What Wei Mingrang didn't know was that on the day the school intranet was opened, the competitors in his imagination had just come up with the idea.

On December 1, 2005, Wang Xing, who originally created the school's intranet, saw an article about the American social networking site Facebook and decided to imitate it in China.

Then Wang Xing took two other classmates to follow the same example, and it took only a week to launch the Chinese version of Facebook, which was originally the historical school intranet, on December 8.

And now after Wei Mingrang's rebirth, Wang Xing, who is in Beijing, just like the original history, saw an article about Facebook in the afternoon and had the idea of imitating it.

Then Wang Xing called his classmate Wang Huiwen and wanted to pull him to create a domestic version of Facebook together, and even thought of the name, which was called the school intranet.

However, after listening to Wang Xing's endless excited explanation, Wang Huiwen said to Wang Xing on the phone: "Your idea is late, someone in China has already launched the school intranet, and it is today." ”

Wang Xing was stunned, and said in disbelief: "Is it really fake?

Wang Huiwen said: "If you don't believe it, you can read it on the Internet yourself, the name of the website is the same as you think, it is also called the school intranet, Sohu, Sina, and NetEase have all published news." And the person who founded the website is very famous on the Internet, have you heard the song "I Believe"? It is the original creator of this song, Ming Qiao, launched the school intranet today, and released his second new song on the school intranet, the quality is very high, and now it is estimated that the number of people registered in the school intranet has already exceeded 10,000. Moreover, Ming Qiao is also the author of the online novel "Buddha is the Way", and there may be tens of millions of readers in the online novel industry, and the traffic and registration number of the school intranet will continue to soar in the next period of time. You're a step too late, you don't have a chance!"

Putting down the phone, Wang Xing still couldn't believe that there was such a coincidence.

He just came up with the idea today, and it turns out that someone else has already launched the school intranet today, and even the name and website are the same as his idea.

He is a doctor who came back from the United States, and he has just thought of imitating Facebook, and some people in China think of this like him, and the time and name are really too coincidental.

Wang Xing, who didn't believe in evil, hurriedly checked it on the Internet, and then was depressed to find that Wang Huiwen was right, and he had no chance.

Wang Xing is actually a rich second generation, his family has a cement factory with an annual output of 2 million tons, and the investment in the factory reached more than 600 million yuan.

Therefore, Wang Xing became one of the first people in the local area to have a personal computer, and he was also the most proficient in computers in the local area, so he was directly sent to the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, and later went to the United States to study for a doctorate in computer science.

It was through the study of Silicon Valley Internet companies in the United States that Wang Xing figured out the idea of returning to China to imitate and copy the model of Silicon Valley Internet companies and create a time gap between China and the United States.

At this time, Wang Xing had just returned to Beijing not long ago, and then today he aimed at Facebook to determine the first object of imitation.

Unexpectedly, there are still people who want to be in front of him, and they have already put it into practice.

If Wang Xing, an ordinary entrepreneur, is not so frustrated, he can find a few students who are proficient in programming to get the website out in three or five days, and then use their reputation at Tsinghua University and the funds in their hands to promote and spread and squeeze out competitors.

But after searching the Internet just now and checking the information of the boss Ming Qiao on the school's intranet, Wang Xing can only admit that he has no chance at all.

Because Ming Qiao is not an ordinary entrepreneur, he is a god-level writer in the online novel industry, with tens of millions of readers, and countless fellow authors to help him recommend him.

At the same time, Ming Qiao is also a pop singer who became famous with one song, and the second song is also of very high quality, and he also used his first release on the school intranet to drive traffic on the school intranet.

Mingqiao's own fame played a role in the early days of the website, which was difficult for Wang Xing to reach.

No matter how rich he is, he can't compete with Wei Mingrang's fame.

What's more, it was his father who was rich, not him.

His father always wanted him to go back to inherit the management of the cement factory, and did not support him to engage in the Internet.

Therefore, the family will not take a large amount of money to support him to start a business in the Internet area, Wang Xing's start-up capital is only more than 1 million yuan obtained by saving pocket money and New Year's money.

More than 1 million in 2005 is naturally a super big money and a millionaire for ordinary people, but it is completely impossible to burn money in the Internet industry, especially if you want to compete with Internet celebrities like Ming Qiao.

It is said that Qiao's monthly electronic manuscript fee for "Buddha is the Way" is more than 100,000 yuan, and Wang Xing has no advantage in terms of funds, let alone Qiao's reputation on the Internet.

If it took a year for Wang Xing to set up his own school intranet to increase the number of registered users to 1 million, Mingqiao's school intranet may take less than a month.

Unless he can convince his father to invest tens of millions of dollars, and then carry out overwhelming publicity and promotion in the national media and on campus, it is possible to compete with Mingqiao's school intranet.

But that's impossible, my father would never have invested so much money in the Internet for him to start a business, or in the presence of such a strong competitor.

Wang Xing, who was complacent about having thought of a good idea, became a little frustrated.

Think of MSN in the United States, QQ in China, Yahoo in the United States, Sina in China, Google in the United States, Baidu in China, Amazon in the United States, Taobao in China......

It seems that the idea of imitating the success of American Internet companies in China is not unique, and countless people have already walked ahead of them.

After thinking about it for a while, looking at the increasingly lively scenes in the various sections and message areas of the school intranet, Wang Xing was envious and depressed, and suddenly his heart moved: "Since I have no chance to create a school intranet, and Mingqiao's school intranet will obviously be successful, can I be an angel investor, invest a certain amount of money to obtain some shares, and wait for the appreciation?"

According to public information reported by the media, Mingqiao, whose original name was Wei Mingrang, is from rural Guizhou, and now he is just a freshman, and it has not been long since "Buddha is the Way" has been on the shelves, presumably Wei Mingrang does not have much money.

With the explosive growth of the number of registrations in the school intranet, the demand for servers, broadband, office space, staff salaries and other expenses will also increase explosively, and Wei Mingrang's income may not be able to catch up.

Moreover, Wei Mingrang, who was born in a rural area and has just entered his freshman year, should have no connections, and the company's employees can only be recruited from the market, and he can't recruit any masters, but he has many contacts in Tsinghua University and foreign Internet networks, which can help Wei Mingrang contact some masters in management and technology, make the school intranet bigger and stronger, and increase the probability of success.

This is his own advantage, which should have some effect on Wei Mingrang and increase the probability of success of angel investment.