Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 206 If you want to succeed, you have to spend money.

In the past few days, Cheng Yi has been modifying the game while tinkering with the campus network team at the entrepreneurial base.

The most tedious part of the campus network is the organization and classification of accounts, which involves merchants from many different industries. However, with the addition of Zhao Bin and others, this most tedious link has become less complicated.

These elite groups from top-level professional schools are much more rigorous and professional in handling accounts than many financial personnel who have changed their careers halfway. At the very least, they are much better than the dozen or so financial personnel recruited by Huang Wenrong.

Zhao Bin and his colleagues attached great importance to this hard-won practical opportunity. Not only Zhao Bin, but also the tutors of the School of Finance and Economics often brought their students here for on-site learning.

Xiaonei Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. has become a practice base for the School of Finance and Economics. The originally deserted entrepreneurial base has suddenly become lively.

At the same time, Chen Yafang was constantly inviting representatives from the external relations departments of other universities to come for inspection and study. In order to receive them well, Cheng Yi specially sent Zhang Lingyu out to represent Momo Group to carry out some welcoming and seeing off work.

As the most important Guolong Software R&D Center, with the leadership of He Xu and Zhou Hui, both the speed and professionalism of software development have been greatly improved compared with before.

Since the arrival of He Xu and Zhou Hui, two national treasure-level programmers, the Guolong Software R&D Center has become a research and development holy land in the eyes of teachers and students of Jingzhou Vocational College. Many teachers and students who claim to have good programming skills are constantly working hard, looking forward to joining the R&D center one day.

The current focus of the Guolong Software R&D Center is to improve the Momo virtual props trading platform and develop and build the campus network community website.

These days, there is still a lack of development environment in China, and there are not many Internet companies. Everyone is generally in the stage of feeling their way forward. Momo Virtual Props Platform and Xiaonei Community are already considered to be websites with relatively high development levels in the industry.

Especially the Momo virtual props platform, which involves many aspects and is definitely not something that can be achieved by just making a website.

In this era where virtual props are not protected, payment methods rely entirely on SP business and bank remittances, and vulnerabilities are frequent due to imperfect operating systems, no one is willing to put his equipment on the Internet for trading.

It is no exaggeration to say that accepting the sale of equipment online is equivalent to accepting zero-yuan purchases in disguise.

Therefore, from 2001 to 2004, virtual equipment transactions have always been conducted face-to-face within the same city.

Since its establishment in November 5173, the largest domestic 2002 trading website has relied on point cards and proxy training for profit until the end of 11. If it had not received US$2003 million in financing from IGE in 2003, it would probably have collapsed in the cold winter night of 500.

In fact, even in 2024, there are still many examples of fraud in virtual equipment transactions.

The path taken by Momo's virtual props platform is a combination of the B2C model of IGE, the world's largest virtual props trading platform, and the C5173C model of 2. Since 2, IGE's B2002C has achieved daily transaction volume of several million US dollars. By 2005, their profits had reached 6 million US dollars. In the same year, 5173 was still relying on financing to survive. Until 2013, at its peak, 5173's annual profit was only 1.0578 million yuan.

IGE's model is to set up offline outlets, and then purchase game props in a unified manner for secondary sales.

This model is similar to the traditional model of purchasing and selling goods, but it is safe and stable, and has almost exorbitant profits.

Strictly speaking, IGE is the world's largest game studio, and it makes money without cheating anyone.

For this model to succeed, the most important factor is the intensity of website supervision. Users must first place an order on the website, and then the website customer service will allocate and put the products on the shelves.

If it is a B2C model, customer service will directly conduct an online review and after determining the value of the item, the work order will be assigned to the nearest agency point, allowing the user to go to the agency point to purchase or sell it directly.

If it is a C2C model, users can directly publish products on the website. After a user confirms the purchase, both parties can choose the nearest guaranteed transaction location to conduct the transaction remotely.

For each transaction, a certain amount of Momo Internet Cafe points can be allocated to both parties according to 20% of the transaction amount, which perfectly solves the problem of order jumping.

In the past few days, Cheng Yi went to Guolong Software to test the Momo virtual props trading platform several times. With the continuous optimization of He Xu and Zhou Hui, the Momo virtual props trading platform has long been a different place.

Its functionality and layout are no less than eBay.

However, successfully building a website is only a small step. After all, there are thousands of portal websites, but only three will survive in the end.

In this era where everything needs to be promoted, how to promote your website with the least amount of money is the top priority.

For example, the model of 5173 is to post some psoriasis advertisements in various game servers, but this method has little effect. After all, in this era, account-stealing Trojans are rampant, and few people who play online games dare to click on the websites in the psoriasis advertisements.

In many film and television works and exciting novels, the male protagonist uses the creativity of his previous life to create a website, then raises his arms and shouts, releasing his domineering aura, and millions of people flock to it as if they were possessed by a worm queen, as if the completion of the website means success. However, they don’t know that this is only the first step.

The cruelest law of the Internet is survivor bias.

Of the 100 virtual prop platforms, only one, 5173, survived.

Out of 100 portals, only three survived in the end.

What matters in the Internet is not creativity, but real hard power!
There are only two words to succeed.

Burning money!

The idea of ​​a shared bicycle gave rise to dozens of shared bicycle brands, but in the end only the two brands that burned the most money survived.

The idea of ​​an e-commerce platform triggered a desperate competition among more than a dozen Internet giants. In the end, even Tencent was eliminated, and only Taobao survived.

Whether in the past or present life, the cost of Internet traffic is frighteningly high.

In the past, the cost of attracting an effective user to an APP was 10-20 yuan. In order to increase the registration data of the software, Cheng Yi and his team went to the community to deliver eggs. Whoever downloaded and registered the APP would be given three pounds of eggs.

In 2001, the cost of attracting an effective user was between 5 and 10 yuan. The Legend public beta spent millions on promotion, but only attracted tens of thousands of registered users.

However, given the size of Momo Internet Cafe, Momo Group has almost no cost in attracting traffic. It just needs to announce that the Internet Cafe will be temporarily free for a few days and pay some electricity bills.

Right now, everything is going on in an orderly manner, which makes Cheng Yi feel much more relaxed.

Now all the layout has been completed. What remains is to let these seemingly scattered subsidiaries help each other and move forward quickly.

If Momo Group is a computer, then Momo Operating System Company is the CPU, which controls everything.

The Honor computer is the power supply and cannot be turned on without it.

Momo Internet Cafe is the motherboard, and all hardware needs to be built on it.

Momo online games use memory, which affects the overall speed and stability of the computer and exchanges data with the hard disk.

Momo Virtual Props Platform is the hard drive that carries and runs all the concepts of the entire computer.

The campus network is a graphics card that can give the computer a high-end picture.

Toutiao is a computer circuit that provides support to each component to the best of its ability.

As for Xizi Hanyan Clothing Company, it is a beautiful computer case, also known as 'The Secret of Xizi Hanyan'.

Now, if we want to improve the overall operating speed of Momo Group's "computer", we must promote Momo online games as soon as possible.

By afternoon, the office and apartment across from the Momo internet cafe were finally renovated. Cheng Yi personally selected all the materials for the renovations, from the formaldehyde-free imitation porcelain paint to the ceiling joists. After all, his health and that of his employees are his top priority. To address the formaldehyde issue with new furniture, all the office furniture in the rooms was secondhand or stocked, with a focus on environmental protection.

The four-story apartment is equipped with two Fujitec elevators.

All the small rooms of 65 square meters in the apartment were connected and converted into large rooms of 130 square meters, with 20 rooms on each floor.

Cheng Yi spent three days looking for a professional interior soft decoration company to decorate the apartment.

A huge sign was hung on the roof of the apartment building, Momo Group.

The renovation cost of more than two million yuan is really worth it. Whether viewed from the outside or from the inside, it has a very technological feel.

The first floor of the two-story shop was converted into the apartment's entrance hall, raising the apartment's level.

The second floor was converted into Momo Group's corporate culture exhibition hall, mainly to cope with the upcoming on-site review of the chain Internet cafe license.

A sign reading Momo Group Holdings Co., Ltd. hangs at the door of the shop.

During these three days, Huang Wenrong has completed all the procedures for establishing a group company.

"We must choose a good day to open the business. Then I will report on it in the Internet section." Zhao Gang said excitedly in the tea room of Momo Internet Cafe.

"I think October 10th is a good date," Huang Wenrong said. "I've carefully looked at the dates over the past few days, and the day after tomorrow, October 20th, is a good date for the opening."

"The 20th isn't quite right. I think the 21st is better," Zhao Gang said. "The number 1 symbolizes the beginning of all things and represents the qualities of innovation, leadership, and dominance. It's better than the number 0."

"I also think the 21st is better." Li Xiang also agreed.

Finally, the opening time was set at 10:21 am on October 9st.

With three days left before the opening, all subsidiaries took action.

Except for the fourth floor which is reserved for the group headquarters, Zhao Gang and his team are free to choose the rooms on the 1st to 3rd floors.

On the eve of the opening, Du Yusheng, who had been managing illegal Internet cafes in various prefecture-level cities, finally returned.

It would be inappropriate for the group to open for business without the big boss Du Yusheng.

Because Du Yusheng has been running back and forth between various cities and counties during this period, his originally fair and plump appearance has turned him into a slightly dark and plump man.

However, this wheat-colored skin adds a bit of majesty and masculinity to Du Yusheng.

Until ten o'clock in the evening, Cheng Yi and others were sorting out the guest list and ceremony process for tomorrow. There were many guests attending the opening ceremony, and each of them was a hard-earned asset of Momo Group, such as Chen Wenyu, chairman of the Municipal Information Industry Association, Tian Yisheng, chairman of the Municipal Cultural Industry Association, Gao Lipu, vice president of Handong University, Bi Guolong, president of Jingzhou Vocational College, Li Zhiyuan, editor-in-chief of Jingzhou Daily, etc. were all present.

In order to enhance social influence, Cheng Yi invited a well-known host from Handong Provincial TV Station to host the opening ceremony at a high price.

The one who will be making the most appearance tomorrow is Du Yusheng. In order to make Du Yusheng look more masculine, Cheng Yi invited teachers from the beauty and hairdressing major of Jingzhou Vocational College to come and carefully give Du Yusheng a cool look.

Du Yusheng is a person with an outgoing personality. He likes things like being in the spotlight the most. Although he is a little tired after just coming back, he still cooperates with all his strength.

Early the next morning, all 69 female network administrators of Momo Internet Cafe put on maid uniforms and lined up on both sides of the street.

After 8 o'clock, the guests arrived one after another. They walked on the huge red carpet that was a hundred meters long, and under the aim of countless cameras, they walked towards the main entrance of Momo Building with shock.

At the entrance of the building, there is a huge sign-in wall. Four nine-head-body models invited from the Fashion Performance Department of Handong Art College, wearing red cheongsams, handed pens to the guests one by one with smiles on their faces.

Next to the sign-in wall, Du Yusheng, wearing a black suit, shook hands and took photos with each of the guests.

These days, an opening usually involves erecting an arch and cutting the ribbon, but the sense of ceremony of walking the red carpet at the Oscars left many guests stunned.

This time, Cheng Yi didn't show up. He stood in the director's office on the fourth floor, looking out the French windows at the bustling scene below. He had the illusion of a changing world. He withdrew his gaze and smiled at Huang Wenrong beside him, "Old Huang, we should each smoke a cigar at this time. That's the way capitalists behave, right?"

Huang Wenrong smiled, feeling a little emotional.

Momo Internet Cafe has only been built for more than two months, but it has already grown to such a scale.

Just as Cheng Yi said, it took more than two months of planning to create the complete Momo Group we have today.

The Momo Group is now as stable as a rock in Jingzhou City.

At this time, Du Yusheng also displayed his innate skill - eloquence.

As soon as the opening ceremony ended, he led all the guests to the second floor and eloquently introduced the great vision of Momo Group according to the script provided by Cheng Yi.

At noon, Du Yusheng had just taken a group of guests to the Handong Hotel, and Cheng Yi rode his Mulan scooter to the third branch of Momo Internet Cafe.

Momo Internet Cafe Branch No. 3 was the branch that was attacked the most severely by Tianqin Internet Cafe.

Due to the interoperability of Momo Internet cafe membership cards, these branches are unable to lower prices along with other Internet cafes. Some time ago, the number of customers at branch number three was almost in the single digits.

Since the Internet cafe war began, the number of members registering and recharging at Momo Internet cafes has dropped sharply. If it were not for the computer rooms of 18 universities, the merchants' ground-based sales business would probably be halted.

Soon, Cheng Yi arrived at the door of branch No. 3.

At this time, the entrance of branch No. 3 was already full of bicycles.

Cheng Yi locked the car and strolled into the Internet cafe.

Inside the Internet cafe, all 120 computers were occupied, and there were even thirty or forty people watching and looking around, hoping to grab a vacant computer.

Now all branches of Momo Internet Cafe have been replaced by Pentium MMX computers with Moc-os system by Li Xiang.

All the customers here are playing Momo Legend.

"The east side of Biqi Forest has been occupied by Wu Laojiu and his gang from Shinan District. These bastards are such jerkies! They blew up my Sea Soul yesterday. If my brothers hadn't pooled their money to redeem it, I would have already shut myself down."

"Brothers, let's gather together and launch a surprise attack on them, so that they can also experience the feeling of redeeming their equipment." A young man called out loudly in the Internet cafe.

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