Before Yao Yuan was overwhelmed by the resentment of the junior high school students, Yao Xiaobo arrived in time. He was called to attend the appointment.
"elder brother!"
"Well, here we come."
"What do you want from me?"
"It's hard to say here. Let's find a place to eat first."
Yao Yuan paid the bill, took Yao Xiaobo out of the Internet cafe and walked toward the commercial street.
Yao Xiaobo looked unnatural, because yesterday it was suddenly revealed that he had a small treasury, and today he was called over inexplicably, and he felt guilty.
The commercial street is not far away. There are no buildings of later generations. There are only a few clothing cities. The tall and short shops are overcrowded. They are tighter and looser every day. When it is tight, only people are allowed to walk and cars are not allowed to enter. If you look at it, you will be fined. When it is loose, it will be casual.
Enter.
Yao Yuan found a small noodle shop and ordered two bowls of noodles, which cost four yuan in total. This was a hand-made noodles, a big bowl, with some meat sauce and coriander, which was cheap and affordable.
As soon as Yao Xiaobo picked a chopstick, he heard the other party ask: "How much money have you saved?"
puff!
He choked on a mouthful of noodles, but he didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit it, so he had to ask weakly: "How do you know I made some money?"
Because I am reborn, brother!
But Yao Yuan couldn't say it, so he sneered at him. The smile made Yao Xiaobo's hair grow cold, and he said weakly: "I installed computers for others and saved a little bit by repairing computers."
"Huh? Don't you study programming? Why are you still doing the job of licking dogs?"
"What is dog licking?"
"An animal that deserves a good death, go on."
"I also want to take on projects, but our school is not good at it. Big projects don't come to us. They only come to us for small jobs with little money... I actually haven't saved much, and I still have expenses."
Yao Xiaobo lowered his head, feeling quite complicated.
Yao Yuan understood.
Yao Xiaobo's living expenses are only 200 yuan per month. How can I put it this way? You can live on 200 yuan or 2,000 yuan, but in the environment of university, children from poor families really have low self-esteem.
It is normal for young people in their twenties to like to eat and drink, sing K, and buy clothes. On the one hand, Yao Xiaobo wants to satisfy this need, but on the other hand, he feels guilty for not supplementing his family income.
"Don't take it to heart, you are still in school, it is understandable that you want to have the same life as others.
Uncles and aunts don’t have much education. They don’t know how happy you are to go to college. Your going to college is already the first step to change your destiny. If you can continue to work hard after graduation, find a good job and settle in the city.
Take root and your children will receive a good education in the future, and your family's destiny will change.
The countryside is hard, and not many people can escape it. You are already on the right path. It doesn't matter if you have fun in the middle, as long as you keep moving forward..."
Later generations are clamoring for rural construction, and they always love their hometown. That's because the city can no longer be moved, and talented women are running to the countryside. When urban agglomerations are developing rapidly, have you seen anyone who loves their hometown?
To put it bluntly, rural areas are always in the dark.
But now it is 2001, and the rural areas are really poor and miserable, which is totally different.
"..."
Yao Xiaobo was stunned. It was the first time he heard someone interpret his college experience from this perspective. Suddenly, he still admired his eldest brother a little, how deep is it?!
The next second, the man asked again: "How much have you saved?"
"Three to four thousand yuan."
"I have more than one thousand, and I am slowly saving on living expenses. My one thousand plus your three or four thousand is enough. That's it. I have thought of a business project and need some start-up capital. Give me the money.
I'll run the operation and you'll be in charge of the technology.
If you are worried, let's set a time, let's say the Spring Festival. Until the Spring Festival, if you make money, we will share the dividends. If you don't, I will definitely return the principal to you.
Let me tell you, you are my brother and I am taking you with you, no one else can ask for it..."
Yao Xiaobo was shocked!!!
Yao Xiaobo looked at this shameless man and turned his money into his with just a touch of lip service!
"elder brother!"
"Okay, it's settled."
"no!"
"Let's talk about the details later."
"No, I, I, I..."
Snapped!
Yao Yuan took out two pieces of crumpled paper from his pocket and patted it on the table, saying: "I wrote something, it's all practical information, it can help you understand what we are going to do as quickly as possible, you can take it back and digest it.
Actually, this time is not right, we are about to start school, but fortunately most of these things are online and can be done."
"..."
Yao Xiaobo refused, but he subconsciously glanced at the most eye-catching big words circled in red pen on the paper:
"SMS Alliance, Passionate Dating!"
Hiss!
Yao Xiaobo took a breath: "Brother, are you doing porn?"
"Get out!"
"Does passion have to be yellow? Does making friends have to involve a supernatural relationship? When you see short sleeves, you think of white arms, and when you see white arms, you think of nakedness. You have vividly demonstrated the bad nature of Chinese people!"
Yao Yuan was upright and filled with righteous indignation: "I despise you!"
………………
The Internet is generally divided into four stages:
The first stage is from the mid-to-late 1990s until the bubble burst. The Internet shocked the world as soon as it came out. 100% of the emerging industries, a golden mountain, are all about high concepts.
Countless capitals are pouring in, waving banknotes and trying to get into the industry. If you come up with a concept at will and make a prototype of a product, you can get a large amount of financing and go public in the shortest time to make money.
The United States is the home base, and almost all ideas and products spread from the United States to the world.
For example, the three major domestic portals are targeting Yahoo, Baidu is targeting Google, Dangdang is targeting Amazon, and QQ is targeting ICQ - ICQ was developed by Israelis and later acquired by an American company.
Due to the strong support of capital, the Internet has basically encountered no entrepreneurial difficulties. The model is:
Propose a concept → develop products → venture capital support → initial traffic → large capital financing → burn money for expansion → burn money for expansion → burn money for expansion.
This is the case until now.
The second stage is from the bursting of the bubble to the financing recovery in 2003.
The bubble burst period lasted from the beginning of 2000 to October 2002. The world's market value evaporated by 5 trillion US dollars, and countless companies went bankrupt.
Sina's stock price fell to 1.06 US dollars, Sohu's stock price fell to 60 cents, NetEase almost delisted, and Xiao Ma wanted to sell QQ for 1 million.
There are two core issues for Internet products: traffic and monetization.
Stocks collapsed, capital stopped investing, and the website solved the first problem. It had tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of traffic, but it didn’t know how to monetize it. It could only charge a meager advertising fee and lose money every day.
The third stage is from 2003 to the emergence of smart phones.
After the cold winter period ended, the Internet industry recovered rapidly, and capital came again waving money.
At this stage, the hardware, network speed, and payment conditions have been greatly improved, and new generations of products have been born one after another, such as video websites and group purchases.
The fourth stage is the emergence of smart phones to this day.
Let’s not talk about it for the moment, let’s go back to the second stage of the problem.
Now is the Internet winter. Not knowing how to monetize is the biggest headache for all Internet companies.
However, in the end, the three major domestic portals survived, and QQ also survived. Not only did it survive, but it also achieved profitability before the cold winter was over.
Why?
Because they have a good father: China Mobile!
(Thank you to someone, Huabi, Cat, 8616 for being cute...)