When Alice finally returns to Los Angeles...... Everything is quiet. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although she was kidnapped during the drug dealer shootout in Albuquerque, it was only briefly reported on state television and newspapers, and although she received many gifts from condolences at the hospital, it was only to that extent at best.

In the end, it is not the Internet era, otherwise it would have been a sensation in the United States.

In the next period of time, Alice returned to ordinary life again, without the thrill of drug dealer kidnapping, and without the shopping mall scene of today's shareholding and tomorrow's meeting, after all, this is the main theme of life. Especially now that she has graduated from elementary school and is in the longest summer vacation in her life, how can she not enjoy life?

Of course, because of the more free time, Alice and the Posacks talk very frequently, so as to keep track of the company's development progress.

All in all, a month after Cisco registered in the living room, Sandy finally gave up on developing a more sophisticated router, and by this time she had already spent $4,000, making her already scarcity-thin funds.

In the heat of summer, cicadas can be heard everywhere, and one morning, Alice stood in the hallway of her house in a short-sleeved shirt and cropped pants, chewing gum while talking to Professor Posack on the phone.

"So Alice, we're planning to start looking for VC funding, with an initial goal of around $500,000, and with that money, the company can definitely grow to the next level, don't you think?"

Bossak is anxious right now, and he's now realizing that starting a business is so different from normal life. Although the couple has a small amount of savings, and they can raise tens of thousands of dollars with loans, which is more than enough to buy a car and a house, when they use this money to develop a start-up, it is really not enough!

Although this is not unrelated to Sandy's insistence, the $4,000 has indeed been spent. Although this amount of money is the extent of their monthly salary, as authentic Americans, the couple is now burdened with car loans and housing loans at the same time, coupled with the pressure of various insurance and taxes, there is really not much money that can be used to develop the business!

Alice chewed gum with a chirp: "500,000 US dollars is not a small number, there are currently three people in our company, the liquidity is only 6,000 yuan, and the registered amount is only 5 yuan, no matter how you describe the prospect as majestic and brilliant, those managers of venture capital companies can't throw so much money, right?"

"You mean...... The amount of financing is too high? 500,000 yuan shouldn't be too high, right? Although we are relatively small, your technology will indeed lead the development of the times. Internet hardware technology, those Silicon Valley venture capitalists will not recognize its development potential, right?"

Hearing Posack say this, although it doesn't make sense to make sense, Alice really can't help but have fun.

The Bossaks apparently don't know the inside scoop of the venture capital world.

Although they are telling the truth, what entrepreneur doesn't blow up his career when he finds a venture capital manager? Especially since this is Silicon Valley, the cradle of the rising computer industry, a typical area with the ability to cultivate nouveau riche.

There are so many small businesses in Silicon Valley, after all, the basic equipment required by Internet companies is really just an office, a garage, three or two people, and three or two computers can be registered, and the cost is really low. Don't you see, many large companies in later generations were born from garages?

So, just like Hollywood studios, it's really created every day, there are bankruptcies every day, and countless talents come forward to succeed each other. A company like the current Cisco, where there are not 1,000 but 800 in the entire Silicon Valley, wants to easily get hundreds of thousands of dollars of venture capital with a registered capital of five yuan, a few thousand yuan of working capital and just two people?

Even if they are "dignified" professors at Stanford University, this is really a bit of a dream......

After all, the threshold of the computer industry is very low, and it is very high, the so-called title of professor of the computer department...... Neither Gates nor Steve Jobs came from computer science, and Gates studied law at Harvard, but look at them now?

It was not until this moment that Alice felt more intuitively why the historical Posack searched for more than two years and found more than 70 venture capitalists before finally receiving 2.5 million from Don Valentine. And the reason why Valentin was willing to give them 250 was also because he had lost a lot from Jobs......

Rubbing her head, the corners of Alice's mouth smiled evilly, but only the voice could be heard: "Then you can come on, and strive for a million-level investment directly, then it is enjoyable." But ah, Leonardo, don't forget the agreement we wrote into the contract, if you can't find financing in the top 30 VC firms, I'm going to expand the equity ratio. ”

Bosak laughed loudly, what is the concept of thirty, even if it is to hail a taxi during the rush hour in Manhattan, it can't be so unlucky, right?

"No problem, no problem! Just like we agreed, if Sandy and I really can't find financing among the thirty venture capitalists, then you can just add money to the paid-in capital account, and I will definitely rewrite the share distribution for you!"

"Haha~ Then you can come on~"

After continuing to talk briefly, Alice hung up the phone with great satisfaction.

"Hey, sister. ”

At this moment, Hannah, who had been listening to her for a long time, blinked her eyes and said slyly, "Why do you laugh so badly? ”

"Hey, hey, hey~ Hannah, do you want to see my sister become the chairman of a super big company?"

Alice hummed and patted Hannah's head, and after the latter groaned and pulled her hand away, she reached over and touched her little red head: "When I make a lot of money, I can buy you whatever you want." Say, my dear, what do you want for your birthday next year?

Hannah's sparkling eyes rolled slightly, she was also a ten-year-old "big" little girl, she turned to frown vigorously and thought about it, and then as if she had made up some difficult decision, she said sonorously: "I want the full price of the Transformers toy!"

After saying that, her white and tender little face instantly turned red, and her big eyes glared at Alice viciously, obviously looking like "Don't laugh at me for boys"!

"Uh......"

Alice was indeed amazed by her sister's hobby, after all, her bedroom was always full of all kinds of Barbie dolls, and it was not just the stock of the kindergarten period, in fact, Sophie bought Hannah another ...... last month

However, the next question that came to Alice's mind was......

"Transformers already have? ah no, it's been released? ah no, Hannah, when did you watch this anime, why didn't I know?"

Alice was a little confused, of course she knew that Transformers were originally toys from Hasbro and then adapted into animation in Japan. But when exactly it happened, she really didn't know!

Hannah was relieved to see that her sister didn't mean to laugh at her, but immediately changed a look of contempt and pouted: "Is it good that it was just released this year? Almost all the boys in the class are watching it, I said Weiwei, you are only two grades higher than me, so the generation gap is not so big, right?"

As he spoke, he didn't forget to throw Alice a more contemptuous expression: "I thought I was going to the seventh grade, wouldn't it be great?

"Oops, hey, Hannah, I'm wrong, come on, go to the living room, go to the living room, my sister will peel apples for you to eat~"

"Hey, do you want to eat the apple, yes, yes, but you're going to cut it into six petals, six petals, don't count ...... anything else."

As Alice and her sister walked into the living room playfully, James sat on the couch and just put down the newspaper in his hand.

"Oh, Vivi, you've just in time, I've got something to tell you. ”

Waving Alice over, James looked at her with satisfaction and said, "The Los Angeles Association of Colleges and Universities is going to hold a celebration, UCLA, Caltech, the University of Southern California and other universities are going to hold celebrations, and your father and I will definitely participate." So, are you interested in going and seeing? You can meet a lot of experts and professors there, which will be very helpful to expand your network. ”

If the latter sentence is heard by ordinary people, it must feel extremely weird, for a quasi-seventh grade child, how is it necessary to expand his network among university professors?

However, James said this to Alice as a matter of course.

"Southern California, UCLA, Caltech, tsk, Dad, why did I suddenly find out that you are so good~"

At the same time, as soon as Alice finished listening, she danced with her feet one after another, rushed to her father, and kissed him on the face!

"Hey, that's a lot of spitting stars!"

"Haha~ No way, no way, who told me to have such a good father~ University Association, haha, the person who knows me is Mo's father!"

The last sentence was even said in Chinese, and Hannah stood aside and blinked inexplicably: "Weiwei, why are you so happy? Is there anything fun going there?"

"Fun thing?ah~ Of course!"

Alice sat down on the couch, picked up an apple, and quickly peeled it.

"It's all universities, Hannah, it's all the Internet, it's all money!"

Still standing to the side with an inexplicable face, Hannah didn't understand much of her sister's meaning, but there was no doubt that her big blue eyes must be clicking and shaking the dollar sign, like a slot machine,

"Oh...... Oh well, apples give it to me. ”