Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 744: Prepare for battle and get ready to enter!
On May 5, I took a taxi to the Shanghai branch of the travel agency.

The early summer sun shines into the office area through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Wang Weijian leads Li Wu's team into the company's gate. This will be the starting point of their new business.

The people behind Wang Weijian were dressed in suits and walked with firm steps, and everyone had an eager look on their face.

He then personally led Li Wu and his team to visit the Shanghai branch and gave a detailed introduction to the core management personnel, various departments and office environment.

After the tour, everyone came to a spacious conference room.

Wang Weijian called a few more employees who had taken taxis and said to Li Wu, "These people will work with you and will be under your command."

"Boss Wang is thoughtful!"

After a few people introduced themselves to each other, Wang Weijian dimmed the lights in the room, turned on the projector, and the market analysis report on shared bicycles appeared on the screen.

"Interestingly, the birth of this project is thanks to our Ele.me riders."

Hearing the words "Ele.me" and "rider", Li Wu and several of his companions smiled at each other, with warm light flashing in their eyes.

That was the battlefield they were most familiar with and the most intimate name.

“.Actually, at the beginning of this year, a bike-sharing company called Mobike was conducting a trial operation in Shanghai. One of our Ele.me riders had run out of battery on his bike and was some distance away from a battery swap station. There was a bike nearby, so the rider tried the shared bike to get the battery.

It was with this opportunity that Mr. Zhang Xuhao gradually learned about this new thing. Later, at a headquarters meeting, we discussed this model in depth and found that it perfectly fits the strategic layout of taxi travel. "

He pointed to a thick stack of documents on the table and said, "These are our early market research reports. Now," Wang Weijian looked at Li Wu, "this project is handed over to you."

Li Wu immediately stood up and straightened his back. "Don't worry, Mr. Wang. I will go all out for the shared bike project!"

Wang Weijian nodded with satisfaction. "Mr. Zhang is full of praise for your ability. This project will be run according to the standards of the other side's internal entrepreneurship: A-level resource support, funds and manpower are all in place, the company will only conduct quarterly evaluations, and daily operations are entirely up to you."

Within the Bi'an Group, there are a large number of innovative incubation projects every year, but there will be a dedicated team to conduct comprehensive assessments of the project scale, potential, and prospects. These projects are strictly divided into five levels: S, A, B, C, and D according to the intensity of resource investment.

For a subsidiary like Dadi Chuxing, A-level resource support is the highest possible treatment.

Li Wu knew that this was the group's way of saying, "We're betting on this project."

From a real money perspective:

A-level projects mean a start-up capital of RMB 5000 million;

The legendary S-class requires an investment of more than 1 million yuan;
However, in Li Wu's memory, S-level resources have always been reserved for those "hard technology" projects that master core technologies.

As for business innovation projects? Anyway, he had never seen one that could get an S-level rating.

"Grade A." Li Wu silently recited this rating in his mind, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously. This number was far beyond his expectations. You know, 5000 million is enough to build a shared bicycle project from scratch and create a storm in the market.

He nodded slightly, with confidence shining in his eyes. This level of support was enough.

The meeting room was silent, and everyone felt the heavy responsibility on their shoulders.

What they have to do next is to prove how correct the group's decision is.

"I look forward to you handing in a good report card." Wang Weijian said finally.

"I will definitely live up to your trust!" Li Wu's answer was resounding.

The sunlight shone on the side of his face, outlining a firm outline.

A new journey begins.
An hour later, Li Wu presided over the first plenary meeting of the bicycle division in the taxi travel conference room.

There were 19 people sitting in the conference room: 11 employees who were transferred from Didi Chuxing, 7 old subordinates he brought over from Ele.me, and himself.

"It's twice as much as when we first opened the Suzhou station." Li Wu compared silently in his mind, but there was no sign of discouragement on his face.

On the contrary, his eyes sparkled with excitement.

Although we are building the team from scratch, our current starting point and the situation we face are much better than when we were in Suzhou.

Who was he facing at the time? It was the prosperous Meituan and the wealthy Baidu.

What about now? He opened the market research report given to him by Wang Weijian and found that there were only two major competitors in the market:

The first one is Mobike, which has just started trial operation in Shanghai.

Founder Hu Weiwei is a former automotive journalist, and another founder, Wang Xiaofeng, was a former executive at Uber China.

Li Bin of Joy Capital invested 146 million yuan in the angel round, and subsequently received 300 million US dollars in round A financing. Last month, Mobike was officially launched in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Users can use it after real-name registration through the APP and paying a deposit of 299 yuan.

The second one is the small yellow bike called ofo.

Last year, the company conducted closed-scene tests on campus. After running through the operational process, it received a 900 million yuan angel round investment from Weilie Capital (Peking University Alumni Fund). Recently, it has just stepped out of the campus and started trial operations in Beijing. "Although we started nearly half a year later." Li Wu tapped his fingers lightly on the table, with a slight smile on his face, "but we have more resources than them."

As he spoke, he solemnly took out a neatly bound book from his briefcase - "Systematic Feasibility Plan for Implementing New Business from 0 to 1".

This document is based on the "Feasibility Plan for Systematic Construction of Ele.me Branches" as the core blueprint, and is a guide to building a new business framework that has evolved through multiple practical summaries and iterative evolutions.

The version he has is the latest V3.151, while the official version circulated within the Bi'an Group is still V3.14.

Then, according to the experience summarized earlier, Li Wu entered the substantive stage of the meeting and began to deploy work:
Appoint persons in charge of various positions and build the organizational structure;
Develop recruitment plans and expand the team size;
Contact bicycle suppliers and establish supply chain;

Develop offline channels and lay out operation networks;

At the end of the meeting, Li Wu officially named this new project "Everyday Bicycle".

A few days later, the team doubled in size through internal referrals and external recruitment.

Li Wu divided the personnel into two groups:
The first group is responsible for the design, production and other hardware research and development of shared bicycles, and has decided to cooperate with the old bicycle manufacturer Phoenix;

The second group leads the development of software systems, including remote smart locks, positioning systems, bicycle APPs, etc.

The positioning technology is supported by the AutoNavi team;

QR code and payment system access to WeChat technology;
The main technical difficulty lies in solving the data interaction problem between the APP and the bicycle smart lock;
After estimation, the team gave a rough time node: it is expected to be launched in a small market within 2 months.

Monday, October 5.

A man in his thirties with dark circles under his eyes yawned as he walked out of the subway station. As a senior programmer in an Internet company, he was already used to working overtime until 10 pm.

Although the company has a two-day weekend system, the messages in the work group are like time bombs that can pull him back from rest mode to work mode at any time.

In the past, every weekend was either about this bug or that urgent task. He would complain about his boss making a fuss over trivial matters and how it was not urgent at all, while cleaning up the mess for the company.

This weekend was surprisingly so peaceful that he was a little uncomfortable with it. Even so, happy times were always short. When he thought about having to go to work tomorrow, he wanted to check his phone in revenge, and he kept checking until it was past three in the morning.

Damn it, I must not stay up late today, I must go to bed on time at 11:!

The man cursed and said he would do it next time, his eyes roving around like a radar, searching for something.

It is three kilometers from the subway station to the company. In the past, he had to wait for the bus and then walk a few hundred meters. This "last" distance, including the time spent waiting for the bus, took about the same amount of time as taking the subway.

It's just like the time difference between taking a short or medium-distance flight and taking a train is not much different.

Until last month, Mobike appeared on the streets of Shanghai. As one of the first users, he found that it only took less than 10 minutes to get to work by bike. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. As the number of users increased, finding a bike became a new problem.

Today, he followed the map on the Mobike app and found the place, but he got further and further away.
Following the navigation, he walked into the lobby of an office building.

The phone showed that the bicycle was right there, but in the magnificent lobby there were only white-collar workers coming and going, and there was no one but the bicycle!
"What a rubbish app! Who would park a bike in a building?" He couldn't help but complain.

At this time, a young man passing by caught a glimpse of the Mobike APP interface on his phone and took the initiative to talk to him, "Brother, are you using Mobike?"

"Hey? You know Mobike too? Did you ride here on Mobike? Where did you park?"

"Well, I live right next door, so I don't need to ride a bike."

The eldest brother had a look of resentment on his face, and he felt that his heart was traumatized. "Little brother, look, look, the red dot here represents a car. I have walked here and overlapped it. I have also checked the security guard at the front desk, and there is nothing there. Look, it shows that the car is here, but I don’t even see the shadow of a car. Isn’t this delaying things?"

The young man kindly reminded: "It may be that the positioning has drifted. There is a carport next to our building, and bicycles are usually parked there. You can go and have a look."

After thanking him, the man left in a hurry. The young man walked into the elevator and pressed the 15th floor button - he wanted to take a taxi.

Well, first we need to do shared bicycles. We must pay attention to the problem of map positioning accuracy and solve the problem of difficulty in finding bicycles.

This young man is called Zhu Xu, and he is the operations manager brought over by Li Wu from Ele.me.

When he arrived at his workstation, he found that most of his colleagues were not there.

"Where is Brother Wu?" he asked the technical colleague next to him.

"I'm in a meeting." The colleague waved the file in his hand, "I just finished sorting out the data, can we go together?"

On the way to the meeting room, Zhu Xu couldn't wait to share what he had just seen: "We must do a good job of our positioning system!

Especially the accuracy. I just saw a Mobike user looking for a bike in the lobby. Isn’t that ridiculous? Who would hide a bike in a company? That’s not smart.”

As he was speaking, he pushed open the door of the conference room and swallowed the second half of his sentence back.

On one side of the conference room, there was a striking orange Mobike parked.

(End of this chapter)