After Li Mu was reborn, it was rare to meet a practitioner like Kong Lingyu who had a sufficient understanding of the Internet and was extremely optimistic about its prospects.
After a heart-to-heart talk, Li Mu was still very optimistic about Kong Lingyu, and it goes without saying that Kong Lingyu was shocked by Li Mu. Li Mu had such a profound understanding of the Internet that even the smallest bit of information revealed inadvertently made him feel incomprehensible. .
For example, Li Mu said that Yiting would try to provide a basic cloud audio-visual service, but he did not understand what cloud audio-visual service was.
But for Li Mu, the concept of cloud storage has long been something that later generations of the Internet have failed to play with. No matter how fancy it is, it is nothing more than transferring data that should be stored locally to a cloud server for storage; it should be stored locally. To solve the problem, take it to the cloud server to handle it.
The simplest cloud audio-visual, to put it bluntly, is an online audition list.
In the future, the backend of the website will store the user's customized listening list for each registered user. In the future, no matter how the user changes the terminal, as long as they log in, they will be able to open their favorite playlist.
Ten years from now, any website that does not have this function will be scolded, but for now, this kind of service is not available except for online games and instant messaging software, because developers have not popularized it to serve users. the concept of.
After chatting for an hour, Kong Lingyu also talked about his website home. After seeing the huge traffic gathered by hao123, he felt the business opportunities contained in it, so he also made something similar, but now the problem arises. The technology to navigate the website is simple and the server requirements are not high, but promotion is a big problem.
He has been working on it for half a year, and now there are less than 3,000 unique visitors per day, which is pitiful.
Li Mu is not optimistic about the prospects of this kind of navigation website. Hao123 is the strongest navigation website, but the price he will sell it to Baidu in the future will only be tens of millions, and many portals and software companies will use it in the future. The cost of promoting your own navigation website is too low, and the threshold is too low. Although there is a lot of traffic, it does not have real user stickiness, let alone the possibility of converting users into income. Sex, the biggest source of income in the future, is just selling advertising.
Moreover, after Baidu acquired hao123, it has been using Baidu's own huge traffic to support hao123, so it is a win-win situation for them. If Baidu was willing to put some effort into running a similar website by itself, the market index of the navigation website would be better. I’m not sure what the situation will be like again, and we won’t be able to truly form a strong industrial chain.
However, the concept of a music portal is much more meaningful than a navigation website.
Li Mu knows that there have been countless huge acquisitions and mergers in the Internet field in later generations. They all have one characteristic: the investor mostly acquires or merges in its own blank areas, or areas that are not strong enough. The purpose of the acquisition is also to complete its own ecosystem. , not giving competitors a chance.
For example, Tencent invested in Didi Dache and Alibaba invested in Kuaidi Dache, and then both parties burned money and triggered a series of subsidy wars. In fact, the real purpose behind the wars was to strengthen their market share in the field of mobile payment;
For example, after Alibaba entered the entertainment industry, in order to fill the gap in online video, it acquired Youku Tudou;
For example, Baidu acquired 91 Assistant in order to make up for its shortcomings in the mobile phone wireless field;
In the above acquisition cases, the transaction prices are all in "100 million", and they are all in US dollars.
With the surge in demand for online listening and MP3 downloads in the future, giants will definitely keep an eye on this market. If Yiting becomes the leader in this field at that time, then this will be of great significance, and the valuation will naturally It won't be low either.
Li Mu did not deny Kong Lingyu's own navigation website, but reached an agreement with him. On the basis of not affecting the progress of Yiting's project, Kong Lingyu could continue to operate his own project, and even use Yiting's future team strength appropriately. If Kong Lingyu wants to sell his navigation station one day, and Li Mu will give priority to the acquisition.
As for Kong Lingyu's salary, it is initially set at 3,000 yuan per month, but there is a two-month probation period. During the probation period, the monthly salary will remain unchanged. After the probation period is passed, Li Mu will provide him with social security through a human resources company.
Kong Lingyu knew that Li Mu was starting a business by himself and had not established a company, so he had no objection to this. The salary Li Mu gave him was almost the same as his salary at Yahoo, but this is Jinling after all, and all kinds of consumption costs are higher than those in Yanjing. It's a level lower, so Kong Lingyu is very satisfied with this salary.
After the two finalized the decision, Li Mu invited him to have lunch together, and then asked him to interview other people with him in the afternoon.
Li Mu needs Kong Lingyu to be a leader. In the future, he can only control Yiting in the general direction, but he needs Kong Lingyu to implement the specific details for him.
In the afternoon, the two of them interviewed another web developer. The other person was a young man in his early twenties who had just graduated from college. Through conversation and some assessment of professional knowledge, both Li Mu and Kong Lingyu felt that this young man had high ambitions and low abilities.
The basic technical skills in the server aspect are not a problem, and the artist is a girl who graduated from Jinling University. She has no work experience, but she seems to be very practical and has a certain understanding of the Internet.
Li Mu and Kong Lingyu discussed it and decided to recruit server technology and artists first. As for web development, Kong Lingyu was asked to recruit slowly by himself. Li Mu had no time to continue spending time in Jinling.
Li Mu also left all the specific needs of Yiting's next development to Kong Lingyu, and even the procurement of office computers and other facilities that would be needed in the workplace in the future, Li Mu also left it to him.
He really didn't have the time or experience, so he could only make the best use of people, which made Kong Lingyu worry more. As for whether he could be trusted, Li Mu didn't care. It was rare to talk about speculation, so just use people without suspicion!
Also because he did not register a company, Li Mu did not find a part-time accounting company and entrusted his support issues to Ye Tianming.
Ye Tianming was also very helpful. He directly called an accountant from his father's company from the building, and then asked her to be responsible for helping Li Mu handle the entire workplace expenses, including the wages of Kong Lingyu and other employees, as well as daily purchases and reimbursements. The accountant was responsible for the review and distribution. Kong Lingyu needed to purchase office equipment, so all he had to do was say hello.
As for the maintenance funds required for the entire project, Ye Tianming directly took care of them.
"You don't have to worry about this. The four of us promised you that if you help us, we will provide money and effort to help you run this business."
In view of the presence of outsiders, Ye Tianming was embarrassed to tell Li Mu what kind of help he was doing.
However, Li Mu knew very well that everyone had indeed reached this deal at the beginning. In this case, he would not be polite to them anymore. Anyway, he didn't have much money. The cost of opening a specialty store would probably cost half a million in one go. There is not much money left.
Before Li Mu left, the four people from Simple Plan took out another 200,000 yuan. This 200,000 yuan was not given to Li Mu. Instead, an account was created directly. This 200,000 yuan was earmarked exclusively for the development of the Yiting project. , if it’s not enough, four more people will come out.
As of today, Zhang Kexuan and the four of them have invested 380,000 yuan, which is not a small amount, but it is nothing to the four of them. However, Li Mu also has some calculations in his heart. The 200,000 yuan they have invested now is enough. Yiting has everything he needs to get started. As for the subsequent expenses, he is not prepared to let them bear them anymore. When Legend goes online in September this year, he will have a stable income, and it will not be a problem to support Yiting by then.
After settling the matter in Jinling, Li Mu bought a train ticket back to Haizhou at 7pm. Zhang Kexuan and the other four insisted on treating Li Mu to a meal and practicing for him, but during the meal, Li Mu quietly settled the bill.
Zhang Kexuan was very dissatisfied with Li Mu's practice of quietly paying the bill, and the other three people also complained repeatedly. In their view, Jinling was their home court, and they were here, and they were allowed to spend money in Jinling, which made them lose face.
Li Mu said with a smile: "Everyone just thinks that I am helping you celebrate in advance. With a simple plan, you can definitely win the provincial championship and go to Yanjing to participate in the finals!"
Zhang Kexuan nodded. When it came to the competition, he was more passionate than anyone else. He stood up and said energetically: "The goal of the simple plan is to win the national championship! As long as Brother Mu is here, the championship will be no problem!"
The other three cheered. Zhang Kexuan was so excited that he asked Li Mu: "Brother Mu, if we win the provincial championship, we still need two songs. Have you prepared any for the brothers?"
"Ready." Li Mu smiled slightly: "It depends on your ability."
"Can you let us hear it first?"
The four of them are full of expectations. What kind of good songs Li Mu can give them in the future is their biggest concern.
At this time, Li Mu shook his head seriously: "There is no point letting you know now. You need to complete the task in front of you to unlock the next song. After I return to Haizhou, you can rehearse well for the rematch the night after tomorrow. Must win first place!”
(End of chapter)