Chapter 234: Filling Chicken Soup
Coming out of the school's science and technology department, Lu Tao has been thinking about this matter in his mind, now the company's sales are two, counting himself, there are three people, and the customer groups facing are mainly Shenyang and its surrounding areas, but if you want to play your own reagent brand, just rely on a few people, it is definitely not possible, if you want to quickly and effectively, hold an academic conference, it can be said that it is a very good choice, especially large-scale, the participants are not only Shenyang City, but all over the country.
The idea is definitely good, but to organize a relatively large academic conference, the preliminary work will not be less, such as which department will take the lead, who should be to organize, whether you can invite academic talents, etc., if you always follow the back of someone's ass and be a sponsor, the effect is definitely not as good as an organizer.
There are still a few days to sign the specific terms, and there are many important things to do within this time period, such as the overall work deployment for this year, the future plan of Brocade after graduation, and the improvement of personnel.
A small dealer, the staff can not be too much, generally a few sales, a sales office, even the accounting, many in order to save costs are directly to find the agency company to do.
Since there are plans to expand the business, it is definitely necessary to increase the number of employees. There is no need to think about the relocation of Brocade headquarters for the time being, which will have to wait until after graduation, which is still a few months away. How to build the company's brand as much as possible in the next few months is the first priority.
Just two days after the start of school, Lu Tao once again gathered the staff, and unlike before, this time the meeting also included several people from the Brocade computer team.
There is no such a large conference room in the office, so the place chosen for the meeting is a borrowed conference room from the school's School of Information Engineering.
Behind Lu Tao, there is a white curtain, the projector is hanging diagonally above, after connecting the notebook, looking at the watch, Lu Tao asked, "Everyone is here, right?"
The people present immediately looked around them and determined the number of people: "Mr. Lu, they have all arrived." β
"Okay, let's get started now. Don't look at Lu Tao's previous lecture for his classmates, but what he wants to talk about next is mainly about the development of the company.
After taking a deep breath, he glanced at the PPT slides he made overnight on his notebook, connected to the projector, and began to say: "Today, it should be the first time to bring together everyone from Brocade, I mean the sales team and website development team of Brocade. β
Everyone listened very carefully, the sales team was okay to say, and there were three people, Hong Yong, Liu Yan and Lu Xue, the sales office, the website development team was more, in addition to Cheng Liang, the others were mainly students of the School of Information Engineering, at that time, in the name of Lu Tao to pay part of the money, and then handed over to the teachers and students of the college for development, now a period of time has passed, and the website has also been made, anyway, everyone is Lu Tao is paying salaries, so they are all Brocade employees.
"Because Brocade's main business is currently focused on selling scientific research products, I usually have to manage a little more, and I believe everyone can feel this. After Lu Tao finished speaking, he paused.
"Yes, Mr. Lu has really little time to come to our academy. β
"Well, but every time I look at it, I feel very good about the opinions I make, and some of them are so creative that even those of us who specialize in computers haven't even thought about it. β
Listening to the people below secretly flattering himself, Lu Tao couldn't help but feel a little funny, he wanted to build such a website at the beginning, in fact, the reason was very simple, because he knew too clearly, in addition to real estate, the Internet was the fastest developing, the first 2G, then to the short-lived 3G, and then the rapid rise of 4G, and even the back of 5G, etc., all happened in just a short period of more than ten years. I have a lot of things in my mind from my past life, what kind of website will become popular, all kinds of APP, that are all things that have been tested by the broad masses of the people, people can use this to develop to a great extent, of course the creativity will not be bad, otherwise how can it succeed?
Pressing down with both hands, Lu Tao continued: "Although everyone usually has contact, but the detailed introduction and development history of Brocade may not be very familiar, let's first take a look at a brief introduction." β
As soon as the words fell, the lights in the conference room suddenly dimmed, and the slides made by Lu Tao began to play, and Lu Tao had no way to make video and audio, so he had to change the slides page by page, and he began to narrate and explain.
Founded in June 2000, Shenyang Brocade Instrument Co., Ltd. focuses on providing laboratory products and supporting services for the majority of scientific research workers and quality control personnel, and is committed to becoming a leader and reformer in the field of scientific services. β
Although the scale of Brocade is very small now, at the beginning of its establishment, Lu Tao had his own plans, and now he once again introduced the original intention of his thoughts at that time, and he was very emotional.
Yes, from the very beginning, Lu Tao thought in his heart that he must make the company bigger, step by step to the present, and he did so, even if he was still a student, he couldn't remember how many days and nights he worked until late at night and early in the morning.
It is with such an original intention that we can have the current Brocade, not to mention any achievements, maybe even many small dealers can not be compared now, but Lu Tao has the confidence and belief to do Brocade well.
"At present, the company is mainly based on brand agency and integrated packaging services, and has not yet developed independently for the time being. β
The people present, Liu Yanhongyong and a few people know a little bit, and the others are all engaged in computers, and they don't usually do biochemical experiments, so where will they understand, but when they see Lu Tao listing a few brands, they still admire it. You must know that Lu Taodi's age is not much different from that of those here, and he is also a petrochemical university, people can achieve this at such an age, in addition to luck, the most important thing is that he is willing to do it, willing to endure hardships, so that not only can he not worry about finding a job after graduation, but also become a boss, this is the gap.
For people who are rich and capable, everyone looks at it from a different perspective, some people may think that people are fighting for their fathers, some people will be jealous, some people will slander, and some people will introspect and think.
When Lu Tao was recruiting, he has been thinking about one point, that is, between character and ability, how to balance in the end, some people you can't deny their ability, but if the character is not good, in fact, the impact on the follow-up company is great, so character is particularly important, in the money society, if there is no bottom line, what is the difference with animals? A slight flaw in the subsection is not a big problem, but if there is a loss in the subsection, then it can't be said.
These people recruited, generally speaking, Lu Tao has not found any problems, and as for what he said above, it is impossible for him to know whether they approve of it in their bones.
"I won't introduce the specific situation of several brands, anyway, the brand must be good, otherwise the company will not be like now, it can almost be said that there is progress every month, I believe this, the company's sales team is more clear. β
Glancing at the small sales team that has begun to mature, Lu Tao is very satisfied, the company is like this, from small to large, step by step development, inseparable from everyone's pay, after their own explanation today, maybe some people will choose to leave, maybe some people can stay, this is the team, only the team has the core cohesion, can work hard in one direction, in order to develop faster, they can also save a lot of worry.
"IKB, Jinke, Beekman, Agilent and other brands, some have agency rights, some belong to good cooperative relations, the company's other products, is also gradually increasing, this is a big mention of the company's introduction. β
After talking about the company introduction, the most important thing is, of course, the question of how to go on the road of Brocade in the future.
"According to my current plan, the company is divided into two teams for the time being, one is the sales team with me as the main team for laboratory products, and the other is the team about website development. Maybe you think it's just a company website, it's a little more difficult to do something similar to e-commerce, it's simpler, right?"
Lu Tao smiled and looked at the people in the computer team, when he developed the website before, he just made suggestions on the side, saying what the website in his mind looks like, now that the website has been launched, then of course we have to consider the follow-up, it is impossible to directly disband the team or ask one or two people to maintain it occasionally.
According to what Mr. Lu said, the company's main business is still based on laboratory products, even if the website is built now, it is only about the online sales of laboratory products, is the company going to develop other things later?"
Some people raised their own questions, in fact, everyone has always had such an opinion, after all, Lu Tao's original request was quite simple, and he did not say whether he would engage in other things after the development.
"Yes, the main business is laboratory products, and it may be normal for everyone to be unfamiliar with them, which leads to such doubts. However, what I want to say is that the company will definitely not just make a faΓ§ade website and be done, I wonder if you have heard of e-Science?"
"What's that?"
Hearing Lu Tao come out with a sentence in English, everyone was still a little unaccustomed to it, gossiping, you look at me, I look at yours, and discussed.
"E-science, haven't heard of it, what does it mean?"
"I don't know, just listen to him. β
Lu Tao smiled and explained: "e-Science is a foreign name, if it is placed in China, it can be popularly called scientific research informatization. β
Seeing everyone's blank faces, Lu Tao felt that he had said something deep, in fact, he only knew about this because he had participated in several so-called academic conferences in his previous life, in short, it was to use computers to deal with some problems in scientific research. β
Lu Tao said it very generally, and it is not very accurate, after all, it is a conceptual thing, there is no need to elaborate, just let everyone know some general applications.
"Mr. Lu, can you be more specific, for example, this is too abstract. β
Not only Liu Yan and Hong Yong, but even the previous website development team was confused by Lu Tao, looking at Lu Tao one by one and asking him to give examples.
"Okay! I'll give you a simple example. Lu Tao thought about it and said.
"As we all know, the development of new drugs is a costly and inefficient undertaking. According to international statistics, it takes about 10-15 years on average to develop a new drug on the market, costing more than $1 billion. β
Lu Tao gave an example, but everyone's attention had already been turned to that number.
"$1 billion?"
"That's a lot. β
"No wonder the medicine is so expensive. "It's all those who are still in the ivory tower, and if you don't usually read many newspapers, you really don't know about it.
"Why is it so expensive, mainly in the research and development of new drugs, there are two bottlenecks, one is the identification and verification of target biological macromolecules, which everyone does not need to understand, and the other is the discovery and design of biologically active small molecule drugs, in short, it is very difficult, and what is the use of e-Science I just mentioned? For example, when developing drugs, we can apply various theoretical calculation methods and molecular graphic simulations to enable computer-aided drug design, which can effectively shorten the process and R&D cycle of new drug research?"
Seeing that everyone was a little ignorant, Lu Tao continued: "According to what I just said, the $1 billion in new drug research and development, in 15 years, if we have a way to use computers to conduct simulation-aided design teachers' research experiments, will it improve efficiency, and correspondingly, does it mean that we have saved a lot of R&D investment costs for enterprises?"
"Of course, this is just a simple example, there are many, take the simplest, such as the management of the laboratory, you need to use a variety of software, right? student status management system, statistical system for laboratory purchase products, data sharing of various laboratory equipment, etc., all belong to this category. To put it at the high-end, that is the beginning of the informatization of the whole society, and it is also the first application of Internet network technology and information infrastructure in the field of scientific research. β
crackled a lot of words, and Lu Tao didn't care whether they understood it or not, in short, what he wanted to express was that there were still many things to do in the future of the computer team.
"Now Brocade is relatively small, but I hope that everyone can work together, in the near future, Brocade can become a large company with independent research and development, brand operation, agency, integration and packaging. Not only that, in terms of customer groups, we must also develop and gradually radiate from the current chemical industry, analysis and testing to biomedicine, new materials, new energy, food and daily chemicals. As for the product line, in addition to laboratory equipment and consumables, there are also ......special chemicals, laboratory design and construction, scientific research informatization, etc.
The slides are actually relatively simple, but when Lu Tao flips, he often spreads out to speak, sometimes just a few words of meaning, he can speak for five or six minutes, sometimes when it comes to emotion, he will stand up, walk to the blackboard next to him, write and draw with chalk, as if there are some successful people bragging about the taste of chicken soup on stage.