Chapter Twenty-Four: The Beginning of Everything Is Difficult
Although Chen Bo spent the rest of his time with the employees of Dingdong.com, he basically turned on the stealth mode. He doesn't care about all the process operations, the purpose is to let them develop the habit of autonomy.
Unless there is a problem that cannot be solved, Chen Bo will not directly tell them how to solve it, but will guide them to solve the problem. As long as the result is controllable, it doesn't matter, the important thing is to be able to learn where to start to solve the problem when they encounter it.
Many bosses are very capable, and they have to ask about everything, but they don't know that Zhuge Liang was so tired back then. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate an employee who can use his brain and love to think, rather than just need an obedient robot, so that whenever he encounters some troubles, the first thing that comes to mind is not to find a way to solve it himself, but to throw the problem to the boss, so what do employees do?
So Chen Bo prefers to see what they do, even if they are wrong, they will not say it, everyone will have the opportunity to try and make mistakes, as long as he knows that he is wrong, he will not make it again next time.
A week passed quickly, and Chen Bo was still very pleased with the performance of Dingdong. Except for Mo Fei's big order, there is an average net profit of more than 7,000 per day this week. If you want to say that you are busy, you are really not busy, there are only a few machines a day, and three or four people are enough to install. Because of the delivery, but also to consider the later after-sales service, not a waste of human resources, the current staffing is just right.
Mo Fei said that he had found a good place to work, and Chen Bo was still preparing to go over when he received a call from Li Zhaojun, and a venture capital company had taken a fancy to the project of Sky.com and wanted to interview him.
Before Chen Bo's words were spoken, she was hung up on the phone, it seemed that she had squeezed out a little time to call, I just hoped that she could pay more attention to her body.
It has been a month since the last time he sent the business plan to Li Zhaojun, and Chen Bo no longer planned to have any hope, but he didn't expect that God would give him another chance.
Hesheng Capital is located in an office building in the center of the city, the decoration style is simple, and the little girl at the front desk smiles very sweetly. Unlike many Chinese enterprises, as soon as you enter, you can feel a strong superstitious style, what stone dares to be, golden toad, pixiu, Chinese cabbage, galleon, etc.
He was contacted by a very professional manager, Zhao Xiaochuan, who was responsible for docking with the Sky project. As soon as the other party opened his mouth, he valued Sky.com at 10 million yuan, but Chen Bo was startled, and the paper cup in his hand was almost thrown away.
Such a small website with a few thousand traffic per day is valued at 10 million, is the other party going crazy?
Chen Bo thought that his business plan didn't blow through the sky, and he didn't know where the other party got so much confidence.
Moreover, the other party contributed 2 million yuan for the first time and increased the paid-in registered capital to 3.5 million yuan, on the condition that it was 20% of the equity of Sky.com.
Chen Bo's founding team was naturally diluted by shares, his equity was diluted to 45.3%, Mo Fei was diluted to 26.7%, and Zhang Yiming's only 8% of the equity was left, it seems that the equity is diluted, but the valuation is really improved, 45.3% of the equity is worth 4.53 million in the first round of valuation, several times more than his original capital of 850,000.
Moreover, the other party agreed not to interfere in the internal management of Sky.com, there were no independent directors, and the voting rights were also fully entrusted to Chen Bo to be responsible for it. Only one financial officer will be assigned to be responsible for financial control issues.
Chen Bo feels that this company is full of eccentricity, and ordinary venture capitalists rarely choose to open the company in Pengcheng. Although Pengcheng is indeed a big city, it mainly relies on electronics, automobile processing and financial industries.
Internet companies are mainly concentrated in Yanjing and Modu, where they can find an office building and basically talk about venture capital, venture financing and other topics. It is relatively rare in Pengcheng.
It is also quite rare for Hesheng Capital to offer such favorable conditions. Chen Bo has been in contact with a lot of venture capital, but it is the first time he has encountered such a polite company. Giving up all the power to you, and the board of directors doesn't have it, it's completely up to you.
If there is no financial supervision, then it will be really hell, Chen Bo will doubt the purpose of the other party.
On the same day, the details of the agreement were drafted, and they had to be taken back to a professional legal personnel to review the terms of the agreement, and the opinions of the other two shareholders were also required, and there was no problem for both parties to sign before it could officially take effect.
With this 2 million capital injection, Chen Bo has confidence in his heart, which is enough to toss for a while. And at the end of the year, there will be the best opportunity for Internet profitability!
The details of the agreement were handed over to Mo Fei, and he borrowed the legal counsel of his father's company to use it first, who made them just a grass platform team, and there was nothing. You can only make reasonable use of the resources around you.
Then they came to an industrial park in the north of the city, at the junction of the inside and outside of the customs, and the place Mo Fei said was here.
This industrial park was completed in 97, and the Southeast Asian financial crisis hit in 98, which had little impact on the domestic market. However, Taiwan businessmen specializing in exports have been dragged down by this, and after running away with hundreds of millions of dollars, they have left a mess behind, and all but the factories and land have been emptied by the creditors.
The industrial park is not too big, with four small buildings, as well as dedicated canteens and dormitories. The layout and lighting are also reasonable. It's only been three years, and it's still very new. It is now managed by the local government.
However, from the current point of view of Sky.com, it can also use one building, and it is completely wasteful to rent it all, and it is very unnecessary. However, the rent is really cheap, and probably the district government is also in a hurry and wants to get rid of this burden. Renting a single building only requires 60,000 yuan a year's rent.
A building with three floors, about 1,500 square meters, the first and second floors are wide and bright halls. There is a separate office room on the third floor.
Just this building, Chen Bo felt that it was too wasteful.
However, Chen Bo still rented a building facing the gate in the middle, and the district government also bought one and got one free and gave a dormitory building and a small canteen.
It is a good calculation, although the Internet company is not in a good recession now, but we are also responding to the call of the country. The company has done a good job, and there is also a political achievement in the district. Fattening you up, your popularity is booming, and the industrial park will also appreciate in value, so get rid of this burden as soon as possible.
Chen Bo was not ambiguous, and the decision was made on the spot, and Mo Fei's lawyer had also completed the review, and the agreement confirmed that there were no contract traps and other issues, so he could sign the contract with confidence.
Everything was difficult at the beginning, and now it seems to be on the shelf. But there's still so much to do. It's not that simple to start a company, otherwise everyone will start a business. It is also necessary to recruit personnel, purchase office furniture, and promote channel cooperation to discuss.
Chen Bo is now spinning, and Dingdong can't be left behind, so he can leave at least once a day to see the situation.