In August 1999, two Harvard Business School graduates, Shao Yibo and Tan Haiyin, founded eBay in Shanghai, China.

In January 2000, according to the results of CNNIC's fifth "Statistical Survey on the Development of China's Internet Network", eBay ranked first among domestic auction websites in terms of votes, and eBay became the most popular auction website in China.

In July 2000, eBay launched a personal online store service.

This is not the information in Lin Feng's mind, but the information found on the Internet. Lin Feng, who had nothing to do, decided on one of the 120-square-meter residences after reviewing several offices that Cheng Peijia had found. After entrusting a decoration company to decorate and be supervised by Cheng Peijia, Lin Feng sat in front of the computer for the first time in half a year.

As soon as I went online, I found out that eBay had launched a personal online store service.

eBay, once the No.1 of China's online trading, but unfortunately it was surpassed by Taobao because of successive scandals such as leakage of customer information and fraud and credit swiping, and the latter zuihou became the No.1 of China's online trading, accounting for 80% of China's online trading market share. It is said that the number of transactions per day is millions, and the cumulative amount is 400 million yuan.

By the way, I can start a personal online store to promote my upcoming Chinese version of CS Counter-Strike. - Lin Feng snapped his fingers.

Apply for an account, create a username, upload a copy of your ID, and wait for review.

However, at this time, eBay only provides a trading platform, and after the two parties reach a preliminary transaction online, they will also make offline contact to determine the payment methods of both parties. This is a very test of character, good character can buy high-quality and inexpensive goods; The character is not good, and it is okay to give you a defective product, and some of the money goes directly to the empty people.

At this time, online transactions, because third-party transaction credit platforms such as Alipay have not yet been launched, there is no guarantee at all in terms of integrity system and security.

Maybe I can also build an online trading platform now, and with the future trend of eBay, I can definitely surpass it to become the No.1 online trading platform in China. -- Lin Feng silently calculated the feasibility.

In the initial stage, you only need a server, open 10M optical fiber, hire a website maintenance staff, and a data management person. After the development and the number of users increases, it is natural to expand the server and bandwidth.

After careful consideration, Lin Feng decided that this jihua was feasible, but he needed to register another network company.

Hey! This is.

When Lin Feng was about to go online, he unexpectedly caught a glimpse of another important financial news.

In April 2000, PetroChina went public overseas and signed an agreement with major Western oil companies such as Shell, Exxon and BP Amoco to operate 2,000 gas stations in exchange for its capital contribution as a strategic investor.

Lin Feng remembers that at the end of the year, Sinopec Co. Ltd. would also go public overseas, and the two of China's most profitable oil companies went public overseas in the same year, and then began to buy Jihua gas stations across the country. Many people have made a small profit because of this.

However, even the acquisition seems to have been made in 2004, so it's still early, and it's not in a hurry now. When Sinopec and PetroChina start to buy Jihua nationwide, they will knock a hard shot. The two monopolies have made so much money from the common people, and it is not an exaggeration to seek justice on behalf of the countrymen.

After finalizing his jihua, Lin Feng found Accountant Zhang and calculated the company's current fund balance.

750,000. After establishing Lin's Catering and Entertainment Co., Ltd., six "killing clubs" and buying a house for his mother with 200,000 yuan, Lin Feng still had 750,000 yuan in cash left.

Among them, the budget of 150,000 yuan should be reserved for the first barbecue city in the Blue Special Economic Zone; 100,000 yuan is reserved for the flower tea processing factory, counting 100,000 yuan of working capital, Lin Feng's actual use of funds is about 400,000 yuan. However, for his future catering, he has to set aside 300,000 yuan of start-up capital, so that the maximum amount of money he can use is 100,000 yuan.

In Chu City in August 2000, the telecommunications department had begun to brew broadband services, and ADSL had begun to appear in the advertising campaigns of the telecommunications department. However, at this time, the 512K bandwidth home installation also costs 308 yuan for initial installation, sending a caller ID phone and a cat, the annual network usage fee is 600 yuan, and the monthly time limit is 200 hours.

As for the optical fiber of Internet cafes, due to line problems, except for a few Internet cafes near the telecommunications room in the urban area that have installed optical fiber, most of the other Internet cafes still have a wait-and-see attitude. After all, at this time, it is still the world of LAN games, and although online games have appeared in the future "Stone Age", which is all the rage in the future, it has not yet been popularized in Chu City.

Age of Empires and StarCraft are the absolute mainstream. The real explosion of online games came after the advent of Legend, a Korean kimchi game. But that was a year later.

In order to open optical fiber conveniently, Lin Feng spent 800 yuan to rent a 100-square-meter house in the city center near the telecommunications room, and after a simple renovation, Lin Feng's first network company was born here.

Lin Feng recruited a fresh graduate majoring in network information, and also recruited an archivist, and he was temporarily responsible for daily management. After all, the Internet company has only just been established, and there is little to worry about in the early stage.

After that, I hired a network company to help design the web page, and then spent 20,000 yuan to buy a server, opened a 10M exclusive optical fiber installation fee of 20,000 yuan, and 60,000 yuan of optical fiber usage fee per year.

Lin Feng knew that this was an ironclad loss in the early stage, but with Lin Feng's current assets and company scale, he could still afford a loss of more than 100,000 yuan a year. As long as you persist until the number of registered members reaches a certain number, it will definitely be a source of money. Not only can advertising revenue make a lot of money, but also the cash retention of the daily transaction volume can bring Lin Feng a large amount of capital turnover.

Of course, this is not possible now. The country has not yet launched online banking services, and only after the launch of online banking services and the purchase of third-party credit platforms such as Alipay, all this is no longer a dream. Although this kind of money collection method is not as much as the money of listed companies, it is safe and above board.

As for the company name, Lin Feng directly stole the name and domain name of Taobao, which was launched three years later. www.taobao., which is the international domain name of Linfeng Network Company. However, although the website has been established, there are no merchants to join for the time being. While letting the two of his subordinates go to major forums to advertise, Lin Feng became the first member of his online trading platform to open a store.

CS Counter-Strike, Shijie's No. 1 online battle first-person shooter, will be released on September 15. Pre-order as soon as possible. ――In the most conspicuous position on Taobao, Lin Feng marked the most conspicuous advertisement for his products.