Chapter 436

Li Mu really wants to buy a suite.

On the one hand, I don't have a suite in Yanjing. On the other hand, I'm also considering the price of Yanjing. It's always good to buy one earlier. It's easy to buy another suite with free money.

Li Mu has been thinking about this before, but buying a house is not just necessary for him, and he can't care when he is busy. However, for Zhao Kang, he always has the idea of buying a house. After all, he is in love with Wang Jiashang now, and they always come out to open a house every other time. Although Zhao Kang doesn't care about the money of opening a house, he also wants to have a fixed mind It's totally different from opening a room in a hotel. The psychological satisfaction of the latter is obviously much stronger.

When Li Mu saw that he had put forward the matter of buying a house, he decided to take the opportunity to have a look at it recently. If there is a suitable one, he would buy one.

Later, Li Mu called Chen Ze again, and the car was brought back. He had to help with the license plate problem. Besides, it was not the one that had been agreed before, but two cars and two license plates, Zhao Kang and himself.

For Chen Ze, two sets of A8 license plates are not difficult. Li Mu calls to explain the situation. He immediately gives Li Mu a ticket guarantee and says, "I'll arrange it later. On Monday, the vehicle management office will ask them to contact you to arrange a time for the license plate."

Li Mu was relieved and thanked. Chen Ze said, "by the way, I contacted a relatively high-end track design company in Italy. Their mapping personnel will come to China next week. I'm going to take them to survey the land we like, choose a suitable address and come up with a set of mature design scheme. When the design scheme is released, we can prepare the track first The construction of

Li Mu asked him, "is the land OK?"

"I've said hello to the municipal government for the whole area. After selecting the address, the municipal government can approve the land use permission at any time. I've cleared up all these processes," Chen said

Li Mu asked again, "if the site selection design of the track starts, we will start as soon as possible according to the supporting facilities of CSC club in the future. How is your communication with Duffy?"

Chen zelue said excitedly, "I have basically determined with her. After the location of the track, she will resign and come back. Then she will directly join our real estate company and Liangge's real estate company."

Said Chen Ze: "I promise her that our real estate company will develop large-scale commercial real estate within three years and give it to her as the chief designer. If not, I'm afraid she will hate me."

Li Mu said with a smile, "don't worry. It's not a big problem to operate large commercial real estate in three years. If it goes well, it's not impossible in two years."

Chen Ze said, "I can't control so much now. I'll fool her back first. I'll ask you for the rest."

After chatting with Chen Ze, Li Mu made a special call to dufei in the evening, that is, in the morning of New York time.

I've been looking for Duffy for two things.

One is that she doesn't know how things are going with her company; the other is that she wants to ask if she knows a reliable industrial designer or team.

At the thought that Mark Zuckerberg will launch facemash in October this year, which is just the beginning of entrepreneurship. Li Mu thought that in the first half of this year, Facebook's main domain name and a series of related domain names should be included in the bag, and it's better to put them directly under the name of American companies. In this way, whether it's domain name transaction or future with Mark Zuckerberg Communication, even investment in Mark Zuckerberg, will be much more convenient.

Another is that Taobao is under development. Fang Xudong is not only developing the core architecture, but will soon return to China. Taobao will be online soon. At that time, he will have to make the customized MP3 of the easy to hear network, and the design is urgent.

Dufei told Li Mu on the phone that the company's process is almost gone. At present, it only needs to wait for the final review, which can be solved within a few working days. As for the industrial design, she heard about Li Mu's demand, and said to Li Mu, "I found that you are very lucky. No wonder that you are such a person who started a business, and the money has long legs to you Run in your pocket! "

Li Mu asked in surprise, "why do you say that?"

Duffy said: "I happen to know a British girl. She graduated from the school of design of the University of Northumbria in 2000. She is one of the most prestigious schools in the field of design. After graduation, she traveled around the world and received industrial design orders from some enterprises. Before graduation, she designed a mobile phone model for Ericsson He also won a prize in Sweden. Before graduation, he had worked with Siemens, HP, IBM and other top 500 enterprises. He still has offers from several large international companies

Li Mu sighed: "so high end? I just want to design an MP3 player. I don't know if I can watch it. "

"What she does is the industrial design of electronic products. Isn't MP3 on the fire now?" Duffy said? Do you know that there is an apple company in the United States that has produced a popular MP3 player called iPodLi Mu said, "of course I do." In fact, I'm going to copy the shape of ipod-nano 4. I'll tell you?

"She's the apple of the iPod, so I think she'll be interested in designing MP3 players," Duffy said

Li Mu asked her, "do you have her contact information?"

"She doesn't have a mobile phone abroad, just email and MSN. Now she seems to be in a country around China. She told me on MSN that she was going to come to China in early May," Duffy said

Li Muxin's next happiness: "that's great. It's best to meet and talk. You can help me to ask when she will arrive in China. Please make sure that she will be the first stop in Yanjing. Then I will entertain her all the way. You can talk about business and visit Yanjing at the same time."

"Good!" "She's a very cool girl and she's very emotional. If you take good care of her, maybe you can still be friends," Duffy said

Li Mu then said, "don't you worry about me? If she comes to Yanjing, I will make her feel at home. "

"I'll leave a message to her on MSN later to see if she can go to China ahead of time and tell her about you. If she is interested, you can meet and talk about the rest," Duffy said

"Good!"

After communicating with Duffy, Li Mu couldn't help but think: if the other party is really a talented industrial designer, as Duffy said, then this person is really like sending coals in the snow.

For now, electronic products haven't entered the era of intelligence. The core of digital products is actually in industrial design. Before the arrival of smart phones, some of the most popular mobile phones, apart from Nokia's cost-effective and durable quality, are basically due to its excellent industrial design.

Whether it's Samsung's slide and rotary camera, LG's blushing chocolate, or Motorola's razr-v3, they are all products that win by design, especially V3, the world's most classic flip phone. With its excellent industrial design, it has achieved global sales of 130 million units. Li Mu still remembers V3's popular nickname - blade.

Li Mu wants to use MP3 player to promote the development of easy to listen and Taobao at the same time, so this MP3 player must be as perfect as possible, especially in the aspect of industrial design. If it can make consumers amazing, then its own plan will be a great success, so good industrial design talents are essential.

Besides, Li Mu has a hardware dream in his mind, and hardware is the biggest piece of cake in the Internet market in the future. Any Internet person with great ambition will not give up the pursuit of hardware, but Li Mu never thought about the dream of starting hardware manufacturing too early before. He would like to wait for two years, and then enter the hardware market when the smartphone is ready to rise. However, if the time really comes in advance, it is not necessarily a bad thing to get involved in hardware manufacturing in advance.

The reason why Apple is strong is that the software is only one aspect, and the more powerful is the sales of hardware. Microsoft, like apple, is very strong in the field of software, but the former is countless orders of magnitude lower than the latter in terms of hardware, and the price of hardware products is much higher than the software industry or internet virtual service industry, and once used If the user has viscosity to the hardware, then the investment of high customer unit price will also have periodicity. A senior apple fan will invest at least $10000 or more in Apple products in three years, with a huge profit margin.

At the thought of these, Li Mu put more emphasis on the plan of customizing MP3 this time. If the entry point is selected well and the amazing products can be produced, it may be a good opportunity to cut into the hardware field. Looking at the hardware market from the perspective of the future is not much more difficult than the software market. As long as the way is selected correctly, making hardware can also be light on assets Ma, the most important point is never to produce any hardware by himself.

Internet companies only need to do a good job in industrial design and software design, and then choose a reliable OEM to produce on behalf of them. As long as they strictly do a good job in quality control, the whole process of hardware production will be completed, and the rest is promotion and sales.

At present, the electronic hardware manufacturers are still laying sales channels. The establishment of this sales channel is quite difficult, and there are a large number of dealers need to be managed and maintained, which not only greatly increases the cost, but also adds many uncontrollable factors. But for the current manufacturers, they do not Any other way, because e-commerce is still a baby in its infancy, huge manufacturers will not take it seriously, nor see how much it will play.

Li Mu is now preparing for the launch of Taobao. That is to say, he is now building an online sales channel that abandons the traditional sales channel. Once the line is opened and he makes hardware, all aspects will be as good as water. (to be continued. )