Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian was thinking whether to start collecting people everywhere before re-privatization, or start collecting people now.After looking at the stock price, Jia Hongjian decided to wait two months before starting the privatization—I don’t know if Holmes’s business itself is really profitable, so the company’s stock price has not actually fallen very much. serious.Although the stock price has fallen to almost one-tenth of the original value, it is still a bit high from Jia Hongjian's psychological price. If we want to buy it now, the overall price will be almost one billion US dollars. Jia Hongjian Certainly not happy to pay so much money!

So, start collecting people everywhere now.Jia Hongjian himself is still the boss of the board of directors. After he held a meeting and talked about it, the Holmes company will soon start to expand against the trend.Of course, if you want to charge more people, it doesn't mean that everyone will come.Sherlock Holmes is now one of the most well-known manufacturers in the United States and even the world. Even if such a company recruits people, even if it recruits people from companies that are bankrupt or facing bankruptcy, it is impossible to say that it is a cat or a dog. .

Jia Hongjian does not need to pay attention to the recruitment of specific grassroots programmers. What he should pay attention to is whether there are any technical talents or patents that can be acquired in companies that are bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy. What.And at the current meeting, Jia Hongjian, Ding Sanshi, Zhang Chaoyang and others were discussing what would be a suitable "acquisition".

"Among the companies that are close to bankruptcy, there are some that are quite interesting. For example, an Internet company invested by Michael Jordan, the domain name is called mvp.com. This company is a platform for online sales of sporting goods. It was established in 99. The bankruptcy process is about to begin, and a series of things may be auctioned by the court. Their company has nothing attractive, and the only thing of value is the domain name. Mr. Jia, what do you think of the mvp domain name? We need to buy it Is it?" Ding Sanshi asked.

"Mvp?" Jia Hongjian thought for a while and shook his head. "We are a comprehensive online shopping website, so we don't need such a professional term, and it's useless if we ask for this domain name. Does this company have any famous talents? No? If not, then change to another one!"

"The next one is go.com. This company was bought by Disney two years ago. In order to compete with our portal websites, Disney merged one of their own portal websites with this website. This website has its own Its policy is that even the news and searches will never mention anything inappropriate for children. In short, their website can be considered to be for teenagers and children..." Zhang Chaoyang said some of the information he searched .

"According to what we have heard, Disney may close the website directly after the end of the year. After all, this website only burns money and has no profitability... In terms of talents and patents, this company has nothing to pay attention to. , that is, the domain name is a bit interesting. If our company plans to compete with Disney in the future, we might as well buy such a website. After all, it is a little famous... But this company burns money quite badly, and now the website seems to have been burned Disney, which lost $7 million, invested in..."

"No. We don't need to start with a website if we take the children's line." Jia Hongjian shook his head and rejected the proposal.

"Then Mr. Jia, do you have a look at this? A website called kibu. This website is exactly an online chat system and an online community. There is nothing surprising about such a product, but they are targeting 13-18 year olds. The teenage girl market in the middle of the market wants to attract active teenage girls to enter. Although the profit model may still have a big problem. But at least you know what your predetermined customer base is like..." Yang Zhiyuan said.

"Girls' market?" Jia Hongjian thought for a while. The online chat room is actually useless at all, and it still conflicts with the cq chat software of Sherlock Holmes Company. Maybe it was cq that killed the website?With chat software, who still uses such ancient things as chat rooms?And the next so-called various online communities, these things are at most only temporarily popular, just like stealing food, even foreign countries can't guarantee that this model will last forever, even ten years of popularity.Then Jia Hongjian still wants to buy this website to make a so-called online community?

And what's more, if you want to use the online community, the online page of Music Bean Pod has such a system, and even designed various levels like rpg games.So you still need to buy such a website?Not to mention, in fact, the website is good in terms of ideas, but how much spending power do girls aged 13-18 have?Although children and women are known to earn money, it is the parents who pay the children.For a woman, the man and she pay together, and she must buy what she can afford, which also requires her spending power!So really, don't talk about buying such a company.Even if Jia Hongjian wants to use this company as a venture capital investment to make money, he is not very optimistic about such a project!In fact, it was the same. Jia Hongjian took a closer look at the company's information, and it turned out that the company didn't even burn through the 2200 million US dollars from the first round of financing, and then hung up!Although there was some bad luck and the Internet bubble burst, it also proved that the company had no idea of ​​making a profit!

Do a website, but temporarily can't make money, but you can't even think about how to make money!Otherwise, wouldn't you just do it with a slap in the face?Can you make money by doing this?I'm afraid that venture capitalists originally thought of playing a game of drumming and passing flowers. If they want to turn around and grow bigger, no matter whether they make money or not, anyway, add a zero first and sell it directly to the next family, right?

Naturally, Jia Hongjian rejected such a proposal.In the following meeting, the group mentioned a lot of closed websites, but in fact, there were not many who could really get into Jia Hongjian's eyes.The reason is also very simple. If these companies are really messed up, how can they be reduced to bankruptcy or close to bankruptcy?Of course, there were some interesting companies among them that made Jia Hongjian a little tempted.For example, the company kozmo.

This company is also doing online retailing.However, they sell more miscellaneous things, ranging from movie tickets to popcorn and other snacks, and they even promised to do something that Holmes and the company dared not promise - no matter how much the purchase amount is, free shipping!And it will definitely be delivered within an hour!Of course, they only take business from a few cities.At the beginning, this website was pretty good. After all, on the one hand, the cities in the United States are not too big, and it is not necessary to drive four hours from the east of the city to the west of the city. But after it really gets bigger, this There is no way to make a profit—because if there is no limit to the amount of free postage for each order, every movie ticket will be sent for free, and labor is so expensive here in the United States. Can this thing make money?So after the kozmo company developed to 1 city outlets, it also found that it couldn't do it like this!So, they began to limit the amount of the order. If the order does not exceed $7, they will pay a delivery fee of $50.But even so, it couldn't save them in this era when the dot-com bubble burst!

For this, Jia Hongjian was slightly interested.Because of this time-limited delivery method, it is similar to the practice of various pizza restaurants in the United States-if the pizza is not delivered within 30 minutes, it will be free!Of course, this can stimulate consumers to come, but the problem is that the profits of many retail items to online retail sites are not as good as the pizza profits earned by pizza shops!After all, these retail sites don't produce things themselves, they just buy them!

It’s a bit like kozmo, it’s a company called webvan, this webvan is also an online shopping company, but it’s different from the Sherlock Holmes platform, they sell all kinds of daily groceries, just like everyone at the gate of the Chinese community Kind of like a grocery store.However, although the company raised 3.5 million US dollars after its IPO, the profit of the company's main business of groceries is too thin, and at the same time, there are not enough customers.And the worst thing is that this company just finished its IPO, and before they started to make money, they burned 3 million US dollars to build a so-called world's most high-tech warehouse and freight platform.As a result, in the first half of 2000, more money was burned than their turnover!So the company lost money all the way in the first half of the year!

So, it can't last for a while.Jia Hongjian was slightly interested in this, but only slightly.To be honest, if you want to get groceries, you can get them on the Sherlock Holmes platform. Even if you import a lot of groceries directly from China, if you think you are a Wal-Mart on the Internet, the price is much cheaper than that in the United States!If it is made into large-volume purchases or free postage such as group purchases, then it is not impossible to continue to operate.It's their warehouse, which is quite attractive to Jia Hongjian!Because their Sherlock Holmes company also needs a warehouse!It would be nice to be able to buy a warehouse cheaply.However, the warehouse made by Webvan Company is too expensive, and it is still a semi-finished product. Basically, the frame cannot be changed too much. If you want to buy it, you have to continue to spend money on it. Jia Hongjian is not sure whether it will have any effect... So , don't buy it now?

After these proposals were finished, there was finally a company that caught Jia Hongjian's eyes—a website called govworks.The name of this website is also very simple, which means "government work".What does the name mean?It means that this company has actually made a very advanced website, which can be said to be an online government affairs system!To put it bluntly, it is to help local governments in the United States establish a place to file and pay taxes, pay various fees and pay various fines online!This thing is actually quite an idea, right?For example, in future generations, can you pay utility bills online?Isn't it possible to recharge mobile phone bills online?This idea is actually quite good!