You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 28 Not enough money

After the two confirmed their intention to cooperate, the atmosphere became much more casual.

Qin Shaoyan picked up another bottle of beer and handed it to Zhang Pingyi, "I don't drink well, so I drink tea instead of wine."

"If you just ask me to drink, but you don't drink, then what does it mean for me to drink this wine?" Zhang Pingyi refused to be fooled, "You should drink more."

Qin Shaoyan thought for a while and opened a bottle for himself, "I will drink a bottle of wine and risk my life to drink it with you."

"Forget it." Zhang Minyi stopped forcing him. He couldn't really drink his boss to death.

"Can you tell me in detail how to build this school network?"

"I already have a plan." Qin Shaoyan became slightly excited, "Bring me the map."

Qin Shaoyan spread the map of Yanjing on the table and pressed it down with Zhang Pingyi's turtle shell.

"Yenjing has a dense concentration of universities, mainly in the HD area. We can use a combination of local promotion and online promotion to achieve viral marketing..."

"Then it's Tianjin Port, and then it spreads south and west."

Zhang Pingyi interrupted Qin Shaoyan's blueprint, "I'm not asking about how you promote it, I'm asking about the specific website plan. What do you want, you have to tell me, right?"

"Oh, this." Qin Shaoyan stood up out of habit and looked for the whiteboard. When he found that there was nothing there, he turned over a world map and pasted it on the wall.

Qin Shaoyan picked up the pen and started drawing on the back of the map, "The UI layout of the website is roughly like this."

"It is specifically divided into several parts such as homepage, personal homepage, friends, and square."

"Take the personal homepage as an example for the secondary page. This is the avatar. Personal information is displayed below the avatar. This is the message board. On the right side is the visitor record..."

While explaining, Qin Shaoyan drew a rough page layout and brief function introduction.

As an audience member, Zhang Pingyi was drinking beer and thinking about technical solutions, his brows getting tighter and tighter.

"Each user can fill in the information about his or her primary school, middle school, and university, and then the user can see recommendations from the same school, age, or even class as him based on the filled in school information."

"This feature is very important. Users can easily build their own social network using the same information as other users."

Zhang Pingyi sighed and threw away the wine bottle in his hand, "There are too many functions and they are too complicated for me to handle alone."

Qin Shaoyan nodded, "So we have to recruit people. We can't do this just by the two of us. We will need a team just for subsequent maintenance."

"Yeah." Zhang Pingyi grimaced, "This is much more difficult than building an Olympic promotion website."

"We are facing many problems now, including talents, technology, hardware equipment, and the most important thing is funds." Qin Shaoyan looked at Zhang Pingyi meaningfully.

Zhang Pingyi was confused, "What do you think I'm doing? Don't you have the 600,000 you just defrauded?"

"That's a donation from the two bosses." Qin Shaoyan corrected the other party's wording error, "This money is not free, we have to pay it back in the future."

“But this money can be used to solve the problem of start-up capital first.”

Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Actually, these 600,000 seem to be a lot, but they are not enough to spend."

"Ah?!" Zhang Pingyi was stunned and blinked for a long time, wondering how to spend the 600,000 yuan.

"The first is the server. We definitely can't use free servers. If we rent, we can't share the server with others." Qin Shaoyan began to write down various expenses on the paper with a solemn expression. "There are two options now, one is server hosting and the other is hosting. .”

"Server hosting means renting someone else's server, while hosting means buying your own server and hosting it in an ISP (Internet Service Provider) computer room."

Zhang Pingyi shook his head, "The cheapest server now costs 20,000 yuan. I don't know how much subsequent data will be needed. The cost of the server is not small."

"There is also the cost of the venue, the Internet, water, electricity, and rent. These are all money." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "If I had known I wouldn't rent a house here, it would cost 3,500 yuan a month. It would be even more expensive if I rented an office."

"If you choose a residential area, you can only use dial-up Internet access, right?" Zhang Pingyi was a little confused, "This Internet speed is definitely not good."

Qin Shaoyan nodded, "At least ten computers are needed for office use. Each computer has a budget of six to seven thousand, which is sixty to seventy thousand."

"Coupled with personnel salary, you need at least a team of 3 to 5 programmers, and one or two artists, one for finance, and one for network management." "No network management is needed for the time being." Zhang Pingyi picked up the pen Without the word network administrator, "Let programmers repair computers part-time."

Zhang Mingyi didn't wait for Qin Shaoyan to continue the calculation, and already had the result in his mind, "Looking at it this way, this money will last less than a year."

Qin Shaoyan sighed, "The more money you have, the less money you have."

"Ah?" Zhang Pingyi didn't realize the logic of this for a moment.

"So, we still have to increase revenue and reduce expenditure." Qin Shaoyan said with a serious face, "Brother Yi, we have to find another way to make money."

Zhang Pingyi's expression changed immediately, he stood up immediately, took two steps back, and asked with a vigilant face: "What do you want to do again?"

"What do you mean?" Qin Shaoyan said helplessly, "I'm thinking about how to make money so that our plan can proceed smoothly."

Zhang Minyi looked at Qin Shaoyan with suspicion, "You don't want to commit fraud again, do you? This is illegal."

Qin Shaoyan said very seriously: "I have always abided by the law."

"Really? I don't believe it."

"Forget it, let's put up the shelf now." Qin Shaoyan knocked on the table, "Tomorrow I will go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to register the company and complete the formalities first. In the next time, we must save money as much as possible. .”

Zhang Pingyi nodded, "I still have 50,000 yuan given by Mr. Tian."

"Well, this money should be included in the donation." Qin Shaoyan nodded, "You can hang two banners on the Olympic publicity website and write the name of the donor and the amount."

"it is good."

"Also, you go back to school tomorrow and see if you can find some classmates and get them to work part-time."

Zhang Pingyi felt a little guilty when he heard this, "Isn't it bad to bring my classmates here?"

"This requirement is very simple. I don't care how to implement it." Qin Shaoyan said sternly, "Anyway, give me two cheap programmers."

"Okay." Zhang Pingyi reluctantly agreed.

"Now take the time to eat and rest quickly. There are more important things tomorrow."

Qin Shaoyan and Zhang Pingyi quickly dazzled the food and then cleaned the battlefield.

After washing up, Zhang Minyi lay down on the hard bed in the second bedroom and fell asleep early.

Qin Shaoyan, on the other hand, had some insomnia. After reviewing his performance at night, he felt that there were no flaws.

One thing he didn't lie to Zhang Pingyi was that the money he had was simply not enough to spend on social networking sites.

To make money, you have to start by making stand-alone games, which have a short cycle, high cost performance, and high fault tolerance rate.

Only when you make money from stand-alone games can you continue to burn money for the website to get it going.

If a website has large traffic, it will be easy to do anything.

Yeah, but I can't talk to Zhang Pingyi about making games now.

There is no need to rush this matter, take your time.

Early the next morning, Zhang Pingyi came out of the second bedroom and saw Qin Shaoyan, who was neatly dressed.

Still wearing the same suit and leather shoes, dressed in the style of a business elite.

Zhang Pingyi felt something was wrong and asked doubtfully: "What are you going to do?"

"There's no way to increase revenue now." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "I'm going to cut costs."

(End of this chapter)