The rapid popularity of YY Game Hall has pushed the valuation of Makino Technology to a new level in a few days. Previously, Makino Technology’s valuation in the capital market was around 5 billion, but now, someone in the capital market has given it An offer of 6 billion has been made.
According to normal valuation, even if YY Game Hall instantly has a huge user base, it is impossible to be valued at more than one billion right away. The key is that the ecology of Makino Technology has already begun to take shape, and the capital market knows that YY Games As long as the lobby is tied to YY, its value will definitely be worth one billion or more.
However, no matter how the capital market values Makino Technology, Li Mu is not prepared to cash out the shares of Makino Technology. Now the profitability of Makino Technology is very strong. With a net profit of tens of millions per month, the accumulated funds are enough for the future. operations and new business development, the last thing you need to worry about at this time is capital.
As the only competitor of Makino Technology in the market, Lianzhong also launched their Landlord Fighting Competition. What surprised Li Mu was that their competition system basically copied the YY Landlord Fighting Competition, except that the prizes were changed.
Although Lianzhong’s user experience is really poor compared to YY Games, it still attracted a group of users to return to Lianzhong because of the prizes.
The operation team of Makino Technology YY Game Hall originally negotiated with the other party on the infringement issue, but unexpectedly the other party ignored it. After repeated protests, Lianzhong gave a reply: Lianzhong did not believe that the competition it held was harmful to Makino Technology As well as any infringement in YY Game Hall, if Makino Technology insists that there is an infringement issue, it can be resolved directly through legal channels.
Li Mu disagrees with this. He feels that Lianzhong's building is about to collapse. A competition imitating his own can only temporarily delay the collapse. These days, no platform can continue to use its own funds to subsidize users unless it continues to provide subsidies. It can outlast its competitors, otherwise it will be useless no matter how much money it invests. With Lianzhong's current size, it is simply a fantasy to outlast Makino Technology. Therefore, if he is willing to use imitation competitions to subsidize users, let him Let him imitate it.
Except for Lianzhong, the current winger is already a dead game, and there is no way to come back to life.
The YY game is gaining momentum, and Li Mu has received another piece of good news. Du Fei has helped him register the company in the United States. Although it takes more time than Li Mu imagined, it is indeed because these days, Chinese people want to register in the United States. The company's procedures are much more complicated than before.
Li Mu personally invested US$150,000 in the company's books. Then Li Mu used the shell of this American company to contact an American company called AboutFace to negotiate the purchase of the Facebook domain name.
Facebook purchased this domain name from this company in 2005 and spent US$200,000 to acquire the main domain name of Facebook.com. However, by that time Facebook had begun to take shape, so the price had already been speculated. Well, right now, AboutFace’s offer for this domain name is only $50,000.
Li Mu negotiated the price with the other party for an hour on the domain name trading website, and the final transaction price was set at US$32,000.
Without any hesitation, Li Mu directly obtained this domain name in the name of an American shell company that would create unlimited miracles in the future.
The domain name finally fell into the hands of Li Mu!
Li Mu then used the name of this company to register all Facebook-related domain names. He registered almost all of them that he could think of, for a total cost of less than two thousand US dollars.
After that, Du Fei also called Li Mu specifically to ask if he wanted to do business in the United States and whether he needed help or asked friends to help. Li Mu told her: "This shell is going to be idle for now and wait until next year." start up."
Du Fei didn't understand why Li Mu had been chasing the company registration, and why there was no movement after the registration. Li Mu didn't tell her in detail, only said that he had his own plan.
The purpose of Li Mu registering a company in the United States and buying the Facebook domain name is to dig holes for the future Mark Zuckerberg. History has given him a mission to create miracles. The moment the mission comes, the main domain name of Facebook will be his destiny. road, he will definitely try to buy the domain name of Facebook. In that case, he will fall into the pit dug by Li Mu. If he gives up buying the domain name and wants to register the domain name of Thefacebook, then Li Mu will still dig the pit and wait for him. In short , as long as he still wants to do Facebook in this life, he will definitely find himself first.
Sometimes Li Mu even thinks that he can just retire when he is less than twenty years old, because if Makino Technology now finds a good professional manager and advances in the direction he has set, it will only get worse in the future. The more valuable it is, the more money you can earn for yourself. Under its own operation, "Miracle MU" will definitely earn at least several billion in net profit margins in the next two to three years. It's enough to have just one game. I've been eating it all my life.
What's more, there is Mark Zuckerberg. If I can become his angel investor in the future and give him millions of dollars in exchange for about 40% of Facebook's shares, I will be able to create more profits in my lifetime. There’s no end to spending.
However, this idea only appeared in Li Mu's mind for a moment, and was completely forgotten by him.
Eating and waiting to die, there is no sense of accomplishment no matter how good you are. Li Mu also hopes that one day, he can be like Alibaba's boss Ma, bragging in front of the whole world without a blushing heart: "I The biggest mistake in life was founding Alibaba..."
Li Mu hopes that one day, when the valuation of Makino Technology reaches the level of 100 billion US dollars, he can sigh in front of the media and say: "The biggest mistake in my life was to found Makino Technology."
If Taobao's market value reaches the level of hundreds of billions of dollars by then, he will say again: "My second biggest mistake in my life was to create Taobao..."
If the media asks: "Mr. Li Mu, what advice would you like to give to young people starting their own businesses?"
Li Mu also wanted to say in a low-key manner: "You can set your goal a little lower at the beginning, for example, I will earn one billion first..."
Therefore, in order to become a world-famous awesome person in the future, Li Mu still has to work hard right now.
The situation of Makino Technology has stabilized now. The next step is to continue to improve the product chain of the YY ecosystem. YY mailboxes and YY network disks are about to be developed. In the future, online games that will be operated under the YY system are also planned. YY The real big profit direction in the future is at the game level, so Li Mu also needs to consider whether to build a game development team within YY. If it is built, it can develop its own copyrighted games. If not, it will have to use its own Understand the future game market, go to the market to buy games that can make money in the future, and then run them yourself.
However, there is still enough time to slowly plan the game, because it is now time for "Miracle MU" to shine.
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On the eve of the official launch of "Miracle MU", the marketing department manager of Makino Technology obtained MP3 prototypes produced by two OEM companies in Shenzhen and Taiwan.
After the two prototypes were delivered, Li Mu immediately rushed to Makino Technology to check. The shape of the machine is indeed amazing. It can be said to be the best-looking MP3 player on the market right now, because the current iPod is still establishing its own aesthetic standards and style. It hasn't really taken shape yet. Users don't think the first-generation iPod is very good-looking visually. Although MP3 players on the market come in various shapes, many of them are unsightly. For example, the Moonlight Treasure Box looks like a model that will become popular in the future. remote control for some kind of female toy.
This machine customized by Li Mu is fashionable and elegant, with a sense of design and very attractive. All employees who saw the prototype couldn't put it down.
Li Mu carefully compared the two prototypes. From the perspective of production technology, the machine manufactured by the Taiwanese manufacturer is indeed better. Whether it is the body, buttons or sockets, they are all made to fit perfectly and are very delicate. Although there is a gap between the ones produced in Shenzhen and the Shenzhen market, It’s not big, but if you compare it carefully, you can still see the shortcomings in the production process.
In terms of user experience, there is not much difference between the two. The key materials used by Taiwanese manufacturers are better in hand, because the buttons are slightly elastic and have very comfortable force feedback when pressed, while the products of Shenzhen manufacturers The material is a bit hard and does not feel as comfortable as the former.
Li Mu learned about the production capabilities of the two manufacturers. The Taiwanese manufacturer's maximum daily production capacity is 2,000 units, and the Shenzhen market's is 2,500 units.
Calculated based on the first batch of 100,000 units ordered, the former will take fifty days and the latter will take forty days, and there is still a lot of preparation work to be done before the batch is made, so it will take a few more days.
Calculating this, it will take at least one and a half to two months to get all 100,000 machines.
It has to be said that the production speed of both factories is unacceptable to Li Mu, but this is the disadvantage of OEM. The production lines of each OEM are not idle. They are also OEM for other companies to produce the same type of products. , the remaining production capacity is limited, and it is only a new company in the hardware field. For OEMs, they do not have enough say, and it is certainly impossible for them to tilt most of their production capacity to themselves.
The production capacity is insufficient and the cycle is too long. Li Mu cannot afford to wait.
(End of chapter)