Before Luo Sheng set out, he spent a sum of money to buy a suit of leather shoes and dresses, which looked like a proper piece of fresh meat in the workplace.
Born in 1985, Luo Sheng is 19 years old this year. It looks a bit immature in every way. It is so-called hairless on his mouth. Although he is dressed up brightly, he doesn't look reliable.
And this trip made Luo Sheng come to encounter troubles for the first time since 2003. This time his investment trip has become a journey against a wall.
When he went out to look for VCs, in an apartment in another place, the shopping site Dibao was in full preparation, and it is expected to be online in three months.
Mr. Ma, the founder of Atan Baba, is also seeking private equity financing. The environment is not good, and the cold winter of the Internet bubble seems to have not shown signs of recovery. It is not easy to get investment.
In the following half month, Luo Sheng started from Shencheng, flew to the north, and then flew to the south.
After a lot of effort to go to the capital, I finally saw the founder of Soaring, Zhang, seeking angel round financing. President Zhang learned of his intention, and he refused before he finished speaking, and threw a word of hurt: you , I just find a few college students who do better than you for less than 1 month. In the current industry environment, what do you use to compete with Tencent QQ? no future!
Luo Sheng would like to tell him, in fact, he made it in less than half a day!
Nothing was said.
After being rejected, Luo Sheng found the Lianxiang Company again. He did not meet the founder of the company, but he also saw an executive of the company. When he heard that the young man came to invest, one word Just returned Luo Sheng to the top:
[Now this age should go to college first. The social network model you said cannot be successful, and the reason is very simple, because there is no such model in the United States. This is enough. ]
There is no such Internet social model in the United States, no!
This is the sentence that Luo Sheng has heard the most. At least ten investors have rejected him with this sentence.
In the case of successive capital collisions, Luo Sheng had to leave after staying for seven or eight days, and flew to Guangdong Province. On the first trip, he found Rebus.
Luo Sheng was fortunate to have a successful meeting with the busy man Lei, and paid three days for it, and got the result of the disappointment.
When Luo Sheng left, Mr. Lei also teased people around him and said, "This young man and Ma Li are really two extremes, a gimmick, a handsome and handsome, but they have one thing in common, that is, the owner who likes to run the train with his mouth full. The project mentioned is bigger than the sky, and it is necessary to connect all human beings at all times. Anyone at a young age is trying to cheat money. "
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The 17th day after leaving Shencheng.
At the moment, in the afternoon local time, Luo Sheng, wearing a suit and leather shoes, was carrying a briefcase in his hand, which contained thousands of pieces of cash and a development plan for the BlueSpace website.
The other hand took a bottle of mineral water and drank half of it.
In these 17 days, he met 32 investors, including the industry's biggest coffee in the future.
But after meeting so many people, the BlueSpace website development plan in his briefcase was never presented to investors.
Because there was no chance at all, and the investors he met were extremely powerful, Luo Sheng was denied without saying a few words.
After personally experiencing it, he was finally able to understand how Boss Ma was rejected that year, because of the 32 investors he saw, more than half of Boss Ma had also seen it when he was investing.
Let's just say Mr. Lei, Luo Sheng doesn't think he should make a second mistake, but Mr. Lei's operation almost flashed Luo Sheng's waist.
After drinking the remaining half of the bottle of mineral water, Luo Sheng took the empty bottle and glanced around the street, and found the trash can and threw it away.
Five minutes later, he stood under the current corporate headquarters building of Tengxun. Of course, Tengxun does not yet have his own independent headquarters. Luo Sheng hesitated to try it and see if he could meet with Xiaoma. .
After thinking about it, I made a decision and moved forward immediately.
Go to the airport and return to Shencheng.
Luo Sheng gave up to see the owner of Penguin, because he remembered that Little Pony had also rejected the raccoon founder. He had also sought financing from him at the beginning, but it was not negotiated, it is said.
My little brother had a chance to invest 15% at the time, but on the one hand he was not optimistic about Ma's project, on the other hand he felt that the proportion was too small and wanted 50%, and the result was naturally unsuccessful.
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Shen Cheng, Blue Star Technology Studio.
"Yo, come back, did you get the investment?"
When Xu Yong saw Luo Sheng coming back, he threw his bag aside and his suit aside, and sat down on the old sofa in the living room. Xu Yong saw that he already knew what the result was, and laughed and laughed: "Look at this situation, angel I did n't get the investment and I still lost the toll. What a terrible word. Not infected with SARS is a thank you ... "
"Your girl is really inspiring." Luo Sheng shook his eyes helplessly, and then stared blankly at the ceiling. This time he went out to invest, he did not find overseas capital, but now this situation, I am afraid he has to leave Old way.
Luo Sheng's mind was already calculating.
At this time, Xu Yong came with two bottles of beer, sat next to him, and laughed: "Tell the story of your trip, I have wine."
Luo Sheng took a bottle smoothly, and took a sip and sighed, saying: "The good point is the limitation of the times. The bad point is, say ... forget it, this is fate, yes My life is also the life of the thirty or so investors I've met, and I've perfectly missed a technology giant with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future. "
After hearing his last word, Xu Yong was almost not caught, and said immediately: "Hundreds of billions of dollars in market value? Do you consider yourself Bill Gates? No wonder you can't get investment ..."
Luo Sheng laughed: "It's not that there is no gain. This trip is still necessary. Why? Next time, you can know that these people can be eliminated so as not to waste time. We still have some money. If we need to use the money urgently In the case of all rejections, it is necessary to have a personal death. How much money is left? "
Xu Yong: "There are still 220,000 yuan."
On the way back, Luo Sheng also thought about the reasons for the failure. It can't be blamed that the investors have no vision and have some problems themselves. If the website is well developed, Xiao Youming can even be paid attention by the industry, and it may not appear. More than thirty investors have refused.
After returning to Shencheng, UU reading www.uukanshu.com Luo Sheng began to focus on the development of BlueSpace itself.
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Unconsciously, one month passed. It turned out that Luo Sheng was right. In the next month, community B became more and more popular on campus.
The Internet community and the capital circle have finally attracted attention, and they have even drifted across the ocean to the Silicon Valley.
Today, the topic level even exceeds QQ. At universities that can already use the B community, most of the students on campus are chatting with the B community, looking for new friends, etc.
People frantically wanted to register, and during this month, Luo Sheng and the two of them were almost in constant explosion. They both had to let B company launch on three or even four university campuses every day.
In just one month, the B community has been promoted from the original Fudan University to more than one hundred universities. Although it was only launched in more than one hundred schools, few college students across the country have never heard of BlueSpace. In this popular social networking site, some college students even talked about the topic of B in QQ instant messaging.
But now QQ can only talk privately, because there is no such thing as QQ group.
As early as March 7th, after the launch of the B community in the Jiaotong University that day, less than a day later, 70% of the students in the school registered a B social account, and the development speed can be said to be unmatched.
Now, even the current social giant QQ has been taken aback, the entire Internet community and the investment community are watching.
The overall scale is small, but the growth momentum is quite bright.
This represents potential.
It is no exaggeration to say that since the dot-com bubble burst, BlueSpace is a new social website that has been very eye-catching.