Chapter Seventy-Four, Toad Mirror, Bell Bottoms
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These two sentences perfectly describe Alice's current life.
Cisco, Alice completely let the Bosses deal with it, anyway, as long as the development is normal, and it is in every sense, the real development is normal, and when the company grows up, the couple will definitely be kicked out of the general trend of history.
As for the business, the monthly turnover of one million US dollars still depends on the orders won by Alice, after all, word of mouth is the best channel for publicity. After three or four universities such as Caltech are interested in buying, orders from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and even some large companies and scientific research institutions are also a matter of trend.
According to the latest information, Sandy has approached four venture capital firms, but all of them have failed without exception. At this rate, the distance from the twenty-six agreed with Alice is more than half a year. As soon as the number arrives, according to the agreement, she can add funds to invest in the shares on the premise of technology shares, and take the main shares of Cisco in one fell swoop.
Microsoft, after getting the full version of the Windows 1.0 program, is in full swing to test the system, and according to Gates, the launch date should be early next year. Although this period of time is nothing compared to the end of next year, which is a normal historical development, Alice's 35% stake is more precious than gold.
According to her memory, Microsoft rode the ride of Windows 1.0 to go public, and the company's total assets are about two million dollars now, or before the IPO - yes, only two million dollars, but the post-IPO growth is terrifying. Although the real outbreak will start in '94, it will be worth the wait compared to the benefits that will be gained.
Stock trading, this is the fastest and most convenient way to increase wealth, seeing that the Internet financial bubble will be born, Alice of course intends to make a lot of money here.
In fact, compared to the Internet glory days of the entire nineties, Microsoft's stock is not particularly good. Alice remembers very well that the closing price of Microsoft when it went public in '86 was only seven cents, and it took ten years to rise to nearly $9, and it only reached its most glorious moment in 1999, when the closing price once rose to as much as $48, but then it was no longer as glorious as it used to be, and it has always remained around 24 yuan.
But that's enough.
Today, I own a 35 percent stake in Microsoft for seven cents, and although the proportion will shrink after going public, the amount will continue to grow. If you use the subsequent version of Windows1 as a bargaining chip to slowly increase the proportion, and then wait for 1999 to be a high sell-off, it will be nearly 700 times the increase in wealth!
The hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1984 were tens of billions in 1999, which can't be called making money, this is called money grabbing, this is called money printing machine!
And that's just Microsoft.
And IBM.
IBM's average closing price this year is around $25 and will hit a bottom of around $10 in 1993. But after that, starting in 1994, IBM's stock price soared like a roller coaster, breaking through to about 120 yuan in 1998!
Then, even after the bursting of the Internet financial bubble in 2000, its stock price fell again, but by 2010, it still rose back to its original historical level, and even reached as high as $130 at one point.
So, purely in terms of stocks, Microsoft is actually just like that, and it is wise for Buffett not to buy the former to buy the latter, although the former gave birth to the world's richest man.
For Alice, who remembers these stock price fluctuations and is talented, at the right time to invest in famous companies, buy and sell to earn a high price difference, tens of billions of wealth is not too easy, and hundreds of billions of dollars are also within reach.
Therefore, on the premise that she is not short of money at all, Alice naturally focuses on new areas.
Johnson Middle School Club Building, the former art club classroom, is now the headquarters of the SOS regiment.
"Let me tell you about the investigation report I recently obtained."
It's 2:40 p.m. again, and in the corner, Maiya is looking at a heavy book as if no one is around, and her eyes are full of unknown foreign languages. Alice sat cross-legged in a steel tube chair and smiled at Sissi, who had a black line, and Ashley, who was excited.
"Or, let me ask you a question first, "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic", have any of you watched this TV series?"
Sissi's face was inexplicable, Maiya was still in the corner, and Ashley raised her hand with a smile and said, "I've seen it, I've seen it!" The TV series that aired the year before last, produced by NBC. The story goes that on a mysterious New Year's Eve, huge waves under the sea send a bizarre man, Mike Harris, to shore. When the medical profession saw it as death and could not do anything about it, oceanographer Dr. Elizabeth Marie released him back into the ocean to bring him back to life. It turns out that he is actually an amphibious living at the bottom of the Atlantic! ”
"Bingo, Ashley got it!"
Alice snapped her fingers and said, "But what you probably don't know is that this TV series was introduced to China in August this year, and it caused a sensation!" ”
Seeing the expressions of the two girls who were suddenly puzzled, Alice didn't know what kind of mood she was in at the moment.
If you put the small things together, she hasn't experienced many historical changes so far, and before this incident, the biggest change was that Microsoft didn't move its headquarters to Seattle in 1978.
It's just that for anyone who can foresee the future by being born again, no one wants to see things get out of hand. Although it is not a big deal, it definitely does not feel good for Alice.
The TV series "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" was supposed to be broadcast around 1977, and then introduced to China around 1980, which caused a situation of thousands of empty alleys and a wave of trends. Now, I don't know what kind of butterfly effect it is, but time has been completely delayed......
It's not a big deal, though......
Isn't it a big deal? That's not necessarily, if the broadcast of this TV series will be delayed, what about the future Olympic Games? What about the date of incorporation of such and such a company? When did a terrorist attack occur? Once in a while, one thing is nothing, but this trend is not a good sign......
"But what does that have to do with the clothing brand we're going to do now?"
Ashley pointed to the classroom wall, where her quick slogan was pasted onto it, and a classic line was written in artistic font.
"We don't make clothing, we're just fashion movers."
"So, that's the result of my market research."
No one has yet asked Alice exactly how she researched the market, because her words were just the beginning: "Do you remember the style of clothes worn by the protagonist of the TV series?" His kind of pants, and the style of sunglasses that he had to wear on shore as an undersea man? ”
Sissi shrugged and said, "Toad mirrors and bell bottoms, that's just the most common clothes, do you want Ashley to design these two products?" But I'm afraid the market competitiveness is very serious, right? ”
"So, sisters, our market is in China~"
Alice's blue eyes are shining: "Now China's domestic clothing styles are definitely ten years behind the world, but fortunately, they began to open up to the outside world two years ago." Think about it, whether it's bell bottoms or toad glasses, although they are the most common things for us, what impact will they have? ”
"Ah...... I understand! ”
With this sentence, Sissi also reacted quickly, and said loudly: "You mean, with the publicity effect brought by that TV series, you will open up the market in China?" ”
"That's right!"
Alice snapped her fingers again: "According to the current comprehensive national conditions of China, this TV series will definitely be broadcast repeatedly for a year or two, and it will definitely be an empty alley-level rating." Think about it, how many dollars would it cost if we were to pay for this propaganda ourselves? Now it's completely free! ”
"But it's just sunglasses and pants, so it's easy to be copied, right?"
Seeing Alice's excitement, Sissi said calmly: "After all, this is not something with technical content, and Chinese merchants will also realize the ...... of business opportunities."
"That's the problem with the market."
Alice said: "As long as we can seize the entire market as quickly as possible and let users identify with our brand, the next thing to do is to prevent the status from being overturned and the problem of cracking down on counterfeiting." ”
"Well, the problem of anti-counterfeiting ......"
Speaking of which, Alice is also a little big.
Because of this TV series, she is of course very clear about the turbulent and large spread of toad mirrors and bell bottoms caused by the domestic trend. According to the opinion of an idiot merchant during the Opium Wars, if a third of the people in the country bought a nightcap, all the cotton mills in Britain would have to die of exhaustion.
That's just a lot of profit.
Until 2015, not many people in China wore nightcaps......
But Alice knows better that if she really wants to open up the Chinese clothing market, the core problem is actually ......
"Fight fakes, ......"