At the end of November, Xu Cong finally left Tiancheng Company.

This is a new beginning in life for Xu Cong.

Start a business! Start a business!

Relying on the corresponding overall development view of the future and the technology we possess, can we break into a new world?

Xu Cong is looking forward to this very much.

The day after he resigned, Xu Cong met with Zhang Yong to prepare for the establishment of the company.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but fortunately Xu Cong found a professional manager like Zhang Yong who is skilled in business.

After an in-depth conversation, the two also determined the main development direction of the company in the future.

Social e-commerce online games!

This is one of the main directions for the company's development in the next three years.

In Xu Cong's view, the current environment is very suitable for the development of these three businesses.

The Internet itself is a platform for exchanging data, but currently domestic social software does not appear to be dominated by one company like Xu Cong's era.

Not only Penguin has its own chat and social software, but also all major game network companies have social software.

All in all, the current domestic social software platforms are basically the same as those in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

All Xu Cong needs to do is to build a social platform within the next few years, and even make this social platform a leader in the country.

Of course, if you want to take the lead in social software, you need this social software to have unique competitiveness and advantages.

To this end, Xu Cong plans to learn from Penguin's successful "social online gaming" approach.

In fact, in the first few years of Penguin's establishment, the number of users was not particularly large. Until Penguin's crazy expansion into the online game market, many users registered corresponding Penguin accounts perhaps for the game.

Of course, the popularity of Penguin’s social software is also related to its unique functionality.

However, in Xu Cong's view, Penguin's social software that truly achieves the ultimate in social software is WeChat, a must-have software in the mobile network era.

Xu Cong has also seen the social software developed by Penguin in this era. Generally speaking, it still has many similarities with the foreign QICQ, but some unique functions have not been implemented.

This is also an inherent advantage for Xu Cong in social software.

In addition to corresponding social networking and online games.

Another focus of the company is on e-commerce.

E-commerce is still in its infancy, and there are still relatively few people who actually purchase physical products online.

Xu Cong heard that Jingshan Rebus recently built an e-commerce website, but the profit performance was not particularly good, and there were even rumors that the website would be sold.

To be honest, the development of e-commerce during this period is basically in its infancy.

If Mr. Ma in this time and space continues to stick to his original career, then Alibaba will be in the stage of B2B to B2C at this time.

B stands for business and business!

C stands for individuals and small businesses!

Most of the early e-commerce models were B2B models.

Companies engaged in the B2B model mainly provide a cooperation platform between enterprises and extract corresponding commissions or membership fees.

B2B is Alibaba's first business, but this business was not profitable at the beginning, and it was even difficult to maintain stability.

However, in the future, Alibaba will also simplify B2B and launch corresponding application software. This is the world's largest purchasing and wholesale platform that some sellers are familiar with.

On this platform, all merchants are basically enterprises. These enterprises provide corresponding services or goods to sellers and merchants, thereby achieving B2B-like cooperation.

However, Xu Cong will not consider B2B business now, after all, this business is not particularly profitable.

Teacher Ma in this time and space does not have the corresponding venture capital company investment as in his original time and space, and in the end he lost all his money directly from the B2B business.

B2C is the second stage of development of Alibaba. Merchants and enterprises sell goods to individuals. The Tmall platform is a similar cooperation model.

Alibaba, which is developing in the second stage, can basically maintain basic operations. However, because the initial network penetration rate was not particularly high, and the development of logistics has not yet reached the level that national e-commerce should have, this also makes logistics

The cost is too high.

The real glory of e-commerce is the C2C model, which is a transaction model between individual small merchants and ordinary consumers.

Taobao is this model, and even Pinduoduo, which came from behind, is also this model.

In fact, Taobao and Pinduoduo, which were popular in the early days, are essentially the same, except that Taobao and Tmall are the same company, which enables the corresponding transaction channel model to achieve B2C and C2C simultaneously.

As for Pinduoduo, it has taken the essence of the C2C model to a deep level and integrated cooperation into the mainstream social method, ultimately achieving the goal of catching up from behind.

The first thing Xu Cong needs to do when entering e-commerce is to determine the model.

After careful consideration, Xu Cong finally chose to take C2C as the core and B2C as the supplement, using social interaction and e-commerce to feed each other, and at the same time go deep into the current domestic logistics industry to promote the rapid development of the logistics industry.

Be prepared for the coming trends in recent years.

Xu Cong serves as the company's development plan maker, and Zhang Yong, who joined the team, is currently the company's main executive.

As time gradually reached the end of the year, Xu Cong and Zhang Yong decided to separate first after discussion.

Zhang Yong followed Xu Cong's suggestion and went to Hangzhou, the city closest to the Magic City, to rent a venue for the company's establishment and prepare for the company's opening.

As for recruiting talents, I’m afraid we have to wait until after the new year.

After all, this time period is a very embarrassing time period.

The company rents construction space and purchases corresponding office equipment, which requires time and energy. Perhaps after completing these things, it will already be mid-December, and there will be less than a month before the Lunar New Year.

When Xu Cong first joined Tiancheng Company, he originally planned to resign before the Lunar New Year, but due to unpredictable events, he ultimately moved forward his original plan.

But in the extra month, Xu Cong can always find something to do.

On the third day, Zhang Yong went to Hangzhou alone to do business, while the company founder Xu Cong flew to Hong Kong Island non-stop to rent a server.

"I came to Hong Kong Island again after three months, but this time I came for myself!"

Xu Cong found a partner to discuss it very easily.

With the previous layout and preparation, negotiations and cooperation between the two parties are not particularly difficult.

But what the partners didn't expect was that Xu Cong directly ordered the most expensive server!

Moreover, the length of the lease even surprised the partners.

Five years! Directly lease for five years.

"Mr. Xu, are you sure you need to rent it for five years? Isn't this time a bit too long?"

Wang Song, the manager who was the receptionist, looked at Xu Cong who looked determined and reminded Xu Cong.

Xu Cong gave Wang Song a firm answer.

Xu Cong's goal is to reach the stars and the sea. In Xu Cong's own opinion, five years is just the beginning of Xu Cong's career.

After negotiation, Xu Cong also spent one million per year to rent the best server.

Servers with this footprint are basically comparable to the current servers of large companies such as Shengda. Both the corresponding network connectivity and the corresponding computing power are at the ceiling level in the industry.

However, the partners still have some doubts about Xu Cong's financial strength, which makes the leasing company specifically require Xu Cong to pay a one-time payment for five years.

Entrepreneurship capital-5 million!

After negotiating the corresponding cooperation, Xu Cong also stayed in Hong Kong Island for nearly three days.

By early December, Zhang Yong also completed the construction of the company's premises and the purchase of basic office equipment.

This time Zhang Yong directly rented a building to Xu Cong.

A building is not an office building in the traditional sense, but a residential building.

In fact, when most companies start a business, most of the office locations they choose will be in residential buildings.

As for office space such as office buildings, renting them is not cheap.

As the manager of the company, Zhang Yong needs to spend the money where it should be used when the company is starting up, and save money whenever he can.

The building Zhang Yong rents belongs to an old man.

An old man who looks ordinary and even a little slovenly.

Of course, Xu Cong only discovered this a month later when he went to the old man to buy a house.

As a person from the future, Xu Chongmingbai is now more cost-effective to buy a house than to rent a house, especially since Hangzhou has not yet developed.

The entire building has a total of five floors. In addition to the garage on the first floor, there are also four floors of eight rooms, two bedrooms and two living rooms.

This residential building is only about a ten-minute walk from the West Lake Scenic Area, and the surrounding supporting facilities are also quite complete.

The most important thing is that the corresponding rental prices are very cheap.

The rent for a building is only RMB 80,000 per year. You must know that the rent for a first-floor office building in Shanghai is as high as RMB 300,000 per year.

Even with the continuous development of the Internet industry and corresponding businesses in the future, the rent of office buildings will become more expensive year by year.

On the one hand, this saves money, and on the other hand, it facilitates the work of the company's employees.

According to Zhang Yong's estimation, within the first year of the company's development, the number of employees may only be in the early double digits.

This also makes it possible to convert the originally rented living room of the entire building into an office space, while the corresponding bedrooms can be converted into staff dormitories.

Each room even has its own kitchen.

In the future, you can cook by yourself or ask your aunt to cook.

It can be said that renting such a building for office is very suitable for Xu Cong's newly founded Internet company.

Even Xu Cong is planning to quit his apartment in Shanghai at the end of the year and move directly to the building rented by the company.

All in all, this building will be Xu Cong's base for a long time.

As for the computers, desks and chairs for the office, Zhang Yong obtained them through his personal connections. A total of fifty computers and desks cost only 50,000 yuan.

Zhang Yong also brought 50M optical fiber broadband to the company by the way, but in a few years, the corresponding domestic network speed will usher in a huge upgrade, and then 100M optical fiber will be the mainstream of enterprises.
Chapter completed!