Chapter 436 Internet Hardware Dream

Li Mu really wanted to buy a suite.

On the one hand, I don’t have a suite in Yanjing, and on the other hand, I’m also considering the housing price in Yanjing. It’s always a good thing to buy it early, and it’s very easy to buy a suite with the spare money on hand.

Li Mu had this idea before, but buying a house was not just a necessity for him, and he couldn't take it into consideration when he was busy. However, for Zhao Kang, he always had the idea of ​​buying a house. After all, he was still in love with Wang Jia. People always come out to open rooms every now and then. Although Zhao Kang doesn't feel bad about the money for opening a room, he also wants to have a fixed little love nest. That feeling is completely different from going to a hotel to open a room. The latter is psychologically satisfied. The feeling is obviously much stronger.

When Li Mu saw that he proposed to buy a house, he decided to take advantage of the situation.

Then Li Mu called Chen Ze again, the car was brought back, and he had to help with the license plate problem, and it was not the one agreed before, but two cars with Zhao Kang and two license plates.

For Chen Ze, two sets of license plates starting with A8 are not difficult. Li Mu called him to explain the situation, and he immediately booked a ticket for Li Mu, saying: "I will arrange it later, and the DMV will let him go to work on Monday. They will contact you to make an appointment for the card."

Li Mu was relieved when he heard that, and thanked Chen Ze again: "By the way, I contacted a relatively high-end track design company in Italy, and their surveying and mapping personnel will come to China next week, and I am going to take them to show what we are interested in. Investigate the land, choose a suitable address and come up with a mature design plan, and when 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 greeted the city government for the whole piece of land. After choosing the address, the city government can approve the land use permit at any time. I have already cleared all these processes."

Li Mu asked again: "If the site selection design of the track starts, it will be started as soon as possible according to the supporting facilities of our future csc club. How is your communication with Duffy about this matter?"

Chen Ze said excitedly: "I have basically decided with her. After the location of the track is selected, she will resign and come back. When that time comes, she will directly join our real estate company with Brother Liang."

Having said that, Chen Ze said again: "I promised her that our real estate company would open a large-scale commercial real estate within three years, and hand it over to her as the seat design. If it can't be realized, I'm afraid she will hate me to death."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's not a big problem to operate a large-scale commercial real estate in three years. If it goes well, it's not impossible within two years."

Chen Ze said: "I can't take care of that much anymore. Let's talk her back first, and I'll leave the rest to you."

After chatting with Chen Ze, Li Mu waited until the evening, that is, in the morning of New York time, to make a special call to Duffy.

I've always wanted to find Duffy, two things.

One is that I don't know how the company's registration is going now; the other is to ask her if she knows a reliable industrial designer or team.

Thinking that Mark Zuckerberg will launch Facemash in October this year, which is the beginning of his entrepreneurship, Li Mu felt that in the first half of the year, he had to take Facebook's main domain name and a series of related domain names into his pocket. , and it is best to put it directly under the name of an American company. In this case, whether it is a domain name transaction, communication with Mark Zuckerberg in the future, or even investing in Mark Zuckerberg, it will be much more convenient.

Another one, Taobao is already under development. Fang Xudong has not only been developing the core structure, but will return to China soon. Taobao will be online soon, and then he will have to create the mp3 customized by YiTing.com. , the design thing has also been urgent.

Du Fei told Li Mu on the phone that the company's process has almost gone through, and now it only needs to wait for the final review, which will definitely be resolved within a few working days.

As for industrial design, after hearing about Li Mu's needs, she said to Li Mu, "I see that your luck is very good, no wonder people like you start a business, and the money is running into your pockets like long legs! "

Li Mu asked in surprise, "Why do you say that?"

Duffy said: "I happen to know a British girl who graduated from the School of Design of Northumbria University in the United States in 2000. She is one of the hall-level colleges for design majors, and she is recognized as a genius by the school. Traveling around the world, while receiving industrial design orders from some companies, she designed a mobile phone model for Ericsson before graduation, and won an award in Sweden. Cooperation, I don’t have the foundation to say, and now I still have offers from several large international companies.”

Li Mu sighed: "So high-end? I just want to design an mp3, I don't know if others will like it?"

Duffy said: "She is also doing industrial design for electronic products. Isn't mp3 on fire 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 snorted: "Of course I know." But he was thinking, in fact, I am going to copy the shape of the ipod-nano4, I will tell you?

Duffy added: "She's a big fan of the iPod, so I thought she would be interested in designing an mp3 player."

Li Mu asked her, "Then do you have her contact information?"

Du Fei said: "She doesn't have a mobile phone abroad, she only uses emai1 and msn. She seems to be in a country around China now. She told me on msn some time ago that she is going to China in early May."

Li Mu's heart was overjoyed: "That's great, it's best to meet and chat, you can help me ask her when she will arrive in Huaxia, please make sure that the first stop is in Yanjing, and I will entertain you all the way. While talking about business, you can visit the beautiful scenery of Yanjing at the same time."

"Okay!" Duffy 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, maybe you can become friends."

Li Mu said, "Don't worry about me doing things? If she comes to Yanjing, I will make her feel at home."

Duffy said: "Then I will leave a message to her on msn later to see if she can go to Huaxia in advance, and then tell her about your situation. If she is interested, you can meet and talk about the rest. "

"it is good!"

After communicating with Duffy, Li Mu couldn't help but think to himself: If the other party is really a very talented industrial designer as Duffy said, then this person is indeed like giving help in the snow to him.

For now, the current electronic products have not yet entered the intelligent era. The core of digital products is actually still in industrial design. Before the arrival of smart phones, several popular mobile phones, except for Nokia, because of cost-effective and durable quality. , the others are basically because of its excellent industrial design.

Whether it's Samsung's slider and rotating camera, or LG's blush chocolate, or Motorola's Razr-V3, they are all products that win by design, especially the V3, the world's most classic flip phone, with 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 the mp3 player to promote the exhibition of YiTing.com and Taobao.com at the same time, so this mp3 must be as perfect as possible, especially in terms of industrial design, if it can make consumers amazed, then his plan is Great success is sure to be achieved, 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 ambition will give up the pursuit of hardware, but Li Mu never thought of starting hardware manufacturing too early before. He hopes to wait two years before entering the hardware market when smartphones are ready to rise. However, if the time does come early, then getting into hardware manufacturing early may not be a bad thing.

The reason why Apple is powerful is that software is only one aspect. What is more powerful is the sales of hardware. Like Apple, Microsoft is strong in the field of software, but the former is many orders of magnitude worse than the latter in terms of hardware. The price per customer of a thousand-yuan hardware product is much higher than that of the software industry or the Internet virtual service industry, and once the user becomes sticky to the hardware, the investment of such a high price per customer will also be cyclical. A senior Apple fan, In three years, the investment in Apple products has exceeded 10,000 US dollars or more, and the profit margin is amazing.

Thinking of this, Li Mu takes this plan of customizing mp3 more seriously. If the entry point is chosen well this time, and he can come up with amazing products, it may be a good opportunity to cut into the hardware field. Looking at the hardware market from the perspective of the future, it is actually not much more difficult than the software market. As long as the method is selected correctly, hardware can also be launched with light assets. The most important point 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, do a good job in software design, and then choose a reliable foundry for production. The rest is promotion and sales.

At present, electronic hardware manufacturers are still constantly laying out sales channels, from the head office to the regional general agent to the provincial agent and then to the municipal agent. The establishment of this sales channel is quite difficult, and there are a large number of dealers to manage and maintain. Not only It has greatly increased the cost and added many uncontrollable factors, but for the current manufacturers, they have no other way, because e-commerce is still just a baby, and the huge manufacturers are not at all. I will put it in my eyes, and I will not see how much its effect 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, if he makes his own hardware, everything will be like a duck to water. (To be continued.)