Chapter 146: The Dilemma of the Times Club
In the conference room on the second floor of the Student Career Center, there is a dark red oval conference table, which can seat about 20 people. Song Yuqi was wearing a white slim hooded long cotton coat, with a wide plaid scarf around her neck, beautiful eyebrows, cherry lips and straight nose, she was a beautiful woman.
The guy who looked like he had thick lips yesterday was also there.
Song Yuqi introduced: "This is Li Qun, the technical core of our Times Club. Lu Jing smiled and shook hands with Li Qun, people should not be disgraced. Li Qun's appearance is not very good, and he didn't expect that his technical ability was actually the first in the Times Club.
"I'm in charge of the commercial operations of the Times Club. This is our project book. Song Yuqi handed a stack of A4 paper to Lu Jing, "Meng Hansheng wants to buy out our project with 200,000 yuan." ”
Lu Jing took the project book in Song Yuqi's hand and roughly flipped through it. What they do is an Internet café management software, which is used for Internet café administrators to time, bill, and control the program of unlocking the computer lock in the Internet café.
At present, Internet cafes in Jiangzhou basically use manual timing to control the operation of getting on and off the machine. This is undoubtedly painful for large Internet cafes. However, there are very few large Internet cafes in Jiangzhou at this time, and most of them are black Internet cafes and small Internet cafes. There are many small Internet cafes on Nanyang Street.
This software fits the direction of the future development of Internet cafes. Once the Internet café grows to more than 50 machines, a network management system will not be able to control the upper and lower machines. Hiring too many network administrators will increase labor costs. The network management tool can indeed solve this problem very well, but it needs to be combined with Internet cafes to be promoted.
If the Internet café is not willing to pay for it, it is still useless.
Lu Jing put down the information in his hand. Song Yuqi and Li Qun both looked at Lu Jing a little nervously, waiting for his conclusion.
Lu Jing asked: "I think Meng Hansheng's buyout price of 200,000 yuan is good." Why don't you want to work with him? What kind of investment plan do you need? ”
Song Yuqi and Li Qun glanced at each other, and Song Yuqi said, "Meng Hansheng hopes that we can work for his company. Undertake the follow-up maintenance and upgrade work of this network management software. He is in charge of promotion.
But as far as I know, Meng's company is developing office applications for enterprises. If we had joined his company, there would have been a good chance that the members of the Times Club would have been pulled out to take charge of that project.
We are reluctant to divide our team.
We need to have our own ideas and ideas, and we need to be in our own direction, which is the passion of all our work.
So after a vote by all the staff, we decided to start our own business. It just so happens that Li Qun and the others will graduate this summer, and we hope to make a career on our own.
The problem now is that we haven't found the first pot of gold yet. The entire team was facing the dilemma of disbanding due to financial problems. Many of our ideas have not yet had time to be implemented. ”
Lu Jing smiled and nodded. Youth is the age when you can have dreams. However, judging from their previous lives, they did not succeed. If Meng Hansheng wanted to poach people, he would probably be happy to see them fail in starting a business.
Seeing that Lu Jing didn't say anything, Li Qun said, "Lu Jing." A few of us have done field trips. In the Internet café, manual control of the time and billing is used, which is very inconvenient. I think this internet café management software of ours will do the trick. The market also has this demand.
And I think that the number of Internet cafes in the country will increase, and the scale will also increase. Our software should have a lot of promise.
So, we wanted to get a sum of money to keep our team running, not buy it out of the blue. ”
Lu Jing folded the information in his hand neatly and said, "In fact, I built yì for you to sell this set of software." Only the interests in hand are interests, and there are great variables in the expected interests.
In terms of your network management software, how long does it take you to succeed, a year or two years? This network management software does not have a large Internet café to match. It simply doesn't reflect its value. Even if there are Internet cafes willing to use them, will they pay enough to meet your expectations?
From an investor's point of view, I'm skeptical that the investment will be recouped, or that the return on investment will be high enough. ”
Li Qun distinguished: "But the large-scale use of computers is already the trend of the times. I think in the coming period. In a year or a few years, many large Internet cafes will emerge in China, and the value of this set of software can be reflected at that time. ”
Lu Jing tapped the table with his index finger: "What you said is correct." But I have two questions, number one. How to make sure that the Internet café is willing to use your Internet café management software. Will they pay for it? Second, I believe you are well aware of the current situation of domestic software. How do you guarantee that you won't be pirated?
Creativity is sometimes cheap, and when it comes out, people will follow suit. The threshold for the pure software industry is not very high. ”
Li Qun frowned and pondered, he couldn't guarantee these two points. If there's free software, who wants to use it?
Song Yuqi smiled and asked calmly, "Then what do you have good ideas?" ”
Lu Jing smiled: "I think you can sell this software in exchange for funds to do other things." Your expectations for the profitability of this software are too high. But the reality is not the case. As he spoke, he said to Li Qun: "The function of a computer is limited, and only the Internet can give users enough information and a good experience. Yahoo's creation of the Internet myth is a living example. Are you interested in the portal? Make a portal similar to Yahoo in China, and then go public on the NASDAQ. ”
It's not too late to enter the portal. NetEase, which will be known as one of the four major domestic web portals in the future, will not be established until June this year, and Sina will only be established at the end of 98.
The profitability of the portal is all after the new century. But in the first wave of the Internet, portals created a lot of paper wealth. A large number of Internet companies rushed to the NASDAQ to go public, creating a lot of paper wealth. Subsequently, under the pursuit of hot money, Internet companies formed a huge bubble until it burst.
If he could withdraw his investment and make a big profit before the dot-com bubble burst, Lu Jing would still be happy.
In the ninety-five years, the Internet was slowly rolled out in China, and the number of users grew slowly. By 30 June 1999, the number of domestic Internet users had exceeded 4 million. But. That's a pitiful amount compared to the more than 100 ISPs (Internet Service Providers) in China. Far from forming a scale effect. It is an indisputable fact that China's ISP has more porridge and less porridge, and it is an indisputable fact that it is losing money across the board.
Many ISPs see a bright future for the Internet service industry, but they don't know how to survive the darkness before the dawn.
So at this time, the technology, and creativity are very cheap to make a website, and the most important thing is to stick to it, and there is another point, which needs financial support.
Lu Jing wasn't sure if Li Qun and the others could create a portal. But if there was a prototype, he wouldn't mind throwing millions into it.
Li Qun tapped his head with his fingers, which was his habit of thinking. After a while, he said with some difficulty: "Your idea is much bigger than we think. I haven't thought about imitating Yahoo, I'm just thinking about a group of people making money by making software products that meet the needs of the market, just like Meng Hansheng's company did. He has earned at least hundreds of millions of dollars on pirated CDs. ”
After a pause, he said, "We need to gather all the staff to discuss it." Yahoo's Internet myth I know. Your horizons are indeed much broader than ours, but can you replicate Yahoo's success in China? We need to think about it. ”
Lu Jing lit a cigarette with a smile and said, "Technically, I believe you will have no problems, and I can consider investing some of the funds." But you have to work outside the site. To put it bluntly, the user experience of the website must be good. Of course, that's another story. You'd better make your own decisions first. ”
Song Yuqi was a little surprised by Lu Jing's insight. It doesn't seem like he's very old. It was the first time she saw Li Qun admit that her vision was inferior, she looked at the wall clock on the wall, and said, "Wait a little longer, a few of them should come over immediately." I have an appointment for everyone to meet here at eleven o'clock. ”
Lu Jing smiled: "That's okay." I won't participate in your internal discussions. Li Qun said: "If you don't have anything to do, you can stay and participate in our internal discussions." He was very inclined to Lu Jing's plan in his heart. The myth of Yahoo is clearly much stronger than Meng's success. His vision was too limited before. When he thought of the wealth myth created by Yahoo, he was also a little restless in his heart. This is a much better path than just writing software.
Lu Jing hadn't had time to speak yet. A tall and beautiful girl with ivory skin and Cao Bing in an apricot-colored hooded lady cotton dress, and a tall boy wearing glasses walked in.
Song Yuqi saw the Qingli girl, his face changed slightly, and he glanced at Cao Bing with some dissatisfaction. Last night, just a few words of time, the news still leaked. Who did it? Her heart was filled with anger.
Cao Bing laughed and said, "Oh, everyone hasn't come here yet." I got it out early in vain. He rolled his eyes in his heart, as soon as he handed in the roll and met Jiang Yaojun, he was bumped into by Xiong Yujiao, did he have any reason to refuse her to come over?
The Qingli girl glanced around at a few people, smiled at Lu Jing and said, "You are Lu Jing, I am Xiong Yujiao." Heard that you are interested in investing in the software project of the Times Club? ”
Lu Jing smiled meaningfully. The girl in front of her is Secretary Xiong's daughter. That day, Daniel Zhang said that she was very familiar with the people in the Times Club, and it was true. She can come to the internal meeting, but Song Yuqi doesn't seem to be very happy.
"We've all heard each other's names. Miss Xiong is also interested in investing in the Times Club? ”
Xiong Yujiao may not have much net worth, but her boyfriend Su Yuan is worth a lot of money. The Yuanda Group under his name will be the top three private enterprises in Chubei Province in the future.
Of course, more importantly, Su Yuan and Meng Hansheng are good friends.
Xiong Yujiao glanced at Lu Jing, of course she knew the younger brother of Deputy Secretary Lu of Jiangzhou. Now in the circle of Jiangzhou cadres, there is no one who does not know the name Lu Jing. Secretary Lu's tough hand was fully displayed in the investigation and punishment of Jinhu Security Company. Now no one can despise him.
"Not bad. I have communicated with Su Yuan, and Yuanda is willing to provide 500,000 yuan to support the R&D work of Times Club, on the condition that Yuanda has priority when the R&D products of Times Club need to be transferred. (To be continued.) )