Chapter 99 Dark Horse Competition

In fact, there are various offline entrepreneurship competitions every year, most of which are organized by local governments.

This is the first time that a TV station has put on such a program. This kind of program is not very entertaining, and the PK involves many professional issues. It is really not interesting to the majority of TV viewers, and the audience is very narrow.

Therefore, Beiji TV’s purpose in producing this program is far more politically correct than ratings. However, the enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among the people has been rising recently, and the ratings have been rising steadily.

The main purpose for entrepreneurs to participate in this kind of program is to gain exposure. After all, for many APP-type entrepreneurial projects, this is free publicity and a way to acquire users.

In addition, you should also talk about your ideals and concepts to facilitate recruitment. It is actually not easy to recruit people for an entrepreneurial team in the early stages. Showing your face on the show will at least make people think that you are not a liar.

As for being on the show, it is basically non-existent for investors and guests to get investment after just asking a few questions.

Investment is still a relatively serious decision-making process, and many issues cannot be judged by just a few questions asked in the limited time on the show.

If you see the show and investors directly decide to invest, that’s the script.

It was basically decided to invest long ago, and the agreement may have even been signed. Going on TV is just to accumulate some popularity and attract a wave of enthusiasm for the next round of financing.

In addition, this time Beiji TV Station's Entrepreneurship Competition has official support, and the first prize will receive a bonus of 3 million yuan from the Science and Technology Commission, so the participants are quite enthusiastic.

Self-promotion and bonuses attract entrepreneurs from all over the country.

Because it is the finals, you can still watch the remaining events after several rounds of PK. At least in terms of the entrepreneurial stage, it is at a later stage than the projects above "Jian Shen".

Generally, it starts from round A, which means that it basically already has a product and some data.

If you don’t have a product, it doesn’t make much sense to go on TV to attract APP users.

There are a total of ten entrepreneurial teams participating in the finals today. When I learned that Mr. Cao was coming, I was very excited, but on the other hand, I was extremely nervous.

I'm excited because this is Mr. Cao, the number one figure in the mobile Internet and a legend of entrepreneurship. If he invests in it or is acquired by him, he will make a fortune!

Even if Mr. Cao doesn't like it, as long as he praises it, it is Shang Fang's sword. Holding this sword, you will be rushed by investors to invest as soon as you step out of the door, and you will appreciate their price war to invest in you.

So, how can you not be excited? How can you not be excited when you see the real God of Wealth? All I have to do is take a shower, change clothes, put on incense and pray!

Everyone is looking forward to using Cao Shen to give them a blessing.

However, this group of people is more worried. Mr. Cao, it is said that he likes to complain!

If you are complaining in private, you can complain casually, however you want.

But this is on TV, in front of a large audience across the country.

In front of investors, funders and dads!

If they are all "facilitated" by Mr. Cao, it will not be a blessing but a terrifying negative buff!

Mr. Cao is now at the peak of his status, and he obviously has the ability to influence the judgment of investors.

And, more importantly, look, what projects are there today!

"Hungry Wow" for takeout, mobile office software "哓哐", marketing software "Shuabao", vertical e-commerce "Aitao Shoes", brand e-commerce "Bangbang Wardrobe", flower e-commerce "Huayue" , the clothing matching APP "Beautiful Diary", the stranger dating APP "Youyou", the live broadcast software "BB" and the online education "Question Master".

Except for the YP app "Youyou", everything else has nothing to do with social networking and games!

Mr. Cao is very good at gaming and socializing, but he is so young and has limited experience and energy, so it is impossible for him to be involved in such a wide range of topics.

Lines are separated like mountains, and he probably doesn't understand these at all...

Alas, he must not understand!

His company is so big, he has such a large user base, but he has never worked in any of the industries involved in today's project! You must be self-aware and don't touch it if you don't understand.

He doesn't know if he can make random remarks...

It was about personal interests. After getting excited, these contestants became anxious. After all, it was a low-probability event that Mr. Cao saw, and the possibility of being complained about was too high!

How could an early project have no flaws?

Anxious people began to discuss the issue in hushed tones.

A group of people gathered together, and the more they talked, the more anxious they became:

The other judges are all investors after all and have seen various projects, so don’t worry.

It’s Mr. Cao. He has enough status, but he probably doesn’t have enough knowledge. Being a judge is a bit reluctant?

The person who felt the most unhappy and anxious here was Xu Guangkai.

He came first in every round of PK in this competition and was also the favorite to win the prize.

But the product he made, "Hungry Wow", is a food delivery platform and an O2O project.

The other projects are all purely Internet projects, but this one also involves offline business.

Cao Shen is too young. He started his own business before graduating from college. To be honest, society has not yet caught on, and he can’t understand offline business! I don’t understand, it’s just a blind comment, and it’s so unfair!

It’s true that the program team just invited investors to come. They had to take advantage of the popularity and invite Cao Shen, who doesn’t understand!

Although Cao Shen may have good technical and product capabilities, he relies more on good luck. He caught up with the mobile Internet trend and encountered mistakes by the big guys.

I made up my mind that if Cao Shen doesn’t understand and pretends to understand or just talks nonsense, I will let people all over the country see how much the entrepreneurial myth is in your hearts!

Mr. Cao didn't know what others were thinking. At this moment, Zhao Xueling was holding his shoulders and applying powder...

On a show, when the stage lights are turned on, if you don’t put on makeup, your face will look like a big oil field, or your whole person will look as dull as a corpse.

Therefore, Cao Shen was not immune, and was personally given a layer of powder by the experienced Zhao Xueling.

One was sitting and the other was standing. When he raised his head, he could only see his chest, and when he moved his hands, he could only hug his waist, so Cao Shen could only look straight and not move.

Zhao Xueling couldn't hold it back and pinched Cao Shen's face:

"It's great to be young. I'm jealous of your skin, sister. Everyone else has to wear foundation, but you just put some powder on it to suppress the reflection."

After finishing the pounce, he held Cao Shen's face and looked carefully:

"Tell me, it doesn't matter if you are a great person, you are still so good-looking."

Zhang Beixin, who opened the door and came in, smiled when she saw this scene. She walked closer and patted Cao Shen on the shoulder and said:

"That's right! Mr. Cao used to be our department's chief.

When I was in freshman year, I saw him from afar, he looked like a star. "

"Hey!" Zhao Xueling slapped her face and nudged Zhang Beixin with her elbow:

"Then why didn't you come near Shuilou? If I had a junior brother like this when I was studying, I would have tied him up!"

"Ahem," the senior sister waved her hand: "Why don't I? I even asked him for his mobile phone number, and even specially recruited him to work in the student union. After he finished his work, I even said I would treat him to dinner."

Zhao Xueling's eyes widened: "What then? What then?"

"He said he wasn't hungry and wanted to go back to the dormitory to check in!" Zhang Beixin looked at Cao Shen and crossed her arms with joy.

Zhao Xueling also laughed: "Straight man, the game is indeed more important!"

The two women started chatting about Cao Shen, and the conversation was so lively that it was as if he didn't exist.

Cao Shen, who couldn't get a word in at all:

After all, I am the man you are chatting with passionately. I am still here, so you should look at me!

However, talking about Cao Shen is just the beginning. As we chatted, we started talking about skin care products, cosmetics, beauty, clothes, shoes, travel, male celebrities...

Cao Shen shook his head: Woman...

Finally, after listening to the chat for half an hour. The two finally thought of Cao Shen, and Zhao Xueling turned around:

"Why are you still here? The guests are all on stage to warm up!"

Cao Shen: "..."

Standing up silently: "You, lead the way."

Zhao Xueling then held Zhang Beixin's shoulder, reluctantly said goodbye, and made an appointment to go shopping on the weekend...

Entering the studio, Cao Shen was naturally assigned to the C position today and was surrounded by investors.

Since Mr. Cao is here today, the allocation of other guests must also keep up, and all of them are partners from Yishui investment institutions.

Everyone wanted to come up and say a few words, get acquainted with Mr. Cao, and exchange friendship.

Unfortunately, Mr. Cao came too late and had no chance at all. I could only force myself to suppress the restlessness in my heart and wait for the program to finish.

That is to say, I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Cao on this occasion. After leaving this gate, I guess there will be less and less opportunities in the future!

The entrepreneur also relied on Mr. Cao's blessing. Today, these big partners are basically invisible to them on weekdays.

The process of this kind of entrepreneurial competition is actually quite boring. There is neither a talent show nor a competitive process.

That is, each team will come for five minutes to introduce the team and introduce the project. Then the investors will ask questions, give scores, and finally everyone will comment a few words.

But Mr. Cao felt that he was not bored at all. When he looked at these contestants, they all had walking health points!

However, before complaining, Mr. Cao must first determine today’s strategy for complaining.

First of all, the projects that come to participate in the program have been carefully selected, and the quality should be acceptable.

According to the current crazy enthusiasm in the capital market, it is estimated that it can survive at least two rounds.

Then, the investors who invested in this round will be the takers. Instead of being like the original Xinyuan Semiconductor, investors just took their money.

Therefore, by letting them get money this round by complaining, the system should be a reward rather than a punishment. Of course, except for those that don’t work at first sight.

Second, the higher the value of the company you kill, the greater your gains will be when you complain about it again.

Then, today’s task is very clear!

Let these projects be invested through complaints, burn investors' money, and grow bigger. It is best to have a few unicorns or something, and then raise the sickle to cut leeks!

You must strive for success and become bigger! Be stronger!

Mr. Cao looked at this group of people with burning eyes, raised his arms and clenched his fists, expressing high hopes.

When the players saw Mr. Cao’s cheering gesture, they immediately felt their blood flowing:

Mr. Cao is watching us!

Cheering for us!

Mr. Cao is so kind!

I feel the power!

As long as you shut up, you are still a good Mr. Cao!

Seeing this, the investors next to him also imitated Cao Shen's example and clenched their fists.

Cao Shen glanced at it and quickly stopped his hand. It was too ridiculous...

I thought to myself, it would be difficult to make people pay through complaints.

Looking around, Qian Ming didn't come today.

Miss him so much!

In Mr. Cao's infinite memory of Qian Ming, the first contestant came on the stage and said, "I'm hungry."

Although Cao Shen had read the entry information before and prepared a lot to complain, he still couldn't help but be happy at this time.

"I'm hungry"!

Look at the name of this company, you must make it big! Be awesome!

Then, I will eat it up in one bite!

This company was established in Shanghai in 2009. The founder Xu Guangkai was a college student like Cao Shen at the time. Oh, different, Cao Shen is a dropout

Now Ele.wa focuses on campus food delivery, and has not yet gone out of the circle, and its business scope is limited to colleges and universities in Shanghai.

After the team introduction, everyone looked at Cao Shen with burning eyes, waiting for him to ask questions.

Xu Guangkai is probably the only one among all the contestants who is jealous of Cao Shen.

First of all, Xu Guangkai's background is better than Cao Shen. Not only is he a rich second generation, but his academic qualifications are also higher than Cao Shen. He is a master's degree holder from a famous university in Shanghai.

He started his own business in 2009 when he was still studying for a master's degree. At that time, he was engaged in telephone ordering and delivery of takeout.

He widely distributed flyers and printed business menu brochures in the school, used the telephone in the dormitory to connect, and hired more than a dozen takeout drivers to deliver food.

At the beginning, the business was developing well. After a few months, we could receive nearly 200 orders a day, and we took 15% of each order. We also became famous in the school.

But this workshop model soon had disadvantages.

First, the phone lines were busy during peak hours. Users often couldn't get through and were furious.

Second, the number of takeaway orders and the money were calculated manually, which took a lot of time and was very inefficient.

Third, it was difficult to manage the temporary takeaway drivers. They would not work when the weather was bad, the work was tiring, or they were in a bad mood. The turnover rate was still very high.

Xu Guangkai found that this industry had potential, but his model was not good. So he made an online ordering system that allowed users to place orders online and merchants to deliver the food themselves.

Under this model, Ele.wa became a meal ordering platform, and Xu Guangkai only needed to do three things.

First, the website was easy to use for both users and restaurants. In response to this, Ele.wa not only made a front-end ordering page, but also made a back-end order system and collaborative management system for merchants.

Second, vigorously promote users. In this regard, Xu Guangkai first found the administrators of several college BBSs and sent emails to all users to advertise, but this operation was later banned.

Then he hired students to post posters on campus, hand out flyers, go door-to-door, and advertise on BBS. In short, it was all-round coverage.

The cost was very low because they were all part-time students, but the effect was very good because it was dense enough.

Third, they tried their best to expand restaurant franchises. For this part, they hired special "ground push" personnel to spare no effort to "sweep the streets", and the effect was also very good.

In addition, in addition to the above three points, in order to establish a brand for his own company, Xu Guangkai also participated in various entrepreneurial competitions crazily, and almost always won the first place.

This time it was a TV program, and it was broadcast nationwide. Xu Guangkai had already established a firm foothold in the Shanghai market and was intending to replicate this model nationwide, so he came here in a hurry.

Along the way, Xu Guangkai's development was very smooth, and he won many awards in entrepreneurial competitions.

I thought I was already a leader among my peers, but I didn't expect that Cao Shen, whose company was founded later than his, was younger than him, had lower education, went to a worse school, and was born worse than him, was far behind me.

So, Xu Guangkai was actually holding back a lot of energy. In addition to the competition, he wanted to see where Cao Shen was strong and what he relied on!

In essence, he wanted to prove that Cao Shen was not as good as himself, but of course he didn't admit it.

So, after Xu Guangkai introduced his project, he kept staring at Cao Shen with a hint of provocation in his eyes.