Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 387: Starting a business is not yet half over.

A person trying to start a business is like playing Contra.

The only difference is that some people have the capital to get thirty lives through cheats, and they will eventually pass the level after trying too many times.

Some people may only have three lives in their lifetime, and after using them up, there will be no chance of recovery. Some people may not even have a chance to play the game.

And this young man named Wang Xing from Longyan, Fujian, is better than the superiors and more than the inferiors. He is a second-generation rich man through and through.

Wang Xing, a second-generation rich man, is ambitious. After graduating from Jinghua University, he went to the United States for two years and saw the outside world. At this time, social media websites in the United States were booming, which gave him the idea that starting a business would be better than working part-time. idea.

This guy directly interrupted his doctoral studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, and decided to return to China rather than let Gates and Zach excel.

He has a bachelor's degree from Jinghua University and a Ph.D. from a well-known American university. Although he didn't finish the degree, he is still a hot talent. Before Wang Xing could figure out what he wanted to do, he received an offer from two big bosses, Alibaba Lao Ma and Wanda Lao Wang. Several annual salary invitations to join their team.

Ordinary people would have bowed their heads and bowed to him long ago, but is Brother Xing a man who is short of money?Of course, I chose to ignore it and focus on starting a business.

Although he doesn't want to do anything yet, he at least needs to set up a entrepreneurial team first.

For a young entrepreneur, the choice of partners is not large, usually classmates, friends and relatives.Because these people are people who can come into contact with each other frequently. Only through high-frequency contact can we understand each other better. It is difficult to establish deep trust in other relationships.

Wang Xing first attracted his brother Wang Huiwen from the lower bunk bed of the university, and then recruited his high school classmate Lai Binqiang, and the Caotai team was established.

Later, there were similar MiHoYo Big Three. Cai Haoyu, Liu Wei and Luo Yuhao all lived in the same dormitory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In fact, there were four people in the dormitory, and they were supposed to belong to the Big Four.

Unfortunately, one of them, Jin Zhicheng, quit the team after receiving an offer from a Fortune 500 company one month after MiHoYo was founded. He sold his 450% equity worth 15 billion yuan a few years later to the other two companies for 15000 yuan. people.

Well, it’s all Cisco’s fault!

Comparable to this situation is the pizza worth [-] Bitcoins. When the value of Bitcoin was at its peak, this pizza was worth several hundred million, and the unit was US dollars. It was known as the most expensive pizza in history.

Therefore, it is difficult for people to make money beyond their knowledge. Every penny you make is a realization of your knowledge of the world.

Uh. It's getting too far.

Having said that, the entrepreneurial model during this period was nothing more than copying what was popular abroad and then attracting investment for development.

In 04, the Facebook social networking site emerged. Wang Xing waved his hand and we also started social networking, and then created Duoduoyou. However, we suffered from inexperience, and none of the three cobblers knew how to build a website.

The three of them had no choice but to learn and work at the same time. Lai Binqiang was responsible for the front-end design, Wang Huiwen was responsible for the back-end code, and Wang Xingye Wuwu Xuanxuan tinkered with the code for two months. Unfortunately, he had no programming talent, so he could only point fingers from the side and took charge of the website. products and operations.

Wanting to build a large and comprehensive website from the beginning is a big taboo when starting a business. In addition, there is no money for promotion. After the launch, there are only three or two kittens, and many of the posts are for their own entertainment.

Many friends, die.

But how could one failure extinguish Brother Xing's entrepreneurial enthusiasm? The three-person team kept testing the waters.

Imitated the foreign event invitation website invite, founded the e-invitation website, and died;

Software that enables file transfer between mobile phones and computers, and development of wap relay stations;

Pinyin input method software "justinput" is still a pawn;

The fifth product, due to my experience studying abroad at the time, I discovered the pain points of overseas tourists and made a picture of a wanderer, which is to send digital photos of overseas travelers to China, pay by credit card, and print out the picture of a traveler and give it to their parents. .

Of course, as expected, something unexpected happened again. Brother Xing achieved five kills in just over a year.

<divclass="contentadv">Wang Xing, who was hailed as one of the "Three Heroes of Longyan" by later generations, had some doubts about whether he was not suitable for starting a business. He spent several lives before starting a business.

In terms of starting, his start was much worse than the other two compatriots.

Wang Huiwen and Lai Binqiang came from ordinary families, and all the money they spent to start a business and invest in shares was borrowed.

Fortunately, Brother Xing has a strong family background and a strong ability to withstand risks. He has repeatedly asked for millions from his family. This rich second generation has a stubborn streak in him, and he has been defeated and defeated repeatedly.

Although Brother Xing’s father is also named Wang, after all, he cannot give his son 5 million unless his name is Jianlin.

In the middle of this year, after Father Wang Xing took out the last sum of money, he looked at his son who had hit the wall and still didn't look back, and said with regret, "After spending all this money, I still won't be able to come back." Do me a favor and stop messing around outside."

If ordinary people fail to start a business, they can only go home and live in the dust. If Xingge fails to start a business, he can only go home and inherit hundreds of millions of assets and become the young owner of a group.

This put a lot of pressure on Wang Xing, who was focused on his career and proving himself. Together with the three brothers Wang Huiwen and Lai Binqiang, they summed up the previous experiences and lessons and showed the characteristics of Athena's saints who would not be defeated twice by the same move. .

I found that there are currently two major obstacles to social networking in China, YY and QQ. The social networking site Century Youyuan.com is the dominant one, followed closely by QQ Space. They have the strength to build something large and comprehensive. If I go head-to-head with them, I can’t say anything. There is no chance, it can only be said that there is no chance of winning.

Therefore, the three of them discussed and decided to enter the vertical segmentation field, focus on differentiation, surround the cities with rural areas, follow the example of Facebook, start from university campuses, and build a Chinese version of Facebook.

Then they dug out the code of the previously failed Duoduoyou project from the grave, revised and optimized it, and began to build a campus social networking site.

When it comes to learning from Facebook, Brother Xing is not just talking about it. He is serious about it. Not only the website layout, color style, but also the login page are exactly the same.

Don't ask, ask is a tribute!

In December of this year, Xiaonei.com, the predecessor of Renren.com, came into being.

The three of them suffered the loss of Duoduoyou not promoting it last time. They learned their lesson this time and spent all their funds on campus promotion. They hired people to distribute flyers in major universities across the country, cooperated with the school to sponsor activities, and offered discounts and free tickets. In the large classroom, advertisements and URLs are written on the blackboard, and all the black and white and gray tricks are adjusted upward. After all, a good cat is the one who can catch mice.

After a lot of hard work, the results were gratifying. In just one month, it attracted tens of thousands of real users, all college students with real-name authentication.

This made the three Wang Xing brothers so excited that they couldn't sleep well. Wang Xing slapped the table and shouted, "Haha, it's done, now we are finally done!"

Seeing the results, the few people worked harder and harder, and kept up their efforts. By the beginning of January, the number of users on the school network increased sharply, several times more than last month.

The good times don't last long, the smell of meat will naturally attract the wolves, and when they see the business opportunities in the social field on campus, there are also talented people in other universities. Who can't do the Sharingan these days?

There are people from Beijing University who have created the negative film website, Fudan University has created the full website, eDorn of the Renmin University of China, looface of Beihang University and other campus social networking websites have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, competing with Wang Xing for campus student resources.

After being chased by soldiers, Wang Xing and the others also faced a more pressing problem, that is, as the number of users increased dramatically, the cost of the server also increased.

Most of the previous funds were used for promotion, and Xiaonei.com has not yet explored a profit model. In other words, they have no money.

The only way out is to raise funds. Wang Xing understands products, but he doesn't understand capital.

The pockets of several others were cleaner than their faces, and they were all in debt to follow him. Helpless Brother Xing could only lick his face and go back to his hometown to ask for help from his father.

I don’t know how Wang Xing got involved with his family. Anyway, he brought a huge sum of one million yuan when he came back. This money can at least enable the school network to survive the current predicament.

Now money is exchanged for time, which allows Wang Xing to have time to explore the website's profit model and contact capital institutions.