Reborn since 2005

Chapter 163 Preparing to start a company

Yan Xin is not short of money, but he doesn't have much money at hand right now. The royalties he just received were basically spent on buying stocks, leaving only more than 10,000 yuan for himself.

I signed up to learn driving two days ago and spent some money on tuition.

It’s not that he doesn’t need money, but things like copyright are really hard to value. If you say too little, you’re not worth it, and if you say too much, others will have objections, so it’s better to do it all by yourself.

What he wants to do now is mainly to sell the songs he copied, which does not require much start-up capital.

Now we are just making preliminary preparations. When the royalties from "Fights Break the Sphere" arrive next month, we can start recruiting troops.

Royalty dividends are distributed every month. When the royalties from Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese publishing arrive, the royalties will increase.

It's completely affordable to hire a few people, rent an office, and make some money.

Gu Ru just asked, but when Yan Xin refused, she said no more.

Talent is indeed immeasurable.

It may be worth a lot of money, or it may not be worth much.

There is no way to guarantee the quality of creation. It is possible to be overwhelmed with inspiration and write classics one after another.

It's also possible that my talent is exhausted and I can no longer write songs with the quality of the previous songs.

From what Yan Xin meant, he wanted to create a large number of songs in a short period of time.

Gu Ru also has certain doubts about whether the quality of songs created in batches can be maintained.

The valuation was reasonable, and she was willing to take a gamble. If she lost, she would lose it. She only had that little money anyway.

If you succeed, you won't have to work so hard and you can make money in an easier way.

If the estimate is too high, she will hesitate.

But she still did it to help Yan Xin attract people.

This is quite easy.

For outsiders, it is a very difficult thing, and it is not easy to find anyone.

But for people in the industry, it is just a matter of posting messages in several QQ groups.

If you see it without the intention, just pretend you haven’t seen it.

If you have that intention, you will chat with her privately when you see it.

Gu Ru has more than a dozen different groups, including a group of classmates from the music school, a group of teachers and students with Aunt Li as the core, and a group of singer friends she met at various performance venues.

After the news was released, people came looking for her.

——It’s not impossible to take the initiative to find others and chat privately one by one.

However, doing so may bring additional expenses to Yan Xin, which is not a good way to help friends.

Those who work in music may seem high-class, but not all of them have high incomes, and some even have no job opportunities.

Gu Ru didn't mention remuneration, but she mentioned that she was helping Yan Xin, and that Yan Xin was the author of two online songs for herself. This was able to attract people.

The news was posted in a group of students from the music school, and within half a day, several people took the initiative to approach Gu Ru.

Some Gu Ru knew, and some she didn't know, but they all came from the same college.

She still had to check with Yan Xin whether he was suitable or not and get to know his professional skills.

Based on Yan Xin's current conditions, when looking for someone to arrange music for him, don't think about finding many excellent musicians, as you simply can't afford such a price.

As long as you are qualified, that's it.

The same goes for finding arrangers, and the same goes for finding singers, and it's even easier.

Gu Ru knows many singers who sing in various performance venues. Most of them enter this industry with the dream of becoming a star, waiting for the day when they will be spotted by a record company and become a singer.

But most people can't make it out, so they can only go from place to place day after day, singing other people's songs.

There are also people who sing their own songs, but they often get booed or even kicked out before they even get halfway through the song.

Gu Ru is already a bit of a prodigy in this circle. She has sung at least two popular online songs, which have been played by music stations across the country, and pirated copies are everywhere.

During this time, no one asked Gu Ru, wanting to know where the people who wrote those two songs were and if they could help them write a few more songs.

However, they were all rejected by Gu Ru on the grounds that they did not have the friend's permission and could not disclose the friend's privacy.

The singers in this circle talked privately, thinking that Gu Ru was protecting the food, not wanting others to cooperate with that songwriter, and wanting to monopolize that author's works.

But they can't blame Gu Ru for this.

If they were themselves, they would make the same choice.

After all, we are all people living in reality, not the Virgin who lives in legends. Only when you are full can you care whether others are hungry or not.

Now that Gu Ru actually sent out such news that the creator wanted to cooperate with more people, some people were so excited that they contacted Gu Ru one after another, wanting to participate in such a party.

Within two days, dozens of bar singers approached Gu Ru and expressed their wishes.

She told Yan Xin about this and asked jokingly:

"Can you feed dozens of people?"

"That's definitely not possible," Yan Xin answered honestly. "At most, I can only find a few collaborators. If there are more, I won't be able to hold on."

You can only find a few collaborators, but it’s still possible to have so many people gathering.

He also couldn't determine which talents were qualified collaborators. He would only know after meeting them on site.

Gu Ru will give him some advice on how strong he is, and he himself has to understand it on the spot.

——He really doesn’t understand things about music. What he can understand is just the appearance.

But for a singer to be popular, appearance is still more important.

In the past two days, he has not gone to work, but he has not been idle either.

The main purpose is to inquire about the process of registering a company.

If possible, he would like to set up a company.

If that's not possible, you can build a music studio first.

In addition, he also learned about the ringtone business.

Nowadays, there is a huge market for ring tones. Some songs can earn over 100 million by downloading ring tones, which is much more profitable than making physical records.

Yan Xin wanted to open a company mainly because of this aspect.

The most downloaded ring tones are not necessarily classic songs, but often songs that make people feel very tacky.

The few songs copied by Yan Xin may not be very popular in the ring tones market.

But it doesn't matter, he can copy cheesy songs just as well.

As long as he can make money, he won't find it vulgar.

He was also able to copy those divine songs that became popular among the people a few years later.

This is why he wants to expand his collaborators.

With Gu Ru's character and voice, it is obviously inappropriate to sing a divine song like "Little Apple", so find someone suitable to sing it.

This business needs to be started as early as possible. There is still a market for it now, but in two years there will basically be no market for it.

(End of chapter)