Chapter 10 Let’s Start a Business!

Qian Ming originally wanted to invest 9 million yuan to get 30% of the shares, but the entrepreneur refused to do it.

This model of free equipment installation is expensive, and it will definitely require several rounds of financing.

At the beginning, 30% of the shares were sold in the angel round. If there are more rounds of financing, the shares in the hands of the entrepreneur will be less and less.

After N rounds of tug-of-war negotiations, Qian Ming had to compromise and accepted the result of 6 million yuan for 20%. After all, if you don’t invest, someone will invest.

However, Qian Ming fought for two terms that were favorable to him.

The first is anti-dilution, that is, if the valuation of the next round of financing is lower than that of this round, the entrepreneur must use his own shares to compensate Qian Ming.

The second is the priority investment right. In the next round of financing, Qian Ming has the right to invest 30% of the financing amount at a price 20% off that of that round.

After the conditions were agreed, the investment agreement was signed immediately, and the money was transferred immediately to start working!

After everything was settled, Qian Ming began to wonder who the kid he met in the elevator today was?

He looked pretty handsome!

The person who entered the elevator on the 33rd floor, could he be Zhao Yong's employee?

His attitude is not like that!

It seems that other investment institutions may have gone to Zhao Yong to find someone to "purchase goods"!

This person is good and has a future. Go back and ask Zhao Yong's subordinates to dig him over!

Cao Shen couldn't care about many things here. He had to extend his life first.

He worked until four o'clock in the morning and added five days of life to himself.

However, Cao Dalang, who worked hard, didn't plan to sleep. He started to design the website.

Since he exchanged his life for a website editor, he didn't have to lose too much!

This year, the shipment of smartphones in Dongguo is less than 40 million. For Dongguo, which has 1 billion netizens, there are still very few smartphone users.

The APPs here are still very immature. Most of them are tools, such as system management tools such as mobile assistants, application stores, cute UIs, calendars, alarm clocks, weather, cloud notes, navigation, browsers, etc.

The entertainment category is dominated by music and games. The games are still very bad, such as connect-the-dots or skin-changing web games.

The video is expensive, so no one has come in yet.

The page settings in the APP are basically a scaled-down version of the PC web page.

To browse more content on one page, please click "Next Page".

This kind of operation that cannot refresh the content by sliding down and "rubbing" up to browse the page continuously is unbearable for Cao Shen, who is used to the "beep beep" sound of Weibo refresh and constantly "swiping" Douyin with his thumb.

So, he "innovatively" designed the "waterfall flow" page.

And designed the framework of the entire website to be extremely stupid, with all modular functions, which can be pieced together and stuffed with content, and the UI can be changed at will.

The system is also very powerful. According to his requirements, a fully functional blank website was generated on the computer, and the corresponding APP appeared on the mobile phone.

Finally, you can rub, rub, rub and roll, and Cao Shen is quite satisfied.

He first designed a website for a technology media for himself: Technology Deep Throat.

He spent 5,000 yuan to buy a set of UI online and used it directly.

There is no rush to add background content, and you can get up after a sleep.

Then, the entire "waterfall flow" website architecture was packaged.

"System, please compile an instant messaging module for me.

[No, it can only be an information website.]

"What if users of the information website want to leave messages? What if the customer service wants to reply?" Cao Shen's doubts were reasonable.

[Oh, then there can be a message and reply module]

Soon, a software package appeared on the computer.

[Won't it be integrated directly into the website?]

"Let me check it first to see if you are doing well."

[Tsk!]

"Wait, why does the UI of the software package have a logo, and what the hell is this document: Tongcao Technology! ”

[The company I just registered for you, how is it, isn’t the name cool!]

Cool, your sister, system + complaints!

I checked the industrial and commercial website and found that there is such a company, and it is a company registered under my own name, Cao Shen!

It’s OK to have a company...

Well, it’s more convenient!

I used the website editor to create an official website of "Tongcao Technology" with only one information submission page, which is extremely simple.

I tried the message reply module made by the system: "Your response speed is very slow, you can’t reply in real time, and finally a living person ran away." Cao Shen complained.

[Oh, this is possible]

Another software package appeared on the desktop.

"It must be able to send pictures. Nowadays, users like to fight pictures and express everything with pictures.

It must also be able to send voice. How can you not send voice on the mobile Internet? The mobile phone screen is only 3.5 inches. It will be cramped if you type too many words in such a small space. ”

[These two occupy a lot of bandwidth...]

"Oh, no. Then I will release a website from the last century. You boast that you keep up with the times, but it turns out that you are keeping up with the times of the last century, haha! "

[This is possible!]

Another software package appeared.

"Why don't you compress the audio and pictures? Traffic charges are so expensive now! Users are afraid of spending money and don't use it, what's the point of having this function! Can you think like a product manager! "

[I'll compress it for you!]

The new software package is opened, oh, it's not bad, this compression technology is so advanced!

The file is small and very clear. I think that WeChat in 2020 in my previous life didn't achieve this level.

"There must be a group chat function. When there is disagreement, someone else must intervene to mediate."

[This seems to be the case...]

A new software package came. Cao Shen tested it and was satisfied.

System: I feel like I have made an instant message...

No! This is instant messaging!

【etc! 】

However, Cao Shen was cold and ruthless, and he quickly sent the software package to the open source community, together with the "Waterfall Flow" website module.

Although the deception system has built an instant messaging module, Cao Shen does not intend to make a fortune by building WeChat.

There are not too many people doing this now, and they are all big guys with deep pockets of money and resources, such as operators, mobile phone manufacturers, TT that has been launched...

Although the functions are still extremely poor, and no one company dominates the world, I definitely can't do it as a bachelor.

After solving the product problem, Cao Shen sneaked into major university forums to post recruitment posts.

Now that there is a technology media website, we have to hire several editors to fill in the content.

Now is the time for fresh graduates to find jobs, and Cao Shen plans to hire five editors and ten interns!

The requirements are simple: "Be able to translate English science and technology reports."

The level of people recruited by the school was limited, and Cao Shen really had no hope that he would be able to write a manuscript if he recruited them.

Therefore, he plans to be a "news porter" and directly translate the content of American technology websites.

The Internet in the United States developed early and is very prosperous. It has a strong sense of innovation and a good entrepreneurial atmosphere.

They also pioneered the mobile Internet, although according to Cao Shen's previous life, domestic mobile Internet caught up from behind, leaving the world far behind by N positions.

But isn’t it still in the early days? Even in China in 2010, it started with “borrowing”.

For example, what Weibo is to Twitter, everyone is to Must Die...

Therefore, in the early days, it is important to have good English and understand the enemy situation on the other side of the ocean!

Even in China, there are three well-known entrepreneurs from e-commerce, education and hardware, who have tasted the benefits of being proficient in another language.

Dad Ma, Uncle Yu and Luo Duanzi all have the same birth.

English teacher!

After finally finishing his work, Cao Shen went to bed. Let's have a luxurious five hours of sleep today...

Jack Chen studied for a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. As an Internet entrepreneur, he built a social application for college users.

Users can put their information and updates online, and interested people can like and leave messages for you.

Well, as an entrepreneur who understands human nature well, his original intention was actually to make a running app.

But just leaving comments and likes makes "making an appointment" very inefficient.

And since the web version was changed to the mobile version, users have more fragmented time.

He can clearly see from the background data that the number of times users open applications per day has increased, but the time spent per use has decreased.

Mainly, this product does nothing else except publish information, browse information, and leave messages.

User stickiness must be increased! Let them hang around here for a long time!

After thinking about it carefully, Jack Chen felt that a chat function must be added so that people who see each other can chat privately. As we chatted, didn’t the usage time increase?

To this end, he studied almost all instant messaging tools currently on the market, but they basically have three functions:

Send text, send pictures, and change avatars.

I always feel that almost means nothing...

And despite the few functions, development is not simple at all.

For this, at least two product managers, ten developers, and three months of work are required. This is still when the number of users is not large in the early stage.

As a computer major, the GitH open source forum is where he visits most. It is the largest open source community in the world, with many free resources contributed by developers, and it is also a good place to find coders.

Thinking about developing an instant messaging module, he came here today to look for opportunities to poach people.

While shopping around, I found a good thing!

Instant messaging module, ready-made!

Click it decisively!

Registration is required to download the test package.

register!

Follow the link to jump to a website called "Tongcao Technology". There is only one page of information, which is the registration page.

It was actually made by a domestic developer...

Decisively fill in the company information, product information, founder information, financing information, contact information, etc. as required.

Download the development package and test it.

It smells so damn good!

Smooth!

full functioning!

Strong scalability!

Adapt in seconds!

Even voice input works! This thing is great, it's like a walkie-talkie. It turns out that I've always thought it was almost interesting, but that's the only thing missing! This is simply designed specifically for mobile applications!

You can also chat in groups!

Also, what the fuck is this level of compression!

Jack Chen was no longer calm, his hands were shaking, and he began to doubt himself.

Why should I start a business? What a crappy thing I made!

The function of the development kit they created is so awesome that it can instantly kill all instant messaging apps on the market. As a result, it was released to the public for free. Is this a welfare for super Krypton players?

But what was even more shocking was yet to come.

Tongcao Technology provides instant messaging hosting services!

5 RMB per day for every 10,000 daily active days.

For more than 1 million daily active users, 3 yuan per day is required for every 10,000 daily active users.

Bandwidth, server and storage costs included!

This is such a damn good price! This is already charity!

Instant messaging is a high-concurrency thing, which consumes bandwidth.

Storage costs are not small either, 1G can only store 50,000 words and 2,000 500KB pictures.

Chen Jieke calculated it himself, and the cost for every 10,000 daily active users is 2 million US dollars per day, which is 14 yuan in RMB.

Now his project has about 300,000 daily active users, and using Tongcao Technology's hosting service, it costs less than 5,000 yuan a month.

Has the development of domestic data centers reached the point of price wars?

I haven't heard of it...

Or has this Tongcao Technology raised a lot of money and burned money to attack users?

I quickly checked the information online,

No!

It's just this website...

Could it be a scammer? It's impossible!

Can a scammer make this instant messaging development kit so good?

However, I'm in the United States, and there will be delays, freezes and packet loss at such a long distance...

I'm so jealous of domestic entrepreneurs who can enjoy such a cost-effective thing!

In the extreme imbalance in his heart, Chen Jieke planned to get 100 test accounts to experience this hosting service.

Anyway, the experience is free, so I'd better give it a try.

As a result, Chen Jieke became depressed.

Not only does it adapt to his own APP in seconds, but also,

This is so smooth, this is almost zero delay, this information is complete...

What kind of business should I start? How much money is left in the company? Can I invest all of it in Tongcao Technology!

Wait, if someone plays like this, he must be rich! With my A round of financing, how can I look down on it...

Chen Jieke, who can't be an investor and can only continue to start a business, decisively came for a month!

4,500 yuan!

He wanted to come directly for three years, but he estimated that the number of users must increase sharply after he developed such a great function!

As long as it is launched immediately, if he can't increase his daily active users to 1 million in a month, he will kill himself with a piece of tofu!

1 million daily active users is 3 yuan. When starting a business, you should save as much as you can!

Wait! There is another link here, what is it?

Chen Jieke couldn't help being curious again, so he clicked in and jumped to the GitH page.

A website framework.

Click it!

Damn it!

Download it immediately!

I don't want to start a business again. Look at their brains! This design concept! How come they are not the same species!

There is also a small text in the website development package:

Use this development package to make a website, and you can apply for APP production outsourcing services.

Each APP costs 10,000 RMB, and it will be produced within 24 hours. If you are not satisfied, you can return it.

Only 10,000 yuan to make an APP? !

Domestic labor is so cheap? Chen Jieke is jealous again.

Now the cheapest Android engineer in the United States costs 5,000 US dollars, and the IOS one costs 6,000 US dollars!

And it can be shipped within 24 hours?

Chen Jieke began to doubt his life, especially when he found that as long as he wrote a line of code to connect the database of his original website to the interface of this website framework, it would start to transform itself...

In less than ten minutes, the new website was ready!

No manual adjustment is required!

The person is still alive, took a deep breath, clicked "APP development application", transferred 10,000 yuan, and sent the URL of his website.

What else do I need to do? Others have done everything.

Life, you need to compare, to know your ability, it's just luck...

After Chen Jieke finished everything, he returned to GitH again to admire this developer.

Damn! In just a short while, the number of downloads has reached 19, and the number is still jumping.

Early birds have new recruitment ads to see...

It is a daily habit for fresh graduates to check the "Employment and Career Selection" section of the campus forum to see if there are any new opportunities.

So Cao Shen's recruitment post was browsed.

He was suspected, is this a liar...

"Technology Deep Throat" doesn't even have a website!