Reboot 2003

Chapter 98 005: Profit

If I have to say it, just from the perspective of cost performance, these items do not necessarily have to be bought.

From a program point of view, most of them are not very complicated, or come from some open source projects on the Internet, and they just take advantage of time to achieve great success in the market.

In other words... If you only consider technology, these software are generally not very difficult, and you can let your subordinates do it yourself, and you can make a prototype in a week at most.

But since you have money, you don’t need to be stingy. Since these things can be successful, you can avoid accidents to the greatest extent by buying them directly, and you can also reduce yourself a future competitor.

And making products is not purely technical. Considering that they are generally not popular now, there is almost no reason not to buy them.

Now that Baofengyingyin has been bought, it didn't cost much. The software has just started, and it has just been published on the Internet. It has received some favorable comments, but there are still very few users.

Half a month ago, Chen Qin asked Chang You to send someone to contact him, and asked Zhou Peng and his apprentice to come to Galaxy Software to work directly for a salary. Zhou Peng came directly... The two apprentices have not yet graduated, and they promised to come when the time comes, and Baofeng Video has also changed its name to Galaxy Video, which has become a part of the information software ecology.

Flashget is still negotiating. At the beginning, the price negotiated by the two parties was 30 US dollars, only selling the copyright of Tianchao District, which is a bit expensive.

However, Hou Yanchen probably has great confidence in this project, so he agreed to share the copyright in the form of a partnership, which means that he wants the company's equity.

Of course, Chen Qin couldn't let him exchange the equity of Galaxy Software Corporation with a piece of software, but this matter itself is quite easy to operate.Chen Qin designed a joint venture plan to establish a branch in Xiangjiang, just like what he did with Kuaikan at the beginning. If Hou Yanchen is willing to sell, then his flashget will fall into a Xiangjiang company, and then become a subsidiary of Galaxy Software.

At that time, the company will be held 70% by Galaxy Software and 30% by Hou Yanchen. After completing the transaction, Chen Qin basically didn't spend a few dollars. As for the shares that were split...

In fact, it doesn't matter, after all, it's just the profit of the FlashGet family, and Dashatian is only at the level of Thunder, so what's the use?If he likes to share points, he can share points. In the future, if he doesn't continue to pay wages, the equity can be diluted back.

After the two projects were negotiated, Chen Qin discussed a few small issues with the company's senior management, and then talked about two projects that have already been launched, and everything that should be said has been said.

The company's business is booming, and the employees have a sense of accomplishment. This is the influence of Zhao Shiqiang and Chang You, two executives selected by Chen Qin. They both came from free software and are not only very experienced in this kind of project, but also very enthusiastic. The newcomers are influenced by them, and now they have quickly entered the working state.

If there is a problem...

"Boss, should we get that 'Galaxy Headline' up first?"

The topic returned to the daily development plan, and Chang You was the first to put forward this suggestion.

Chen Qin felt curious, and asked him with a deep magnetic voice in the channel: "Why do you think so?"

"News has advertising revenue. It can be added to the homepage of our browser, and it can also provide some income for the company in the future."

Chang You's proposal seemed reasonable, Chen Qin asked, "I remember Lao Zhao made a similar proposal last time."

Zhao Shiqiang also followed up and said: "I think our input method can also add advertisements. Qiao Yongping, who I watched quickly two days ago, talked with him. He said that since our input method can collect user input data, it can also send targeted advertisements based on user input. In this way, maybe we can cooperate with Kuaikan again. I think it's very good."

The newcomer Zhou Peng tentatively suggested: "Actually, many softwares are being bundled and installed, so we can also charge some intermediary fees, which seems to be quite a lot."

Xiao Wang, who loves to play games, suggested: "Online games are so popular recently, we can still develop a cheat to sell!"

"Don't worry." Chen Aotian spoke, and everyone fell silent.

"Don't think about the company's profitability for the time being. Let's make free software, of course it has its value. Although the current cost can't be recovered, but the Internet, the cost is relative."

"To make software for one person, hundreds of thousands are not enough for us. To make software for thousands of people, each person may need to pay one or two hundred. But if we provide software to hundreds of millions of people, the cost per person is almost negligible. Now the Internet industry has a bright future, and we will face a market of one billion people in the future. Profitability is a small problem. Continue to optimize the user experience and expand the user base. The most important thing..."

After Boss Chen finished speaking, the newcomers didn’t feel much. Chang You, Zhao Shiqiang and a few people who had done the project were all excited. After all, this is really not Mr. Chen’s nonsense. Free as a general trend of Internet services, of course it has its value. For Chen Qin, this theory was actually copied from his future colleagues. Using free tools and software as a way to make a fortune, he is still a familiar face...

That's 360.

In the original time and space, under this strategy, Qihoo 360 briefly became the last e of the Chinese Internet giant table at its peak. His starting idea was to hit the paid software market with free services.

Of course, 360's strategy itself is problematic.

360 started from safety and specialized in killing the rogue plug-ins of the old club. Although it has the consideration of rectifying Zhou's name, this is not a good track.

And Zhou Hongyi himself does things in his own way, and he is extremely unpopular, and when he came up, he ruined the jobs of those Internet veterans who started with security software.

And Chen Qin's choice is also very simple——

After all, free software was already in the red sea when Zhou Qiqi started, and he could only grab a segment of the market from the security side.

But now Chen Qin can just catch up with the time. Third-party browsers and input methods, streaming media players, and p2p software are all real Internet infrastructure.

As long as this market can be won, it should be more promising than 360...

Well, maybe more than that.

As for the only problem, it is also an old problem, that is, it cannot make money.

Although the employees are willing to believe that the company has great prospects, as Chen Qin saw before, the company has no income at all, and the deficit is as much as the expenditure.

And it is foreseeable that for a period of time, these major businesses will not be able to bring in real money...

Only by the boss paying wages and renting space for them to develop, can the company continue to operate.

But is it really okay to go on like this?

Chang You and the others also came up with ideas out of good intentions, that's why they came up with these proposals today... Of course, it's the norm in the Internet industry if you can't make a profit in a short time, and it's not a problem in itself.

But Boss Chen Chen still wants to continue to recruit people, and even spend money to buy other people's unprofitable projects, which makes them a little worried.Although Boss Chen is such an awesome person, he might not be able to think of such a simple thing, but this company pays well, the project has prospects, the work is relaxed, and the atmosphere is good.

It made them a little worried, fearing that the company would go bankrupt, so they made a few indirect remarks at today's product meeting.

(End of this chapter)