Chapter 296 Is a thousand square meters enough?
Professor Shang is a woman, a little old, with mottled hair and simple clothes. She has a dark blue background and a white plaid shirt on the inside. She wears a very historical red cardigan on the outside. With a slightly darker complexion, she doesn't look like a professor at first glance, let alone a person who once served as vice president of Tongfang.
However, she has a wise look and elegant conversation. After a while, she can let you experience the style of a senior intellectual. She is both black and dressed in earth, and the kiln-burning people are different from those who teach.
"Is this what Xiao Feng, who was just in the first grade, boasted about running a Nasdaq-listed company?" Professor Shang said with a smile, but there was no meaning of teasing in his words, just like an elder making jokes about familiar younger generations.
This sentence quickly narrowed the distance, "Hello Professor, I am Feng Yiping, this is the main creator of my team, Jin Ling," Feng Yiping bent down and shook hands with her. He has been running fast in the past two years, while Professor Shang is not tall.
Jin Ling was also smiling at this moment, "Hello Professor Shang,"
"Sit, sit," Professor Shang asked them to the sofa, "I heard that Xiao Feng is amazing. At a young age, you have already started many companies. Can you tell me in detail?" Professor Shang asked with a smile.
"The teacher is too proud! I am just lucky. Most of our current companies are traditional companies, involving industries such as home decoration, furniture, convenience stores, hotels and fast hotels. We are also involved in high technology. Our Zhitong Software has developed a management software that mainly targets small and medium-sized enterprises and has its own intellectual property rights. It currently has a good market share in several central provinces." Feng Yiping briefly introduced his own companies.
"Not bad!" Professor Shang nodded one after another, "It is a lucky chance that a company will succeed. So many companies have developed well. That is not something that can be achieved by luck!"
"Teacher Xie praises! It mainly depends on everyone's help, such as Jin Ling. Most of the work is done by them, and I am just a hand-off manager."
"Yes, in today's society, one person plays alone. It's not realistic and not suitable. An excellent team is the key to success. Little Jin Girl is good," Professor Shang praised Jin Ling.
"However, you must also know that the original intention of the school to establish a science and technology park is to act as a bridge between schools and enterprises, technologies and products, and the market, and connect the school's innovation source with the market. This is the main purpose of our founding of the science and technology park."
What is talking about is the main theme, but it actually explains the requirements for the enterprises entering the park.
"I understand that the reason why I want to settle in the Science and Technology Park is, in addition to the two new projects I want to take, as the company grows larger and larger, talents have become a key factor restricting our development. Therefore, I really hope that there will be such a window to take advantage of the advantages of the location and attract these high-quality talents from the school to join.
For example, the design company I want to set up this time mainly focuses on students in school.”
"Yes, talent is the most important asset of our school. Establishing a science and technology park also provides students with internships and job opportunities," said Professor Shang.
"In addition, we also have some ideas for the existing traditional enterprises, and want to make some differentiated innovations. For example, for fast hotels, we need to launch an online reservation system. In the future, we will also consider connecting to other hotels. Our convenience store website will gradually transform into a shopping website in the future..."
"Well, the idea is good, but it is consistent with what you said in your Blue Ocean Strategy, the principle of expanding the business boundaries of the company," Professor Shang said with a smile.
"It turns out that you have also seen my work, I'm honored!" Feng Yiping said with a shy smile again.
"Haha, be modest! According to the ideas you said, you are a young man with ideas and ambitiousness. So what company are you going to start this time?"
"We have two plans this time," Jin Ling handed over two business plans that he had worked in the past two days. "One is a design company, covering industrial product design, decoration design, furniture design, etc. The other is the group's key project this year. We want to build the first professional automotive website in China,"
Professor Shang held the plan in his hand, "You have been involved in decorative design and furniture design, and you did a good job, so I won't ask, industrial product design, which direction is now?"
"Our first project is electric bicycles and electric vehicles, which are mainly for short-distance transportation, such as commuting for college students. An overall plan has been made, but there are many details that need to be improved. I have also asked some students from the Academy of Fine Arts, and they all expressed their interest."
The plan has been released, but it is just a general plan. Based on what Feng Yiping saw later, he chose two electric motorcycles and electric vehicles with great appearance.
"A good design may not necessarily turn into a good product, and a good product may not necessarily be popular in the market. What are your plans for these steps after the design is completed?" He is a person who has been an executive of a listed company. He asked a key question as soon as he asked.
"We can save prototypes ourselves. As for subsequent mass production, we tend to OEM, which is also a place we hope the park can help. We know that the park is now talking about cooperation with many provinces and many companies. I want to trouble the park to help us pay attention to the appropriate OEM."
It is not easy to have a good design alone, but it is not easy to turn it into a good product.
When Feng Yiping read the novel later, he saw that many people were reborn for a few years and were ahead of Apple and made their smartphones first. Every time they read it, they wanted to laugh. When Apple made smartphones, it was definitely more challenging than the new car, because cars were already a mature industry at that time, and the production of smartphones was a pioneering industry. The difficulty of production was not much lower than the difficulty of design.
"As long as the design is excellent and reasonable, the product is expected to have a market, it is not a problem to help you contact the OEM, so what about sales?"
"This is not a problem. Our convenience store branches will reach at least 800 this year. We have already taken root in several provinces and regions and are familiar with the local situation. At the same time, our logistics companies also have locations where convenience stores are opened. At that time, we will open some direct stores. It will not be difficult to find some agents."
Of course, in Feng Yiping's plan, he definitely has not many direct stores. He mainly plays a demonstration role and mainly relies on agents.
"Yeah. Yes, what about the car website? Although affected by Nasdaq, several major domestic portal websites have performed poorly this year, but their strength is still there. Are you confident that you have competed for them? Also, your profit model?"
This is simpler. Feng Yiping asked Jin Ling to say that since their last conversation, Feng Yiping wrote down his ideas. Then Jin Ling summoned everyone to modify and supplement, which has been very perfect.
So Jin Ling's introduction is very smooth now, and Professor Shang is very satisfied with what he said. He is very meaningful, and these two projects are both projects with great market prospects.
Especially for automotive websites, most of the car users and quasi-users now have poor bargaining power and are completely unequal to the information of car sales companies and machine factories. However, with the rapid development of the economy, more and more companies and families have the need to buy cars.
If they say that, building a professional website that involves both before buying a car, when purchasing a car, when using it, and during maintenance, as long as it promotes it effectively, it will gain popularity and attract 50% of the country's car users. The average daily coverage of four to five million people is really not long.
And at that point, it is really only one step away from going public.
Because the Science and Technology Park is a government-led project and a pioneer in the establishment of science and technology parks in domestic universities, the leaders of the park certainly hope to support and incubate more and more listed companies.
As the deputy director of the park development center, Professor Shang quickly passed the companies that had settled in his mind and found that Feng Yiping and his friends' auto website project is really promising in terms of listing, at least in the top five.
In fact, Professor Shang was optimistic, not about Feng Yiping and others, but about other companies that had already settled in. The companies they supported from the beginning, and until 2007, no one successfully went public and achieved a zero breakthrough.
"Listen to your introduction, the most important problem is the talent issue and funding. Do you have any difficulties?" Professor Shang asked.
"It's not just a matter of talent. We are now in the capital and cannot find a suitable office location. In addition, regarding future OEM and related certifications,"
People who are involved in industry know that many products are also followed by the above. For example, those people make smartphones first, and they are not able to sell them after you produce them, but they have to pass many certifications from relevant units. The most basic ones must pass the 3C certification.
For example, for the three-c certification, we don’t talk about anything else. Just the information you need to provide when you apply for certification for the first time, from the organizational structure chart of your manufacturer to the product assembly chart, electrical schematic diagram, process flow chart..., there are dozens of copies in total.
It is really a luxury to have no good or strong relationships and it is a short time to be certified successfully, but it is different in a science and technology park. Its own park helps you negotiate. The so-called perfect services in the science and technology park are not false, and it will help companies settled in save costs and time in many aspects.
"As well as participating in foreign exhibitions, many questions are needed, and I learned that many of the companies entering the park are founded by alumni. Like them, I treat the school and the park as parents from the bottom of my heart. I hope that when problems arise in the future, the school and the park can help me more,"
Feng Yiping avoided talking about the funding issues mentioned by Professor Shang, but instead played the emotional card.
This question is really hard to answer. If you say you have sufficient funds, then okay, of course the rent is not easy to give you discounts. If you say you are short of money, then the park invests part of it. Do you agree? But Feng Yiping really doesn't want it.
"Haha, your metaphor is very vivid. We must strive to be the master of this. I have learned about your situation. Is the 1,000 square meter office area enough?"
"Ah?" Feng Yiping was a little stunned. Didn't he have to fill out a lot of forms and submit a lot of information, and then the leaders would study it as usual? Why did he settle it so quickly?
In fact, he underestimated the park's determination to do something. Of course, there are many procedures for ordinary companies to apply for entry, but for such promising companies run by their own students, those procedures can be exempted. The park is actually an enterprise, not an agency.
Professor Shang thought he was worried about rent, "Don't worry about rent. We set up a science and technology park not to earn rent, but hope that a large number of excellent companies can grow here," he said.
Feng Yiping is really overjoyed now. It’s better to be organized. He decided to come to Tsinghua University to be wise and powerful. Professor Shang is so generous. "Thank you, Professor Shang!"
"No need to thank me. The space is limited now, so I can only give you so much. In fact, what I hope most is that in a few years, you can get a piece of land and build a building by yourself," Professor Shang said with a smile.
"I'll lend you a good word!" Feng Yiping originally thought so, renting one piece first, and after a company goes public, and after getting back from raising some money, he applies for a piece of land near the park to build his own. What is this? This is China's Silicon Valley, Wudaokou, the center of the world!
Teacher Xiao Jin, who was still waiting outside, watched them walk out with a smile on their faces, walked to Jin Ling, and asked, "How is it? How long will it take to have an answer? Do I want me to find acquaintances to find a solution?"
Unfortunately, Jin Ling, who was happy, had no intention of paying attention to him now?
"Thank you, Teacher Jin. Professor Shang has agreed. 1,000 square meters, the rent will be better!" (To be continued...)
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Chapter completed!