Global Monopoly of Technology

Venture Fund Headquarters.

Liu Wen, who was sitting in the office, called his assistant and asked, "How has the BlueSpace website developed recently? Is there any market research data?"

The assistant nodded and said, "Mr. Liu, we have obtained the latest data on the BlueSpace website. Up to now, the website has accumulated 14.8 million registered users, 9.5 million active users, and 257 million page views."

"What?" Liu Wen was shocked when he heard it, and subconsciously said, "Why is the ratio of active users so high?"

Not only that, but the monthly growth rate of users is nearly 10 million. This is what shocked him the most. This data is crazy. Compared with the growth data of QQ in the same period, the BlueSpace website has completely exploded QQ.

The assistant continued: "More than a month ago, the BlueSpace website launched the photo function, which became popular as soon as it was launched, driving the explosive growth of users. Data shows that in the past month alone, Users of the BlueSpace website have uploaded more photos than any other website."

It is not surprising to Luo Sheng that the number of photos uploaded exceeds other websites, because photo sharing is one of the core social functions of BlueSpace, and now it is even possible to remove "one". In the current BlueSpace website, the photo function is the core, none of them.

Liu Wen thought to himself: "Not to say that it is absolutely successful, but the prospect of Bluestar Technology's success is indeed getting brighter and brighter. With the current momentum, it may be able to compete with QQ in the future, or even surpass it."

Thinking of this, Liu Wen now regrets that he was a step late and failed to get the angel round of financing from Bluestar Technology, so Xu Chenghua took the lead.

Can't help but sigh, QQ's sense of smell in the field of social networking is sharper than others.

Judging from the current development momentum, the BlueSpace website is definitely the most eye-catching social networking site in the current Internet world. The growth rate of users is comparable to that of QQ. It has been 5 years since QQ was established and listed. .

The BlueSpace website, a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology, has only been around for more than three months. Although the cumulative number of users is less than 15 million, it is still very disparate compared to QQ users.

But BlueSpace's growth momentum is too strong, and that's the point.

Liu Wen immediately asked: "Can you find out the current financial status of Bluestar Technology? I remember Xu Chenghua showing off in front of me at the time, as if the angel round of financing only took 1 million. With the current data, users share a lot of photos. , just the cost of the Internet fee is enough to drink a pot, and one million can't help it."

His assistant replied: "Bluestar Technology expanded its team a month ago, and now their company has about 20 or 30 people, and the current development situation, the amount of funds used is increasing, it is not difficult to speculate that they are combined. The funding of the company should bottom out soon, and I think Bluestar Technology will definitely seek a new round of financing within this month.”

"It makes sense." Liu Wen nodded and said decisively: "If you missed the angel round of financing, you must not miss the pre-A round of financing. You go to prepare the materials as soon as possible, and I will visit the founder of Bluestar Technology in person. "

Liu Wen dared to make a promise. Now it is estimated that he is not only a VC person who is staring at Bluestar Technology, but most other venture capital institutions have already been staring at it.

Large-scale investment companies use a wide-spreading strategy. They do not invest in any one company. They invest in the entire track. So far, Bluestar Technology may be an excellent racer that is rarely seen on this track in the Internet field. Naturally his VC will not be less.

The Internet industry has not been in such a situation for a long time since the cold winter, and industry insiders even concluded that the models that the Internet industry can do have basically been done.

The "BlueSpace phenomenon" that is emerging now is undoubtedly a slap in the face.

With the passage of a month, the BlueSpace website has reached nearly 15 million user registrations. During this time, several new social networking sites have suddenly appeared in the industry, all of which are imitating BlueSpace models.

However, most of the online products are basically semi-finished products, and there are many bugs. There is no photo function yet, because the development is still intensified, and it will take at least a month or two before the launch.

Luo Sheng's launch of the photo function is a time lag, and development takes time.

The industry is watching the development of BlueSpace, especially some people who study the B community, and found that this company likes to update its website and upload some new content around 3 or 4 in the morning, so many people are watching it in the middle of the night.

A typical example is the website development department of QQ, which has a dedicated person to do this.

In this situation, Zhao Peng wants to let R Company copy the rhythm to the end.

On the other hand, Bluestar Technology is also staring at the R company. Xu Yong stared at it spontaneously. The rhythm master has recently been flying with a rhythm on the Internet. The R company on the QQ side faces his crazy ridicule, basically Treated with silence, it is mainly three points weaker in terms of momentum.

After all, netizens who eat melons have sharp eyes, so it is enough to do this kind of thing silently, and they may be confident that the rhythm will become more and more fierce, but it will be detrimental to the R company.

Zhao Peng's strategy is very simple. He thinks that this is "bearing humiliation and bearing the burden" and working hard. As a Tengxun person, he is very clear about one thing - user habits.

User habit is a terrible thing. Once it is formed, it is basically stable.

As long as users develop user habits in R, the retention rate will go up.

Xu Yong also registered an account of R Club, which is one of his main offensive positions. R Club did not delete his account. In fact, he wanted to delete it, but R Club felt that this was not necessarily a bad thing.

"Boss, as expected, the shameless R community has finally launched the photo function." Xu Yong immediately shouted, with a look of indignation and sarcasm added: "But the interface is very bad and reasonable, and it is not smooth, I guess it is Can’t wait for the results of the rush to go live.”

Luo Sheng, who was sitting in the lounge, immediately said to Bai Lang and Feng Yi: "Let's wait for the R company to launch the photo sharing function. As for other messy communities that are online, we don't need to worry about it, our main competitor. It is the R company, followed by [51 personal spaces], as for the others, they are classified as 'other', but pay attention to the situation in North America."

What Luo Sheng is most worried about is North America. Will Xiao Zha, who was cut off from the hu, come up with Facebook again? The key is that North America is now the largest single Internet market in the world. There are currently 140 million Internet users in the United States. Scale, followed by domestic.

Luo Sheng obviously will not give up overseas markets, the international version of BlueSpace is inevitable, so he has a sense of time urgency, and immediately said: "Bai Lang, Feng Yi, prepare to launch our label function, let's do one thing, That is to be plagiarized all the time and never surpassed.”

"Always been plagiarized, never surpassed?" Xu Yong pondered these words, couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and then gave a thumbs up: "As expected of the boss, wonderful!"

Feng Yi said: "Do you want to update it now? It's daytime, and millions of users are using BlueSpace. Should I wait until midnight to push the code? Even if there is a problem with the code, it won't affect many users."

Luo Sheng shook his head firmly and said, "Act quickly and break the rules. Of course, it's online now. The label function has been developed more than a month ago. It has been used internally for so long and has been continuously optimized. Are you worried that there will be problems with the code?"

The boss said so, the two of them who maintain the website naturally have no opinion, and immediately push the code according to Luo Sheng's request.

The photo tagging function was quietly launched in this way, and there is no doubt that the BlueSpace website is once again a step ahead in terms of user experience.

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