Chapter 182 Series A financing is imminent
Half a month has passed.
The number of registered users of the social network exceeded 2 million, and the average daily active users reached 1.5 million, with a peak of 2.33 million.
In the game category, with the launch of Plants vs. Zombies, the Internet market has once again become popular, and it has become a good game for many white-collar workers to go to work.
The number of game members registered on the social network reached 30,000, and the game revenue exceeded 900,000 in a single month, and it is just around the corner to break one million.
With the increase in the number of users, the advertising model of social networks has also begun to grow further.
Among them, some large-scale enterprises have begun to negotiate with social networks for advertising distribution costs.
This is accompanied by an increase in operating costs and a lack of skilled personnel.
There's also bad news.
That is, Kaixin.com obtained a strategic investment of 5 million from Longteng Capital!
This means that the social network is not a unique SNS model, but has a competitor.
On this day, as soon as Chen Che came to the company, he called Li Zhennan to his office for a meeting.
"Senior Li, have you ever heard of Kaixin.com?"
Li Zhennan replied: "I heard that this is an SNS social networking site that was just released after the Spring Festival this year, and its development ideas are the same as ours, and even the layout of the web page is the same, so I suspect that they are plagiarizing from us." ”
Chen Che asked: "It's hard to say whether they copy or not, so do you know how many registered users they have now?" ”
Li Zhennan shook his head, he really didn't know much about these.
Chen Che put a document in front of Li Zhennan.
Li Zhennan picked up the information and flipped through it, there are detailed operation data of Kaixin.com, since the release of the year, it took one month to reach 100,000 users, and the number of users increased to 300,000 in two months!
The information also shows that the other party has received an investment of 5 million from Longteng Capital, and is currently placing newspaper advertisements across the country.
The founder of Kaixin.com made a bold statement: kill the social network within a year!
Li Zhennan put down the information in his hand, and he was a little surprised by the level of detail of this information.
"Where did you get this information?"
Chen Che scolded and said: "There is a special consulting company, just these few pieces of paper, and the simple data above, cost me 70,000 yuan, it's really pit." ”
For the first time, Li Zhennan heard that there was a consulting company that did this kind of business secrets.
Chen Che said: "Talk about your thoughts. ”
Li Zhennan fell into hesitation, and the competitor is obviously traveling lightly, and with the blessing of capital, he can expand the market scale unscrupulously.
Chen Che tapped his fingers on the table: "The primitive accumulation of capital is cruel and difficult, and the other party now has an investment injection of 5 million, and the early start will grow upwards at a geometric rate, which they have an innate advantage over us, because this money can make them burn for half a year." ”
Li Zhennan asked, "Then what should we do now?" ”
"I'll think of a way first, what you need to do now is to maintain all the content and games of the website, and you must not catch fire in the backyard at this time!"
After Li Zhennan left, Chen Che leaned back in his chair and began to sort out the company's development in the recent period.
Since the last time he rejected Longteng Capital, the other party really began to support competitors.
If left unchecked, with the power of capital, there is a high probability that Kaixinwang will surpass social networks.
At that time, the early advantage of social networking was gone.
If you want to fight against Kaixin.com, with his current ability, he is still too weak, and he can only use capital to fight against capital!
For example, in the 100-regiment war that year, Meituan and Hungry frantically used money to subsidize users in the circle.
While Chen Che was thinking, his phone rang.
Sun Jing's mature and magnetic voice came from the earpiece: "Mr. Chen, what are you busy with?" ”
Chen Che smiled: "I'm busy fulfilling the gambling contract, didn't I promise to give you a car a year ago." ”
"Really? I thought you were just going to talk about it. ”
"Is my boss so untrustworthy? Waiting for you to come back and promise to let you see! ”
Sun Jing quipped: "Then I will thank Mr. Chen in advance!" ”
Chen Che asked, "How is your work progressing recently?" Even though I'm sending emails every day, I'd like to hear from you personally. ”
Sun Jing replied: "We are going well in the East China market, we had a meeting with employees two days ago, and we plan to go further south and start to promote from the coastal provinces, what do you think?" ”
The smooth promotion of the East China market was expected by Chen Che, because the activity funds he transferred to Sun Jing every month alone amounted to hundreds of thousands.
The Yangtze River Delta region is currently the leading economic region in China, followed by the Pearl River Delta region.
If you can win the cities in these two regions, then the social network will be enough to sit back and relax.
Chen Che said: "You can arrange the specific things independently, anyway, my attitude towards you is: ask for money and money, and ask people to give it to people!" In addition, the SARS epidemic in the south may spread, so you should pay more attention to safety. ”
"I thank Mr. Chen for his concern for the employees, by the way, there is one more thing, I have a new friend here, she is very interested in our social network, and she wants me to ask you if you have any financing intentions?"
"Who?"
"Vice President of Yinshan Capital - Liu Anqi."
Chen Che's eyes froze suddenly, Liu Anqi he didn't know, but he was very impressed by Yinshan Capital.
This investment company focusing on the Internet has later participated in many acquisitions and mergers and acquisitions of Internet companies, and has a great influence in the industry.
It's such a coincidence, the front foot has just been coerced and lured by Longteng Capital, and the back foot has been approached by Yinshan Capital.
"When is that Liu Anqi free, I can meet her!"
"She just went abroad two days ago, if we really have financing plans, we can wait for her to come back, and I will let her find you!"
"Do you know when she'll be back?"
"It may take about two months, and before she left, she said that something was wrong with the foreign company."
Chen Che frowned, two months is a bit long, the devil knows how far Happy Net will develop in two months.
Time was running out for him.
If Kaixin did not have the intervention of Longteng Capital, he would have time to slowly accompany the development of Kaixin.
But now that the other party has received the support of capital, if you can't get rid of the other party faster, it is very likely that the other party will catch up.
It's been two months, and I can't afford to wait.
Subsequently, Chen Che told Sun Jing about Kaixin.com's acquisition of Longteng Capital's investment, and at the same time, he also gave Sun Jing a future risk analysis.
Sun Jing was silent on the other end of the phone.
"I'll make an appointment with Liu Anqi to see if she can find time to return to China!"
"This matter will be implemented as soon as possible."
“OK!”
Chen Che hung up the phone and pinched his eyebrows, if Liu Anqi couldn't talk here, he would need to find the next investment company.
Because if you only rely on the social network itself to make money, the development will not be able to keep up with the competition.
It is rumored that there are at least several startups in the project establishment stage of SNS model social services.
At this moment, the office door was gently pushed open.
Chen Che didn't look up to know who it was, because the fragrance wafting in the air was already familiar to him.
It's so familiar that you can guess it with your eyes closed.
Su Qingxue noticed Chen Che's movements and looked at him with concern: "Xiao Chen, why do you see that you are frowning?" Are you troubled? ”
"I didn't sleep well last night, so you often teased me, but you didn't give me food, and I was uncomfortable..."
"Goose goose goose... Who told you to touch me? ”
"I'm very serious, I read it from a book and often help you massage, which can invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis... Increases blood circulation..."
Chen Che said something serious, but Su Qingxue's face began to turn red.
"Humph! Rogue! Don't think I don't know your crooked mind! ”
Su Qingxue stretched out her hand to screw Chen Che, but she couldn't bear it when she came to her side, and finally threw herself into his arms.
Chen Che hugged Su Qingxue's delicate body, he buried his head in her neck, and sniffed the fragrance deeply.
With Su Qingxue, you can forget a lot of troubles.