Chapter 2106: Fever

As Lao Ma said, the July issue of Wired magazine has indeed made many domestic entrepreneurs, who are all entrepreneurs who are determined to make a difference in the Internet field, feel emotional.

Before this, our domestic Internet entrepreneurship, in the final analysis, is just two words: copy.

Whether it is a portal, search, or instant messaging, they are all copying the existing models abroad.

The emergence of Feng Yiping means that in the Internet field, we have finally successfully opened up at least two fields, the online video field and the social field.

If we further subdivide it, there are more new fields worth learning from in Feng Yiping's NEXTDOOR, such as reviews, such as group buying...

Feng Yiping's success undoubtedly gave these people motivation, and of course, there is also reference.

In the capital, Feng Yiping's senior brother named Wang Xing closed the July issue of Wired, looked at the smiling junior brother on the cover, gritted his teeth, called his old friends, and started another round of his announcement.

"Everyone, think about these years," he just started, and he and everyone fell silent.

In the past few years, they, with full of enthusiasm, either interrupted their studies in the United States, or gave up their well-paid jobs, or jumped out of their comfortable small circles and started their own businesses.

However, in the past few years, all their efforts have come to nothing. Their projects have failed one after another.

"In the past few years, I think we have tasted enough failure and supported enough successful mothers,"

These words that were originally discouraging, at this time, are actually a bit tragic.

"But we really can't afford another failure,"

We all hope to be like the indestructible cockroach, even if we are defeated repeatedly, we can continue to fight, but in reality, repeated failures consume not only our energy, but also the limited disposable resources.

This disposable resource generally refers to funds.

After all the failed projects they founded, although they were willing to accept another failure, their empty wallets reminded them that if they didn't want to starve to death, they had to let go of those unrealistic ideals and live more realistically.

"So, damn, let's not care about face, and don't just think about originality, let's just copy, okay?"

"Just copy the successful models abroad, and survive first,"

Although he thought about it for a long time, he was still a little embarrassed and unwilling before he said these words.

After all, if they could do this at the beginning, maybe they would have succeeded now, at least, they would not be as embarrassed as they are now.

But as he spoke, he became excited again. Now this society is a society where success and failure judge heroes. He doesn't want to be a hero, but he wants to survive.

"This," the other people in the team were a little hesitant and a little moved.

Just like the most beautiful love, in the end, it has to go through the test of trivial things such as firewood, rice, oil and salt. No matter how great the ambition is, no matter how lofty the dream is, it will eventually succumb to the pressure of life and consider the need to support the family.

So speaking of it, everyone in their team has no choice now.

As for doing so, it might be embarrassing and against their will, but the consumption of several previous failures has forced them to put aside their pride and think about how to make money and how to survive.

After hesitating for a while, they all agreed with Wang Xing's opinion, so the question is, "What should we copy?"

"Since we are going to copy, let's just copy the hottest, best, and most promising ones," Wang Xing said.

He took out the magazine, "This is it, Feng Yiping's Facebook is one of the most popular products in the past two years, let's copy it,"

"This?" The other people looked at the smiling Feng Yiping on the cover, feeling a little guilty, "This, I'm afraid it's not good,"

"There's nothing wrong with it. Since Facebook can succeed in the United States and is popular in the world, such a product will definitely be popular in China, so I can be sure that this is a project that will definitely succeed, and this is a project that can take us to NASDAQ,"

"But," someone expressed his concerns, "If we copy this, what do you think Mr. Feng will think?"

"If a startup like us has a problem with Mr. Feng, will there be a good ending?"

Facebook, this is Feng Yiping's company. In China, it blatantly copied Feng Yiping's most dazzling product. What would he think?

No matter what he thought, in short, he would never be too happy.

And with Feng Yiping's current strength and influence, how could their small group afford his unhappiness?

"You are right. I have also thought about this issue, and have thought about it over and over again,"

"But my final conclusion is that Mr. Feng should not have a big reaction to such a thing," Wang Xing said.

"If it can be done, it would be good, but isn't it a bit wishful thinking?" a partner asked.

"Listen to my reasons. First of all, Mr. Feng understands some of the characteristics of entrepreneurship in the Internet field best, especially the domestic Internet. We are now mainly copying successful models from abroad,"

"Including Mr. Feng's car website, to be honest, it is a copy of foreign professional car websites,"

"Secondly, do you still remember Tudou, which was launched a few months ago? It can also be said that it copied YouTube's model, right?"

"But look, how did Mr. Feng react to this? There was no reaction at all,"

What he said was true.

In April this year, China’s first video website, Tudou, was launched. Neither Feng Yiping nor Jiasheng had any extreme reactions to this.

"I asked someone to find out that Mr. Feng has been discussing the issue of Facebook and YouTube's access to the country recently. This issue is very complicated, but according to relevant sources, Mr. Feng doesn't seem to be too urgent about this issue. "

"I don't know if he doesn't think much of the domestic market."

His statement triggered everyone's discussion.

"As soon as Tudou went online, they faced a lot of copyright lawsuits, but they didn't care at all and allowed those film and television works without copyright to be played on their platform. If Mr. Feng's YouTube enters the country, he will obviously not allow this. situation occurs,”

"In other words, if his YouTube finds a suitable one to enter the country, it will actually not be able to compete with Tudou,"

YouTube will definitely spend money to buy copyrights, but now Tudou doesn't care about copyrights, so it may not only have richer content, but also offer lower prices for related ads.

"I don't know that Feng always has the same considerations on Facebook, but I think this period is a good time for us to make a difference in this regard,"

"So, what do you think?" He finally asked for everyone's opinions.

"Just do it!"

Several people quickly made a decision.

"Do you think we can go to Mr. Feng's Zhiben Capital in the future and ask him to invest in our projects?"

"You're probably thinking a little too beautifully!"

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But at this time, there were quite a few people holding that magazine and wondering whether they should try Feng Yiping to see if he could invest in their own projects.

Also in the capital, a netizen named Abei had no time to go to the Starbucks in Douban Alley to write code. His website, called Douban, was already online.

This is a website where users provide information about their favorite books, movies, music, etc. It is somewhat similar to IMDB, but it does not have as complete a database of movie works as IMDB.

As soon as his website was launched, it was liked by many urban youths. They spontaneously founded many groups, allowing his website to function as a social networking site.

The development of the website is somewhat faster than Abei expected, so funding has become an issue for him to consider now.

He felt that if he could persuade Feng Yiping to invest in his own website, it would be a good choice.

At least Feng Yiping is not the kind of person who would drive the founder out.

Similarly, Tudou, whom Wang Xing and the others mentioned just now, was having a meeting not far from Feng Yiping. They were also discussing investment issues with Feng Yiping.

After the baptism of the Internet bubble, domestic entrepreneurs in the Internet field have finally become more aware of worries and know that it is safest to find more money when there is still money in their accounts.

"But, our product can be said to be very similar to YouTube. Can Mr. Feng invest?"

Those who raised this issue were obviously concerned that Feng Yiping might have objections to them.

"Why not? It is precisely because it is similar to YouTube that Mr. Feng is able to invest, because he knows best the business opportunities contained in such a project,"