Chapter 352: How Many Netizens Are There
"BOSS, please look, now Facebook V0.1 has been preliminarily completed and is ready to be launched. Although this version is according to the BOSS you envision, it still only has the most basic functions, such as posting photos and adding friends and following fans. In addition, there are no functions such as user authentication, user promotion, and complex editing and layout. But compared to all the competitors on the market, it is already too perfect......"
Lu Qi was holding a laptop and was showing him the Facebook network that the technology department had developed in his office.
Yu Wenfei directly interrupted him and said with a smile: "Facebook has no competitors! If there is, it is ourselves." ”
Lu Qi subconsciously asked, "Isn't it blog China?"
At present, there is only one blog site in the mainland market, so Lu Qi regards it as a competitor.
Yu Wenfei waved his hand, "We Star Technology have more than 500 employees, more than 200 senior technical personnel, and invest hundreds of millions! You tell me that it is worthy of being our opponent!"
In the last sentence, Yu Wenfei was not in an inquiring tone, but very sure.
Only then did Lu Qi understand that it was now a contest between two companies, not a fight between two amateur players.
From the company level, Blogger China is obviously not worthy of being Facebook's opponent, whether from the technical or financial point of view, it is not even worthy of lifting shoes for Facebook.
The original intention of Blogger China was to give the boss a place to publish his personal articles, nothing more.
The pattern determines that there will be no big investment in this website, let alone any future.
But what about Facebook, at the beginning of its establishment, it was rushing for tens of millions of users and even hundreds of millions of traffic!
The aim is to dominate the domestic Internet social networking sites!
"Ah...... It seems like this...... Then we have no competitors on Facebook at the moment. This version 0.1 has been debugged and is ready to go live, BOSS, you see?" asked Lu Qi.
Yu Wenfei looked at the calendar, today is November 25th.
Time flies so fast, it's been more than two months since school started in a blink of an eye, and I've been busy during this time.
Now, my first entrepreneurial project is about to be officially launched, and I can't help but feel a little excited.
"Then let's officially launch on December 1st! Make the best preparations, once the website is launched, no major problems are allowed, especially human error!" Yu Wenfei said solemnly.
"Don't worry, Mr. Fei, with our technical strength and so many top servers, there is no pressure to run a blog site. Lu Qi patted his chest and said.
This is natural, if Yu Wenfei has invested so much money and raised so many top technical talents, it will be a joke to build a blog website.
"Then is the pre-promotion of our website about to begin, do you want to call my colleagues from the marketing department to discuss it?" Lu Qi asked with concern.
Of course, it is necessary to publicize that Star Technology is not a small company, and it does not need to be like many Internet companies when they first started their businesses, to slowly spread and accumulate users.
Taking the starting point of Star Technology as an example, if the number of registered users does not exceed 10 million in one month after it is launched, it is a failure!
Three months after being launched, the number of registered users does not exceed 50 million, then Yuwenfei will be very disappointed!
The task target given by Yuwenfei to Lu Qi is to reach 60 million registered users within half a year and 100 million within a year!
In order to achieve this goal, Yuwenfei will allocate up to 300 million operating funds to attract users and engage in activities!
Money is not the problem, the problem is to spend the effect!
Yitang spent tens of millions of dollars a year on advertising, which has made everyone in the Internet circle look sideways, but this time, Yuwenfei wants to spend 300 million yuan in a year for operation!
In the cold winter of the Internet in 2002, Star Technology will become the hottest and most dazzling torch!
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The task target of 60 million in half a year and 100 million a year scared Lu Qi a lot, and he never dared to think about this number.
Originally, with the foundation of ZIM Technology, Lu Qi felt that he could have millions of users a year, and the best result was about 10 million, which was already very remarkable.
Is there any website or software in China that can achieve this result?
Yitang has spent 50 million US dollars, and now the number of users is only one million, and the number of active users is even smaller.
In addition, he is very skeptical that there is no factual basis for the goal that Yu Wenfei said, because there don't seem to be so many netizens in the country......
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In 2002, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of Internet users in the country was about 60 million.
There are only 60 million netizens in total, even if it is another year, the number of people will increase by 20 million, why does Yu Wenfei dare to shout that the number of users will reach 100 million in a year.
That's because Yu Wenfei knows that this statistical data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is not true!
People of a certain age should know, in those years, what was the most popular entertainment for students across the country?
Go to the Internet café!
Which university, high school, or even junior high school is nearby, there are not many Internet cafes!
Regular Internet cafes, black Internet cafes, and even a few computers dare to be called Internet cafes.
In the family, there are really not many people who own computers, because computers are still relatively expensive, and the cost of Internet access is also expensive.
It can be said that 80 percent of college and high school students in that era did not have their own computers, but 95 percent or even more than 99 percent of college and middle school students had been to Internet cafes.
The difference is just how many times you go.
Some students even skip classes for a long time, sleep in the dormitory during the day, and go to the Internet café all night.
CS, Warcraft, Interstellar, and Red Alert were all very popular games in those years.
As for the online game, the Legend of Blooded has been online for a year, and the brothers will come to cut me!
As of November 2002, according to Shanda's latest information, the number of Bloody Legend users has reached 70 million!
This number has exceeded the number of netizens in the country announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology!
Obviously, there are many netizens who don't play legends, and the proportion of female netizens who cut legends is very small, right?
Therefore, in 2002, the number of real Internet users in the country was definitely beyond people's imagination.
According to Yu Wenfei's estimates, if college students, high school students, and junior high school students are counted across the country, then the real number of Internet users in the country will far exceed 60 million.
This number may be 1.5 billion!
It could even be 200 million!
Therefore, Yuwenfei is confident that within a year, the number of registered users of Facebook will exceed 100 million.
His confidence comes from this, and his fan base happens to be the students who are online the most and most frequently!
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