Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

At this time, the sad listener sent a confession.

"Xiaoxue, these days I found that the two of us can get along quite well. We even match our screen names very well. How about you be my girlfriend?"

Ma Huateng's head grew big for a while.

He discovered a rule that whenever he pretends to be a woman and chats with a male netizen for two or three days, the other party will definitely confess his love to him and let him be his "girlfriend".

Are these male netizens so lacking in love?

However, judging from the data, this should indeed be the case.

At this stage, there are hundreds of thousands of OICQ registered users. The background shows that 70% of the users are male, which is an absolute majority.

There are about 10,000 daily active users every day, and men account for 78%!

There were about 3,000 people online at the same time, and men accounted for 75% of them!

And the only thing these male users do after going online is to chat with female netizens.

As a result, female netizens are stretched.

After all, the ratio of women to men is 1:3, that is to say, a female netizen must chat with at least three male netizen, so that the male netizen will not find someone to chat with.

Some male users couldn't find female netizens, so they quickly gave up this product and never logged in again, which made Ma Huateng very depressed.

In desperation, he could only mobilize everyone to use all available time to pretend to be a female user to chat with him. He didn't ask for anything else, just to prevent the user from losing quickly.

This is the bitterness of entrepreneurship.

And, that's just one of countless bitternesses.

The greater bitterness is lack of money.

Because there is no money, the current OICQ is technically like an overloaded bus.

The car is too broken, so it can't carry too many people, and it can't load too much cargo, and it is often overloaded, almost to the limit, and the food will stop if it exceeds the limit.

At present, the maximum load capacity of OICQ's server is 6000 people online at the same time.

If there are more than 6,000 people, the server's carrying capacity will be low.

Moreover, these 6,000 people are online at the same time, and the chatting is not so intensive. If the chatting information is too intensive, the server bandwidth will not be enough.

Once the server cannot bear the load or the bandwidth is full, all users will be affected.

For example, information delays, freezes, or even inability to send and receive messages. In severe cases, many users will even be squeezed out of the line.

These situations greatly affect the user experience.

It stands to reason that this is the most taboo thing in making products, but Ma Huateng has no choice.

On the one hand, he hopes that the number of OICQ users will continue to grow, but on the other hand, he is worried that if he adds another 1,000 DAU, he will have to purchase a new server.

But now, he can hardly afford a new server.

Because OICQ does not yet have any profit model, so from the establishment of the company to the present, Fujixun's books are only out and not in.

Employee salaries, office space rent, office computer and other equipment purchases, server purchases, bandwidth usage fees, every expense is constantly consuming his little savings.

Don't talk about the family environment of a well-off family. These days, a family with tens of thousands of savings is already a well-off family. Those with more than 100,000 are rich households. But with regard to the costs of Fujixun, it is not obvious that hundreds of thousands of people have invested in it. come out.

Since Ma Huateng started his business, he has been throwing money and money continuously. The foundation of the originally well-off family is basically ruined by himself.

Seeing that a company has been smashed, a product has been smashed, and hundreds of thousands of users have been smashed, but the uncomfortable thing is that they can't make any money back.

This feeling is like opening a bus company.

There are more and more passengers in the car, and more and more vehicles, drivers, conductors, and dispatchers are needed.

besides,

A large amount of fuel costs and maintenance costs are also invested every day. The larger the scale, the higher these costs will be.

But the most important point is that passengers don't spend money by car...

In this way, the entire company becomes a bottomless pit of constantly burning money.

No one knows when the burn will end.

However, Internet companies are not yet bus companies.

People have the habit of buying tickets by bus, but they don't have the habit of buying tickets while chatting online.

Even if Ma Huateng wanted to sell tickets on OICQ, he couldn't find an entry point at all. If he sold tickets by force, the users would definitely run away.

At the beginning, he also tried to sell some advertisements, but the advertisers had no interest in OICQ at all.

This is mainly because OICQ has too few daily activities and is too scattered. Local advertisers seem to be very weak to vote for it. Maybe there are not even 100 local people who play OICQ every day, and large national companies don’t even look down on him. This amount.

Seeing that OICQ has turned into a gold swallowing beast, Ma Huateng's mentality has long been a little unstable.

He has been trying to raise funds, but after talking a lot and talking about it several times, no one is willing to invest in him.

Because everyone thinks, what's the use of your crap chatting online?

In their eyes, OICQ is nothing more than gossip on the Internet. They don't feel much meaning, and they don't think it has any future. The most important thing is that there is no business model.

The SMS of other operators charges at least 10 cents per message.

It’s good for you, you don’t ask users to collect money, you have to pay all kinds of costs yourself, who dares to invest in such a stupid business?

Later, Ma Huateng thought to himself, just sell this OICQ.

Selling to mature online platforms, such as Sohu, or selling to state-owned enterprises, such as telecom, can they be used as online tools?

But the result is that other big companies are not interested.

The mentality of big companies feels that if you break the program, you dare to ask for millions? Do you really think I'm a fool with a lot of money?

Don't say you don't see anything awesome about this thing, even if it is really awesome, I'll let my programmers develop one according to the gourd, why buy yours? The point is that I don't even bother to copy you.

Now, OICQ is in the hands of Ma Huateng. It cannot be sold, nor can it be invested. It is almost at the end of its rope.

In order to keep the company going, he and his team have started to borrow money everywhere, but the money that can be borrowed is limited after all, and it is a drop in the bucket for the entire company.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable that I have to find time every day to pretend to be a female netizen and chat with a male netizen.

Seeing that he didn't reply, the "sad rain listener" sent another sentence: "Xiaoxue, don't put too much pressure on me. I just want you to be my online girlfriend. If there is a chance in the future, we can meet each other." , if you think I'm not suitable, we can separate at any time, what do you think?"

Ma Huateng felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.

But I can only reply directly to the other party according to the example of the script I chatted with: "I'm sorry to listen to Yuren, although I have a good impression of you, but I'm not ready to fall in love yet, give me some time to think about it, okay?" ?”

Although it feels disgusting, I can't refuse it, because once I refuse, I may lose one daily active user.

"Okay, I'll wait for your consideration!"

Sure enough, the other party was not immediately discouraged. After all, it seemed that the female netizens had a good impression of her and were willing to consider it. She still had a chance!

At this time, several more messages of greetings were sent, and Ma Huateng was a little overwhelmed by the constant beeping in his ears.

He rubbed his temples, thinking, why don't we just stop here tonight, we really can't talk anymore.

If we continue talking like this, I'm afraid I'm going to split my mind.

At this time, he heard a coughing sound from the earphone.

He couldn't help feeling a little dizzy again.

Another male netizen added me, what annoyance!

Generally, when new netizens add themselves, they have to pass everything as soon as possible and chat with others first, because those who come up to add people are likely to be new users.

If a new user comes up and finds that the person who is added fails to pass, and the other party does not speak through the pass, 80% of them will lose interest in this software.

So, he immediately turned on the flashing little speaker, thinking that he would see verification applications like "Hello, beauty!", "Let's talk a little bit, beauty!", but when he looked carefully, he immediately became excited.

"Hi, I'm an angel investor and I'm interested in OICQ."

"Angel investors?!"

Seeing these five words, Ma Huateng was so excited that he couldn't add anything.

During this period of time, I have found many so-called angel investors, but they are not angels at all, let alone investing, they don't even have a good face, and some even ridicule themselves.

Now, there are actually angel investors who come to you on their own initiative. Could it be that the timing is about to change?

After calming down, he suddenly hesitated, could it be a prank?

He took a look at the profile of the other party, Jeremy Xu, and he also left an email address, which seemed to be the case.

Afterwards, he thought to himself, whether it is true or not, there is nothing to lose by chatting.

So he clicked through.

At this time, Xu Yiyang was in front of the computer, clasped his hands together and waiting.

He expects this pony to pass his friend application as soon as possible, and everyone hurry up to chat about the investment.

If it’s okay, I will take the time to rush over to sign the contract, pay the money, and make the industrial and commercial changes, and the rest will wait for the rocket of Fujixun to ignite.

After waiting for a few minutes, the computer suddenly popped up a prompt: pony has passed your friend application!

Xu Yiyang was so excited that his heart almost jumped into his throat.

He immediately opened the dialog box and sent a sentence: "Hello, are you the person in charge of OICQ?"

Ma Huateng received the message and replied: "Yes, I am, may I ask who you are?"

"My surname is Xu. I am currently working in the education industry and am interested in investing in some Internet companies."

Ma Huateng hurriedly replied excitedly: "Hi, Mr. Xu! My surname is Ma, and my name is Ma Huateng. You can call me Xiao Ma."

Xu Yiyang: "Hello, Mr. Ma, I am very optimistic about you and your OICQ. I have investment ideas, so I would like to know whether your OICQ has been invested now?"

"Not yet." Ma Huateng said truthfully: "We are currently looking for the first round of financing."

Xu Yiyang asked: "Is there a financing plan? If it is convenient, please send a copy to my email. I want to read it first."

"Yes, no problem, please give me an email address, and I will send it to you now."

Although the business plan can be regarded as the confidential information of the company, because it is made for investors to read, Ma Huateng knows that he cannot hide it from investors.

However, he was also a little worried.

I couldn't find investors anywhere, so why did one suddenly pop up from the Internet?

From the very beginning, he said that he wanted to invest in himself, and asked himself for a business plan. What if this person is a liar? What if it is a competitor?