Ordinary Road 2010

After Lin Yi left from Li Feifei, he went to Guo Nan again and told him about the plan to launch the app. Guo Nan didn't object but asked about the detailed arrangements.

Of course, according to the previous practice, he will also give some kindness to Senior Brother Guo who has worked hard for several months as a favor.

Then Lin Yi was concerned about another matter: "If I remember correctly, senior brother should be Yan Er, right? You can look for a job this summer."

Guo Nan is a three-year master's student, but postgraduate study is not the same as university, especially their professional practice is higher.

The recruitment of fresh graduates in universities is called "autumn recruitment", and most of them are carried out after the start of the last academic year in September. However, the Internet industry has developed rapidly in recent years and the competition for candidates is fierce, so I went to the school to sign the seedlings before the summer vacation. up.

In other words, postgraduates like Guo Nan at this stage have already started to think about where they will go after graduation.

Guo Nan knew that Lin Yi would not bring up such a thing out of thin air: "What do you mean?"

Lin Yi told him: "Brother Guo, we have just received a financing of 100 million US dollars recently, and we will have a relatively fast development in the next period of time."

"Although we have been relying on Professor Li Feifei's help during this period, so we didn't spend too much money on technology, but sooner or later we will leave her and go out of school."

"Senior brother Guo directly gave us the greatest help during this period, and he is also the person who is most familiar with us. We very much hope to invite senior brother Guo to officially join us."

Well, although prostitution for free is fun, you can’t always prostitute yourself for nothing.

In fact, they no longer continue to prostitute for free, but they are still under the care of Li Feifei, but sooner or later they need to slowly build their own technical team.

Of course, this is not a way to grab Professor Li Feifei's wool. Her students are about to graduate. Strictly speaking, she has solved the employment for her disciples.

But people don't have to worry about getting a job.

For Guo Nan, if he formally joined, he would no longer be considered as a guest official, and Lin Yi would really become his boss.

And although Lin Yi didn't go into details, the company is still in the start-up stage, so it will definitely not have a good income. After all, Lin Yi, Li Moyan, and Li Jianguo have not received income from the company. The entrepreneurs themselves, including the early team, basically It's all powered by love.

The key to the matter is whether they can survive and become bigger and stronger.

Guo Nan didn't agree rashly, he was not the kind of hot-headed brat anymore: "Lin Yi, what you said is a bit sudden, I have to think it over carefully."

Lin Yi expressed his understanding: "Of course, and there is no need to be in a hurry. Brother Guo can help and observe during this time. If you feel that our small temple is not bad, our door is open to you at any time."

It's only the beginning of the semester now, and there are still several months of summer vacation, so he has plenty of time to think about it.

This little episode didn't affect the business they were talking about before.

Liu Jianni's efficiency was indeed very high. After she was done, she directly notified Lin Yi to sign the contract, and then transferred the money to their account on the same day.

After getting rich, Lin Yi was even more confident. After several days of preparation, Senior Brother Guo Nan and the others officially launched the food delivery app called "Casual".

There's an iOS version, but an Android version won't be far behind.

Sure enough, they soon observed that part of the orders on the website were transferred to the APP, and this brought a certain increase in the overall order volume.

Lin Yi knows that this is just the beginning, and the trend of traffic shifting to mobile terminals will become more and more obvious in the future.

Although Are you hungry was launched last year, they are still behind others, but the distance is getting closer anyway.

At least you can see the taillights in front of you.

Chapter 276 Three million is enough to burn for a few days?

After the 100 million US dollars arrived in the account, I can finally live a little bit.

So Lin Yi and the three of them got together again and began to discuss how to return the "warm hospitality" given by Are You Hungry some time ago.

Li Jianguo said excitedly: "We are also holding an event, which is more powerful than Are You Hungry, and give back all the bird spirits we received some time ago!"

The senior sister is obviously not that impulsive: "We only have 100 million US dollars in hand, which is one-third of the latest round of financing for Hungry. If we fight a war of attrition, we will not be able to fight against them."

Li Jianguo said indifferently: "But their stall is bigger than ours. If all the 300 million US dollars are spent in the capital, then don't you want other places? What do you think, Lin Yi?"

Lin Yi found that since the incident in the hospital last time, the vision of the senior sister seemed to be different from before, so he asked the question with great interest: "What does the senior sister think we should do?"

Li Moyan did not hesitate, and continued what Li Jianguo said just now:

"Their stalls are larger than ours. What we have to do is not to stick to our one-acre three-point land, but to actively go outside and expand our stalls. I think it's far from being possible now. Can you cover the sky with one hand?"

"I agree!"

Lin Yi expressed his support for the opinion of the senior sister: "Are you hungry, of course, it can't be said that it can cover the sky with one hand. In fact, they only covered five cities before this round of financing."

"Of course, after getting the latest 300 million US dollars, I heard that their three branches in Gusu, Bingcheng and Rongcheng have all opened this month, increasing the number of cities they have entered to eight at once."

"If we only stay in the capital and keep fighting with them, that will be what they want to see the most, because when we are parrying with all our strength, they still have one hand outside to attack the city, and it will change Get stronger and stronger."

"Don't get entangled with the enemy in the pre-set position, so we don't have to care about what they have tripped us up in the capital."

"We want to attack in the opposite direction and compete with them for the national market cake!"

Although Li Jianguo's opinion was rejected, he didn't feel very disappointed, because what he said sounded very exciting. He finally had the feeling of the "peak confrontation" of entrepreneurs seen in the previous story meeting.

"Then we also go to Gusu, Bingcheng and Rongcheng? It happens that the three of us go to one of them."

This guy is still too obsessed with competing with Hungry Me. In fact, if Hungry Me didn't call first, Lin Yi didn't intend to compete with it so early.

When staking horses and horses, what do people with knives and guns do?

"Choosing the right city is very important. I don't know how Are You Hungry chooses the city, but we must have our own strategy."

"We don't intend to go head-to-head with Hungry? in the capital, and there is no need to follow its ass at every step. We will go wherever he goes."

"Of course, we don't deliberately avoid colliding with him, as long as it meets our selection criteria, we will enter."

"Where do you think we should go?"

Li Moyan felt that Lin Yi was a bit like he was testing himself, and there were no outsiders here and she didn't have any burden of face, so he said to himself:

"So far, the business scope of our casual food delivery network is still in various universities. We basically achieved full coverage of universities in Beijing before the end of the year, and we are still deepening our penetration."

"This is the place we are most familiar with, so wherever there are many universities and there are many college students, that is where we want to go."

Lin Yi felt very relieved that the senior sister was able to make the most important decision for them at this stage, and he added:

"The cities with the most universities and college students in the country, besides the capital city, are: Jiangcheng, Yangcheng, Yuzhou, Shangdu, Shencheng, Chang'an, Rongcheng and Jinmen. There are eight of them. If we can get all of them within this semester It’s already pretty fast to come down.”

Li Moyan knew that Lin Yi had a plan in the morning, and she heard Lin Yi say in the hospital that day, "We will not stay in the capital forever."

"Tell me your plan."

"I want to be hungry? I got 300 million and entered three cities at once. We are not as rich as him, so we can advance two. Then we have to pick the two most important ones, namely Jiangcheng and Yangcheng!"

"Ah, there are only two?"

Li Jianguo was a little disappointed, he was still thinking about the "three-pronged attack" plan just mentioned.

Lin Yi had indeed considered it before. If there were only two to go, of course he and his senior sister would have to go. As for Li Jianguo, he still needed him to stay in the capital.

"Although we said we won't fight with Hungry? in the capital, this is our base camp after all, and it's impossible to just leave it alone. If the three of us all go out, what if Hungry? really steals the house? It’s not worth the candle.”

"So Jianguo, I need you to stay in the capital. This is not to neglect you, but to ask you to pick up the most important task of housekeeping."

Now the website is running very steadily in the capital. Although the app has just been launched, it is running relatively smoothly. There are also many people helping him. He thinks that Li Jianguo should be enough to deal with it here.

Of course, there is another less important reason that Lin Yi didn't mention, that is, he still remembered that at the beginning of the semester, he said that Li Jianguo should stay in school more this semester, so as to avoid being expelled from the school for failing too many subjects.

Although Li Jianguo regretted it, he still accepted the arrangement.

As for the senior sister, she asked bluntly: "How do we divide the two, you choose first."

Lin Yi was also not polite: "I am more familiar with Yangcheng. If the senior sister has no problem, then I will go to Yangcheng, and you go to Jiangcheng."

Senior Sister doesn't care, so this matter is settled like this.

"When to set off?"

"The sooner the better, we are now the one behind in this running race. But before we start, we still have to think about the plan after landing. Let's discuss it first and then execute it. In addition, we also have to think about who to take. .”

Lin Yi and the others are no longer bare-handed commanders, and they certainly wouldn't be so shabby that they went to other places to expand their territories alone.

However, their subordinates are all students at school and cannot leave for a long time, so it is impossible for the out-of-town team to be in charge of people from the capital. At most, they went to help set up the shelf in the early days.

"We don't have to fully occupy the local market before we are done. The key is to form a stable local team that can operate independently, so that we can hand it over to them with confidence."

The big strategy has been decided, and in the end Lin Yi still said two words to boost morale:

"Are you hungry? If you want to fight us in the capital, we will go to the whole country to fight him. Let's take a look, his 300 million dollars is enough to burn for a few days!"

Chapter 277

There is another reason why Lin Yi chose to go to Yangcheng by himself. Is this city hungry? He has already entered, and he may encounter them here.

Although there should be a tacit understanding with Zhang Xuhao after signing the settlement agreement last time, there may be conflicts if it is not guaranteed.

On the day the money arrived, Lin Yi landed at Baiyun Airport.

The people he brought this time included Shao Yu and two others, and the battle was smaller than when he was in the capital, because these college students did not skip classes as recklessly as he did, and they could not leave school for a long time. The solution was to rotate them in batches.

For these college students who have not yet graduated, business trips are still a very novel experience. Lin Yi directly gave them half a day off to let them move around freely, because he also had someone to see.

When he walked out of the airport, he had already seen that familiar figure, who opened his arms and gave him a very warm hug.

For Lin Yi, there are not many people who can use the etiquette of embracing without feeling uncomfortable, and this one in front of him is one of them.

This is Brother Yi, Lin Yi's high school roommate, plus size Zhang Xiaochuan.This is the first time the two have met since Lin Yifang drank away on the day of the teacher appreciation banquet.

Meeting an old friend in a foreign land is one of the four great joys in life.

Zhang Xiaochuan was very excited and gave him a hammer on his chest: "What's the matter, Lin Yi, why didn't you come when the squad leader organized a return to school during the winter vacation? You look down on us old classmates, don't you?"

When I was a freshman, I didn’t graduate for a long time, and everyone still had deep feelings for high school, so during the holidays, we would organize to go back to school to see teachers and classmates. The longer I spent in college, the less this feeling faded away.

Lin Yi didn't rush to explain: "It's a long story, let's talk as we walk."

Baiyun Airport is quite far from the urban area. Lin Yi told Zhang Xiaochuan on the way into the city: "Actually, I partnered with two classmates to set up a food delivery website in college. During the winter vacation, I was busy with starting a business, so I didn't have time to go back. Lin'an."

"I came to Yangcheng this time to expand the business of the website here."

"Yes, Lin Yi!"

Before Lin Yilai came, he also gave a brief introduction to Zhang Xiaochuan on the phone, but now he can talk about it in more detail in person, and Zhang Xiaochuan was amazed, especially when he just got 100 million US dollars in financing.

"I didn't expect that among the brothers in our dormitory, the first one who couldn't bear the loneliness and made some noise was you."

While the two were chatting about starting a business, Zhang Xiaochuan directly led Lin Yi to find a place:

"You said on the phone that you want to find a place to stay. I found it according to what you said. Can you see if this place is okay? If you were alone, we could arrange it in our school, but there are others, so I I found this place for you."

This is the famous Shipai Village in Yangcheng. It is a huge urban village located in the bustling Tianhe. In its heyday, it was said to have lived in [-] farmers and [-] college students. It was also a famous local tyrant village.

The environment in the village in the city is a bit more complicated, but fortunately he brought all the big boys, so he didn't have any concerns about safety.

Lin Yi chooses to stay here, firstly because it is cheap, and secondly because the location is suitable.

They only raised a total of 100 million US dollars in financing, and paid back the cost of developing the APP to Professor Li's team. The remaining money can be saved no matter how much it is spent. These few air tickets are enough to feel distressed.

There are many universities in Yangcheng, and the most concentrated area is the surrounding area. In addition to the South University where Zhang Xiaochuan studied, there are several universities that start with Nanhua.

Brother Yi is indeed righteous, Lin Yi just asked him to help find a place, he has basically done it directly, this place fully meets his requirements.

The room was very small, and if you want to sleep five or six people, you have to put double beds on top and bottom bunks, but it doesn't matter, he only asked for the conditions of a school dormitory.

Lin Yi didn't pick too much, since the place was suitable, he followed Zhang Xiaochuan to find the landlord and settled down this room, and he will set up camp here for a while.

At the same time, it is also the branch of "Yangcheng Branch of Casual Food Delivery Network".

After finding a foothold, the first day's task was half completed. He sent the location to other people who came with him through WeChat group, and then continued to follow Zhang Xiaochuan to a pickled fish shop in the village. He catches the wind.

"Don't look at the mediocre environment of this store. It is definitely the best pickled fish in Yangcheng. I have personally verified it."

Given the relationship between them, Lin Yi didn't need to be polite: "Shouldn't you invite me to have morning tea when you come to Yangcheng?"

"I'm late today, if you're free, I'll take you there tomorrow."

"That's not going to work. I have to get down to business tomorrow."

"Then remember it first."

Without saying a few words, the waiter had already brought up the signature dish they ordered. After Lin took a few bites, it tasted really good, and the two of them concentrated on cooking the meal first.

After running around for a long time, finally sat down to rest his stomach, Lin Yi picked up the beer glass on the table: "This glass of wine is toast to Brother Yi for picking up the airport today and helping me find a house. Come and do it."

After touching him, Zhang Xiaochuan put down his cup and said with a smile: "Lin Yi is so cheerful today, but you ran away on the day of the teacher appreciation banquet, and there are still several people looking for you afterwards."

Lin Yi also laughed: "Drinking depends on who you are with."

This made Zhang Xiaochuan feel a little bit emotional. Where did they drink alcohol in high school? Actually, it has only been less than a year now.

"When you called me Brother Yi today, I wasn't used to it, because I haven't heard anyone call me that for a long time."