As the most luxurious hotel in Xianhu City, the style of Golden Empress Hotel shows the royal luxury, only to see a gorgeous crystal lamp on the ceiling of the hall, reflecting the colorful brilliance, like the vast stars, purple carpet with golden luxury seats, noble and extraordinary.

Since the large army was still in the hotel lobby, there were not many people in the venue now, and only a few people were seated.

The official start time of the summit forum is half past nine, with keynote speeches in the morning and topic discussions in the afternoon. Although it was only a short day, the content was quite tightly arranged and very informative.

Of course, for Li Feng, these are outdated information, and the new information and new ideas in his mind are enough to hold ten conferences of this standard.

Taking advantage of the fact that there were not many people in the venue, Li Feng chose a position in the first row to sit down, and Long Yu sat beside him.

As for Lin Yuting, Zhou Shanshan and others, they sat on the other side of Li Feng in turn.

"Brother Long, how many years have you been engaged in Internet entrepreneurship?" Li Feng sat down and asked.

"I'm embarrassed to say it, but I only started doing the Internet in 2000. Long Yu said, "I contracted a bookstore before, and it opened for a few years, but the business has been tepid. However, there is an advantage of being a bookstore, that is, there are endless books. Over the years, I have also read a lot of books, and I have become more and more interested in the field of the Internet, so I changed the bookstore and started to engage in Internet entrepreneurship. Little brother, I see that you are still a student, right?"

Li Feng nodded, I heard that Long Yu used to be a book seller, running an inconspicuous small bookstore in Nanhang City, and his life was very difficult, which can be said to be an authentic grassroots.

However, Long Yu is a person with strong learning ability, and the solid foundation laid for him in those years of selling books has made him have a broader vision, so when he saw a new thing called the Internet, he immediately realized that there are huge business opportunities in this field.

He started almost from a blank slate, and in just half a year, he founded the express car navigation network with three friends, and made money by selling Internet advertising.

However, the development of the express navigation network is not smooth, due to the unprofessional marketing means in the early stage, and competitors have seized the opportunity through large-scale financing, so far for more than a year, the market share of the express navigation network has always been below 10%.

You know, this is 2001, and the total number of Internet users in the country is only about 35 million, which is not as good as any mobile phone application that can accumulate millions of users in the future.

When it comes to the URL navigation market, the number of netizens who like to use navigation websites is even smaller, almost millions.

In this small cake, the express navigation network only occupies less than 10% of the market share, and its profitability can only be described as bleak, and it can only barely maintain the daily expenses of the four members of the Longyu team.

But it's not enough to make a living with a small website, Long Yu hopes to get in touch with the broader Internet market and start a new entrepreneurial path.

This Xianhu City Information Economy Summit Forum is an excellent opportunity to learn, so Long Yu has to come to participate in it no matter what, even if he is ridiculed, he doesn't mind.

"Brother Long, the younger brother's name is Li Feng, he is seventeen years old this year, which is indeed the age of a student. Li Feng also introduced himself, "Now, my business has just started, and I am currently the director of a small township enterprise, and I also co-operate a small Internet company with a professor from Xianhu University. ”

"Oh, what does your internet company do?" asked Long Yu.

"Our company has just been founded, and we plan to make a web browser software. Li Feng said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Brother Long, don't compete with us." ”

"Haha, I don't have the strength either. Long Yu smiled and said, "But brother, to be honest with you, the direction of my first Internet entrepreneurship was not accurate, and it can even be said to be a bit naïve." As a transit station, website navigation can not retain customers, and our website diversion is not large, so we can not make large websites rely on us, and can only rely on sporadic advertising revenue, which really has no potential to be tapped. ”

"Brother Long, what you said is right, the growth of website navigation websites is not large, and they must be transformed in time. Li Feng said, "I think there are a lot of opportunities in the Internet field, and one of the major themes of this forum is 'new business formats', which I think is a good direction to think about." We need to use the advantages of the Internet to break the traditional business format, so that we can find a new explosion point of wealth. ”

Long Yu nodded: "Brother, you're right, it's just that this flashpoint is quite difficult to find." Since the creation of the fast car navigation network fire, I am also studying the development ideas of other Internet companies, in general, the model is relatively simple, I now have an idea, can break this traditional Internet entrepreneurship model, and even can help thousands of people start a business through the Internet, but it doesn't sound very reliable. ”

"Oh, Brother Long, let's hear it. Li Feng said.

"It's about using the Internet to buy things. Long Yu said, "The advantage of the network is that it is timely and fast, and regardless of time or region, as long as you access the Internet." Just start a website, upload the shopping information, the seller takes the order at one end, the buyer places the order at the other end, and the seller sends the product to the buyer by mail to complete the transaction. This process is much wider than when we go shopping, and we can buy more things at a lower cost. I've mentioned this idea to many people, and they all think it's nonsense. ”

When Long Yu said this, his expression was very complicated, both excited and helpless.

Although 16 years later, online shopping has become a mainstream shopping model, and instead of online shopping, it will become an outlier.

However, in 2001, there was no formal online e-commerce in China, and even the popularization of the Internet could not be realized, and many people did not even know what a computer was and what the Internet was.

Even in developed countries such as the United States, the scale of online shopping is very small, and the total amount of goods sold in the whole country is almost negligible.

In 2001, China's infrastructure construction has not been promoted on a large scale, coupled with the underdeveloped express delivery business, to achieve online shopping, even if the online process can be designed perfectly, but offline will encounter all kinds of troubles, making the online shopping experience far inferior to physical shopping.

Officially, due to the many restrictions, it is much more difficult to realize online shopping in China than in the United States.

However, Long Yu can take the lead in proposing the concept of online shopping in such an environment, which is already a prophet, not only remarkable, but can be called great.

"Brother Long, I think your idea is still feasible. The great thing about the Internet is that it fosters a whole new set of ideas and logic. In the traditional logic, online shopping seems to be quite unreliable and will be hindered by various uncertainties in the offline process, but as long as the first successful business appears, it can point the way for the future of online shopping. Li Feng said.

Long Yu once told countless people about his ideas, but almost none agreed with him.

Even if there were only a few people who barely objected, they all held a noncommittal attitude, which made his heart very bad.

Today, Li Feng can be said to be the first person who really supports him, and he supports him without hesitation, it can be seen that Li Feng is in his heart, not an ordinary echo. And Long Yu is currently a small character in the Internet world, so there is no need to echo him.