Chapter 77 Venture Capital

The girl took the plastic bag in which the clothes were wrapped. He laughed, said goodbye, and ran away quickly with the bag of clothes. The party smiled for the people, and felt that this girl was quite sensible, without a series of bad problems of the Indians who were procrastinating, unpunctual and untrustworthy.

After leaving the company the next afternoon, Dang Weimin deliberately went to the street lamp again, just to see if the little girl was really trustworthy or disguised. To his relief, from a distance, he saw the girl standing under a lamppole and looking around with the bag. Seeing him coming, a smile appeared on his face again.

"Your clothes, sir."

Dang Weimin glanced at it, did not open it, had already thought about it, no matter what kind of clothes were washed, it didn't matter, so he handed her yesterday's 10 rupees bill.

"Okay, yes, take it."

After the girl took it, she folded her hands and saluted in thanks, "I'll wait for you here tomorrow." ”

"Don't. Don't, don't come. "The party was shocked when he heard this, and it would be terrible if he waited here every day. The girl's smile faded, but she didn't say anything else, pursed her lips and nodded, looking extremely disappointed.

Somehow, now he softened a little when he saw this girl's disappointed appearance, maybe he saw his own shadow in her, thought for a moment, and replied: "In this way, every day you wait here for 20 minutes at 8 o'clock in the morning, and if I have clothes, I will wash them for you." If I don't show up, it's not that day, that's all. ”

"Okay, I'll definitely be there on time every day." When the little girl heard this assurance, she rejoiced again.

"By the way, don't you go to school?" Dang Weimin felt as if she was idling around all day, but she spoke and behaved as if she had a certain family upbringing and had gone to school.

"I used to be on it, but now I don't." The girl's big eyes were full of fog, and it was obvious that she had heard something sad.

For Dang Weimin, who is busy with big things, this kid who washes clothes is just a small episode in his life. The Indian continent has been in a hot season since April, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees during the day in many places between April and June! Although Bangalore is known as India's "spring city", it can't stop the heat wave. The temperature also exceeded 30 degrees, of course, compared to other places, it was still quite "cool".

After staying in the hotel for a month, the party found a local residence for the people, a two-story small building, with all-European decoration and all electrical appliances. The cost is $7,000 per month! It's almost the same as staying in a hotel, but after considering the comfort of living, he still rents this residence.

After moving to his new home, he noticed that all the appliances were available, but the SONY TV was turned on for a few minutes and there was no image. The washing machine can be turned, but the problem is that the sewage cannot be discharged, and after the toilet press the drain valve, the sewage will soon gush out. After the cleanup, the party inspected the sewer pipes for the people and found that the sewer led to a manure tank under the grass of the house, which was already full. There is no urban sewerage system underneath this dwelling!

He was very angry, and planned to go to the landlord to theorize, and when he went out, he saw that the rich Indians in the surrounding multi-storey houses sent their own servants every day. Carrying a large bucket of dung and dumping it directly into the street.

Those Indians are all wealthy in the local area, and their own houses may be in trouble, and one or two houses may not be able to go through the water, but in this large residential area, every household does this, splashing their sewage directly on the road. The party used the ultrasonic detection system to inspect the underground and confirmed that there were indeed no sewage pipes, which really admired the high level of municipal construction of the Indians. You must know that Bangalore is the fifth largest city in India, the largest IT city, and there are large swaths of urban housing without drainage systems.

The most unbearable thing was the power outage, it turned out that he was staying in a hotel, which had been equipped with diesel power generation equipment, but he didn't think the electricity supply was a problem. After I moved to a residential area, I found that there were power outages every day, half a day, and there was no regularity, and the power was cut off whenever I wanted.

Now that it has entered the summer in India, it is really unbearable if there are power outages every day, and the party Weimin feels that he really can't stand the heat, and the mixed smell of feces and curry from the street almost suffocates people to death. So regardless of the possibility of exposure, he connected a small nuclear fusion battery to the power supply line, which solved the power supply, and he could use the air conditioner to cool down when he went home, without worrying about heat stroke. ,

The home side did not involve much of his energy, and the development of software developed reached a critical period, the number of downloads and installs of the library software and the development desktop system for the first time declined, and what was more troublesome was that many customers who purchased the service complained about the lack of support.

"I'll call your technical phone and send you an email. But the support is so slow, Pioneer Software is very good, but your service level is so bad that it's almost unbelievable to be a company. An email from a user who purchased a one-year after-sales service angrily pointed out many problems, "Also, your English reception is so poor that I can't even understand what language he speaks, and if it's English, it's terrible." ”

Accusations such as these have come and gone, and the pressure has made everyone in the company nervous, and a few local Indian employees are quite conscientious, and there are basically no many problems pointed out by other Chinese. In order to solve the problem of support, the party hired more than a dozen employees from the local area for the people, and there were not many Chinese who were most looking forward to it, only two were recruited, and they still claimed to have only worked for one year.

Since the initial service level was set relatively low, the fees charged by the company were also quite low, and during this two-month period, excluding operating costs such as expenses, the entire company was at a loss.

"Mr. Tang, we can't go on like this, otherwise our company won't survive in the end, and it will definitely fall halfway." At a work meeting. Han Zhi handed over the company's report, "Please take a look, according to the company's situation, I think that the only way to avoid our doom is to expand immediately and expand the team quickly." ”

Hearing this, the party for the people really didn't understand, it's true that he is losing money now, but he still has some materials, so he hasn't taken it to heart, but Han Zhi must have a reason when he says this. After all, that guy has been in the software industry for ten years and has a certain amount of experience.

"Let's see, if we expand, won't it cause a bigger loss?"

"That's right, now our two sets of products were used to carry out self-pyramid marketing through word-of-mouth, which is very suitable in the development period of small software, and the cost is low. However, FreeSQL and OpenWindows are not small software in the general sense, and I am not very familiar with the number of libraries, but I can be sure that FreeSQL is the most powerful competitor of Microsoft's SQLserver, IBM's DB2 and Oracle's Oracle.

There is also the desktop graphics of OpenWindows, and the current new release of operating systems such as LINUX and FreeBSD has all integrated our products, according to our preliminary survey, more than 90% of users default to the desktop is OpenWindows. Even in the Windows market, our graphical interface occupies a significant proportion. At Microsoft's internal briefing meeting, their executive officers repeatedly threatened that OpenWindows had undermined the integrity and security of Windows, and that they would take legal action against our company. ”

"Microsoft is not a thing, they have always done it." Wang Xuening was very angry, "I remember that they have fought patent disputes with other companies many times. Mr. Tang, we can't let them mess around, someone on the professional forum said that Microsoft has studied our OpenWindows, claiming that there are 400,000 lines of source code in it that follow Microsoft, and that our products have undermined the security of Windows at the basic layer. Mr. Tang, we need to fight back. ”

It's a real headache, the party is gently rubbing his head for the people, and it is not his intention to fight these giants now. He thought for a while and replied: "We can't have a head-on conflict with them now, otherwise we will fight a lawsuit in a few years." Han Zhi, what do you think, let's be free and say whatever you want. ”

"Venture capital, find venture capital from abroad." Han Zhi became excited, his eyes flashing with sparks, "Only a giant financial consortium can protect us, as long as their investment arrives." Several other companies can't move us. ”