Chapter seventy-four, toad mirror, flared pants
Everything is normal and the development is good.
These two sentences can perfectly describe Alice's current life.
At Cisco, Alice completely let the Posacks get involved. Anyway, as long as the development is normal, and in various senses, it will be developed normally. After the company scales, the couple will definitely be kicked out of the historical trend.
As for business, the monthly transaction volume of $1 million is still based on the orders obtained by Alice. After all, word of mouth is said to be the best publicity channel. After three or four universities including California Polytechnic are interested in purchasing, the orders of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and even some large companies and research institutions are the trend issue.
According to the latest information, Sandy has found four venture capital companies, but all failed without exception. At this speed, it is only more than half a year before the twenty-six companies agreed with Alice. Once the number arrives, according to the agreement, she can invest additional funds on the premise of technology investment and acquire the main shares of Cisco in one fell swoop.
After Microsoft obtained the full version of Windows 1.0 program, the system testing work is being carried out in full swing. According to the news given by Gates, the listing date should be at the beginning of next year. Compared with the normal historical development of next year, although this period of time is nothing, Alice's holding up to 35% of the shares is more precious than gold.
According to her memory, Microsoft was going public on the ride-sharing of Windows 1.0. At present, or before listing, the company's total assets were about two million US dollars - yes, only two million US dollars, but the increase after listing is terrifying. Although the real outbreak will begin in 1994, this waiting is completely worth the effort compared to the benefits it will get.
Stock trading is the fastest and most convenient way to increase wealth value. Seeing that the Internet financial bubble is about to be born, Alice certainly plans to make a big fortune here.
In fact, compared with the glorious Internet period of the 1990s, Microsoft's stock was not particularly outstanding. Alice remembers it clearly that the closing price of Microsoft when it went public in 1986 was only seven cents, and it took ten years to rise to nearly nine dollars. It was not until 1999 that it reached its most brilliant moment. The closing price once rose to as much as $48, but then it was no longer as glorious as before and always maintained around 24 yuan.
But that's enough.
Now I occupy 35% of Microsoft's shares at a price of seven cents. Although the proportion will be reduced after listing, the amount will continue to grow. If I use the subsequent version of Windows 1 as a bargaining chip, and then wait for a high selling in 1999, it will be nearly 700 times the wealth appreciation!
The hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1984 were kept by hundreds of billions of dollars until 1999. This can’t be called making money anymore, it’s called robbing money, and it’s called printing machines!
And this is just Microsoft.
And IBM.
IBM's average closing price this year is around $25, and it will usher in a valley of around $10 in 1993. But after that, starting from 1994, IBM's stock price soared like a roller coaster, breaking through to around $120 in 1998!
Then, even after the Internet financial bubble burst in 2000, its stock price was sluggish again, but by 2010, it still rose to its original historical price, even as high as US$130 at one point.
So, from the perspective of stocks alone, Microsoft is actually that's the case. It's wise to Buffett not buy the former and buy the latter, although the former gave birth to the richest man in the world.
For Alice, who remembers these stock price fluctuations and is talented, it is time to invest in a famous company, buy and sell and earn high price difference, and it is not easy to get a fortune of tens of billions of dollars, and a worth of tens of billions of dollars is also a waste of money.
So, under the premise that she was not short of money, Alice naturally focused her energy on new areas.
Johnson Middle School Club Building, former Literature and Art Club Classroom, and is currently the SOS Team Command.
"Tell you about the investigation report I have obtained recently."
It was two forty again in the afternoon. In the corner, Wuya was looking at a heavy book as if no one was around, and she knew the so-called foreign language. Alice sat cross-legged on a steel pipe chair, smiling at Sissi with a black face, and Ashley with an excited face.
"Or, let me ask you a question first, "The People from the Atlantic Ocean", who have you ever watched this TV series?"
Sissi looked inexplicably, and Wuya still saw it in the corner. Ashley raised her hand with a smile and said, "I've seen it. I've seen it! The TV series aired two years ago, produced by NBC. The story tells that on a mysterious New Year's Day night, the huge waves under the sea sent a strange man, Mike Harris to the shore. When the medical community regarded it as death and was powerless, oceanographer Dr. Elisabeth Mary put him back to the ocean, which made him resurrected. As a result, he was actually an amphibian living under the Atlantic Ocean!"
"Bingo, Ashley answered correctly!"
Alice snapped her fingers and said, "But what you probably don't know is that this TV series was introduced to China in August this year and caused a sensation!"
Seeing the two girls' expressions of confusion when they suddenly realized the two girls, Alice actually didn't know what she was in.
If she put together small and big things, she has not experienced many historical changes at present. Before this incident, the biggest change was that Microsoft did not move its headquarters to Seattle in 1978.
However, for anyone who can foresee the future through rebirth, no one wants to see the situation lose control. Although things are not big, it definitely doesn't feel good to Alice.
The TV series "The Man from the Atlantic Ocean" should have been aired around 1977, and was then introduced to China around 1980, which triggered a situation of people leaving behind and a wave of trends. Now, under the influence of some butterfly effect, time has been completely delayed...
Although it's not a big deal...
Isn't it a big deal? That may not be true. If the broadcast of this TV series will be postponed, what about the future Olympic Games? What about the establishment date of a certain company? What about the time of a terrorist attack? Occasionally, one thing is nothing, but this trend is not a good phenomenon...
“But what does this have to do with the clothing brand we are going to do now?”
Ashley pointed to the classroom wall, and on it, the brand slogan she made was posted on it, and the artistic font was written with a classic line.
“We don’t produce clothing, we are just fashionable porters.”
"So, this is the result of my market research."
No one asked Alice how she investigated the market, because she just opened her mouth: "Do you still remember the clothes that the protagonist of the TV series wears? His pants, and the sunglasses that he must wear on the shore as a submarine?"
Xixi shrugged and said, "Frog mirrors and bell-bottom pants are just the most common clothes. Do you want Ashley to design these two products? But the market competitiveness is probably very serious, right?"
"So, sisters, our market is in China~"
Alice's blue eyes were illuminating: "Now the style of clothes in China is definitely ten years behind internationally, but fortunately they started to open to the public two years ago. Think about it, whether it is bell-bottom trousers or toad glasses, although it is the most common thing for us, what impact will it have on them?"
"Ah...I understand!"
With this sentence, Xixi quickly reacted and said loudly: "Are you saying that with the promotional effect brought by that TV series, we can open up the market in China?"
"That's right!"
Alice snapped her fingers again: "According to China's current comprehensive national conditions, this TV series must be broadcast repeatedly for one or two years, and it is definitely a rating of 10,000 people. Think about it, if we were to pay for this publicity, how much US dollars would it cost? It can be said that it is completely free now!"
"But it's just sunglasses and pants, it's easy to be imitated, right?"
Seeing Alice's face full of excitement, Xixi said calmly: "After all, this is not something with technical content, and Chinese merchants will also realize the business opportunities..."
“This is the market problem.”
Alice said: "As long as we can seize the entire market as quickly as possible and make users identify with our brand, the next thing we need to do is to prevent the overturned position and anti-counterfeiting."
"Well, the issue of anti-counterfeiting..."
Speaking of this, Alice was a little bit overwhelmed.
Because of this TV series, the turbulent trend of toad mirrors and bell-bottom pants caused by the domestic surging trend and wide spread, she certainly knew it very well. According to the view of an idiot businessman during the Opium War, even if one-third of the people in the country buy a nightcap, the entire British cotton weaving factory would be exhausted.
That's simply endless profit.
Although not many people in China wore nightcaps until 2015...
But what Alice knows more clearly is that if she really wants to open up the Chinese clothing market, the core problem is actually...
Chapter completed!