148. Project Public Beta
There was nothing to say all the way, and when I arrived at Zhao Xiaolong's company, it was already off work.
But when I arrived at Zhao Xiaolong's company, I saw that the entire company had not yet gotten off work, Zhao Xiaolong was not there, Xiang Mengmeng was holding a meeting with several employees, and the other employees were all buried in front of the computer and looking at the keyboard.
The whole company has a quiet, yet busy feel.
Through the transparent glass window, a professionally dressed person waved to Mengmeng, signaling us to wait a while, and gesturing that she would be done in a while.
Zhao Xiaolong's company looks quite presentable, when I first moved over, there were less than ten people in the tens of millions of projects, but now the company is full, I drank the coffee handed over by the executive sister, while looking, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"I feel that Zhao Xiaolong is really a person who does things, and in less than a month, he has really put the project on the right track!"
After I finished speaking, I glanced at Xia Qing, she didn't speak, but the expression on her face could still show that she was still satisfied with the project we had invested.
As an investor, who doesn't want the company they invest in to become bigger and stronger!
Especially in the context of the current market recession and the death of start-ups, the companies that invest can survive and grow, and the mood will be much better.
In fact, in my heart, when we first invested in Zhao Xiaolong's tens of millions of apps, although we also made some deductions, analyzed the data, and the input-output ratio, a big reason for investing in this project was because of Sister Miao's relationship.
Because of this, at least I feel very relieved to see Zhao Xiaolong's company full of vitality at this time.
Even if Zhao Xiaolong's company can't make money for a while, at least this entrepreneurial attitude is good, and entrepreneurship needs this kind of spirit!
After sitting for a while, Xiang Mengmeng finished the meeting, and when he came out of the conference room, he pulled a subordinate and briefly explained a few things, and then walked towards the reception area where Xia Qing and I were with a smile.
I haven't seen it for a while, I have to say that Xiang Mengmeng has become more and more capable, the long hair that was originally scattered is tied up, and the figure in professional clothes is even more round and full, but the two straight long legs still make people can't help but look carefully.
"Mr. Xia, Mr. Gao, I've been waiting for a long time! The two of you are here today, why don't you say hello in advance? Look I'm busy here! Xiang Mengmeng smiled and exchanged pleasantries with Xia Qing and me, took a cup of coffee and sat down opposite.
"It's nothing, just stop by and have a look! Oh, by the way, what about Bruce Zhao? I asked.
"Mr. Zhao went out to socialize, and today there was an appointment with an investor from the magic capital, and I have to rush over in a while."
"Oh, so soon investors came to talk about the project? Which one? ”
Xiang Mengmeng said a name, this investment institution has an overseas background, is a dollar investment institution, I have the impression that they mainly invest in the later stage, why are they also involved in early venture capital now. So he asked, "Was it introduced by Zhao Xiaolong?" ”
"How can Zhao Xiaolong have these resources! It was introduced by Zhao Xiaoya, didn't they take IDC's investment! Xiang Mengmeng took a sip of coffee, put down the cup and said.
I see! It is normal for these investment institutions with foreign investment backgrounds to exchange project information with each other, so they said: "Xiaoya is quite helpful?" Ask her to have dinner with you one day! ”
"Okay!" Xiang Mengmeng smiled and said, "I just don't know when Mr. Gao and Mr. Xia will have time?" As far as I know, you're busy right now! It's a movie again, and it's a real estate investment, oh, by the way, Mr. Xia, you're really amazing! Even the half-dead project of Longhe Villa can be rejuvenated, and recently our tens of millions of apps have been ranked very high in the attention of Longhe Phase II! ”
Xiang Mengmeng may have seen that Xia Qing had something on her mind, but she didn't care and said to Xia Qing warmly, seeing that Xiang Mengmeng took the initiative to throw an olive branch, Xia Qing, who was still frosty just now, couldn't be cold anymore, so he said: "Is it?" I have to thank Mr. Meng for helping us promote it! ”
"Why! It is Mr. Xia, your leadership is good, you must know that before you took over, the Longhe villa project was mud that could not support the wall, you took over, and the project was alive! Xiang Mengmeng was obviously in a good mood today, and said complimentally.
"It still has something to do with the market environment! Recently, we Longcheng just launched the purchase restriction policy, and it is strange, the house price has not risen much before the purchase restriction, this purchase restriction policy has just been launched, not only the Longhe project, the surrounding property prices are rising, I am also lucky! ”
Xia Qing said with a smile, what she said was part of the truth.
Seeing that the two of you were complimenting each other with a word, I was a little anxious sitting on the side, so I interrupted the two who were chatting enthusiastically and said: "Mr. Meng, Mr. Xia and I came to you today, it's really something!" ”
"Oh?"
"This first one, naturally, is to see the progress of the tens of millions of projects, if I hadn't watched the news two days ago, I wouldn't have known that thousands of them have been launched. This second one has something to do with the Longhe project, with you and Mr. Xia. I said.
"The news that day was the media contacted by Zhao Xiaoya, Xiaoya wasn't doing public relations for the Longhe project, we just took a ride, don't say that the effect on the news is very good, attracting many people to download, but also found some problems, because now tens of millions of apps are still the public beta version, not yet the final version, some problems can not be found during the internal beta before, and the problem will come out when the number of users is large, you see, these days are working overtime to adjust it." Xiang Mengmeng explained in detail.
"I'll just say, the news about the launch of your app has been broadcast, why don't you tell us, it's still in public beta?" I interjected.
"That's right, when Xiaoya told me, I was so happy, I thought to myself, why didn't I take it if there was a free publicity opportunity, and I didn't know what the internal test or public test was, so I didn't understand this. So, the media came, interviewed, and broadcasted. I didn't expect to find some vulnerabilities in the system after broadcasting. Because of this, I was also criticized by Zhao Xiaolong! Xiang Mengmeng pouted.
I see! I said that Zhao Xiaolong wouldn't go online without even saying hello, so I relieved and said to Mengmeng: "You are also kind!" The news is broadcast, the number of app users is up, it's good to find the problem early, so as not to spend money to push it when you really go online, and then you find out the problem! ”
"Also, because we are in the news, there are now peers who are imitating our approach, which also makes us a little passive. Therefore, the investors that Zhao Xiaolong went to meet were worried that if the project was followed, we would have enough funds to deal with it. Xiang Mengmeng said gloomily.
"I see!" Xia Qing and I looked at each other and said darkly.
In China, there has always been a very bad atmosphere in the Internet technology circle, that is, plagiarism!
When the Internet first emerged, it was a gateway for domestic enterprises to copy foreign countries, such as games, searches, and instant messaging. Later, the domestic giants gradually developed and expanded, and began to plagiarize each other, you have a search and I will do one, you do a portal I will quickly follow up, you do group buying I also launched the same project.
To be honest, compared with developed Internet countries such as the United States, the awareness of the protection of original intellectual property rights in the domestic Internet environment is still a little worse. That's why there will be exaggerated things like the Thousand Regiment War in previous years.
In the past two years, although the situation is better than before, small and medium-sized Internet startups are still very worried about being plagiarized, because what Huaguo lacks most is not programmers and product managers, but a lack of creativity.
Therefore, when a good business comes out, the entrepreneurial team often chooses to make the product quietly, preferably with a certain number of users, and explore the business model clearly, and build their own barriers thicker, before publicizing it with great fanfare.
Otherwise, your creativity is likely to be copied by peers and competitors as it is, and even some domestic giants are shamelessly plagiarized without blushing and heartbeat.
Therefore, I can understand that Zhao Xiaolong was angry because this project was exposed by the media in advance, after all, no one wants the project they worked so hard to make be picked by others!
It can be seen that Xiang Mengmeng has done a lot of homework during this time, she used to just do sales in Longmai, although the sales performance is very top-notch in the company, but she is still quite unfamiliar with the Internet.
And when I chatted with Xiang Mengmeng today, I found that Xiang Mengmeng's understanding of the Internet circle has improved significantly compared to when she first came, and some professional terms will pop up from time to time, such as "public beta", "internal test", "VC", "IPO" and the like, for competitors in the industry, she no longer only thinks about traditional intermediaries such as dragon vein, and from time to time she mentions the same type of enterprises in Kyoto and Modu.
Although I heard what Xiang Mengmeng said about the tens of millions of apps, I still had some worries and worries about it, but after talking about the worries, Xiang Mengmeng still said to us excitedly: "Boss Gao, Mr. Xia, do you know the revenue of tens of millions here?" ”
"What? Is there an order just after it was launched? Xia Qing and I looked at Xiang Mengmeng with a happy face in surprise at the same time, and we still didn't believe that tens of thousands of stores could be sold so quickly.
Seeing that we were skeptical, Xiang Mengmeng snapped his fingers and said: "In the two weeks since we were launched, we have now had more than 40 million transactions!" ”
"I'm rubbing! Million! Xia Qing and I were surprised when we heard this data, and at the same time we were silently calculating, based on the average price of commercial housing in Longcheng, the sale of 40 million means that at least more than 20 houses have been sold!
"Ten days! 40 million sales! On average, nearly three homes are sold in a day! And now we have fewer than 1,000 registered users! Xiang Mengmeng said with a little excitement.
"Cow!" Xia Qing and I couldn't hide our excitement and said: "1000 users, a total of more than 20 suites have been sold, this user conversion rate is quite scary!" In the past, when we were in Dragon Vein, sometimes a store couldn't sell a house in a week! ”
"That's it! So rejoice! Xiang Mengmeng couldn't hide her excitement, and then talked to us a lot about technology and data.
Listening to Xiang Mengmeng's introduction, a big stone fell to the ground in my heart, and I said in my heart: This matter really made Zhao Xiaolong and them see it accurately and did it!
Although tens of millions of apps are still in the stage of burning money, because they do not charge intermediary fees, so there is no income yet, but if they develop at this rate, tens of millions of apps are likely to replace all physical intermediaries and become the largest transaction entrance for buyers and sellers.
If it can really become the entrance, just this terrible flow of funds, as well as a large number of active and super purchasing power users, is enough to make tens of millions of apps laugh at the crowd!
What's more, now tens of millions of apps are only in the testing stage, and have not yet been officially launched and promoted, and most of the registered users are still concentrated in Longcheng.