Chapter 197: Skye Network That Burns Money
Faced with Xia Yu's successive seizures, Xu Feirong was stunned for a while, but his years of experience in shopping malls still made him calm down quickly.
He said with a pale face: "Mr. Xia said so, but there is evidence? Lao Xu, I asked myself that I have been in Zhongguancun for so long, and I still understand the rules." You can't see that we can, the deposit and liquidated damages can't be missing......"
It's really a little ghost, this kind of person is so thick-skinned that Xia Yu has nothing to say.
But if you really want proof, you really can't get it. He simply gave Ma Weiqiang a color, stood up directly and said: "Mr. Xu said it well! Rules are to be taught, but not your rules! Our contract is clearly written in black and white, you wait for the legal department of Polestar Electronics to come." Wei Qiang, let's go!"
Xu Feirong really panicked when he heard him say this, and directly reached out and grabbed Xia Yu's arm and said urgently: "Mr. Xia, don't worry, if you have something to say, you don't have to trouble Polestar's legal friends......"
After the previous lawsuit with 7UP Digital, especially after the joint public relations war with several major manufacturers a while ago, and after declaring war on four companies and a number of media in one fell swoop, Polestar's legal team has also become famous in the industry.
At least, many people don't doubt the determination of Polestar Electronics to fight a lawsuit at a critical time.
Now that Xia Yu said it himself, Xu Feirong was really scared, and he immediately said that he would definitely repay the 2.2 million marketing subsidies that he had not paid attention to before the "financial loopholes", and he would do his best in the future.
But Xia Yu didn't agree.
Polestar's marketing department has not been ineffective in managing retail partnerships, and has cleared several companies that have had various problems in the past six months. I also reminded Xu Feirong two or three times, but the result was still like this, and there was really no need to consume it anymore.
That is to say, Polestar does not charge a franchise fee, otherwise someone will definitely rush to ask for the exclusive licensing and distribution of Polestar products in a city.
Like Yanjing, the largest market in the country, there is no more than 2 million at all.
So Xia Yu said simply: "Mr. Xu, it's still not necessary." According to me, you should make up this marketing subsidy for your Polestar Electronics Diamond retail partner margin, and the difference will be saved. That's the end of Polestar and your collaboration. We came back within a week to clear the goods. ”
Xu Feirong looked at Xia Yu with complicated eyes, wanting to see something from this young man.
But he was clearly disappointed.
Finally, he nodded: "Okay!"
Coming out of the teahouse, Ma Weiqiang couldn't help but shout excitedly at Xia Yu: "Mr. Xia, is this settled? I'm really worried that he wants us to come up with evidence!"
Xia Yu smiled and said, "It's still his weak heart, your previous investigation work was good." This matter must be done as much as possible, you go back and draw up the saving contract first, and let him sign it first. ”
Speaking of this, he remembered the idea of the previous acquisition of Panda Mobile, and he should start to set up a business information investigation department. Ordinary employees still don't have that much time and energy. as well as professional means to focus on operating these.
Ma Weiqiang nodded and responded: "Okay, I'll do it in a while, and let him sign it today!" and asked Xia Yu again: "By the way, Mr. Xia, can we book a ticket back to Yangcheng?"
Xia Yu thought for a while and said, "Just book the day after tomorrow." I still have a few things to attend to. ”
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This time, I came to Yanjing to take the test, and it also temporarily solved the problem of A100's urgent shortage of chips, which is worth the trip.
But he suddenly had the idea of the Internet before, and he is now very interested in Jingdong Mall, and he plans to contact it.
But I have to wait for tomorrow, tonight I have made an appointment to meet with Song Tao of Skye Network.
As early as the establishment of the Tianxing Group in the United States, it was confiscated. Xia Yu communicated with Song Tao in detail once, and at that time, he was invited to go to the United States to participate in the formation of the real yàn room, and at the same time to incorporate the projects that Skye Network was working on.
In November last year, Xia Yu met Song Tao for the first time. It took ten minutes to make a decision, and Bluestar Venture Capital invested 3 million to acquire 10% of the shares of Sky Network, which was still in the embryonic stage of the product, counting the investment in Douban and Autohome, which made Bluestar Venture Capital create the impression of "people are stupid and money is easy to fool" in the Yanjing investment circle.
So in later time. Xiao Wenjing and Xia Yu often receive emails and phone calls from various entrepreneurs, many of which are purely for luck.
Of course, because there is nothing too reliable. So they all refused, and the team could only say that they would follow up later.
However, in Song Tao's view, Xia Yu directly valued 30 million yuan for his own team of more than a dozen hungry people and the newly established Skye Network at that time, which was a great recognition and encouragement.
What Sky Network wants to do is actually a mobile application platform, similar to the prototype of the later App Store, and they wanted to build such a platform to unify the current situation of the complex and incompatible mobile application market on the market today.
This is not a small idea, but it is especially difficult.
A new company in Huaguo wants to talk to a mobile phone giant, and at the same time, it also has to do large-scale marketing and promotion to attract users, which is a bit whimsical no matter how you look at it.
But Xia Yu was the first investor to affirm the great pioneering significance and future prospects of this idea, and in the subsequent exchanges between the two, Xia Yu's opinions and directions were also very useful.
Song Tao even thought that Xia Yu had similar thoughts, and he thought about many things more comprehensively and profoundly than himself!
Especially when he later learned that Xia Yu was still the founder of Polestar Electronics, he felt that he had met a nobleman.
But even so, when Xia Yu invited him to return to the United States and participate in the research and development of the newly formed real yàn room, he hesitated and refused.
The mood is different.
After many years in the real room, I now want to be able to realize my ideas and succeed in the entrepreneurial process in the market!
There are a lot of cafes near Zhongguancun, which can almost be compared with the most prosperous area of Yanjing, but the biggest difference is that the Guomao is full of urban white-collar workers with all kinds of charms, which is full of raunchy IT men.
Song Tao is one of them.
At the appointment that night, Song Tao didn't know whether Xia Yu was talking as an investor in Bluestar Ventures or as the founder of Polestar Electronics, and he was still a little nervous.
If Xia Yu speaks again, what should he say!
was entangled, and found that Xia Yu's figure appeared, and hurriedly waved and shouted: "Mr. Xia, this way!"
Xia Yu took off his down jacket, glanced at Song Tao, who was a little nervous, and said with a smile: "What's wrong with Mr. Song?
Song Tao shook his head: "That's not true." By the way, Mr. Xia, the incident a year ago ......"
Xia Yu interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and said, "Let's not mention that first, let's talk about Skye's recent situation." ”
Hearing Xia Yu ask this, Song Tao suddenly became energetic: "At the end of the year, we mainly expand the team to recruit talents, and at present, the company has more than 40 people, and the personnel are basically complete." ”
"How's the development of the bubbling platform going?
"I led the development of the bubbling platform, and the technical solution was basically formed, and we wrote the Skye MRP format with standard ANSIC, which is very adaptable...... It's just that the promotion is troublesome, and we have to get the phone manufacturers to agree to build SKYEngine into their products before we can run games and apps in MRP format......"
He went on to say depressedly: "Now there are very few mobile phone manufacturers that support third-party software, and they are very difficult to speak, and it seems that they ......will not be needed in a short time."
At the beginning of 2005, there were very few third-party software on mobile phones, both at home and abroad.
On the one hand, it is difficult to break the situation that operators dominate the mobile phone application market in a short period of time, and on the other hand, it is difficult for general mobile phone hardware and memory to support third-party software.
You must know that at this time, even the popular Symbian system is just a basic system, with few functions.
Therefore, there are few third-party teams to develop applications for mobile phones. Even mobile phone QQ has only a very simple function - after all, mobile phone Internet access is quite troublesome.
Xia Yu knew that this situation was inevitable in a short period of time, and comforted him: "Don't worry, you better make the product first." I believe there will be a turnaround in the second half of this year. ”
This is not to coax him, in the second half of 2005, Huaguo Mobile and Huaguo Unicom have released a new strategy, the mobile phone Internet as an important work to promote, the mobile phone manufacturers have also cooperated, the market can be through guòGPRS Internet access of high-end mobile phones more and more.
Of course, the bubbling platform is more connected to the computer through the number of mobile phones to load apps and games.
Here, Song Tao listened to Xia Yu's comfort and nodded: "I hope so." It's getting harder and harder now. By the way, because of the expansion of personnel and the payment of a patent fee, as well as the rental of offices and the addition of equipment, the previous 2 million is less than 500,000......
After all, in addition to the high labor cost of software platform research and development, it also needs to be adapted to a lot of hardware, even if it is done in the simulator, it requires a lot of investment.
And it's not enough to rely on the simulator alone, if you don't want to promote it if you don't have the cooperation of the manufacturer, you have to buy the machine to adapt, a little bit of research, which is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and more cost-consuming thing.
Xia Yu said seriously: "I am very optimistic about the prospects of the bubbling platform. Mr. Song, hold on!"
Hearing Xia Yu's verbal encouragement, Song Tao was a little lost.
I know that it is too expensive to do the research and development of this platform, and now Skye is short of money!
He didn't know if he should open his mouth and raise money from Xia Yu again......
But thinking that his career had just started, he finally decided to be cheeky and said: "Mr. Xia, in fact, because the R&D investment is too high, our funds are a little insufficient...... So, can Bluestar Ventures inject some more capital? We haven't made any progress, just a little bit higher in valuation!"
Hehe, I'm waiting for you!
Xia Yu couldn't help but laugh. (To be continued......)