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Chapter 149: Easy to pay the first round of financing!

In 2010, the hottest topic in China's Internet was undoubtedly the dispute between QQ and 360. Tencent first launched QQ Doctor, and announced the gift of Norton antivirus software for half a year trial. With a large amount of user background, it quickly occupied a part of the market that originally belonged to 360.

Zhou Hong of 360 is not a vegetarian. She immediately launched a counterattack and publicly criticized Tencent for eating too ugly, suspected of plagiarism and monopoly. The original "Penguin of the Sun" incident has not yet completely subsided. Many netizens stood on the side of 360 based on the principle of sympathizing with the weak and began to appeal for penguins.

However, the penguin was not scared and did not give up the promotion of QQ doctors because of its massive appeal.

However, due to its own defects and gap in product user experience, QQ doctor completely defeated the 360 ​​Security Guard. Many users uninstalled QQ doctors, and their market share quickly fell below 10%. The first confrontation between the two sides ended with a 360 victory.

However, Penguin did not give up on this cake. On May 31, it upgraded QQ doctors in all aspects. Not to mention user experience, even the interface is similar to 360.

The timing of the Penguin's move this time is terrible. It was just 360 Zhou Hong also had a long-term grudge with Kingsoft. The two sides fought a war of words on Weibo, and the public opinion was attracted by this war of words. Few netizens noticed Penguin's trick to remove the fire from the bottom of the pot.

Zhou Hongyi of 360 can only defend her life this time, but as the offensive side, the profits must be far greater than those of the defensive side. The Penguin's occupation of part of the market means that 360 has lost part of the market, which makes Zhou Hong both angry and depressed.

In the interview, Zhou Hong also fired again and said: There are three problems that need to face when working on the Internet in China - life, death, and penguin.

However, Penguin did not stop attacking because of Zhou Hongyi's bombardment. On the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 23, Penguin took action again, automatically merged and upgraded "qq software management" and "qq doctor" to "qq computer manager", covering functions such as cloud detection and killing Trojans, system vulnerability repair, security protection, system maintenance and software management, and these almost cover all the businesses of 360 Security Guards.

For a time, 360 was in chaos, and Zhou Hongyi even took the initiative to call Mahua Teng to communicate. Mahua Teng also comforted Zhou Hongyi on the phone: Penguin will not kill 360, but the market belongs to everyone, and Penguin must do in terms of safety.

This is obviously going to fight to the death with 360. Zhou Hongyili launched a counterattack saying that the QQ privacy protector can spy on user personal privacy files and data at any time without the user's permission, which aroused netizens' concerns and panic about the QQ client.

This move is not unscathing. For a moment, the Penguin was also facing a great enemy and frequently spoke out that they were just reviewing some sensitive content normally.

Just when the entire Internet circle was chaotic because of the 3q struggle, Fang Li was waiting for the opportunity to come.

Apple announced on September 19 that iphone   4 will be launched in the mainland on September 25!

iphone    4 There was no self-operated store in the mainland at this time, and the sales were also handed over to China Unicom for distribution. Even so, there were still long queues on the day of the release.

You should know that iphoe     4 The price in mainland China is as high as RMB 4,999, but in 2010, most working-class people only had a monthly salary of about 3,000 yuan.

Miao Laosi looked at the surging crowd and his saliva was almost flowing out. In his opinion, these iphone     4 users are all money!

"Lao Fang, are there so many rich people in China? There are still so many people rushing to get a mobile phone of 5,000 yuan?" Miao Laosi was a little confused.

Fang Li patted his shoulder: "You can try to get one for fun, and you must throw away the Nokia n97 in your hand."

"So amazing? Then I have to get one."

"Help me get two."

"Two?"

"Well, give it to your girlfriend, have any opinions?"

Miao Laosi slapped his thigh: "Yes, why didn't I expect it? I'm afraid I won't be able to catch girls if I have this thing? No, I have to prepare more."

Fang Li rolled his eyes secretly: "Be careful to die on a woman's belly!"

The release of iphoe     4 in the mainland does not mean that the protective shell produced by Fang Li can be sold. After all, three months have passed since the "antenna door", and many domestic netizens do not even know that iphoe                                                                                                �

So, what Fang Li has to do now is to promote the antenna defects of iphone    4, and to emphasize the protective properties of iphone                                                                                                            �

Soon, some domestic portal websites and Weibo V began to reprint reports about "antenna doors", and these articles highlighted Apple's solution to the antenna problem - wear a protective shell for iphoe      4.

However, Apple has long stopped issuing protective cases for free, so many users who bought iphone    4 began to search for iphone                                                                                                             �

In just one week, the sales volume of this store called "Apple Skin" exceeded 200,000 orders across the Internet, which made Taobao and JD.com both doubt whether the store was swiping orders.

While being happy, Miao Laosi asked another question: "Lao Fang, I don't think this protective shell has any technical content. If others follow the trend, what should we do?"

Fang Li was amused. Sure enough, interests are the driving force for social progress. Even playboys like Miao Laosi became sensitive once they saw the opportunity to make money.

"You still want to keep making huge profits in this thing? It is inevitable to reduce prices in the later stage. Don't worry, this is just an early product. In the middle and late stages, we will upgrade the product from the material, color, and pattern. Differentiated competition is the king of the enterprise's survival."

When Miao Laosi heard this, he was immediately overjoyed: "Haha, Lao Fang really has you, no wonder everyone says you are the God of Wealth."

"Okay, stop flattering, I'll do it first."

"No, why are you so anxious? Isn't it going to be on holiday on the National Day? Is it a bit of girls to go to the hot springs nice?"

"You should enjoy yourself, sister. I have to go back to Wuhan. There is something time to put it on the agenda."

“…”

Fang Li was not shirking, but there was indeed an imminent matter that needed to be solved, that is, Yifu's first round of financing.

If Fang Li remembers correctly, the first batch of payment licenses will be announced in January 2011. Only 27 companies have obtained third-party payment licenses, and the second batch of payment licenses will have to wait until at least 2015. In other words, once you do not take the bus, all of Fang Li’s previous plans will become a dream bubble.

Losing a four-year market is tantamount to being sentenced to death for an Internet product.

Unfortunately, after nearly a year of hard work, Yifu's users did not exceed 100 million as Fang Li expected. The facts proved that his expectations were a bit too optimistic. As of October, the number of registered users of Yifu has just exceeded 80 million.

Of course, to the outside world, this is already a very impressive achievement. Alipay, which has been leading for 6 years, released data last month with only 330 million registered users, while Yifu has just been established less than two years ago.

"Young Master Liu San, Yifu will carry out the first round of financing in half a month. You can notify your family and start preparing." Fang Li hung up the phone after saying that.

"Damn it." Liu Sanshao quickly got up and ran out of the disco.

All the friends were stunned.

"What's the situation? Is it powered up?"

Soon, news that Yifu was about to start its first round of financing plan spread in the financial circle, and almost all venture capital institutions began to confirm the accuracy of this information.

As for the third-party payment platforms on the market, Alipay is undoubtedly no1. However, Alipay is not having a good life at this time. Because of Yahoo, Alipay's equity structure is very complicated. If you are not careful, you will lose the qualification to obtain the first payment license.

Penguin's Tenpay is a marginalized product with Shanda's Shengfutong and has no competitiveness in the market. Baidu's Baidu Wallet market share is also ranked low. Yifu can be said to be the well-deserved second and the only existence that has the ability to catch up or even surpass Alipay in the payment field.

Fang Li had been holding Yibao in his hands before, and these financial institutions were so hungry that they were almost drooling to the ground, but they didn't even raise funds, and you couldn't do anything about it. Now this piece of fat is placed in front of everyone in a grand manner. The rest depends on who has the ability to eat the biggest portion.

"Lao Fang, the Guo family decided to participate in this financing of Yifu." That night, Guo Hao made an appointment with Fang Li.

Fang Li looked at him and smiled, "I don't think you are here to ask me for mercy or inquire about the news."

"This time I am leading the team is my nominal brother." Guo Hao smiled bitterly and took another big sip of wine.

Fang Li sighed: "I have said everything I should say. There will be no disappointment without hope. You still have fantasies about him."

"Actually, I didn't care about the Guo family's property at all. I could not ignore it, but I didn't expect that even though he knew that our relationship was more conducive to this investment, he also asked the bitch's son to dominate it, which means that in his eyes, the bitch and her son were already above the interests of the family."

Fang Li patted Guo Hao on the shoulder to show comfort. It was difficult for a clean official to make up for family affairs. As a brother, the only thing Fang Li could do at this time was to drink with him to relieve his sorrows.

Turning around, Xu Qing and Zhu Xiaohu rushed over.

Zhu Xiaohu asked anxiously: "Mr. Fang, rumors about Yifu financing..."

"I released it." Fang Li admitted calmly.

"And I will take 20% of the shares in the first round of financing. As for the detailed financing rules, I'm sorry, to be fair, I can only announce it on the same day."
Chapter completed!
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