Chapter Seventy-One: Choosing a New Year's Gift
"This ...... Let me find out. John Kishimoto said a little heavily, flipping through the information in his hand.
In order to facilitate the majority of investors, better understand all the companies in Silicon Valley. An institution affiliated with Stanford University has produced an investment manual that is the same as the Christmas shopping manual. It's the kind of brochure that is divided into categories and introduces the company. The directory settings retrieved were quite interesting. In fact, it is not according to the serious classification, but according to the registered capital of the company.
The purpose of this arrangement is probably to give investors a signal directly. These companies are so big that you weigh how much money you can invest. Do what you can.
Of course, this classification method is more embarrassing because it is more difficult to find companies with similar projects. Take video games, for example, from behemoths like Atari to small workshops for a few hundred dollars. In other words, if you want to find a similar company, you need to check almost from the beginning to the end.
However, there are not too many companies engaged in keyboard-related business. John Kishimoto looked back and forward, and it took him about twenty minutes, and he basically found it all.
Lin Yan was not idle during this time. He was just wondering if he had just invested $30,000 too much. Invest $10,000 and you should be fine. Alas, I just laughed at that Jobs for being young, and I was still young.
Investors, there are really few people like Lin Yan. Most investors are very demanding. If they want to invest in a business, they will know all the ancestors of the company for 18 generations. If you understand everything clearly, you will invest.
Otherwise, if you just rely on the words of those entrepreneurs, these investors will not lose their lives.
Lin Yan didn't have that many resources to conduct such a complete investigation. He chose a different path. It is to invest in a few keyboard-related companies in Dudu, so many companies, there will always be a success.
According to the map, Lin Yan and Kishimoto John, according to the address on the investment manual, walked one keyboard company after another.
In these enterprises. John Kishimoto saw déjà vu again and again. This kind of picture is the kind of keyboard structure that Lin Yan first invested, and then depicted again, which he and Steve Jobs once talked about.
And some of these keyboard companies are fledgling startups like Steve Jobs. There are also mechanical keyboard factories that are struggling to do business. There are also several small companies formed by graduate students in partnership.
In short, two days down. Lin Yan has invested in a total of five more companies. The average investment is $10,000 per family, and the remaining $50,000 after investing in Jobs is all spent.
If Daddy Lin knew about Lin Yan's behavior like a loser, he would definitely beat his chest. For him, with so much money, how good it is to buy a house.
Eighty thousand dollars. That's $80,000. Even if the yen is appreciating rapidly now, 80,000 US dollars can buy a more passable and dignified house in Tokyo.
However, this is the son of a loser. But he made so much money into an investment. It's just a meat bun beating a dog, and there can be no feedback.
Lin Yan, who had squandered such money, also stopped. He said to John Kishimoto. You don't have to go any further.
John Kishimoto was quite happy when he heard Hayashi Yan's words. In his opinion. Lin Yan's behavior is very similar to an aunt going to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and a young girl going shopping to buy clothes. It's an act that no one else can comprehend the pleasure of.
It's like having an aunt, for the whole city, all the vegetable markets near and far, all the vegetable prices are clear. If she is here to buy the cheapest dish. Neither is it. She just wanted to have fun. It's like some people, driving a sports car to buy groceries, and they can waste a few minutes of saliva with the vegetable seller for a few cents.
In fact, even if he bought it directly without bargaining, he used the time to bargain. Maybe I'll be able to make more money.
To put it bluntly, this is a kind of "feeling".
In John Kishimoto's view, Lin Yan's investment behavior is also a kind of "feeling". It is doomed that there will be no gain.
Because, in his opinion, Lin Yan invests in one product and invests in different companies. It is really not a rational behavior for every company to describe the products in their minds.
Because, in his opinion, if Lin Yan really had confidence in the product he said. Either do it yourself, or find a company to do it. This kind of behavior of looking for several companies is not confident.
Lin Yan did this, of course, not because he was not confident. He chose so many companies, in fact, like those poor guinea pigs in the lab, there is a control.
He wanted to know which company would be successful and profitable.
This is also part of his plan, maybe this idea is not very scientific, but for Lin Yan, who has no business acumen. It is also a good learning path.
It's December 17th, and there is only one week left until Christmas time.
If you walk down the street, you will see all the shops dressed up in Christmas style. It looks like it's a festive taste.
Of course, they can't afford to be early, so they work so hard to hang ribbons, paste Santa's head, and cut pine trees to decorate Christmas trees. Or to welcome, Christmas this shopping carnival.
In fact, businesses in every country have this kind of behavior of decorating festivals. For example, Valentine's Day in Japan, and White Day. It's the conspiracy of the chocolatiers, who worked so hard to come up with the concept of White Day and decorate the store so beautifully, isn't it just to sell more products and make more money.
By analogy, China's Valentine's Day and Qixi Festival are also the most popular festivals for flower manufacturers and hotels.
"Let's study the Christmas shopping brochure and see if there are any attractive products in it." Lin Yan seemed to be saying to John Kishimoto, and said as if talking to himself.
In front of him was a Christmas shopping brochure that was much thicker than the Silicon Valley investment manual. Patiently flip through the full-color pages of the shopping brochure to see if there is anything on it that appeals to him.
In fact, there are many family shopping manuals that are old. You know, such a thick, full-color shopping brochure is not free. Most of these goods will not change for several years, and some families with financial constraints will buy some shopping manuals from the previous year for reference.
Lin Yan didn't have to be like this, he looked at the shopping manual slowly, thinking about what New Year's gifts to bring back to his friends. (To be continued......)