Chapter 158 The Oligarchic Theory and the Time Window

After returning from Nanhang City, Li Feng became more optimistic about the prospects of the Baibao.com project.

The current era of Baibao.com, than the previous world of Baibao.com, in terms of innate conditions are much superior, the whole project not only has two million start-up funds, but also a full year earlier than the original, to win a more favorable time window.

For the fast-growing Internet industry, time is magical.

One year is the vicissitudes of change, and three years can recreate an industry. In this context, if you miss a time window, you may miss the opportunity period for the development of the entire industry, and when you want to enter again, there is no chance at all.

There is a saying that "a few days in the mountains, a thousand years in the world." ”

For the Internet industry, this sentence is really appropriate, so Internet entrepreneurship is often a race against time, which is almost like the 100-meter race of the Olympic Games.

This characteristic of the Internet also makes it the final pattern of a monopoly or duopoly natural monopoly after the end of the reclamation of a field.

This situation was not common at the beginning of the birth of the Internet industry, but with the in-depth development of the Internet industry, especially the emergence of the mobile Internet in the future, the natural monopoly characteristics of the Internet industry have been brought into full play.

For this industry, due to its virtualization and convenience, it has a natural advantage in integrating resources, which is incomparable to the offline physical industry.

Therefore, once the Internet becomes an oligopoly, it will continue to grow through mergers and acquisitions, completely driving out small and micro competitors in the same industry, and forming a "winner-takes-all" situation. The opportunity in this industry disappears completely, which in turn becomes the basis for the next opportunity.

It is precisely based on this characteristic that there is no situation in the Internet field where ants and elephants dance together, and often there are only "ants" in the opening period and "elephants" in the mature period.

Because in the face of a huge digital wave, all Internet companies must grow rapidly like a balloon, otherwise it is easy to be swallowed up by the digital wave that hits at any time.

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This trip to Nanhang, the harvest was very big, so that Li Feng met the legendary dream entrepreneurial team of Baibao.com.

The people in this team all have dreams in their hearts, and you can see from their expressions and life conditions that they do have something different.

The only bad impression was that the dishes made by Long Yu at noon that day were really unpalatable.

Li Feng, who returned to Immortal Lake City, did not stop, and he immediately started relevant actions.

First of all, the most important thing is the cooperation between the express navigation network and the Galaxy Browser, which is related to the development of the two companies and must be implemented as soon as possible.

So he immediately went to Xianhu University to discuss cooperation with Xue Guoqiang.

At this moment, in the Youth Entrepreneurship Center of Xianhu University, a large number of companies have entered the busy stage before the Spring Festival. Facing the end of the year, everyone wants to fight a good battle and lay the foundation for next year's development.

The office area with people coming and going makes people feel a little drained, and all companies are in full swing. Especially for those companies with good growth, the office area of thirty or forty square meters is far from meeting the demand.

In the office of Galaxy Software Company, with the gradual expansion of business volume at this time, all kinds of materials have been piled up, and a small office area is piled up, and at first glance, there is a sense of immediate vision of a warehouse.

When Li Feng came to the company, Xue Guoqiang was discussing some of the design ideas for the browser upgrade with his two subordinates.

"Yo, Li Feng, you're here, we just talked about you. Xue Guoqiang saw Li Feng walk into the office and said.

Pan Xiaoyan got up and poured Li Feng a cup of tea: "We are in a meeting, I wanted to hear your opinion, but I didn't expect you to come." ”

"It's better to come early than to come at a good time. Li Feng said with a smile, "Uncle Xue, the Galaxy Browser has done quite successfully." ”

Xue Guoqiang's face was full of red light, and the good performance of the Galaxy Browser this time fully proved the wisdom of Li Feng's opinion: "Li Feng, it's all thanks to you, our Galaxy Browser market has a very good response, and the recent data is rising, which can be said to have fired the company's first shot." ”

Li Feng is not surprised, although such data is very amazing in the early days of the Internet, but in the future mobile Internet era, it will be mediocre.

"Uncle Xue, this fully shows that our software design ideas are correct, the market has given the best answer, and then as long as it is steady and steady, the market share of Galaxy Browser can be steadily improved. If the market share of Galaxy Browser can reach the top three within a year, Galaxy Software Company will be a bit famous in the industry. Li Feng said.

"Can you really make it to the top three?" asked Huang Wenchao happily.

"Judging from the current development trend, it is only a matter of time before we get into the top three. Li Feng said, "It's not impossible to win the championship within a year." ”

Li Feng's words gave a great encouragement to everyone present.

The outlook for Galaxy Browser is indeed optimistic, and the market response has greatly exceeded expectations, but as a micro-company of only three people, everyone is not ready to develop a famous software.

"But now there is a new problem. Pan Xiaoyan's expression was not so optimistic, "I just received a notice from Youpin Software Park, the largest software publishing website in China, that they will charge channel fees for the download business of Galaxy Browser, otherwise the software will be removed from the shelves immediately." ”

As soon as this question was mentioned, Xue Guoqiang's expression was not very happy: "Li Feng, this is the news I just received yesterday, and this matter also gives us a lot of headaches. For software with more than 100,000 downloads, Youpin Software Park will try its best to collect channel promotion fees in various ways. The number of downloads of our Galaxy browser has exceeded 500,000, and they are all on their download list, which has become the focus of attention, so it is indeed impossible not to charge. ”

The software website makes a profit by charging download channel fees, which is understandable in itself, but the fees charged by the excellent software park are quite high, reaching two cents each time, which is a bit unauthentic.

And there is also a very important problem, the download data of the website is opaque, that is to say, it can be falsified at will, even if it is not a large-scale fraud, mixed with 10% water, it is really imperceptible.

In the past, it was true that after paying the promotion fee, some software found that the Youpin Software Park was greasy and cheated on the download data, which once plunged the largest software download platform in China into the whirlpool of public opinion, and even suffered a lawsuit because of this matter, which caused a stir.

However, at present, Youpin Software Network is still the largest comprehensive software download site in China, with a very high market share in China, once exceeding 80%.

Other software download websites on the Internet, although they do not charge download fees, but due to non-standard operations, they often bundle rogue software in the software download link, and even secretly add Trojan horse programs to seek illegal benefits.

Due to the dominance of the software network, resulting in the lack of bargaining power in the business negotiation of the customer, the business negotiation strategy of the software network is a sentence: ignore and ignore.

The so-called "ignorance" means that no matter what the customer says, they have to insist on charging for two cents each download, and if they can't meet their requirements, they don't say a word, and immediately take the software offline, and they won't give any buffer room at all, which is simply domineering.

Li Feng knows that the lifespan of this excellent software network is not long.

At the beginning, I was also a user of this website, but around 2004, the website continued to decline because of its reputation, coupled with its consistent tsundere strategy, which led to the collective withdrawal of customers and fell into trouble, and finally was bought by others only for a few million, and then it has been tepid and ignored.

It can be said that this website is completely naΓ―ve in terms of business negotiation strategy, and has offended a large number of Internet industry bulls, including a large number of future Internet giants.

Lacking a win-win attitude of sharing a house, how can it be mixed.

However, in 2002 at that time, it was still quite good, and it can be said that it almost monopolized the entire software download industry.

This also fully proves the cruelty of the Internet competition ecology, and the once top website can quickly sink into a garbage after a year or two.

"We currently have no other promotion channels other than the excellent software network?" Li Feng asked.

Xue Guoqiang shook his head: "Youpin Software Network is currently the best promotion channel, and the other channels together are less than one-fifth of theirs." So once this channel is broken, we lose a lot. ”

Huang Wenchao then added: "According to the current calculation, if our software wants to continue to be promoted on the excellent software network, we must pay at least 100,000 yuan in promotion fees, which is quite high, Lao Xue, the registered capital of our company is only 200,000, and the money for this promotion is a bit unjust, what should I do?"

"But if you don't hand it over, if the software is removed from the shelves, the promotion work will be greatly affected, and it is even likely to stop. Pan Xiaoyan said, "For large software companies with rich product lines, the success of a software does not have a big impact, but our Galaxy Software Company only has the Galaxy Browser, and its market prospects directly affect the survival of our company, so our situation is very passive." ”

Huang Wenchao grabbed his hair, his expression looking very annoyed.

Xue Guoqiang thought about it, felt a little entangled, and asked: "Xiaoyan, can you let the price of Youpin Software Network drop the price, 50,000, this is the limit of what I can accept, and I can't talk about it more." ”