Chapter 331: Time is Life
Li Feng naturally does not have the same knowledge as Shen Boshan, and the most important purpose of his trip to the United States is to open up the Internet venture capital market in the United States.
After all, in the United States, there are a large number of high-quality Internet companies that are currently in a period of rapid growth, and if you can seize this opportunity to invest, the future benefits are very huge.
Li Feng plans to use the United States as his capital extraction center, invest in some Internet companies with growth potential, and then choose the opportunity to cash out to provide financial support for domestic entrepreneurship.
In 2002, in the American Internet market, there were many future giant-level large companies, but now they are very weak and the need for financing is also very urgent, so at this time to lay out in advance, the future income will be a hundred or even a thousand times.
Now Li Feng's career is getting bigger and bigger, all the work is in its infancy, and the amount of funds needed will be larger and larger, if there is not enough funds to support it, it is necessary to find financing channels, which means losing a large number of shares in the early stage, which is not a situation that Li Feng is willing to see.
Therefore, to hold as many shares as possible in the early stage, it is necessary to prepare sufficient start-up capital to cope with the huge expenses in all aspects of human and material resources.
This kind of expense is far from enough to rely on the profitability of a few current projects, even if he sells the express car navigation network at a high price and earns two million in cash, in fact, it can only last for a short time.
This is like fighting a war, you must reserve sufficient grain and grass, capital is grain and grass, once there is a problem of capital chain breakage, even if it is a project with good potential, it is very likely to die immediately.
Therefore, in the Internet industry, early financing is a very deep knowledge, if the founder has a good grasp, he can ensure the shares in his hands, once there is a deviation in the early shares, it is very likely to become a minority shareholder in the middle and late stages, or even be driven out by the investor.
Such examples are actually not uncommon, and for Li Feng, they are actually vigilant enough, so in the early stage, he must make sufficient articles on capital reserves to ensure that the early liquidity can be maintained for three months to half a year, as long as it reaches this level, he can occupy the initiative in financing.
There was a drizzle outside the waiting hall, and the team of more than ten people was a little irritable, and several bigwigs frowned and expressed their dissatisfaction with the organizer's failure to pick up the plane on time, and everyone's attention was also removed from Li Feng and began to shift to complaining about the organizer's lack of detail.
After staying at the airport for about an hour, the bus arranged by the organizer finally arrived late, and then everyone went to the five-star hotel where they stayed.
Due to the extremely high specifications of this forum, all the receptions are top-notch, and the organizers even chartered the entire hotel to receive more than 500 heavyweight guests from all over the world.
When a group of 10 participants from The Economist arrived at the hotel, several teams had already arrived.
After receiving the Chinese conference brochure printed for the Chinese participants, Li Feng came to his room and carefully looked at the conference schedule.
The meeting will officially begin tomorrow afternoon, for a total of four days, and will end in the morning of the fourth day.
The agenda of this conference is very rich, not only the keynote speeches of top international professors, the entrepreneur summit forum, but also the discussion sessions on different topics.
Among them, "the outlook of the Internet economy and business model analysis" will be one of the key topics.
In this topic, how to invest in the Internet and promote the overall rapid development of the Internet industry is one of the sub-topics.
And this topic was inspired precisely by the publication of a 10,000-word long article in the third issue of the magazine "The Economist" this year.
Therefore, the writer of this 10,000-word long article is also an important participant in this topic discussion.
The reason why Li Changfeng wanted to invite Li Feng, who is still young, this time is because of this consideration, after all, the real author of this article is Li Feng, although this situation can only be understood and not spoken, but since it is to participate in the forum and participate in the topic discussion, it is not possible not to come up with some real materials.
Although Xie Changgeng is knowledgeable and sufficient to deal with the discussion, he has not reached enough cognitive height after all, and it may be a bit difficult for him to lead the direction of the topic in front of many top international business leaders and experts and scholars.
And Li Feng is different, after all, he is the real writer of this article, and he can write such a shocking article, coupled with his many amazing speeches before, Li Changfeng knows that he will definitely be able to achieve a good performance on the forum.
This kind of performance is not only for himself to have a long face, but also for the president of the "Economist" magazine, to put it a little bigger, or even the whole of China.
So even if the president and others didn't understand, Li Changfeng still had to resolutely bring Li Feng to participate in this forum.
After putting down his luggage at the hotel and resting for a while, Li Feng looked at the local time in the United States, it was 1:20 p.m., it was still very early, and there were still 24 hours before tomorrow's meeting.
Since there is plenty of time, Li Feng feels that it is better to go to Lin Yuting first.
The hotel is very close to Lin Yuting's William Business School, about half an hour's drive, after Li Feng settled in the hotel, he bought a local mobile phone card and called Lin Yuting: "Hey, I'm Li Feng, I've arrived at the hotel, and the others are starting to get jet lag, but I can't sleep, I want to visit your college, you don't have classes, right?"
Lin Yuting received a call from Li Feng, she looked quite happy, and her voice was very brisk: "Li Feng, you have finally arrived, hehe, I don't have classes in the afternoon, come quickly, I will treat you to delicious food, and then take you to have a good time." ”
"This time I traveled all the way to the United States, and I have to slaughter you severely. Li Feng said, "The hotel where I live is not far away, and it will take about half an hour to arrive, so hurry up and prepare to welcome my brother's arrival." By the way, if the investor you contacted before is free in the afternoon, let him come with him if it is convenient. ”
"Why are you in such a hurry, I would have liked to accompany you to visit in the afternoon, and talk to investors about business, or wait for two days. Lin Yuting said.
"Time is money, and this time we have to make preliminary preparations for investing in the Internet industry in the United States, and all kinds of things are very cumbersome, so we need to understand the situation as soon as possible and then make judgments. Besides, it is still unknown whether the investor you contacted is suitable, and if it is not suitable, you will have to find a new way, so you must hurry. Li Feng said, "Hurry up and contact him and strive to meet in the afternoon." ”