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Verycd: We have to do 1999 Google
Verycd: We have to do 1999 Google
After two years, Shanghai Huang Yimeng still clearly remembers the night in the fall of 2003. Autumn wind buryth, the 21-year-old Huang Yun meantun, but the heart of the "shirtless heart".
At that time, Huang Yum Meng, who was idle at home, had just dropped from Shanghai University for one or two months. He made a fine business plan for a "Verycd" domain name registered at the end of 2002, intended to follow the style of "personal CD custom" e-commerce website. "You can earn a little money, and it is also very good to watch the movie to listen to music." Huang Yimeng said, but since the opening of netizens since January 2003, the Verycd website has no improvement - the people are embarrassed, and all It is an acquaintance of friendship.
Similar feelings once again appeared in the summer of 2005 in the afternoon. The Verycd website is at the peak period, and nearly 5 million visitors per day makes 8 servers. The two servers of the original, there is no use of electricity license and cannot be in place. Another head, continuous netizens hit the wall due to overload. It is impossible to think that Huang Yun can only help, and finally I have been looking for an emergency.
Today is not more than. Verycd's growth is far more than Huang Yun Meng's imagination. Even, when he was busy receiving various award information these two days, he also had a dream feel. However, this does not hinder this technological youth and his website quickly known to people, and attracts a large number of VC (referring to venture capitalists) to line up.
Start at the eDonkey
This is derived from a software called "EMULE". Supporting this software is a hipster technology called "P2P" (abbreviation, one end-to-end transmission technology) of P2P. In this technique, people can connect directly to other users, exchange files, rather than connecting to the server as in the past.
Huang Yimeng found this software, it is completely an accident. At that time, there were many BT and eDunkey software on the world, as well as websites using these software. Finding more audio information for "Personal CD Customization" website, but found a P2P open source software EMULE software published by German Merkur after some search link. This new idea of this direct point-to-point interaction makes him look bright, and it is more exciting happiness after I have used it. "So to rewrite the emule Chinese, plus the idea of personalized film and television music collection website, and the prototype of the Verycd website was born." Huang Yimeng recalls.
At that time, Huang Yimeng did not realize that an internet era that advocated individual interaction was rolling. His understanding of the network also stayed in the era of manufacturing digital hero in Liu Ren's "China .com". He at the time, "I can throw the website in that, improve the popularity, and then make another e-commerce website and the docking, and the popularity will be transformed into a wealth." So, he has to worry about it every day, how to improve the hit rate of the website, how to let more people get used to see his website. On the other hand, some popular search websites and portals often make him red.
Verycd ushered in the day of the day visit to 200 records, Huang Yens Meng deliberate screenshot shows celebration. But soon, he started to have a screenshot. "A few hundred people have increased, and later, tens of thousands of people climbed. By the end of 2003, Verycd's day visits rushed to 1 million, and crushed the virtual host of China's channel." Say.
The sudden junction of the daily visit climbed, let Huang Yumum began to reflect. "What is this market?" "Why is there so fast?" "Is this speed terrible?" "Is there a short-minded idea of developing e-commerce?" "Should you make it first, or only with the style?" ... These problems continue to come out in his mind, let him be inexplicably excited. In the chaotic confusion, he seems to see that the core value of the Internet is beginning to return to the technical nature, an interactive interaction, interaction, participation, and shared networks are being born. Corresponding, Verycd is originally silently personal website that is doing information sharing services, which is bound to reflect its business value in this network era. But this is just a start. How to get next step? This has become a problem that Huang Yum Meng must face. In 2004, China's Internet has missed the trend of selling creative. VC is a lot of opinions on investment increasingness, similar P2P websites. Huang Yimeng is completely like a number of heroes in the past, then selling Verycd, then pulling it.
Whether it is active or passive, the result is the same - Huang Yime Meng finally string and decided to fight. Soon, Verycd ushered in the first server, and ended the SOHO identity of Huang Yun Meng. In May 2004, he rented a 10-square-meter cottage in Tianshan Road, Shanghai. The first organized a team of entrepreneurship - this 3 team, there are two students who come to help.
Determine income mode
Verycd's future is full of imagination. But even from financial figures, this is not a "free journey". According to the revenue model, according to Yi Guan International New Media Research Partial Analysis Chen Haizhen, the P2P website mainly adopts three ways - charge the software, embeds the advertisement to the software and direct auctions. What's more, some P2P websites don't hesitate to add more content with profit points to the website.
As a pure P2P website, take auction advertising bits and accepted netizens as an income source, this is the choice of Verycd. Even on the number of advertising bits, this website also insists that "no more than two per page, no more money does not add". Not there is no temptation. As the total number of visits exceeds 100 million, 200 million, the temptation from advertisers is more obvious. On the other hand, feedback from netizens is not optimistic - they make objections, there are too many advertising sites appearing on the page, which will consume the pleasure of the website experience. The game of advertisers and netizens will win in the latter.
Such an ending is not no sign. In 2000, Huang Yant Meng, just learned to go online, and wrote this sentence to "let the charge website to die". After many years, he still thinks this is not wrong. As part of the MP3 Sharing Program, the "charge download website" that provides pirated music downloads in this year, thereafter, there is a lot of death. Because, "profitability in sharing the Internet age is not very good, but if it is in sacrificing technology, then this profit will not last long."
This is the earliest lesson learned from other peers. Later, when the P2P website of the early "ignore", this lesson was further elaborated as - the first don't trade premature commercialization, and the second should focus on P2P technology. "Some P2P companies always try to do a lot at the same time, they almost forgot their own Bank." Huang Yumheng sighs.
When you say this, Huang Yimeng has moved from Tianshan Road to the city of Jiangsu Road, and the office is upgraded from one room to two rooms. More importantly, at this time his entrepreneurial team came another technology youth Dai Yunjie. Wearing is a high school classmate of Huang Yimeng, claiming to "I have to do it since the net, life is only one thing: learn the Internet."
Reject VC
Two like-minded young people have encountered a piece of "G-Fans (Google's Worshiper)" to the ultimate - focus on technology and excellence in technology. They even set up the purpose of Verycd: Verycd will never pay for users using emule. The direction of advancement is clear from this. P2P and open source software are forming a very free culture - the user when using EMULE, it is changing the resources you can find at all, this excitement is pursued by VeryCD; and the function of VeryCD, no function Chasing "How much high-end, multi-popular, how much can be integrated", just want users to see, have an exciting heartbeat: It can still be played like this.
Not only that. Verycd also attempts to condense these tonger. There is no market department, completely relying on the website itself. After repeated test, the website has transitioned from the original pure forum mode to the "resource index page resource search engine forum".
It turns out that this effort is worth it. The server cluster grows almost 1 speed per month, and 500,000 people visit their resource pages per day, and 30,000 people download their EMULE version. It is even more attractive to Liu Ren's website "365key". The latter proposed that links through the "Favorites" of both parties to establish a link so that users "门".
VC also smells the wind. They have taken the shoulders of these two young people say: "We cooperate."
That is after the Spring Festival in the Spring Festival in 2005, the first VC came to the door. IDG (International Data Group), one of the earliest US venture capital companies that came to the Chinese market, has invested hundreds of companies in China. They want to invest in Verycd and then integrate with another P2P company POCO previously invested into one.
Finally, I can get rid of it, Huang Yun is "not willing to be", I don't want "Verycd" to disappear. However, when other VC makes a concession, he refused when he made only a simple investment.
In fact, Huang Yimeng is impossible. Before this, he did even panic. Only advertising revenue and a small number of netizens sponsored, this can only make Verycd to make the balance of payments. Can a high visibility can finally become a productivity or unknown. However, after the phlegm of the VC investment, he suddenly saw the economy of the economy formed by the Internet. VC is eager to intervene, and give him peace of mind to some extent, and confirm the correctness of his road. But he is not willing to be VC really intervention.
It can be said that this time, the technical youth once again reflects his paranoia. They believe that compared with the credential background such as VC, Verycd's technical force is not "powerful". Now, in cooperation, it can only make Verycd in the bottom of the wind, and may even lose words in technology. And this is what they are most reluctant to see.
Future trend
Then, the Huang Yun Meng, which is refuses to do, is still the next step, still leading his team to improve the technology, and continue to expand the traffic, "I hope to be like 1999 Google."
As we all know, "1999 Google", in the garage office, a 4-person team has just turned over, and members of members are the most happy things is to bury their heads. But this does not cover their light. They have been searched for more than 500,000 times a day, and they are concerned by the media and be sought after by netizens. In June of the year, the first risk investment made Google finally moved to the world.
Huang Yimeng hopes that they can also. He is the first preparation for this, is to register to set up a company - "Shanghai Wiux Network Technology Co., Ltd.". The original office has also can't be quickly developed verycd. They moved to the new office of Panyu Road Times Building. The number of employees has also doubled, reaching 8 people. Huang Yens Meng and Dai Yunjie have also made division of labor, the former is responsible for management, the reserve supervisor technology. The first problem encountered by Huang Yun, the first problem encountered is to recruit employees. There is no experience, and several times a few times, so that he has to write down the question to write under Notepad. Dai Yunjie's burden is heavy. According to the understanding of the Zhao of the network legal expert, the four mains of P2P involve infringement, including software platform providers, seed providers, downloaders and seeds aggregation publishing website. The record and movie giants have long launched a large-scale rights action against the above four primitives in the United States. "In the United States, the record giants have achieved victory against the BT's lawsuit." Zhao's occupation said that they moved their litigation to China is an inevitable trend.
Obviously, there is not enough light technology. Especially in such a tragic development environment, there must be a superb management veteran, to help Verycd, so that it sailed smoothly. Although Huang Y Meng and Dai Yunjie are closely collaborate, share all the roles of the company. However, as Verycd is further growing, it requires a stricter company structure system, an industry master. "At that time, Verycd may be a 2000 Google, there is VC, and can attract a more professional management team." Huang Yimeng said, Verycd began a new era.
