Chapter 320 I Really Met My Opponent (Please Vote for Me!!!)

One week after the results of the postgraduate entrance examination were released, the number of registered users of Youth Home officially exceeded 800,000, and Qin Hao also began to prepare for the introduction of capital.

However, in the domestic Internet entrepreneurial circle, Qin Hao is still just a small transparent person. He has no experience in serving as a senior executive of a large Internet company and has no relevant connections. He contacted several well-known investment banks, but in the end, nothing happened.

In fact, it is normal. 2011 was the hottest period for Internet entrepreneurship. Every day, countless entrepreneurs used their PPTs to win the favor of investors. In addition, this period was at the cusp of the "group buying war". All The popularity has been snatched away by group buying. Investors are chasing the trend. The "asset-heavy" model of Youth Home also seems a bit cumbersome in the Internet industry. It is estimated that many venture capital institutions did not take Qin Hao's PPT seriously at all. Just click delete.

"This investment bank money is not easy to cheat." Qin Hao couldn't help but sigh and began to think about countermeasures.

The scale of the Youth Home is already quite large. The problem now is that it has no reputation. The rapid rise of Xiaomi founded by Rebus is largely due to his previous work experience in Jinshan. Investment banks learned that he came out After starting a business alone, people lined up to invest in him, and many things naturally fell into place.

Qin Hao is only a senior student and has no other entrepreneurial experience. It is difficult to convince investors through a PPT that his entrepreneurial project can not only make money, but also have the last laugh.

Qin Hao needs a chance to convince investors face to face.

While pondering, Qin Hao suddenly had an idea. After the 2008 financial crisis, many domestic companies and factories closed down, and the employment of college students became a social problem. Higher authorities began to encourage college students to start their own businesses, and various places also followed up by organizing some college student entrepreneurship competitions. To stimulate the enthusiasm of college students for entrepreneurship.

Thinking of this, Qin Hao quickly turned on his computer and searched for the keywords of the College Student Entrepreneurship Competition.

A whole page of relevant information appeared on the screen. Most of them were entrepreneurial competitions within various schools. They were small in scale and had almost no influence. After turning to the second page, Qin Hao finally saw an article about the Magic City Labor Festival in April this year. Information released by the Bureau.

"Modu College Student Entrepreneurship Competition, the winner will receive a bonus of 100,000 yuan."

Qin Hao didn't take the 100,000 yuan bonus in his eyes. What really made Qin Hao's eyes shine was that among the judges invited for this entrepreneurship competition, there was Zhu Xiaohu, who later became an all-powerful man in the investment bank.

The registration deadline was half a month away, so Qin Hao immediately sent his personal information and entrepreneurial project information to the organizer's mailbox.

Three days later, the organizer responded to the message, saying that he had successfully registered. Next, the organizer will conduct a strict screening, and eventually 50 people will be selected from thousands of entrepreneurial projects for preliminary defense. If they enter the preliminary round, the organizer will additionally Send an email to let us know.

Qin Hao is still very confident in the Youth Home project. As long as there is no shady story, with the maturity of the Youth Home, it is impossible to be eliminated.

Qin Hao was not idle for the next half month and began to prepare his graduation thesis. In more than a month, he would participate in his graduation defense. Failure to pass the defense would affect his admission to graduate school.

On June 7th, as soon as Qin Hao arrived at the company, he received a call.

"Hey, are you classmate Qin Hao?"

Qin Hao had really not heard the name classmate for a while and was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, I am."

"It's like this. I'm from the Labor Bureau. I want to inform you that you have entered the preliminary round of our college student entrepreneurship competition. The preliminary round will be at nine o'clock in the morning on June 15th. The location will be in the auditorium of our Labor Bureau. You Do you have time to participate?”

"Have time."

"Okay, we've already sent you an email about the specific rules and details of the competition. If you have anything you don't understand, you can call me at any time to discuss it."

"OK, thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Qin Hao also breathed out slowly. The business expansion speed of Youth Home was a bit beyond his expectation. So far, the number of registered users has exceeded one million, and the number of long-term rental houses on hand has exceeded 1,500. , the financial pressure is naturally increasing. Just decorating a house for a novice is not a small sum of money.

Fortunately, due to the increase in housing supply, Qin Hao also has a certain degree of bargaining power in the building materials raw material market. Many building materials can be used only by paying a deposit, and the accounts are settled every six months. It is difficult to rely on Qin Hao's wool from the stock market. Can handle it.

The key is still in the house collection process. Since the expansion of Youth Home, the business of many housing agencies has been greatly impacted, and their counterattack has been fierce. Sometimes in order to compete for housing, they often pay the landlord one to three months' rent. , which is a large amount of money, and it all requires cash.

Qin Hao is determined to win this college student entrepreneurship competition.

At the same time, like Qin Hao, there was another team that was determined to win the college student entrepreneurship competition, the dormitory of the Research Institute of Jiaotong University.

Zhang Xuhao was also thinking about this bonus. In 2008, because he often stayed up late playing games in his dormitory, he was hungry and couldn't order takeout. So Zhang Xuhao discussed with a few friends in the same dormitory and got a takeout. Platform, named: Ele.me.

It has been three years since its establishment. Ele.me has reached an unsustainable point. The capital chain is completely supported by the credit cards of several founders. Seeing that it is about to be unsustainable, Zhang Xuhao sets his sights on college students. Entrepreneurship competition project.

In the past year, Zhang Xuhao has successively won championships in various entrepreneurial competitions. Relying on the championship bonus, Ele.me has finally been able to survive. This time, Zhang Xuhao is eyeing the 100,000 yuan bonus.

From the perspective of Zhang Xuhao's team, their entrepreneurial projects already have a complete business model. Participating in these entrepreneurial competitions is simply a dimensionality reduction blow. They only need to go on stage to receive the award.

On the day of the preliminary round, Zhang Xuhao did not even come to the scene, and only allowed one of the founder partners, Kang Jia, to participate in the preliminary round.

The Kang family was already familiar with this, so they didn't take it to heart and went all the way to the labor bureau auditorium.

This kind of preliminary competition is usually held in a relatively simple manner. The contestants even sit in random seats. The Kang family found a corner in the back to sit down. This is not to boast. Every time I participate in this type of competition, once it enters the explanation stage of Ele.me, Other events will become boring. In order not to dampen the enthusiasm of the contestants, they usually speak last.

The organizer also knows very well. One look at "Ele.me" and you will know that these guys are here to steal money again.

The Kang family sat down bored, and were about to take a nap to replenish their energy after staying up late playing games last night, when they suddenly heard a commotion in the auditorium.

When he looked up, he saw a young man and woman walking at the door. The man was tall and handsome, and the woman had a delicate appearance and a charming temperament. The two people appearing here immediately gave people the illusion that they were on the wrong set.

The visitors were naturally Qin Hao and Jiang Nansun. Qin Hao originally planned to come alone, but Jiang Nansun heard that there was such a fun thing as an entrepreneurial competition, so he insisted on coming to join in the fun.

Qin Hao took Jiang Nansun and sat all the way to the back, mainly because he didn't want to be a monkey being watched.

When the Kang family saw Qin Hao and Jiang Nansun walking over, they subconsciously said hello.

Qin Hao also shook hands with the other party politely.

There was still some time before the start of the competition, and the Kang family started chatting with Qin Hao. Soon, the Kang family became very interested in Qin Hao. Before, they participated in the college student entrepreneurship competition and met some "junior entrepreneurs." "Most of them start their own business as soon as the impulse comes. Many of them don't even know the most basic business logic.

During the communication with Qin Hao, the Kang family soon discovered that although the other party was young, his understanding of the market and business was far beyond that of his peers.

"What type of entrepreneurial project is yours? Can we share it with you? Our entrepreneurial project is food delivery."

When he heard the Kang family talk about food delivery, Qin Hao's heart moved: "Oh? We are doing a long-term housing rental project."

The Kang family frowned slightly when they heard this: "The house is rented for a long time? Like a real estate agency?"

"Almost, what is your project?" Qin Hao asked.

"Meal delivery, are you hungry?"

"Youth House."

Qin Hao thought it was Ele.me. It is said that founder Zhang Xuhao later sold Ele.me to Alima and successfully cashed out 9.5 billion US dollars. Of course, this statement is definitely an exaggeration, but there should be 2 to 3 billion US dollars. Directly completing the wealth transition belongs to.

The Kang family felt that the name Youth Home was somewhat familiar. He seemed to have heard of it, but he didn’t understand it and didn’t take it too seriously. In his opinion, the long-term housing rental project was not suitable for the attributes of the Internet and was too “cumbersome”. .

The two smiled politely, and then sat in their seats waiting for the preliminary round to begin.

Jiang Nansun noticed Qin Hao's abnormality and asked curiously.

"You seem to be very interested in the Ele.me project?"

Qin Hao glanced at her noncommittally: "You know this, are you the roundworm in my stomach?"

"You're so disgusting!" Jiang Nansun glared at Qin Hao with disgust.

Qin Hao ignored her. After a while, several leaders from the organizer arrived at the scene. After giving an impassioned speech that made people urinate, they finally announced the start of the preliminary test.

It is said to be a preliminary test, but in fact it is just a simple screening, and the questions asked are relatively simple questions, mainly to test the contestants' expression ability. As for the business logic and operating model, these leaders may not be able to figure it out themselves. Not to mention pointers.

Soon, the contestants in the first few rows finished their presentations. The Kang family subconsciously looked at Qin Hao. In the past, they were always the last to appear.

"Let's go."

Qin Hao brought Jiang Nansun to the stage, which immediately attracted the attention of all the contestants present and caused a burst of whispers.

"Why start a business when you can rely on your looks?"

"Perhaps people rely on their appearance to make a living. Think about it, when doing local promotion, go there and the publicity effect will be overwhelming."

"Oh, it would be great if our team had such handsome men and beautiful women. Maybe the number of registered users would have exceeded five figures."

Jiang Nansun had been used to being watched by others since he was a child, so he was not nervous. Qin Hao took the microphone and began to make a statement.

"Hello to all college student entrepreneurs and leaders, our entrepreneurial project is an Internet long-term rental platform, our business model."

Soon, the scattered doubts in the audience disappeared. Although they were not sure how much of what Qin Hao told was exaggeration, at least it made sense logically.

In particular, it is difficult for college students to rent a house off campus, and many of them have experienced the problems of being cheated by housing agents and second-hand landlords. If there is such a platform that has transparent housing resources and does not require agency fees, I will definitely be willing to do so. try.

Initially, the Kang family did not take Qin Hao's youth home seriously, but after hearing Qin Hao's business model, he was shocked.

The leaders on the stage also nodded one after another at this time. At least from this statement, Qin Hao's performance was perfect, with clear expression and smooth logic.

"Okay, thank you Qin Hao for sharing, please give your scores to the judges."

There is no doubt that Qin Hao got full marks in the end and can be sure to advance directly to the finals.

The Kang family came on stage next. When the Kang family came on stage, the college entrepreneurs in the audience were wailing.

"Why is this guy here again!"

"Isn't this an attack on dimensionality reduction? Their projects have won so many championships."

"Oh, it seems like the championship is out of the question. Let's see if we can win the runner-up spot."

Qin Hao is very familiar with Ele.me's business model. From Kang's description, Ele.me is still in the start-up stage at this time, and its business model is not perfect yet. However, among college student entrepreneurial projects, it is indeed outstanding. .

By the time the Kang family finished their presentation, Ele.me had received full marks and qualified to advance to the finals.

At the door of the Labor Bureau, Qin Hao and the Kang family looked at each other and smiled.

"See you in the finals then."

"See you in the finals."

Back at Jiaotong University, the Kang family immediately found Zhang Xuhao.

"Lao Zhang, today's preliminary round"

"Don't tell me you were eliminated."

"That's not true. We've advanced to the finals."

Zhang Xuhao was pondering the background data and said nonchalantly: "That's fine."

The Kang family said seriously: "This time, I'm afraid we have met our opponent."

"Opponent? Impossible, right? Is there anyone who can compete with us for the championship?"

After hearing what the Kang family said, several other friends looked over curiously.

Zhang Xuhao was determined to win the 100,000 yuan bonus, and he took it seriously: "What's going on, please tell me."

When the Kang family talked about the youth home, Zhang Xuhao still looked confused. One of his friends, Wang Yuan, slapped his thigh: "Damn it, isn't it? The founder of this youth home is a college student?"

Zhang Xu asked curiously: "Do you know this youth home?"

"Nonsense, as long as you rent a house near the school this semester, no one would know."

"Wait a minute, tell me more about this youth home."

Wang Yuan directly opened the website and searched for Youth Home.

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Zhang Xuhao clicked on the official website of the Youth Home, slid the mouse up and down, and felt two words: simple and refreshing.

"The Kang family is right, we really have met our opponent this time."