No. 245, you come and go

Compared to other fourth-year students at other universities, Qiao Yihui is good enough.

However, Ji Susu's mind control proficiency is higher, and his degree of effort is even greater than his.

Compared with Ji Susu, Qiao Yihui has no advantage at all.

Laughing and boasting, Qi Lirui pretended to be dissatisfied with the speed of research and development: "Five months is too slow, can it be faster?" ”

Qiao Yihui frowned and thought for a minute, and gave his ultimate answer: "The team can be expanded to fifteen employees, which can be shortened to April." ”

Qi Lirui: "What about expanding to 30 employees?" ”

Qiao Yihui shook his head and explained with a wry smile: "Maybe Ran Qianqian has told you, maybe I haven't told you, from mobile games to web games, I have actually engaged in three rounds of entrepreneurship." ”

"In the first round of entrepreneurship, I was more idealistic, eager for technological breakthroughs and bionic products. However, I overestimated myself, and when I was playing the game, I had just stayed up late to overcome a level of difficulty, and I ran into a new one. For three months, the project was stuck in its infancy, and there was no progress other than sharpening my skills. ”

"In the second round of entrepreneurship, I gave up my ideals and admitted the fact that I was not strong, lowered my standards pragmatically, and made a simple mobile game. In just one month, the game passed Zhiyu's review and was placed in the application software store of the smart operating system. Unexpectedly, the market gave me a head start, and no one at all agreed with my shoddy work, and only 133 copies were sold under the one-yuan fee download mode. Hehe, I worked hard for a month, and only sold for 133 yuan, which is not enough for the instant noodles I stayed up late to eat. ”

"The failure of the first two rounds of entrepreneurship made me realize that entrepreneurship is not simple, and every shortcoming can lead to the collapse of the whole project. After that, I put my mind right, while making up for the shortcomings of project management, I humbly asked my classmates and friends who had succeeded, and observed the actual operation of the team up close in the way of free help, and then tried to start the third round of entrepreneurship. The third round of entrepreneurship still failed, but compared with the first two rounds of ignorance, I clearly know what I was wrong and what my shortcomings were. I believe that as long as these shortcomings can be filled, the fourth round of entrepreneurship will definitely usher in success. ”

"Going back to shortening the development time, it's not a simple math problem, four months for 15 employees and two months for 30 employees are two very different things. There is a critical path term for project management, and the duration of the critical path activities determines the duration of the project. When the project is developed, some paths can speed up the progress by heaping the number of people, while others cannot speed up the progress through the number of people, and the efficiency of three programmers is not higher than that of one programmer. ”

"Fifteen employees, that's enough!"

"Thirty employees can definitely speed up the progress a little bit, but the labor cost is much higher than the time benefit of speeding up the schedule."

Anyone who has actually led a team can clearly understand that there is no absolute coefficient ratio between the number of people and the progress. Qiao Yihui's words seemed to be detailed and sincere, but in fact, there was a little bit of emotion to ridicule Qi Lirui as an ignorant girl with money in her pocket. However, Qiao Yihui mistook Qi Lirui. Qi Lirui asked about the project time, just like Qiao Yihui, to test whether Qiao Yihui's project management ability is trustworthy.

In other words, Qiao Yihui is a newcomer in the entrepreneurial world, and Qi Lirui is a newcomer in the angel investment industry, and both of them are relatively tired.

A newcomer is a newcomer after all, and his words and deeds are full of jerkiness.

Qi Lirui judged that Qiao Yihui's team had a probability of being trustworthy based on hearsay experience, and immediately began to ask the price code: "How much do you want?" ”

Qiao Yihui opened his mouth: "One million yuan." ”

Qi Lirui: "It's too much." ”

Qiao Yihui: "I can give you 50% of the shares." ”

Qi Lirui: "There are too many." ”

What Qi Lirui wants to do is to invest instead of start a business, and the purpose is that I will pay you to work. In this case, investors should not hold too much equity, lest the entrepreneur's project become an investor's project. Because the motivation of the entrepreneur's team often depends on their shareholding ratio, if the shareholding ratio is small, they will have a high probability of germinating the idea of "this is working for you". The reason why an entrepreneur chooses to start a business is probably because he doesn't want to work for others, he doesn't want to work for his old boss, and naturally he doesn't want to work for more unfamiliar investors.

Qi Lirui only needs 15% to 30% equity.

If you want to give as much as you want, I don't want to.

The more equity you give, the more I suspect that the so-called entrepreneurial project is a money scam.

At the same time, the investment of one million yuan is too much.

Summing up all Tencent stocks, Spring and Autumn Search stocks and other investments, Qi Lirui's assets that can be realized immediately are only about 13 million yuan. The risk of entrepreneurship is extremely high, and the risk of angel investment is also extremely high, and it is a very good achievement to be able to achieve one out of ten projects on average. Qi Lirui didn't dare to expect good results, she set a limit for herself with a lower success rate of 5%, hoping to invest in 20 projects and be lucky enough to dig up treasures. In this way, the assets of 13 million yuan are allocated to 20 projects, and the average investment of 500,000 yuan for each project is more appropriate after deducting the basic survival needs and the cost of making a comeback.

Qi Lirui was taboo that Qiao Yihui would sell 50% of the equity as soon as he opened his mouth, and felt that the investment of one million yuan was too much, so she immediately put the meeting on hold for the time being.

It's not easy to start a business, and it's not easy to invest. In addition to the ultra-high failure rate threshold, how to supervise entrepreneurs to use their money is also a great test of investors' ability. After transferring a sum of money to the entrepreneur, it doesn't matter what happens, eating, drinking, having fun and waiting for the equity appreciation to double, such a beautiful thing only exists in fairy tales without darkness. Nine times out of ten, investors who really do such innocent operations will be wiped clean by the "entrepreneur team" and throw off a debt; Even if the entrepreneur team is reliable and ultimately successful, the entrepreneur team and other investors will take advantage of various legal loopholes to tear up the investment contract that seems perfect at the beginning.

Investors and entrepreneurs come together for the sake of profit.

If it is profit, there will be filth.

Those who come together for the sake of interests will inevitably part ways for the sake of interests.

Qi Lirui has not yet decided whether to abandon Qiao Yihui's project, and decisively borrowed the usual tactics of investors who have heard about it to delay the progress of the negotiations. Qi Lirui didn't say that she was not optimistic about the whole project, but nitpickled and delved into some trivial details to hang Qiao Yihui, so that Qiao Yihui could not get the money and would not give up hope in a short time.

This is the end of the casual café investment talks.

Farewell to Ran Qianqian, Ji Susu, Qiao Yihui, and Xu Qiping, Qi Lirui activated other network resources to ask insiders to investigate the prospects of web games and the actual cost of developing a web game.

Summarizing the relevant information, Qi Lirui concluded more than ten days later:

First, web games do have excellent profit prospects. Not only did the turnover in 2009 double compared with the turnover in 2008, but insiders are more optimistic that the turnover in 2010 will continue to double compared with 2009. In the web game circle, some people are even full of hope to discuss whether the web game industry can give birth to phenomenal works like "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", and whether it can brew a giant like the Spring and Autumn Department and the richest man in China like Wei Dongsheng.

The second point is that although one million yuan is relatively reasonable, it is also Qiao Yihui's lion's big mouth. Considering the average salary in 2009, a pure R&D product, even if it is the most expensive APRG browser game, only costs about one million yuan to develop and operate a complete set. If Qiao Yihui and the core members of the team are willing to receive no salary or low salary, they will definitely be able to further reduce costs. Optimistically, Qiao Yihui gets Qi Lirui's investment of one million yuan, and his project will be able to reach the end; On the other hand, thinking darkly, Qiao Yihui and his core personnel refused to pay a penny, and they all counted on Qi Lirui's investment.

Obviously, investment is not the end, and there will be cumbersome interest games in the future.

Qi Lirui was quite hesitant.

In order to reduce losses, Qi Lirui decided to jointly invest in Qiao Yihui. During this period, Qi Lirui thought of her best friend Bai Guo. Dialing Bai Guo's phone and chatting for a while, Qi Lirui told the truth and made her intentions clear: "I recently worked part-time as an angel investor, and I met a good project a few days ago. Coincidentally, the other party turned out to be Wei Dongsheng's classmate in Wuping First High School......"

After patiently listening to Qi Lirui's long-winded introduction to the background, Bai Guo briefly summarized Qi Lirui's thoughts: "Do you want to invest in web games? ”

Qi Lirui: "Yes." ”

Bai Guo: "Bad at work? ”

Although the treatment of the personnel relations department is not good, after all, it hangs the spring and autumn search archway, and some people actively apply. In terms of the practice of the last two years, only a minimum of college graduates can be expected to be hired in the Department of Human Relations. Qi Lirui graduated from Hedong University of Technology, and if there was no white fruit to go through the back door, she would have no hope of joining the Spring and Autumn Search as a fresh graduate. Of course, Bai Guo also indirectly knew that Qi Lirui was rich and wealthy with a small number of shares, and in this case, it was indeed difficult for Qi Lirui to afford the hard work of a monthly salary of 4,500 yuan after tax.

Ginkgo understands this sentiment.

Qi Lirui was afraid that Bai Guo would misunderstand, so she hurriedly explained: "The work is fine." However, you know, I just can't be idle. When I was in school, I worked part-time as a stock trader, and I wanted to find something to do to pass the spare time at work, and I slowly became obsessed with angel investment. ”

Bai Guo didn't ask any more questions, and the topic turned back to investment: "How to invest?" ”

Qi Lirui: "The other party wants 1 million yuan, and I and other friends have subscribed for 800,000 yuan, and there are still 200,000 vacancies." ”

Bai Guo: "I will invest 200,000 yuan? ”

Qi Lirui: "You can vote as much as you want, if you want to invest less, I'll find other friends; If you want to invest more, I dissuade a few friends who have already subscribed. ”

Bai Guo: "Is the other party reliable?" ”

Qi Lirui: "I inquired on the side, and the other party is not a liar, but a person who really wants to do things." I can't say whether he will succeed in the future, but he is very energetic and down-to-earth, and his attitude is very good, which is worth believing in once. Moreover, in order to control the loss, I am ready to receive the investment of 1 million yuan three times. In the first batch, he was given 300,000 yuan of start-up capital to see if his project was executable and whether he could make a prototype within the estimated time; In the second batch, after verifying his ability to do things, we gave him another 400,000 yuan; The third batch of 300,000 yuan will be retained until the end of the project, and if the product prospects are good, we can also take advantage of the situation to expand the share of interests. ”