Li Mu really wants to buy a house.
On the one hand, I don't have an apartment in Yanjing, and on the other hand, I am also considering the housing prices in Yanjing. It is always a good thing to buy early. It is easy to buy an apartment with the spare money on hand.
Li Mu had thought about this before, but buying a house was not an urgent need for him, and he couldn't take care of it when he was busy. However, for Zhao Kang, he had always had the idea of buying a house in his mind. After all, he was currently in love with Wang Jia Shang, and they were in love. Nowadays, people always come out to book a room every now and then. Although Zhao Kang doesn't feel bad about the money to buy a room, he still wants to have a fixed love nest. The feeling is completely different from going to a hotel to book a room. The latter is psychologically satisfying. The feeling is obviously much stronger.
When Li Mu saw him bringing up the idea of buying a house, he decided to take advantage of the situation. He recently took the time to take a look and buy one if there was one suitable.
Then Li Mu called Chen Ze again, and the car was picked up. He had to help with the license plate issue, and it was not the one he had agreed on before, but two cars with two license plates for himself and Zhao Kang.
For Chen Ze, getting two sets of license plates starting with A8 was not a difficult problem. Li Mu called to explain the situation. He immediately gave Li Mu a guarantee and said: "I will make arrangements later. The vehicle management office will be open for work on Monday." Someone from them will contact you to make an appointment for the registration."
Li Mu felt relieved after hearing this and thanked him. Chen Ze added: "By the way, I contacted a relatively high-end track design company in Italy. Their surveying and mapping personnel will come to China next week. I am going to take them to design the track we are interested in." We will survey the land, choose a suitable address, and come up with a mature design plan. Once the design plan is released, we can prepare for the construction of the track first."
Li Mu asked him: "Is the land okay?"
Chen Ze said: "I have already informed the city government about the entire land. After selecting the address, the city government can approve the land use at any time. I have smoothed these processes."
Li Mu asked again: "If the track site selection design starts, our future CSC club supporting facilities will also start as soon as possible. How are you communicating with Du Fei about this matter?"
Chen Ze said slightly excitedly: "She and I have basically decided that she will resign and come back after the location of the track is selected. Then she will directly join our and Brother Liang's real estate company."
Saying that, Chen Ze added: "I promised her that our real estate company would develop large-scale commercial real estate within three years and leave it to her to be the chief designer. If this cannot be achieved, I'm afraid she will hate me to death."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Don't worry, operating a large commercial real estate in three years is not a big problem. If everything goes well, it will be possible in two years."
Chen Ze said: "I can't control that much now. Let's fool her back first. I'll leave the rest to you."
After chatting with Chen Ze, Li Mu waited until the evening, that is, the morning in New York time, and made a special call to Du Fei.
I have always wanted to find Du Fei, two things.
One is that I don’t know how the company registration is progressing now; the other is that I want to ask her if she knows any reliable industrial designers or teams.
When he thought that Mark Zuckerberg would launch Facemash in October this year, which would be the beginning of his entrepreneurial career, Li Mu felt that he had to acquire Facebook's main domain name and a series of related domain names in the first half of the year. , and it is best to put it directly under the name of an American company. In this case, whether it is domain name transactions, future communication with Mark Zuckerberg, or even investing in Mark Zuckerberg, it will be much more convenient.
Another one is that Taobao is already under development. Fang Xudong has not only been developing the core architecture, but will also return to China soon. Taobao will be online soon, and by then he will have to create the MP3 customized by Yiting.com. , the design matter has become urgent.
Du Fei told Li Mu on the phone that the company had almost completed the process. It only needed to wait for the final review, which would definitely be resolved within a few working days. As for the industrial design matter, she heard about Li Mu's After the request, he said to Li Mu: "I found that you are very lucky. No wonder people like you start a business, and the money runs into your pocket like it has legs!"
Li Mu asked in surprise: "Why do you say that?"
Duffy said: "I happened to know a British girl who graduated from Northumbria University School of Design in the United States in 2000, one of the most prestigious design schools. Moreover, she was recognized by the school as a genius. After graduation, she started working in the industry on her own. She travels around the world and takes industrial design orders from some companies. Before she graduated, she designed a mobile phone for Ericsson. She also won an award in Sweden. Before graduation, she had worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Siemens, HP, and IBM. I don’t even have the skills to cooperate, but I’m still receiving offers from several major international companies.”
Li Mu sighed: "So high-end? I just want to design an MP3 player. I wonder if others will appreciate it?"
Duffy said: "She is engaged in industrial design of electronic products. Isn't MP3 very popular now? Did you know that there is an Apple company in the United States that has released a popular MP3 player called iPod? "
Li Mu hummed: "Of course I know." But he said in his heart, in fact, I am planning to copy the style of iPod-Nano4. Will I tell you
Duffy added: "She is a die-hard iPod fan, so I think she would be very interested in designing MP3 players."
Li Mu asked her: "Do you have her contact information?"
Du Fei said: "She doesn't have a mobile phone abroad and only uses Email and MSN. She seems to be in a country near China now. She told me on MSN some time ago that she plans to go to China in early May."
Li Mu was overjoyed: "That's great. It would be best if we could meet and chat. Please help me ask her when she will arrive in China. Please make sure her first stop is in Yanjing. I will entertain you all the way. You can take a tour of the beautiful scenery of Yanjing while chatting about business."
"Okay!" Du Fei said: "She is the kind of girl with a very cool personality, and she is also very emotional. If you take good care of her, she might even become a friend."
Li Mu then said, "Are you still worried about me doing things? If she comes to Yanjing, I will make her feel at home."
Du Fei said: "Then I will leave her a message on MSN later to see if she can go to China in advance, and then tell her about your situation. If she is interested, you can meet and discuss the rest. "
"good!"
After communicating with Du Fei, Li Mu couldn't help but think to himself: If the other person is really, as Du Fei said, a very talented industrial designer, then this person would indeed be like a timely help to him.
For now, today's electronic products have not yet entered the smart era. The core of digital products is actually industrial design. Before the arrival of smartphones, the most popular mobile phones, except Nokia, were due to their cost-effectiveness and rugged quality. , the others are basically due to its excellent industrial design.
Whether it's Samsung's sliding cover and rotating camera, LG's chocolate that makes you blush when you touch it, or Motorola's Razr-V3, for example, they are all products that win by design, especially V3, the world's most classic flip phone. Excellent industrial design has achieved global sales of 130 million units. Li Mu still remembers the popular nickname of V3 - Blade.
Li Mu wants to use MP3 players to promote the development of Yiting.com and Taobao.com, so this MP3 must be as perfect as possible, especially in terms of industrial design. If it can surprise consumers, then his plan will be It will definitely achieve great success, so good industrial design talents are essential.
Moreover, Li Mu also has a hardware dream in his heart, and hardware is the biggest piece of cake in the future Internet market. No Internet person with great ambitions will give up the pursuit of hardware, but Li Mu has never thought of starting hardware manufacturing too early before. He hopes to wait for two years before entering the hardware market when smartphones are ready to take off. However, if the time does come early, then getting involved in hardware manufacturing early may not necessarily be a bad thing.
The reason why Apple is powerful is that software is only one aspect. What is even more powerful is the sales of hardware. Microsoft and Apple are both powerful in the field of software, but the former is inferior to the latter by countless orders of magnitude in terms of hardware. The unit price per customer of a thousand-yuan hardware product is much higher than that in the software industry or the Internet virtual service industry. Moreover, once users develop a stickiness with the hardware, such high unit price investment will also be cyclical. A senior Apple fan, The investment in Apple products within three years is at least more than 10,000 US dollars or more, and the profit potential is astonishingly large.
Thinking of this, Li Mu took this plan of customizing MP3 more seriously. If the entry point is chosen well this time and an amazing product can be produced, it may be a good opportunity to enter the hardware field. Looking at the hardware market from a future perspective, it is actually not much more difficult than the software market. As long as the method is chosen correctly, hardware can be launched with light assets. The most important thing is to never produce any hardware by yourself.
When an Internet company makes hardware, it only needs to do a good job in industrial design and software design, and then choose a reliable OEM for production. As long as it strictly controls the quality, the entire hardware production process will be taken care of. The rest is promotion and sales.
Today's electronic hardware manufacturers are still building sales channels, from the head office to regional general agents to provincial agents and then to municipal agents. The establishment of this sales channel is quite difficult, and there are a large number of dealers that need to be managed and maintained. Not only It has significantly increased costs and added many uncontrollable factors, but for current manufacturers, they have no other alternative, because e-commerce is still just a baby in its infancy, and huge manufacturers simply cannot I will take it lightly, but I won't see how effective it will be.
Li Mu is now preparing for the launch of Taobao. In other words, he is now building an online sales channel that abandons traditional sales channels. Once this line is opened and he makes his own hardware, he will be able to do everything right.
(End of chapter)