The Goddess Shines on America

Insufficient funds are the most critical factor restricting the development of enterprises. This is why, industrial enterprises often require large-scale investment to start construction, which can cost millions of dollars, while future computer and Internet enterprises can bloom everywhere, and an office can be a company.

However, although the initial capital of Internet companies is cheap, the real cost comes later, that is, the network promotion link, which is definitely the burning of money. Alice is very clear that after the establishment of Internet companies in the future, the first thing to do is to seek financing from various angel investors, companies, and venture capital companies, otherwise they will not develop at all.

So this is also a question of equivalent substitution. The initial investment cost of industrial enterprises is high, but as long as the factory building is picked up, products can be produced slowly. Although Internet companies only need a few computers to form, but because of this, under the competition of a huge number of peers, if they do not spend huge sums of money on Internet promotion, ghosts will know about their products, let alone buy them.

In the first year, the A round of financing, in the second year, the B round of financing, and then the third round of C round of financing, during which the personal investment behavior of the rich is mixed, that is, angel investment. After going through all these rounds, this company is eligible to launch an impact on the listing.

But it is no exaggeration to say that if 500 companies receive Series A financing in one year, at the end of that year, at least 400 companies are actually the result of bankruptcy.

Among the 100 companies that survived the C round, 80% will still fail to do so before going public.

It's normal to think about it. Compared with the total population of the world and the Internet companies that entrepreneurs can and can build, how many listed companies are there in the stock market?

You can understand it by doing some calculations, especially like the Chinese market in later generations, the entire A-share market is only 3,000 stocks, and the turnover of the Growth Enterprise Market is only a fraction of that of Shanghai and Shenzhen. If random rounds of financing can create a listed company, wouldn't everyone be a billionaire?

Alice realized that Mr. Lawrence was currently dealing with this contradiction. Although he had a lot of savings, filming was not a cheap thing to do. Although the cost of third-rate actors, third-rate directors and third-rate scripts is low, this combination is really unattractive, and the luxury lineup can't afford it. Low cost and high box office are just rare, and entanglement is normal.

Therefore, unless Mr. Lawrence wants to start from a purely small box office with a small cost and work hard step by step, financing is an inevitable result.

Although this will cause the loss of shares, it will also cause the separation of management and ownership. But first of all, the latter is a modern enterprise management system; as for the loss of shares, if 100% of the shares are worth 1 million, and 5% of the shares are worth 100 million, if a person is not an idiot, he knows which one to choose, right?

As long as this 5% is the one with the largest ratio among all shareholders, isn't it still the chairman?

Therefore, Alice definitely has ten million interests in Mr. Lawrence, a rudimentary and unregistered film company.

Almost no one who has lived in the 21st century will not be interested in Hollywood movies, especially with Alice's current memory and talent, reversing the movies she has seen into scripts is just like playing.

So, when Ashley, the deputy head of the SOS group, was designing the slogan style for "We don't make clothes, we're just fashion porters", Alice had already arrived at Sissy's house.

"Mr. Lawrence, long time no see!"

In the living room of Sissy's house, which is equivalent to the Beverly mansion, Alice warmly greeted Mr. Lawrence: "I got a lot from you at the last party!"

"Yes, yes, I have heard that your "Jurassic Park" has been promoted in three cities, and I know it clearly."

Under the warm hospitality of Sissy's mother, Alice and Mr. Lawrence sat on the sofa and tasted the mellow milk tea: "Speck from Bantam contacted me not long ago, and he said that the market research results of your book It is particularly outstanding, not to mention the joint promotion of Manhattan, Los Angeles and Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Houston, there are still ten cities on the follow-up list!"

"Editor Brown also called me not long ago, and he is my responsible editor."

Alice tasted the milk tea and said: "He said, after the new book launch conference is held in November, if the sales volume is good, the next book will be to expand into the international market. The first choice targets are London and Paris, and then Toronto will also set up one. Point. Hehe, it seems that my book still has potential for development."

Of course, Michael Crichton's work must be fine.

The scale of the global book market is not comparable to that of the Chinese market, which is dominated only by success studies, teaching materials and various reference books.

"Hey, you two."

Carrying a bottle of 1984 Sprite, Sissy walked into the living room, which was her own home: "Alice, don't you want to talk to my dad about movies? Why are you talking about your damn movie again?" book?"

Damn, absolutely damn!

I said casually last week that a whole science fiction novel will be published next week, and it is still a hot seller! ?

What are you kidding?

Sissy just went to a large bookstore in the city not long ago. In the new book area on the first floor, there are tri-fold pages and roll-ups of "Jurassic Park" everywhere, and people are almost always queuing up. Going to order the folders handed out by the salesperson, many people even dreamed about the posters on the roll-up.

Damn it, isn't it just a dark dinosaur shadow in a green jungle? Don't those adults have the minimum knowledge? So what are you excited about?

So, seeing Alice chatting about the book with her father, she was the first to interrupt the conversation!

"Oh yes, about the movie."

Alice said with a smile: "Mr. Lawrence, look, let me write a few scripts for you, how about investing in your company?"

"Investment? Uh... I can understand writing scripts. You definitely have this level. What's the matter with investment?"

Of course, Mr. Lawrence didn't know how much money Alice had, and of course it wasn't too much at the moment.

"I still have some savings. I heard Sissy say that you are worrying about what kind of movie to make because of financial problems. If I act as a movie investor and provide a script, I should be able to save money." Does it cost a lot?"

Mr. Lawrence looked at his daughter curiously: "Okay, Sissy, the angels are all found on my neighbor. You are really my daughter."

Sissy snorted coldly, raised her head and muttered for a while, and the Sprite in 1984 fell half in an instant: "Hi! Well, of course, don't even look at who I am!"