Chapter 17: Paste Bar (3)
Wang Feng finally agreed, and a few hours later, he temporarily solved the server and bandwidth problem through the school's relationship, but he could only temporarily overdo it, and after a long time, the friends over there were not easy to explain, and everyone discussed what to do in the future.
"Don't think about it so much, we definitely have to set up a company, and I'll pay for it. Zhou Shi said without hesitation, everyone obviously didn't have much money. In addition to Wang Feng and Zhou Shi, but a few days ago, when the price of crude oil fell to 29.5, Zhou Shi bought another 50 lots of crude oil, bought 30 lots of gold at the price of $391 per ounce, and left about $50,000, so he quickly transferred out $30,000. Deal with the early stage of the establishment of the company first, and then find a way after the lack of money.
After the others left one after another, Zhou Shi left Wang Feng, "Brother Wang, I think this about the division of shares in our company, I can't get a lot of money at a time, only more than 100,000 US dollars." However, I am confident that I can continue to invest funds to support the development of Tieba. "The problem now is that Brother Wang is willing to join as a partner to get a small part of the salary of most of the equity, or to join in the form of an employee and get the average salary in the market and a small part of the equity. But no matter which way you join, as long as you put most of your energy into our company, when we accept external venture capital, the minimum equity will not be less than 10%. When Zhou Shi said this, he glanced at Wang Feng again, "What does Brother Wang think, or what does Brother Wang think?"
"It's still a partner, I believe you can do a good job, now you don't have much money, save a little. Hopefully we can keep it up. If I didn't like it very much, I wouldn't have stayed. "Wang Feng
Zhou Shi naturally knew that this was true, and many of his classmates and friends were either in Baidu or Sogou to become high-level executives. Baidu also approached him when he started his business, but unfortunately he didn't join at that time for various reasons. This time, I am afraid that he will also make up his mind to come out of the school's laboratory and the tutor's company.
Fortunately, I had 20,000 cash, so I set up the company first, rented a house, and contacted the server. Fortunately, with Wang Feng, who has deep qualifications in the school, the company soon entered the Peking University Science and Technology Park. More than 200,000 yuan was also expedited. Recruit some temporary workers at the school first, and then slowly recruit regular staff. Although there is not a lot of publicity, the post bar is still spread in various forums. The pace of development continued to be very fast, and by December 20, the number of registrations exceeded 100,000. More than 1,000 threaded posts have been created, with more than 300,000 posts. At this time, under word of mouth, the growth rate of users has further accelerated. Zhou Shi is a little strange, he obviously doesn't have Baidu's traffic bonus, why does it develop so fast? What he doesn't know is that at this time in his previous life, Baidu Tieba was also launched at the same time, and he doesn't know why there seems to be no response in this life.
The funds will soon be insufficient, but unfortunately the oil price fell suddenly, and Zhou Shi did not want to close the position, it was the end of the year, and next year's sharp rise has not yet begun. The price of gold is not very clear, although it is known that it will rise to $1,900 per ounce in the future, but the trend in the middle is really unclear. And I can't be too busy to analyze the changes in the price of gold. On December 22, the gold position was closed, and there was an additional $326,000 in the account. At the price of $31.5, he added 40 lots of long crude oil and withdrew $226,000. There is no way, Jiasheng Fuhui can only open 100 hands at most. Then I transferred $126,000 to the newly opened U.S. securities account and bought 60 crude oil futures directly at a price of $32.5. The remaining 100,000 US dollars were exchanged for RMB 820,000, and the capital was injected into the post bar of 800,000, and the two of them were still named Buzhou Network Company after they were combined. With the funds, the company can buy and buy, buy and buy, server bandwidth and employees, as well as temporary workers for summer internships.
Looking at a company similar to the grass platform, Zhou Shi has nothing to do, the New Year is about to be, and it is difficult to recruit people. School is going to have winter vacation, so I can only make do with it. Now that I think about it, without a good team, it was really difficult to start a business for the first time, and I don't know how that freckled face across the Pacific was successful. I don't know anything about law and finance, and if I accidentally break the law, I can really only blame myself for being unlucky.
Zhou Shi's parents also agreed to come to BJ for the Spring Festival under his persuasion, and the Taobao store could not operate during the Spring Festival, and the income of more than 100 per day was also very disheartening. Especially if you have to pay BJ. Zhou Shi didn't care about this, and was still ready to find a house in advance.
The daily active users of Tieba are higher day by day, and Zhou Shi, who has no references, is already very satisfied, and this open forum model seems to be easy to attract everyone. And it is mainly promoted in school forums, and the quality of the post bar is still relatively good. At this rate, it may be possible to surpass the end of the world in less than half a year. Of course, this is just thinking about it.,The school's resources are still limited.,Baidu's post bar has also started internal testing.,I heard that it was officially launched on January 1st.。 However, compared with Zhou Shi's stickers, there is still a bit of a gap. Although Zhou Shi's programming level has not improved much, his aesthetic is much better than it is now. The setting of many details is much stronger than that of the beta version of Baidu Tieba. But Baidu has a huge traffic advantage, and Zhou Shi doesn't know if he can do Baidu Tieba, but he is still ready to take some action.
Zhou Shi has contacted the webmaster of Hao123 several times, wanting to determine three years of advertising space at a time, and very high liquidated damages. Next year, Baidu will acquire hao123, and there is no traffic import of the sticker, so you don't have to think that it will lose in the hands of Baidu. But in addition to this, Google or Yahoo Yisou are good partners. Baidu, which was valued at just over $100 million a few months ago, is not the giant in its previous life.
I communicated with Li Xingping a few times and talked about the vision for the future of hao123. Zhou Shi first talked about the mode of cooperation with search engines, and the two can attract traffic to each other. Hao123's huge traffic may account for more than 30% of Baidu's traffic. He can also develop independently, using his diversion ability to develop other websites, such as mini games. Or you can also cooperate with browsers and share traffic with them, which is a lot of nonsense anyway. All kinds of fancy ways to die were mentioned by Zhou Shi once, because he was afraid that hao123 would be acquired by others, which would eventually lead to his own development being hindered, so he had to sign such a harsh contract. Finally, on the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Xingping was finally moved by him. At a price of 800,000 a year, in a fixed position, the contract is signed for three years, with a maximum annual increase of five percent. If Hao123 breaches the contract, it will pay 25 times the total amount of the three-year contract of Kunlun Network. is not 50 times as originally Zhou Shi envisioned, but the total amount of liquidated damages of 60 million should be enough for Baidu to have a headache. If Kunlun Network defaults, it will pay 10% of the equity, and everything will be happy.
Sold crude oil futures in a U.S. securities account and made a profit of $132,000, with a total of $258,000 in the account. Another $100,000 was withdrawn, and in the manner agreed in the contract, it was directly transferred to Li Xingping's dollar account, and Zhou Shi was also greatly relieved.