peace of mind in this eco-agricultural venture."he gave up the throne for this ugly potato."
Where can there be such a question as "the commercialization of the British royal family"? this is clearly a royal-led consumption upgrade!
How can a supermarket reject the prince's food because of standard problems? That is your original standard is not ecological enough, too backward ah!
In case someone thinks the potatoes planted by the prince are ugly and clatter, do you know that in this land, if the carved sirloin is not delicious, the losers will be criticized for not opening the taste buds? Disrelish the prince's potato is not good-looking, that is your eyes did not open!
Due to the high price of vegetables, vegetables can not be sold, but also forced to close the shop? Only an unclassy Englishman can do such a thing. Mr. Lin assures you that in Didu, the prince's food must be robbed.
At the top of the list, hotels will offer Charles salad, Charles set meal, and maybe Charles wedding set meal.
Prince Charles has opened eco-agricultural planting experience parks in Yanqing in Beijing, Pudong in Shanghai and Longjing Village in Hangzhou. Every sunny weekend, International Trade Dogs, Lujiazui Dogs and Garry Dogs wriggle out of town to personally take part in picking the prince's planting fruit, pulling out a few radishes, digging up a few potatoes, posting a few moments, sighing a few words of quiet time, and then wriggling home in the long flow of traffic.
Their lives just need a little bit of such a sense of ritual.
The studios came here with their teams, hoping to win the honor to develop Prince Charles' films, online dramas, games, derivatives and other products for IP.
Investors and brokers will take Prince Charles and his eco-agricultural plantation project to visit local governments to tell them that the era of consumer upgrading has come and that the big health industry is standing in the tuyere. Then local governments have launched eco-agricultural industrial parks one after another. Of course, Prince Charles can also take the opportunity to enclose land cheaply and engage in real estate.
If you think about it, you will feel that your blood is boiling. How can this be an eco-agricultural entrepreneurial project that is struggling to survive in the British Empire? Prince Charles reinvented a way of life. Prince Charles's start-up in China is simply an all-ecological entrepreneurial project detonated by ecological agriculture.
It's just that we don't know whether the entrepreneurial scene of the hustle and bustle of gongs and drums and firecrackers in China, which can manage the manor into such a Prince Charles, is still what he wants.
It must be solemnly stated that the important condition for Prince Charles's "Duke original" to sell to Waitrose is that Waitrose pays a certain percentage of the royalties to the charitable foundation sponsored by Prince Charlie according to the sales performance of certain products. Before the sale of Waitrose, the Duke's profits of £7 million were donated to charity.
Because Prince Charles' entrepreneurial project is not in China, there is one less super-fat unicorn in the world.
Because Prince Charles' entrepreneurial project is not in China, there is a little more difficult but slow beauty in the world.
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