Chapter 14 The Leveraging Point of Tiyun Zong

"Barely scraping together 600,000 yuan, enough to do a wool!"

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Gu Cheng, who came out of WEMADE, had the illusion that a "small goal" suddenly collapsed.

At the beginning of the crossing, after escaping from the clutches of S-M, he made up his mind to represent the legend to grab the first pot of gold.

This determination is inseparable from his understanding of the cold winter of the Internet.

But listening to the quotation just now, Gu Cheng had a confused illusion that he had nowhere to go.

His first reaction was: Park Young-guan pit him, and the lion opens his mouth.

However, Park Youngguan's look and performance during the negotiations did not seem to be fake.

After leaving WEMADE, Gu Cheng forced himself to calm down, realistically inspect today's online game market, and compare the transaction records of his peers. In the end, he found that he really couldn't get five or six hundred thousand yuan for such a big game.

So, Gu Cheng suddenly thought of another possibility-

In the "stall history post" he read in his previous life, the record of "Chen Tianqiao started with 500,000 yuan" seems to mean that the other party invested 500,000 yuan in 99 to establish Shanda Company. More than a year later, the bubble burst, and the desperate Chen Tianqiao took all the remaining assets of Shanda and gambled on the game of "Legend".

The problem lies in this vague "grand net worth".

In the more than a year between the opening of Shanda Company and the purchase of Legend Agency, it was impossible for Chen Tianqiao not to do any business.

With the good situation in the Internet circle in 99, it is very likely that Chen Tianqiao made a small profit first.

Therefore, in the end, when he buys the legend, the money he can mobilize may be far more than 500,000 yuan!

In fact, Chen Tianqiao in history finally spent a down payment of 2 million yuan to complete the deal - unfortunately, Gu Cheng learned too badly about history and didn't know this at all.

That's why there was the previous oolong incident.

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What to do?

After sorting out these clues, Gu Cheng worriedly found that it was possible that he would have to spend 2 million to win the legend!

If you still want to seek to give Dongyi people as little as possible, or even 100% of them completely buyout, 3 million is far from enough!

And the time for him to enter the market now is very close to the complete bursting of the bubble of the Internet winter.

Where is it possible to turn your 600,000 into millions in a short period of time!

He is a crossing, not a rebirth - he was not born in 2000 in his previous life.

The stock market, futures, lotteries, and black swan events are all unknown.

He didn't know the World Cup, the top five European leagues, or the NBA record before the 2010s, so he couldn't bet on football.

Wen Copying Gong has no future for the time being.

So, let's be a down-to-earth person.

600,000 yuan has already been invested in the registered company, and there is no other way to do something with this company.

There is only a window period of more than half a year.

With the idea of making money, Gu Cheng searched his intestines and thought about it for two days.

In addition to attending classes, training, and eating every day, I also look up information on the Internet to try to tap some business opportunities that are in line with this era.

In 2000, the tide of Internet entrepreneurship was still very turbulent, and in various entrepreneurship-related BBS communities similar to the "webmaster's home" in later generations, you could find "dry goods" to share every day.

Gu Cheng has extraordinary insight and thirst for knowledge, as long as all kinds of information are passed through in his eyes, he can judge the approximate value.

As the days passed, he gradually felt more accurate about today's Internet entrepreneurship.

But it's still one last shot.

He was a little anxious, and he had pimples on his lips.

During the S-M period, he relied on strict nutrition-fitness management to get a perfect figure, and just over half a month after he left the clutches of S-M, he lost three or four pounds because of junk food and no time to exercise.

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"Calm, you must be calm, there must be a way. ”

The cheapest rent in Guro is the smallest office in an office building.

Gu Cheng looked at a computer and a network cable on the second-hand desk, pulled out almost two packs of Hallashan, and was still scratching his hair to force himself to calm down.

This office was rented when he registered the company in order to prevaricate the registered address.

Since the rent is rented, it is a waste to be empty, and it costs extra money to go to the Internet café to surf the Internet. So this week, he moved his computer and bedding luggage, and since then he has been living and eating in the company.

Of course, it is impossible to decorate the office, so there is a computer, floor shop and rice cooker.

The pot is used to cook instant noodles, which saves a lot of money than eating out every day.

Instant noodle bags and cigarette butts swept around the corner.

Seeing that this week was almost over, Gu Cheng finally had an eyebrow.

There is no shortage of visionary people like Gu Cheng on the Internet. Among them, the group of people with the most sensitive sense of smell also sensed the possibility of the Internet bubble getting out of control like him.

These far-sighted people who entered the market late have changed their path since the last few months of last year, and no longer start their own start-up companies, but provide ammunition and entrepreneurial services to those companies that have already entered the market.

It's a smart choice.

Just as when the gold rush comes, the first wave of people to rush to their destination must go down to the mines to dig for gold.

But it would be foolish for someone who came late to do this again, because the prospect of finding gold has passed. At this time, it is time to stand in front of other mine owners, sell shovels, jeans and even excavators.

For the Internet industry, businesses such as "handing shovels and selling jeans" can be equivalent to selling promotion and data.

Those large Internet companies that want to go public need to make their company's website data look better, with a higher average daily click volume and daily active IP, and a larger number of registered users. In order to get a higher valuation from venture capital, and raise more funds in the stock market IPO in the future.

Where there is demand, there will be a market.

It's like more than ten years later, a writer who follows the trend of fiction at a certain point has to spend money to brush data in order to stand out in the vast number of homogeneous routine texts. ON APPLE'S APP-STORE, MOBILE GAME DEVELOPERS WITH SIMILAR WORKS WILL ALSO HIRE BRUSH COMPANIES IN ORDER TO BE ON THE LIST.

Since the second half of 99, this kind of data service has been concentrated in the field of "helping websites to swipe clicks". At that time, there was a large wave of plug-in scripts that could brush up the number of clicks on the website. Those who swipe make money by charging service fees to website operators.

The first few big clickers have made tens of millions of dollars in net profits around the world.

However, because the technical content of the business of "swiping and clicking" is too low and there is no threshold, the script plug-in is flooded quickly. Except for a very small number of people who invented this method of counterfeiting and drank the first saliva to make a lot of money. The follower pigs in the back only lasted less than two months, and they made no profit with the sharp depreciation of "clicks".

By the beginning of the 2000s, there were no more people on the planet who purely relied on clicks to earn service fees, and this gray industry had eliminated itself by itself.

After every entrepreneurial outlet, smart people must flee to the upstream of the supply chain in time to find the next "value depression" in time. Then laugh at the torrential floods downstream, and the pigs killing each other and turning into a red sea.

When stupid people know to start a website and start a business, smart people have long been selling traffic to website owners.

When Wang Er Mazi next door knew that he would make money in the stock market, the dealer had already drawn the standard "shock double bottom" figure and was waiting to cut leeks.

By the beginning of 2000, the number of hits on all websites on ALEXA, the international authoritative website ranking website, had increased many times compared to the previous year.

(Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon Inc., an authoritative organization that publishes world website rankings.) The actual number of daily active IPs and effective clicks on major websites around the world every day are all authoritative by the data released by Alexa. )

UNTIL ALEXA LAUNCHED ITS NEW CREDIBLE CLICK ALGORITHM, THE "WEBSITE HITS" STATISTIC TEMPORARILY LOST ITS VALUE IN VENTURE CAPITAL AND THE STOCK MARKET - BECAUSE EVERYONE KNEW THAT THE NUMBER WAS FAKE, JUST LIKE SOME GOD NOVELS IN '08 AT A CERTAIN POINT, SHOWING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF HITS.

Then, authoritative financial media such as venture capital funds, Nasdaq market makers, and the Wall Street Journal have switched to the indicator of "daily active IPs" as the main basis for judging the economic value of websites.

Because of the plug-in and script brushing in the early 2000s, it was mainly still stuck in using a small number of computers to repeatedly click on the web page and click on the links under the website, and it was impossible to mobilize thousands of computers to brush together at a low cost.

Therefore, the indicator of "daily active IP addresses" is still safe and clean for the time being, and the trust of investors and Nasdaq investors in this data is still there.

In other words, if Gu Cheng can find a technical means, or just a business idea, and come up with a way to brush up on "daily active IP" that other people in the world have not thought of at present, there will definitely be website owners who ask him to buy it, and it is no problem to make a quick buck.