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Zhou Hao really wants to buy a house.

On the one hand, I don’t have a house in Beijing, and on the other hand, considering the housing prices in Beijing, it is always a good thing to buy a house early, and it is also easy to buy a house with the spare money in hand.

Zhou Hao had thought about this before, but buying a house was not an urgent need for him and he could not take care of it when he was busy; however, for Yan Hui, he has always had the idea of ​​buying a house. After all, he and Qiu Jie are still in a relationship and they always go out to check into a hotel every now and then. Although he does not mind spending the money, he also wants to have a fixed love nest.

When Zhou Hao saw him propose buying a house, he decided to take some time to take a look and buy one if it was suitable.

Later Zhou Hao called Ye Shao again. The car had been picked up, and he needed his help with the license plate. Moreover, it was not the only license plate as agreed before, but two license plates for two cars, his and Yu Yanhui.

For Ye Shao, it was not difficult to get two sets of license plates starting with A8. After Zhou Hao explained the situation, he gave Zhou Hao a guarantee.

Zhou Hao was relieved and thanked him. Ye Shao said, "I have contacted an Italian track design company. Their surveying personnel will arrive in China next week. I plan to take them to survey the land we like and select a suitable address to come up with a design plan. Once the design plan is released, we can prepare for track construction."

Zhou Hao asked: "Is the land okay?"

Ye Shao said: "I have already informed the city government. After the site is selected, the city government can approve the land permit at any time. I have already sorted out the procedures."

Zhou Hao asked again: "If the track site selection and design is started, the supporting facilities of our future CSC club must also be started as soon as possible. How have you communicated with Chen Lan about these?"

Ye Shao said excitedly: "She and I have basically decided that she will resign after the track site is selected, and then she will directly join our real estate company with Brother Hui."

Then Ye Shao said, "I promised her that our real estate company would develop a large commercial property within three years and let her be the chief designer. If I can't do it, I'm afraid she will hate me to death."

Zhou Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's not difficult to operate a large commercial real estate in three years. If everything goes well, it may be possible in two years."

Ye Shao said: "I can't care about so much now. Let's trick her back first. The rest is up to you."

After chatting with Ye Shao, Zhou Hao waited until evening, which was morning in New York, and made a special call to Chen Lan.

I've always wanted to find Chen Lan for two things.

One is that I don’t know what the registered company is like now; the other is that I want to ask her if she knows any good industrial designers or teams.

Thinking that Mark Zuckerberg will launch Facemash in October this year, thus kicking off his entrepreneurial journey, Zhou Hao feels that he must acquire Facebook's main domain name and related domain names in the first half of the year, and it would be best if they are directly under the name of the American company. This way, it will be very convenient for domain name transactions, future communication with Mark Zuckerberg, and even investing in Mark Zuckerberg.

Another thing is that Taobao is already under development. Cao Tianlei has been developing the core architecture and will be returning to China soon. Taobao will be online soon. By then, he will have to make the customized MP3 for Wangwa.com. The design is urgent.

Chen Lan told Zhou Hao that the company had almost completed all the necessary procedures and only needed to wait for the final review, which would be completed in a few working days. As for industrial design, she said after hearing Zhou Hao's requirements: "I find you are so lucky. No wonder you started a business and all the money is flowing into your pocket!"

Zhou Hao asked in surprise: "Why do you say that?"

Chen Lan said, "I just happen to know a girl from Country Y. She graduated from the School of Design at Northumbria University in 2000, one of the best schools for design. She is a recognized genius. After graduation, she traveled around the world while taking on some industrial design orders. Before she graduated, she designed a mobile phone for Ericsson and won an award in Sweden. Before she graduated, she had worked with Fortune companies such as Siemens, HP, and IBM. Her skills are beyond doubt. She now has offers from several large international companies."

Zhou Hao sighed: "So high-end? I just want to design an mp3 player, do people think it's worth it?"

Chen Lan said: "She is an industrial designer of electronic products. Isn't MP3 very popular now? There is an Apple company in Mei country. It has launched an MP3 player with a very good reputation, called iPod?"

Zhou Hao hummed: "Of course I know."

Chen Lan added: "She is a die-hard fan of iPod, so I think she should be very interested in designing MP3."

Zhou Hao asked: "Do you have her contact information?"

Chen Lan said: "She doesn't have a mobile phone when she's abroad, she only uses email and MSN. She seems to be around China right now. She told me on MSN a while ago that she plans to come to China in early May."

Zhou Hao was delighted: "That's great. It would be even better if we could meet and chat. Please ask her when she will arrive in China and ask her to make Beijing her first stop. I will host her all the way and we can talk about business while touring the beautiful scenery of Beijing."

"Okay!" Chen Lan said, "She's a very cool girl who values ​​relationships very much. If you take good care of her, we can probably become friends."

Zhou Hao said, "Are you still not confident in my ability to handle things? If she comes to Beijing, I will make sure she feels at home."

Chen Lan said, "Then I will leave her a message on MSN later to see if she can come to Huaxia in advance and tell her about your situation. If she is interested, you can meet and discuss the rest."

"it is good!"

After communicating with Chen Lan, Zhou Hao couldn't help but think: If the other party is really a very talented industrial designer as Chen Lan said, then it would be a great help to me.

Today's electronic products have not yet entered the smart era. The core of digital products is actually industrial design. Before the advent of smartphones, except for Nokia, which was popular because of its cost-effectiveness, the other popular mobile phones were basically popular because of their excellent industrial design.

Zhou Hao wanted to use MP3 to promote the development of both Wangwa.com and Taobao.com, so this MP3 must be as perfect as possible, especially the industrial design. If it can amaze consumers, then his plan will be a great success. Therefore, good industrial design talents are indispensable.

Moreover, Zhou Hao also has a hardware dream, and hardware is the biggest piece of cake in the future Internet. Any ambitious Internet person will not give up the pursuit of hardware, but Zhou Hao never thought about starting the hardware manufacturing dream too early. He wanted to wait for another two years until smartphones were ready to rise before entering the hardware industry. However, if the time really comes early, then getting involved in hardware manufacturing in advance may not be a bad thing.

The reason why Apple is so powerful is that its software is only one aspect, its hardware is even more powerful. Microsoft, like Apple, is very strong in the software field, but the former is countless orders of magnitude worse than the latter in hardware. The unit price of hardware products that cost thousands or tens of thousands of yuan is much higher than that of the software industry or the Internet virtual service industry. Moreover, once users become attached to the hardware, this high unit price investment will also be cyclical. A senior Apple fan will invest at least more than $10,000 in Apple products in three years, and the profit margin is astonishingly large.

Thinking of this, Zhou Hao took the customized MP3 plan more seriously. If the entry point is well chosen this time and an amazing product can be produced, it may be a good opportunity to enter the hardware field. Looking at the hardware market from a future perspective, it is actually not more difficult than the software market. As long as the right method is chosen, hardware can be started with light assets. The most important thing is to never produce any hardware by yourself.

When Internet companies make hardware, they only need to do a good job in industrial design and software design, and then choose a reliable OEM factory to produce it. As long as they do a good job of quality control, the entire hardware production process is done. The rest is promotion and sales.

Today's electronic hardware manufacturers are still constantly building sales channels, from the head office to the regional general agent to the provincial agent and then to the municipal agent. It is very difficult to establish sales channels, and there are a large number of distributors that need to be managed and maintained. This not only greatly increases costs, but also adds many uncontrollable factors. However, for today's manufacturers, there is no other way, because e-commerce is still just a baby in its cradle, and large manufacturers do not take it seriously at all, nor do they see how little impact it has.

Zhou Hao is now preparing for the launch of Taobao.com. In other words, he is now building an online sales channel that abandons traditional sales channels. Once this line is opened, he will be able to make his own hardware and everything will go smoothly.