Chapter 71: Let me be an angel investor
Insufficient funds are the key factor that restricts the development of enterprises. www.biquge.info This is precisely why industrial enterprises often need large-scale investment to start construction, which is millions of dollars, while the future computer Internet enterprises can bloom everywhere, and an office can be a company.
However, although the initial capital of Internet companies is cheap, the real cost is behind, that is, the network promotion link, which is definitely the burning of money. Alice knows very well that after the establishment of Internet companies in the future, the first thing to do is to seek financing from various angel investors, enterprises and venture capital companies, otherwise they will not develop at all.
So it's also a question of equivalent substitution. The initial investment cost of industrial enterprises is high, but as long as the plant is picked up, it can slowly produce products. Although Internet companies only need a few computers to take shape, it is precisely because of this that under the competition of a huge number of peers, if you do not spend a huge amount of money on network promotion, the ghost will know its products, let alone buy them.
In the first year, Series A financing, the second year, Series B financing, and then the third round of Series C financing, during which there was a mixture of personal investment behaviors of the rich people, i.e., angel investment. After this round of rounds, this company is qualified to launch an impact on the listing.
But it's no exaggeration to say that if 500 companies receive Series A funding in a year, at least 400 companies will end the year as a result of their failures.
Among the 100 companies that have survived to the C round, 80% will still not be able to do it before listing.
It's normal to think about it, compared to the total population of the world, compared to the Internet companies that entrepreneurs can build and can build, how many listed companies are there in the stock market?
If you do the math, you can understand that especially in the Chinese market in later generations, the entire A-share market is only 3,000 stocks, and the turnover of the ChiNext is only a fraction of that of Shanghai and Shenzhen. If a random round of financing can create a listed company, wouldn't everyone be a billionaire?
Alice realizes that Mr. Lawrence is currently dealing with this conflict, and although he has a lot of savings, making movies is not a money-saving business. Although the cost of third-rate actors and third-rate directors and third-rate scripts is low, this combination is really unsightly, and the luxury lineup can't afford it, low-cost and high-box office are just hard to find, and it is normal to be entangled.
Therefore, unless Mr. Lawrence wants to start with a pure small cost and small box office, and work hard step by step, financing is an inevitable result.
Although this will lead to the loss of shares, it will also lead to the separation of management and ownership. As for the loss of shares, if 100% of the shares are worth 1 million, and 5% of the shares are worth 100 million, anyone who is not an idiot knows which one to choose, right?
As long as this 5% is the one with the largest ratio among all shareholders, isn't it still the chairman?
Therefore, Alice definitely has 10 million interests in Mr. Lawrence, a nascent and unregistered film company.
There is hardly anyone who has lived in the 21st century who is not interested in Hollywood movies, especially with Alice's memory and talent today, and it is almost like playing a movie that she has seen to turn it into a script.
So, just as the deputy head of the SOS group, Ashley, was designing the slogan for "We don't make clothes, we're just fashion porters", Alice was already at Sissi's house.
"Mr. Lawrence, long time no see!"
In the living room of Sissi's house, which is equivalent to the Beverly mansion, Alice greeted Mr. Lawrence warmly: "I got a lot out of you last time!"
"Yes, yes, I've heard that your Jurassic Park has been promoted in three cities, and I know it well. ”
Under the warm hospitality of Sissi's mother, Alice and Mr. Lawrence sat on the sofa and tasted the mellow milk tea: "Bantam Speike contacted me not long ago, and he said that the market research results of your book are particularly good, not to mention the joint promotion of Manhattan, Los Angeles and Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Houston, and there are still ten cities on the follow-up list!"
"Editor Brown spoke to me not long ago, and he's my editor-in-charge. ”
Alice tasted the milk tea and said: "He said that after the book launch in November, if the sales are good, the next film is to open up the international market, and the first target is London and Paris, and then Toronto will also set up a point." Hehe, it seems that my book still has a lot of potential. ”
Of course, Michael Crichton's work is bound to be a masterpiece.
The scale of the global book market is not comparable to that of the Chinese market, which was dominated only by successful learning, teaching materials and various reference books.
"Hey, you two. ”
Carrying a bottle of '84-year-old Sprite, Sissi staggered into the living room, which was her own home: "Alice, aren't you going to talk to my dad about the movie?
Damn, absolutely damn it!
I casually said last week that a whole science fiction novel will be published next week, and now it's still a hot seller!?
Are you kidding?
Sissi had just visited a large bookstore in the city, and the trifold and roll-up banners of "Jurassic Park" could be seen everywhere in the new book section on the first floor, and people were almost always in long lines to get the salespeople to hand out the folds, and many people even imagined the promotional posters on the roll-up banners.
Damn it, isn't it just a black dinosaur shadow in a green jungle? Don't those adults have the slightest knowledge? Why are you so excited?
So, when she saw Alice talking to her dad about the book, she was the first to quickly interrupt the topic!
"Oh yes, the problem with the movie. ”
Alice smiled and said, "Mr. Lawrence, look, how about I write you a few scripts and invest in your company?"
"Invest?uh...... I can understand writing the script, you definitely have this level, what's the deal with investment?"
Of course, Mr. Lawrence doesn't know how much money Alice has, and of course it's not too much at the moment.
"I still have some savings, I heard Sissi say that you are worried about what kind of movie to make because of financial problems. If I were an investor in the film and then I would be able to provide a script, I would have saved a lot of costs, right?"
Mr. Lawrence looked at his daughter curiously: "Okay, Sissi, you have found your neighbor in the angels, you really don't owe it to my daughter." ”
Sissi snorted coldly, raised her head and grunted, and the 84-year-old Sprite instantly dropped halfway: "Hiccup! Well, of course, don't look at who I am!"