You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 306

"The main feature of our video website is that it focuses on film and television entertainment programs and music videos, and completely abandons video content uploaded by individual users."

"Because the video content of most users is meaningless garbage, it has no meaning except wasting server resources."

"Based on the playback volume and video interaction data, users like to search for movies, TV series and variety shows on the website most of the time."

"So we planned to go the high-quality route from the beginning, starting with movies, TV series, variety shows, music videos and other works, to create a high-end video website that only produces high-quality products."

The person who came to seek investment this time was a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a suit, with a slicked-back hair and powdered face, and he talked animatedly with a business plan in hand.

Singer Xiong Xiao was holding a copy of the plan and staring at the young man opposite him expressionlessly, listening to his slightly stiff Mandarin, which was mixed with various difficult English words.

To Xiong Xiaoge, the other party's way of speaking was so rustic that it was a little funny. He used Chinese where professional terms were needed, and kept throwing out new words when they were not needed.

But he has also received professional training, and he will not laugh no matter how funny the other person is.

After all, the other party was trying to cheat him of his money. Xiong Xiaoge had a good temper, but there were too many scammers, which made him a little impatient.

It was just that this entrepreneur was introduced by someone else, and Xiong Xiaoge didn't want to offend his friend, so he arranged a meeting.

After listening to the other party talking for ten minutes, Xiong Xiaoge interrupted him and asked, "Are you going to adopt a boutique strategy for your website?"

"Our website is positioned to attract high-end users, who have a stronger ability to pay." The young man answered confidently, "Our plan is to attract high-value users with high-quality content, and rely on the payment of high-value users to produce more high-quality content."

Xiong Xiaoge still had an indifferent expression, "So where did the website get its high-quality content in the early stages?"

"Relying on the resources on the Internet, we will set up a department specifically responsible for high-quality content, looking for high-quality content on the Internet and uploading it to the website." The young man became more and more excited as he spoke.

"YouTube has a vast amount of high-quality video content, and the mainland Internet also provides excellent TV dramas and variety shows from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and other places. These are all resources we can use."

Xiong Xiaoge's mouth twitched, "You are talking about pirated products, right?"

"No, the spirit of the Internet is sharing. It is a free space." The young man said with a relaxed look, "A California court ruled last December that it is not illegal to upload and broadcast TV programs on YouTube."

"But this is China." Xiong Xiaoge said.

"In mainland China, the administrative agencies still have no laws and policies on the Internet." The young man still smiled confidently, "This is a great period that is conducive to the development of the Internet."

Xiong Xiaoge finally couldn't help but said, "Although laws and regulations always lag behind in emerging industries, legislation and supervision will come eventually."

"Copyright disputes leading to lawsuits will be detrimental to the listing."

"It doesn't matter." The young man said confidently, "We will only adopt the strategy of reposting in the early stage, using the reposted high-quality content to quickly accumulate users, and then start to make our own content and charge membership fees, so that we can make a profit."

"Use the profit funds to produce high-quality content and attract more users. As long as there is sufficient initial funding, the website will soon enter a virtuous circle."

"At that time, we will gradually remove content that has copyright disputes."

"..." Xiong Xiaoge looked at the other person and suddenly remembered a sentence.

We don’t produce high-quality content, we are just the carriers of high-quality content.

"You go back first, we will inform you if there is any follow-up news." Xiong Xiaoge said slowly.

The young man on the other side was a little surprised, "Boss Xiong, will IDG invest?"

"We need to do some investigation first, and then make a decision after discussion." Xiong Xiaoge said politely and patiently.

The young man frowned, obviously the development of the matter was beyond his expectations. "Boss Xiong, it's only 10 million in financing, something you can decide on your own, do you still need to discuss it?"

"It would be a shame to miss out on such a promising project of ours."

Xiong Xiaoge rolled his eyes and resisted the urge to curse.

Why don’t you take a piss and look in the mirror? You say ten million, so it’s ten million.

"This is a necessary procedure. You should go back and wait for news." Xiong Xiaoge said gloomily, "Xiao Wang, show him away."

The young man stood up with some disappointment, shook hands with Xiong Xiaoge, then turned and walked out.

At this time, Zhou Dao hurriedly walked into Xiong Xiaoge's office holding a newspaper.

Xiong Xiaoge's face darkened immediately. "What kind of thing are you recommending to me?!"

"To run a video website entirely by piracy, is there anyone who believes in such a weird idea?"

Zhou Dao was stunned for a moment, then quickly said: "Boss Xiong, don't be angry. We have seen all kinds of entrepreneurs in this industry. It's not that bad."

They are well-informed venture capitalists, and Zhou Dao has even seen a mentally ill person.

During the conversation, he suddenly brought out a barrel of gasoline and threatened the venture capital manager with a lighter, threatening to set fire if he didn't invest. There were also reports that one even threatened to jump off a building if he was refused investment.

In comparison, scammers and extortionists are considered acceptable.

Xiong Xiaoge frowned and suddenly asked, "Has Qin Shaoyan's Qvod been buying copyrights?"

"Yes." Zhou Dao was a little surprised. "Didn't President Qin tell you before that a large part of the financing this time will be used to purchase copyrights? He said that we should buy them quickly while they are cheap."

Xiong Xiaoge sighed, "Qin Shaoyan still has a long-term vision."

In fact, other venture capitalists have some strange things to say about purchasing copyrights.

The Internet is now flooded with piracy. No one cares about copyright and people are frantically copying and uploading all kinds of pirated resources.

It just so happens that Qvod is the most copyright-conscious, spending money everywhere to purchase online broadcasting rights instead of investing in website operations and development.

Someone had hinted to Xiong Xiaoge before, asking him to persuade Qin Shaoyan not to waste money anymore, but to spend money to seize the market first and then worry about the copyright issue.

After hesitating for a while, Xiong Xiaoge decided to remain silent. After all, Qin Shaoyan was just buying the copyright, not making money.

He doesn't like to interfere with how the website is operated and developed.

Zhou Dao interrupted, "Mr. Qin is not just buying copyrights now. Qvod has already started producing its own dramas."

"I went there a few days ago and met Director Xia of Qvod Media. I heard that the TV series they invested in has already started filming, and they are going to sell it to a TV station."

"Huh?!" Xiong Xiaoge became alert. "It's already started? Have you seen that crew?"

"That's not the case." Zhou Dao was a little confused, "But Director Xia said that the crew is in Pinggu, it's called the Film and Television Base."

"Take some time to go over there and take a look." Xiong Xiaoge urged, "See what they are doing."

Zhou Dao immediately understood what Mr. Xiong meant. He was afraid that there was something fishy going on here.

"Okay." Zhou Dao nodded, "I'll go check it out tomorrow and look for more information about this drama." "By the way, Mr. Xiong, have you read the newspaper?"

Xiong Xiaoge was stunned for a moment, "What happened again?"

"It's about President Qin." Zhou Dao put the newspaper on the table with a smile, unfolded it and pointed it to Xiong Xiaoge.

Xiong Xiaoge glanced at it and found the title was "The 5th Textile Expo opened successfully."

"The leaders of relevant departments attended the textile expo and delivered an important speech, ... he emphasized ... he pointed out ... he said ... he demanded"

Xiong Xiaoge skipped over these official articles and his eyes fell on the photo on the front page of the newspaper.

Qin Shaoyan stood in front of a group of leaders, holding a piece of textile and explaining it with a smile on his face.

Behind him is a wooden loom and a sign.

The logo on the wall reads "Huarong Brocade Garment Co., Ltd."

Then there was a report that Huarong Brocade Co., Ltd. won an overseas order worth US$200 million.

Xiong Xiaoge frowned. "What is Qin Shaoyan doing? Why is he giving up his job in the Internet to sell clothes?"

"Boss Xiong, this Huarong Brocade Clothing Company is quite interesting." Zhou Dao smiled. "They were two companies before, but later merged into one. In the last Global International Marathon, they were the exclusive clothing supplier for Facebook, and they were the only one."

"This company also won the clothing order for the National Games."

Xiong Xiaoge was a little surprised, "What is the background of this company?"

Zhou Dao shook his head. "On the surface, they are two local clothing companies in Wuzhong. The bosses are ordinary entrepreneurs. I don't see anything special about them."

Xiong Xiaoge pondered for a moment, took out his cell phone and called Qin Shaoyan directly.

After the call was connected, Xiong Xiaoge said calmly, "Boss Qin, I heard that you started selling clothes again, and it's quite successful. You won an order of 200 million US dollars in one go. Congratulations."

Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."

"It's mainly because Facebook is going to start doing e-commerce, and I'm helping them find a stable and reliable supplier."

Xiong Xiaoge sneered in his heart. He guessed without asking that Qin Shaoyan had shares in this supplier's company.

This way of transferring benefits is not new at all, it is too old-fashioned.

It is not known whether Facebook can make money from e-commerce, but Qin Shaoyan has definitely made money.

"I came to Jiangsu Province to sell clothes on the side, mainly to sign the National Games live broadcast contract with Qvod." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile.

"Oh~" Xiong Xiaoge asked casually, "So how's the progress?"

"The leader has already given instructions and strongly supports it." Qin Shaoyan smiled happily, "I am still discussing the specific details with the relevant departments..."

Ok?
Wait a minute?
Xiong Xiaoge was confused at this time. Has the live broadcast of the National Games been taken over?
Why so fast?
Xiong Xiaoge could no longer hear what Qin Shaoyan said next. He asked anxiously, "Has it been taken down?"

"Yes." Qin Shaoyan felt that Xiong Xiaoge's reaction was a bit strange. "We have already started discussing the details with the relevant departments."

"How... did you do this?" Xiong Xiaoge was a little surprised and curious.

"It's just some public relations skills, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning." Qin Shaoyan said vaguely.

Xiong Xiaoge's eyes were now on the newspaper. The front-page news photo featured not only Qin Shaoyan, but also several leaders, especially the leader surrounded in the middle.

A little PR skill?
Qin Shaoyan must have used his connections again, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy.

"This is a good thing!" Xiong Xiaoge cheered up. "This live broadcast right is very meaningful. We should promote it well."

This news is good for Qvod.com and is indeed worth boasting about.

Qin Shaoyan, however, acted nonchalant about it. "This is just the online live broadcast rights for the National Games, which is relatively simple. The difficult part is the online live broadcast of the Olympic Games, which is the most valuable."

"The online broadcast of the National Games is just a rehearsal for applying for the online broadcast of the Olympic Games."

"Whether we can win this battle is the most important thing."

Xiong Xiaoge also came back to his senses from his joy, nodded slightly, and agreed: "Boss Qin has the demeanor of a great general."

"Only if we can do this live broadcast well and beautifully will we have a chance to go to the Olympics."

Qin Shaoyan said seriously: "I have asked Kou Hongfei to form a special technical team and select technical backbones to be responsible for this live broadcast."

Xiong Xiaoge asked again: "Is online live streaming possible?"

"There is no technical problem." Qin Shaoyan replied in a relaxed tone, "We will use a brand new technology to conduct the live broadcast."

When talking about live online TV broadcast, we have to mention the TV software PPlive.

The founder originally came up with this idea because he wanted to watch a football game. During the 2002 World Cup, there were no TVs in college dormitories, so students could only rent rooms in hotels or go to roadside shops to watch TV.

At that time, they thought it would be nice if they could watch TV on the Internet, so several students developed this software.

In August 2005, Shonan TV took a fancy to PPlive and started to cooperate with it.

PPlive then became famous overnight by providing online broadcast for the first "Super Girl" competition, successfully creating 50 people watching the "Super Girl" finals online.

In order to broadcast the National Games live online, Kou Hongfei specially developed a Qvod client software according to Qin Shaoyan's request.

As long as you download the Qvod software, you can watch it online.

……

With the leader's approval, the relevant departments acted quickly and someone contacted Qin Shaoyan immediately.

"Hello, Mr. Qin." A middle-aged man wearing black-framed glasses smiled and extended his hand. "My name is Qian Guoming."

"Hello, Director Qian." Qin Shaoyan warmly shook the other person's hands tightly, "I'm sorry to bother you this time, Director Qian, please give us more guidance on our work."

"Well, it's not about guidance. We just cooperated with each other and successfully completed the live broadcast of the National Games." Director Qian said with a smile, "This is also the first time in our country that live broadcast technology has been used in a large-scale sports event. It is of historical significance."

"We have mobilized all our technical backbones to work hard to ensure the success of this online live broadcast and will never let down the leadership's trust." Qin Shaoyan said seriously.

Director Qian smiled and nodded, and suddenly said, "Boss Qin, your public service advertisement was well shot."

(End of this chapter)