Chapter 2: Dreams Set Sail

This amount of money is not enough to support his dreams in the future, and the current Internet company is still in a crazy money-burning concept mode, and the crazy capital of the NASDAQ has poured into this crazy concept, which has just broken through the 5,000-point mark.

That is, if you make a website casually, you may be able to raise millions or even tens of millions of dollars in venture capital. Even Internet companies that don't have a penny of income have a market capitalization of hundreds of millions of dollars on the NASDAQ stock market, and you can imagine how terrible this global bubble is, and it will hit all Internet people in the face in the next few months.

But Chen Bo knows that this is the last glory of Internet concept stocks in the capital market. In the following months, the bubble of the Internet will be burst, and the NASDAQ stock index will fall from 5,000 to more than 1,000 points. Xilang.com will go public in the United States this month, followed by Suhu.com and E-Company.

As a result, it is clear that falling below the issue price is a trivial matter, and some even have as little as a few cents per share.

After all, the future still belongs to the sunrise industry of the Internet. Chen Bo has to take the last train of the Internet no matter what, but with the fact that he wants money now, and the situation that he wants a team without a team can only be Xu Tu's gradual progress.

In 2000, there were about 9 million PCs and 20 million netizens in the country. Nowadays, there is basically an economic basis for owning a personal computer, and ordinary people will spend close to 10,000 yuan to configure a computer if it is not because of work needs.

Moreover, DSL dial-up Internet access, which is as slow as a snail crawling, is close to the Internet cost of 7 yuan per hour, which is not affordable for ordinary people.

People who know computers are even rarer, as long as you know how to operate computers, you can troubleshoot a little bit, that must be synonymous with high-level intellectuals. Now is also the era of computer profits, the cost of maintenance is also quite high, to install a Windows 98 pirated version of 200 oceans, but the genuine version costs 298 US dollars.

Now the general salary of the public is still in the era of 1,000 yuan, and a manager level can only get a little more than 2,000, of course, it is a real power manager, not a future account manager and the like.

If you want to do this industry, you can't continue to live outside the country. As the saying goes, Chen Bo rented an old one-bedroom house in the old residential area around the high-end community near Pengnan Avenue and temporarily used it as his studio.

This month's rent is 3 times higher than his previous snail house, 600 yuan per month, which should normally be paid quarterly, with a month's rent and three months' rent in advance. But with Chen Bo's incorruptible tongue, the landlord and aunt were successfully persuaded to give him a privilege to bet one and pay one.

Next, Chen Bo configured a computer with a Ben 3 processor, opened dial-up Internet access, and miscellaneous expenses came down, and most of the previous savings of his wife had been removed.

At the same time, we have also negotiated cooperation with agencies in the technology market, so that you can get low prices without stockpiling goods. An installed order can earn at least about 2,000 yuan.

Everything is in place, only the east wind is owed. Chen Bo customized a batch of leaflets in a small advertising company, and prepared to send them out in a seamless carpet net around nearby communities, schools, and units in the next few days. Slowly accumulate customers, and this is the only way to do it at the beginning.

The surrounding buildings and residences were all swept around, and by the way, all the newspaper columns, telephone poles, and blank walls were pasted all over the place, and they were completely covered without dead ends.

The headline catches the slogan "Computer Training, One Phone, Service to Home!" ”

After a few days of insisting on small advertising, the number of orders contacted by phone or OICQ began to increase. The landlord, Aunt Liu, was also very enthusiastic in introducing a lot of customers/resources.

In Aunt Liu's words, "Now computers are high-tech, and if you don't understand computers in the future, what is the difference between them and illiteracy." Be sure to keep up with the times. ”

Computer installation, debugging, maintenance of this kind of technical work is an absolute piece of cake for Chen Bo, plus Chen Bo can speak well, and will come to things, can always explain complex professional terms very popular, and it is also a direct home service. It's much more convenient than ever to run to the tech market with the main chassis. Therefore, it has also accumulated a lot of customers for him.

The Nokia phone on the table resounded with a classic melody, and the incoming call was an unfamiliar number.

"Hello," Chen Bo replied by pressing the answer button.

"Hello" came a crisp girl from the earpiece.

"How can I help you?" Chen Bo asked professionally.

"We are a Pratt & Whitney financial agency, and the company mainly acts as an agent for company bookkeeping, company registration, trademark application and other services." The girl on the other side explained her meaning succinctly.

It turned out to be an advertising call, Chen Bo thought it was another order. After thinking about it, I will definitely want to operate as a company in the future, and it is good to register it first, and I can always use it in the future.

"Then if you have time in the afternoon, come to my interview." Chen Bo then directly told the other party his address and agreed to come to his current residence for an interview at 3 p.m.

In a one-bedroom house, the bedroom is naturally used for living, and the living room has two desks and one for self-use to place a computer. The other is used as an operating table for installation. This is Chen Bo's humble office, which he calls his studio.

Chen Bo had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and patted the back of his head, hey, why didn't you think of preemptively registering a trademark!

It's only 2000, and MP3 players haven't even become ubiquitous, let alone Apple's flagship iPod. However, after Chen Bo inquired, he found that in this time and space. Apple's personal computer is named iMac, according to the naming convention, MP3 players will naturally be called iPod, and music download tools will also be iTunes.

The mobile phone business and tablets will be in the future, and it will be 5 or 6 years before they come out. But Apple will release its latest MP3 player next year at the latest, which is also a milestone, and that is a profit worth tens of billions of dollars.

Take down these two trademarks first, I believe that Apple, a wealthy and handsome company in the technology industry, will not be stingy with the trademark transfer fee.

Well, there is also the brand name of Anycall, the mobile phone business of South Korea's Samsung company, which is used in the Asia-Pacific region, and mobile phones can be made into bombs, and they can't be easily let go.

By the way, you can also preemptively register domain names, although international top-level domains have been squatted, and it is now a stagnant period of Internet development, as long as the cold winter period of these two years has passed. The explosion of the Internet has a huge demand for domain names.

Single-spell top-level domain names have long been sold out, such as the famous ones, which have been auctioned at sky-high prices, close to tens of millions of dollars.

Domain name registration is very simple and cheap, and the .cn domain name of Huaxia country top-level domain only costs 6 yuan. The .com registration of an international top-level domain is only 25. However, this is a one-year fee, and if you do not renew it in the second year, it will be automatically opened after 90 days.