Chapter Ninety-Nine: Defeat in the Preliminary Round

After a ridiculous night, Duke, who was both physically and mentally overdrawn, looked at Suzanne in the morning with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, and he really didn't know how to face it for a while. It's a bit nerve-wracking just to call Duke, you say it's more intimate, how do you explain it when you meet Shu Ya when you look back?

Duke didn't dare to think that Shuya would laugh at such a thing. He doesn't have Cai Siqiang's ability to be a raptor in love, and he can hang N little girls at the same time and be at ease. With his current embarrassed expression, he also lacks extreme training and talent in acting.

"Good morning, Duke" Before he could finish his thoughts, Suzanne on the other side had already greeted Duke without any discoloration. It's as if nothing happened last night.

"Good morning, Susanna," Duke beckoned as he had always called. "When are we going back today?" Duke asked, things were almost perfect here, and it was time to go back.

"Is Dr. Duke in a hurry to get back?" Suzanne looked at Duke with a smile and said, the ambiguity of these words showed that what happened last night still had some impact on this chick. It's just that our Miss Suzanne is a great performer.

"Isn't there nothing going on here? We still have a lot of things to deal with when we go back, and we are about to submit a business plan, and I think that this time I will go back, and the relevant documents of the new company should also arrive, and after signing the formal contract with Clement, our business plan can also be completed. Duke said.

Of course, in addition to this official business, there may not be a little bit of weakness, and the longer you stay here with this bewitching beauty, the more dangerous it is.

After all, if Suzanne doesn't have any ambitions for Duke now, she won't believe it if she kills Duke.

Shu Ya, a lovely genius beautiful girl, Duke will never give up, this fish and bear paw can't have both, how to choose Duke or have his own bias in his heart. Duke doesn't have many psychological obstacles, he does it, and Duke has nothing to regret. But if you want to betray Shuya, this Duke really can't do it.

"That's right, it's important to get down to business. Then let's go back in the afternoon, and in the morning we can visit the famous Golden Gate Bridge," Suzanne said quietly. Obviously, in her mind, it might be better to stay here for another two or three days, which is more conducive to firmly grasping this genius who can turn stones into gold in the palm of her hand.

Back in Boston, the application for the establishment of MindIntelligence named by Duke was approved by the Massachusetts authorities, and the relevant company licenses, stamps and other registered items have been sent to Shuya, with this thing, Shuya signed a formal merger contract with Clement, the owner of GmoSystems, who came from afar, on behalf of the company, and completed the first commercial activity of the start-up, and MI finally officially has its own brainwave helmet production capacity.

Considering that the new custom helmet still needs further R&D improvements, Dr. Clement simply brought the entire brainwave helmet R&D team to Boston this time, and established an MI R&D laboratory in Boston, where they could be close to Duke for research and development.

As for the California plant, Clement joined MI and has now become the company's first vice president, overseeing the development and production of brainwave helmets.

Although for the time being, the vice president of the company is still managed by his own people, but Clement did not have any frustration because of joining a start-up company, on the contrary, after reading Duke's business plan and gaining a deeper understanding of Dr. Duke's series of genius performances, he looked forward to the future even more.

Therefore, Clement enthusiastically devoted himself to the research and development of the new brainwave helmet, with Duke's miraculous test program in Clement's eyes, Clement's research and development progress is very rapid, and he is now mainly finding a balance between cost and performance, compared to the previous brainwave reception sensitivity performance improvement research and development work, the difficulty of this matter is simply not worth mentioning.

Clement's original brainwave helmet was very distinctive, so now it just needs to improve the number of brainwave electrodes that can meet the requirements of the Duke test program, so as to design the most cost-effective brainwave helmet. Of course, this is not only a simple increase or decrease of brain electrodes, in order to achieve better reception effect, in fact, the distribution of brain electrodes under different numbers is also very important, and the helmet distribution of 6 brain electrodes is different from that of 8 brain electrodes.

Clement needed to do many tests to find the optimal location of the different brain electrodes. In the past, brainwave pattern recognition software testing methods were limited, and Clement could not do experiments, but with Duke's artifact-like test program, it can now be carried out, and Clement believes that it will not be long before the redesign of two different grades of brainwave helmets can be completed.

With so many solid things to support, the business plan prepared by Shu Ya is very detailed and heavy, coupled with Duke's technical depth, Susanna's refreshing WEB2.0 marketing plan, to be honest, after reading Shu Ya's business plan completely, Dr. Clement, the person who went to sea first, can't find any weaknesses.

The profound skills shown in the technical analysis part certainly made Clement, a doctor who has been immersed in brainwave technology for many years, speechless, absolutely world-class level, Clement asked himself that he could not write such an in-depth technical analysis;

In terms of marketing strategy, those novel marketing methods are also unheard of, although they have not yet been tested by the market, but they have been able to show the deep strength of planners in marketing.

Sure enough, after the business plan was submitted, the professional jury composed of professors gave a high score of more than 90 points, while the market jury composed of representatives of venture capital companies gave a more conservative score, and the score of more than 80 points showed that the venture capitalists had reservations about Shuya's bold market predictions.

In their opinion, in a market that has not yet launched, planning a multi-billion dollar vision is really a bit ambitious, even though the proposal has already proposed that brainwave technology can be maturely applied to games.

But none of them have seen Shuya's product demonstration, with their own estimates of this technology, of course, most of them use Mindsky products and markets as a reference, this estimate is generally no problem, and it is common practice to use the industry's leading companies as benchmarks to estimate the upper limit.

Although they were a little blind this time, who would have thought that there would be a freak like Duke in the world who would not appear once in thousands of years. Therefore, after the VCs automatically adjusted the market expectation of MI companies to less than 100 million US dollars, the market evaluation of the entire business plan was greatly reduced.

After all, among the projects reviewed, there are several companies that are recognized by them as having an estimated market size of more than one billion US dollars, and MI is a company that is still in its infancy despite its novel technology, and the market is obviously still in its infancy, and it is the venture capitalists who look at their refreshing marketing planning.

Of course, these behind-the-scenes operations are not known to the Duke team, who announced the first batch of approvals two weeks later, and saw that their projects were in the top 10, thanks to the top three technical scores of the professional jury.

"The list of the first batch of entrepreneurial projects is out, I think everyone has seen the current results" Shu Ya pointed to the list of entrepreneurial plans passed on the screen, MI company is now in the ninth position, "This is the first batch of announced lists, although most of the good projects are generally passed in the first round, but it is not unusual for one or two prominent entrepreneurial plans to emerge in the second batch." ”

"So, judging from the current situation, our ranking is very dangerous, after all the entrepreneurial plans are announced through the list, it is very likely to fall out of the top ten positions, although this result is not the final result, but if we do not have a good plan for the upcoming popularity vote, and strive to stand out in the popularity vote, I think it is really difficult for us to enter the last ten in this entrepreneurship competition" Shu Ya said with some heaviness.

Seeing this not very good result, everyone was a little frustrated. This result was clearly beyond everyone's expectations.

"Okay, this time we didn't score well in the commercial part, but this is a reality that is impossible to change, and we don't need to be too disappointed, after all, there is still one round, and we still have a chance to get it back." Seeing that everyone's mood was not high, Duke couldn't help but stand up and say.

"To be honest, even if we can't win the championship this time, or even make it to the finals, it doesn't matter much, after all, our product level is here now, and it won't change because of the results of the competition, and I believe everyone is very clear about the prospects after the launch of the market."

When everyone heard Duke say this, they began to feel a little relieved. After all, young people are also recovering quickly from the blow.

"The judges of these venture capitals have an average vision, and they can't see such a good project, it's really bad." Selena said with some smugness. "But seriously, Susanna, are there any good ways to improve our popularity score?"

"Yes, Susanna, do you think the publicity highlight of the beautiful entrepreneurial team is okay?" Shu Ya also began to be a little unconfident about this promotional highlight promoted by Susanna.

This is normal, when submitting the business plan, everyone is also full of confidence, thinking that such a good plan and product should get high scores, who knows that in the end it is this unexpected wordless result.

The imagination is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, which is the best portrayal of everyone's current situation.

"I think there must be no problem, our product is still popular, and it should be more acceptable to students," although Suzanne said it with absolute certainty, in fact, she also started to play drums in her heart. Although Duke has said that it doesn't matter if he wins or loses this game, if he really can't even make it to the finals, it will be a big blow for everyone.