A rumbling sound sounded, and on the last train before the end of the summer vacation, opposite Lao Zhou, there were two people.

One is Rococo, and the other is Liu Feiyan.

On the one hand, Lao Zhou was surprised that Rococo was Roselle (he seemed to prefer to believe that Liu Feiyan was Roselle), and on the other hand, he was also a little bit helpless about the god Rococo.

It's all said! His old classmates are now so poor that it is difficult to pay employees, especially the last year, the financial crisis of '08, looking back, the market is sluggish, and the website is on the verge of bankruptcy. To sum up: Working with Tencent is definitely a dead end.

According to Lao Zhou's own ideas, instead of going against Tencent, it is better to focus on the present and do the things in front of him first.

For example, Sina Weibo, the enemy of love sharing, is now out, although in a short period of time, it seems that the impact on love sharing is not large, after all, the original users of love sharing are more than 99% of players, but at this time it is the best time for love sharing to seize market share, and Rococo actually put aside this and tried to engage others Tencent.

Lao Zhou didn't know what others thought, anyway, Lao Zhou thought that Rococo was absolutely crazy.

"You're wasting your time." Lao Zhou admonished.

However, Rococo was very calm and replied: "Don't worry! Even if I'm not here, aren't there still three of your nephews? I've sent them all the business plans, including video reality shows, talent competitions, cosplay awards, likes, shares, lucky draws, mobile phones, mobile phones, and even the real-name system. And...... Doing things is exactly what I specialize in, and I can't waste the talent that (the God of Travel) has given me. Tell me about your friends. ”

Lao Zhou saw that Rococo still insisted, but he had no choice but to tell Rococo his friend's entrepreneurial story from the very beginning.

"Zero five years - he quit his job to start a business. He only had 10,000 or 20,000 yuan on him, no investors were found, and there was no entrepreneurial team. Naively believing that he would turn China's Internet world upside down. However, he is indeed qualified to say so, because as one of the earliest Internet IT professionals in China, he is one of the earliest employees of the predecessor of the "Ninth City", Zhuqi New Technology Company, and is responsible for the technical team and project research and development manager. ”

"At that time, the 'Kelly Post Office' was the earliest and largest mail system in East China. I remember that the 'Kelly Chat Room' is very popular, and I have also done China's earliest interactive knowledge question and answer system 'Kelly Lingtong', which is equivalent to the current Baidu question. ”

"It's just a regional hit, though." Lao Zhou said: "But in that era of dialing up the Internet, even NetEase's mailbox and Sina's blog could not shake Kelly's status in the hearts of old netizens in the magic capital. ”

Lao Zhou continued: "After that, he did become one of the first batch of IT entrepreneurs - taking over the operation of Kelly.com. During the start-up, in order to find a way out for Kelly, he came up with another idea: a mobile phone software that can register with a mobile phone number, import contacts, and send text messages for free. ”

"Similar to what you mentioned, I hope your software can have the function of automatically sending and adding friends through the address book of your mobile phone, and matching or recommending friends (acquaintances) through the address book."

"What you said, that guy came up with it in 06 years, and even the Moments function you mentioned, I think, his patent application that year, was briefly mentioned, that is, if it was him, he could complete what you said before, not to say 100 percent, but at least 50 percent of the function."

"The reason why such an idea was born is because at that time, the business networking website "Juwang", which was selling to gather business contacts and investment resources, was very popular, and every offline event would show some new projects, as long as any event was helpful to that guy's creativity, he would come, even if it was held in BJ, he would take the train to participate. After repeatedly comparing those "new" projects that were still dominated by the mainstream FeeWAP website at that time, he felt more and more that his creativity would usher in a new era: the FeeWAP website recognized the mobile browser as the entrance to the mobile Internet; However, he believes that mobile phone address book software is the real entrance to the mobile Internet. ”

Lao Zhou relieved his breath, and then said: "But he was just a company employee at the time, and he had neither sufficient contacts nor funds, how to monetize his ideas?" He needed a Bole. ”

He began to cast a wide net to sell his ideas: he found the boss of his own company, asked friends to meet some investors, and even said it a little funny, and he also used some positions to meet with the executives of those companies, and did the ridiculous thing of sprinkling business cards on the activities of the network...... In the past two years, he has accumulated hundreds of business cards for entrepreneurs and VCs, and after carefully filtering out some rival investors, he has called or emailed almost all potential investors, telling them that he is working on a project to 'create a mobile portal of the future'. ”

"It's a pity that the result is cruel - 'You are competing for business with the operator, can you have a way out?' Even if your idea is made into a product, it will become popular, and it will be copied by a large company, and it will be played out immediately. From the eyes of investors looking at him, from the polite smiles of investors, he saw doubts and rejections. ”

At that time, he told me that he was anxious about the short-sightedness, hesitation and timidity of these investors. Why do investors only look at his shortcomings, only look at the present, and can't think about the prospects of this idea, and dare not fight with large companies? He conceived of himself as a missionary, and the road to 'evangelism' was thorny. To be honest, I admire him a lot at this point. Speaking of the past of his old classmates, Lao Zhou has a hidden pride in his heart, perhaps because he had a ** transaction when he was in college - although his classmates are not very good now, Lao Zhou feels that his old classmates just can't let go.

"He's a bit arrogant." So Lao Zhou commented, "But there are some things that he can understand and accept." That's what the investor said: if his idea is targeted by a big company, then there is no play. Others copy as soon as gameover. Especially something like Tencent. Now venture capital, VC's favorite question to ask: What would you do if Tencent followed up on your entrepreneurial project and almost completely copied the product? This problem lay in front of him. ”

In the end, he chose to start his own business. He felt that if he succeeded in his bet, he would be the richest man in the future. At the time, we all laughed at him for being a madman, and he invited us to start a business together, but after all, we are both young and old, so the most help we can give is limited to helping him develop part-time, just like I do for you now. Lao Zhou said.

"Last year, his patent was finally released to the public, and to be honest, for a while last year, I could feel from the online chat, that he was a little reinvigorated. Because since the patent was announced, when he came home and opened his mailbox, it was full of emails of 'patent cooperation' and 'patent development', and he called with joy, but guess what, it was all a fraud. ”

"I don't know if you know this person, a man who made his fortune by selling patents. RB built the SoftBank empire, and about 30 percent of Alibaba's shares were held by SoftBank. Masayoshi Son is a successful man, and he sees himself as Masayoshi Son, hoping to be like Masayoshi Son, by selling patents to get investment, and then support his own business, but guess what. The answers of investors are all the same: I am annoyed when I hear about patents, and I have seen a lot of people with patents, but they are not reliable! You might as well hurry up and make the product and promote it! ”

Every time, he got an answer like this. In fact, he also wants to make a product, but the problem is that no one is willing to invest, willingly, the first round of financing, 3 million, requires a large number of holdings, how to play next? Looking back now, things have long since become different. Sina and Baidu's portals and communities have sprung up, and Kelly's chat rooms have been replaced by QQ groups. Someone left a message saying, 'I miss Kelly.com, but my friends are all in Sina now.' That's my old classmate. ”

"In fact, in 07 years, he still had a chance, because he had already made the product 'Kelly Talk', although it is somewhat different from the software you said, but the positioning is exactly the same. It's a pity that zero seven is followed by zero eight, and with the increasing frequency of depression reports in the newspapers, environmental changes are simply overwhelming. People around me have lost their jobs one after another, companies have shrunk their fronts, and investment has cooled rapidly. He told me that he was holding a product that seemed to be appreciated by investors, but no one could come up with the money to make it a sensation. ”

"That's exactly what I want to tell you. The products of both of you are very similar, no, it can be said that it is a template, and they are both instant messaging systems between acquaintances. Even if you do, can you get $10 million to promote the product? Even if you can, if a large company follows up, such as: Tencent, as long as Tencent plagiarizes, how do you deal with it? ”

Lao Zhou was silent for a while, and then continued: "Now, my old classmate still owes someone a lot of debt, at least a million dollars. I don't want to see you, just like him. Moreover, can this thing beat Tencent, can you really be sure? Don't even if you really get $10 million at that time, but in the end you still don't get anything. This is definitely not a risk that we can bear. ”

Lao Zhou finally said with emotion: "My classmate used to say that Tencent was his imaginary enemy, and his goal was to defeat Tencent. Truth be told—from you, I see his shadow. But...... It's a down-and-out figure. I think you have to really think it through this time. ”