After a year of hard work, Li Wanmin and Zhang Guilan have achieved good results in their entrepreneurship.

With the rapid popularization of the Internet, Internet cafes have become an indispensable way for people to access the Internet in their daily lives, especially in small third-tier cities such as Xianhu City, because the number of personal computers is still very small, and broadband has not yet been popularized on a large scale, most people must rely on Internet cafes if they want to access the Internet.

In this context, the market demand is quite large, the "Paradise Internet Café" chain franchise brand development is very fast, by the end of 2002, there have been more than 50 chain stores, forming a huge Internet café alliance.

Now in Xianhu City, the Paradise Internet Café has become a well-known brand, with a market share of nearly half in the urban area, and the market share is still expanding.

With the blessing of the brand effect, many individual Internet cafes now hope to improve their business performance with the help of the brand effect of the Paradise Internet Cafe, so not only the newly built Internet cafes, but also some old Internet cafes that have been operating for a period of time have begun to apply to join.

Therefore, Li Wanmin's franchise company is now doing a hot business, and the work orders have been scheduled until mid-2003, and the franchise fee and technical service fees alone have reached millions of yuan.

This also made Li Wanmin's family quickly become a wealthy class and leap into the upper class society of Xianhu City.

Now Li Wanmin is no longer the poor laid-off worker he used to be, he has become the general manager of a large Internet café chain franchise company, and Zhang Guilan, as the person in charge of the flagship store of the Internet café in the park, has also earned huge profits through this flagship store.

Life suddenly became better, and just over a year ago, the family was still worried about tomorrow's livelihood, even to the point where it was difficult to maintain even basic food and clothing.

But I didn't expect that in just over a year, the whole family has undergone earth-shaking changes, not only successfully starting a business, but also making millions all at once, becoming a millionaire that everyone envies, which is not earned in a few lifetimes for their concept.

This made Li Wanmin and Zhang Guilan feel like they were in a dream, and they didn't feel real at all.

What makes them even more incredible is that their son Li Feng has now become a hot Internet entrepreneurship star in China, and many of his entrepreneurial projects have received widespread attention from the industry, and have even become the vane of the industry.

In the evening, the two couples looked through the financial statements of the past year one by one, and their hearts were full of joy.

"Guilan, the momentum of the company is very good now, and I want to further expand the scale of the company next year and keep up with the software business. Li Wanmin took out a densely written small notebook, looked at the records on the notebook and said, "Now our franchise company has basically put in place the hardware service, and the technical team has been basically formed, but the software is still obviously insufficient." The current Internet café management system, we still use other people's companies, once there is any problem, we can solve it ourselves, but there are always those that can't be solved, which brings passivity to our work. ”

"The Internet café management system is indeed our shortcoming, and our flagship store has had several software failures, and we have dealt with them for a long time at that time. Zhang Guilan also feels that this is a problem, "And the software is constantly updated, and the version of the management system we use is outdated, and it will become less and less suitable for the requirements of new technologies in the future." Therefore, it is indeed necessary to expand the team and form the company's software development team. ”

"Wait until next year, the eastern information technology industrial park will be officially completed, the scale of this industrial park is quite large, is a key project in the city, and now it is attracting investment to settle in, and the conditions given are also very favorable. So I'm going to register first, and the first batch of companies to settle in have a great discount on rent. Li Wanmin said, "And take this opportunity to expand the company's team, add a software development department, and start recruiting people after the Spring Festival." In this case, you can make a fuss about software development next year. ”

"This is indeed a good idea, if our company can develop a good Internet café management system, not only can we use it ourselves, but we can even sell it for money." Zhang Guilan said, "In the whole country, there are thousands of Internet cafes like ours, and most of them need a complete management system to maintain daily operations, and the market demand is very huge, so why don't we do this business." ”

"That's right, when you say that, you really found a new business opportunity. Li Wanmin slapped his thigh and finally came to his senses, "Software can also be sold for money." As long as our software is well designed, there must be Internet cafes willing to purchase, selling software is much easier than opening an Internet café itself, a set of software development is completed, you can sell it to the whole country. ”

"Wanmin, didn't my son say that the time for Internet cafes to flourish is three to five years, and when personal computers and broadband networks are popularized, the demand will not be as great as it is now. Therefore, our Internet café business is bound to complete the transformation within these three to five years. Zhang Guilan said, "So if you can realize the transformation from opening Internet cafes to selling software, I think it is a good way." ”

"Transform the company into a software development company in the future?" Li Wanmin thought for a while and said, "This is indeed a good idea, but it is very difficult, we don't understand software development, and we don't know what the market needs are." But this is indeed a good idea, go back and wait for my son to come back, let's discuss it with him again. ”

"It's okay, the Internet entrepreneurship he is engaged in now actually needs software to support him, if we can make the software company bigger and stronger, maybe we can also help my son's career. Zhang Guilan said.

Determined the idea of playing in the future, Li Wanmin began to recruit troops and work hard to establish the company's software department.

Coincidentally, today's Xianhu City has supported the software industry as an emerging industry, introduced a large number of preferential policies, and began to attract large software companies to set up offices or branches in Xianhu City, in 2002, the early stage of Internet development, such a move is very prescient, it can be said that it has seized the opportunity of the surrounding cities.

With a large number of preferential policies such as taxation, settlement, and house purchase, a large number of software students from colleges and universities have come to Xianhu City for internship or work, and the entire Xianhu City has gradually entered the main stage of Internet software development.