1378: Are These Two People Cheating Money? (3 More)
Du Zhaohui originally wanted to warn the two beggars and pretend to be a black face, so that Xia Xiaolan would gain more gratitude for investing in them.
Unexpectedly, Xu Jing and Ma Haiqi couldn't even afford to live in a hotel. Although the town of Ithaca was not big, they were looking for a fellow villager to sleep in, but Du Zhaohui couldn't find anyone for a while. This is neither Hong Kong nor Pengcheng, Du Dashao's face is not easy to use, he can only give up this plan.
After two or three days in Ithaca, Du Zhaohui felt much better.
But as Xia Xiaolan said, he had to go back to Pengcheng.
Pengcheng is now Du Zhaohui's battlefield. If he doesn't go back and endure the pressure, he will lose without a fight.
Let him easily give away the Du family's money to others?
Don't even think about it.
Du Zhaohui got on the plane on one side, and Xia Xiaolan was also looking at the information given by Xu Jing on the other side.
"These two have some skills."
They couldn't find a big manufacturer, but they tried to find a lot of alternative materials. According to their assumptions, the performance of the English-Chinese version of the electronic dictionary is stronger than the English-German version of the electronic dictionary in all aspects.
The electronic dictionary has just come out not long ago, and the first version only supports the translation storage of 3000 words.
Xu Jing and Ma Hai's version doubles the word storage, supports Chinese display, and captures the most crucial point that electronic dictionaries outperform traditional dictionaries. What does the electronic dictionary do, the paper English dictionary has more words!
But even teachers who teach English can't pronounce it accurately. Isn't it normal that students can't read words? This is the current situation in China.
"The pronunciation and translation of 6,000 words are stored, which is enough for the college entrance examination."
The target customers of the electronic dictionary are students, not only students.
Xia Xiaolan never doubted its market prospects.
Of course, once Xu Jing and Ma Hai's electronic dictionary is successfully launched, various companies will rush to produce this thing.
Xia Xiaolan, who is deeply influenced by the concept of later generations, also asks if it is possible to bypass other people's patents. Domestic manufacturers talk about nonsense patents. When a product is popular, everyone will follow the production in a hurry, and disassemble the electronic dictionary into parts. Just know how to assemble it, and no one can pay the royalties.
It is not only Xia Xiaolan who has to face this problem in the business, but every boss is like this.
It is impossible to fight from the chaos, and factories and products disappear from the market while they are doing it. It may be that the technology cannot keep up with the times, or it may be a marketing decision error. Who knows which link makes a mistake and it is over. Those well-known large enterprises in later generations have all encountered many crises, and they were able to grow to such a large scale in the end. Who are those entrepreneurs who are not very capable babies? .
Fortunately, the electronic dictionary involves a large market, and the pie is huge, and many competitors are temporarily unable to fill it.
What's more...
"Xu Jing and Ma Hai came up with something years earlier than I remembered!"
Xia Xiaolan didn't bring Baidu to be reborn, so she didn't understand everything clearly.
Anyway, the first time she saw an electronic dictionary in her last life was in 1994, before she graduated from high school. Considering that her hometown was a small inland city in her previous life, how could it take two or three years for the electronic dictionary to be spread to her hometown?
Pushing forward, the English-Chinese version of the electronic dictionary was produced and marketed around 1990.
What, come out three or four years ahead of schedule, isn't it a commercial opportunity?
Of course, the premise is that Xu Jing and Ma Hai can really make things and achieve mass production. $20,000 is not enough. I don’t know how much money those manufacturers have invested in research and development. It is definitely more than $20,000.
Xia Xiaolan closed the information.
After two more days, she can talk to Xu Jing and Ma Hai.
$20,000 is too little.
40% is also too little.
As the only big investor, if she didn't have the final say on this matter, would it be true that she would spend money to support the dreams of Xu Jing and Ma Hai?
Xia Xiaolan wanted to dry up those two people who started their own businesses in a daze, but Xu Jing and Ma Hai were miserable. They had the cheek to live in the dormitory of the fellow villagers, and there was no room for them to sleep in, so they could only lay the floor.
Living in a basement in NYC has a bed anyway!
She has to show both sides at Cornell University every day. By doing this, she hopes that Xia Xiaolan will not forget that they are still waiting for an answer.
Even Ning Xue recognized the two, and called Xia Xiaolan after class:
"I saw two people who looked familiar. Did you talk to them at the international student party? One is Xu and the other is Ma."
Xia Xiaolan nodded, "You're not mistaken, they came to me, Senior Brother Xu Jing and Senior Brother Ma Hai."
"You pay attention, I heard that they cheated a lot of people's money, and the Chinese student circle in New York has a very bad impression of these two people."
Ning Xue still kindly reminded me.
Xia Xiaolan wouldn't take other people's good intentions as liver and lungs. She and Ning Xue couldn't get along, but she never felt that Ning Xue was a bad person.
"Thank you for reminding me, but I'm curious, how did you know?"
How to know, of course, it is very natural. As soon as I entered the circle, I was reminded to stay away from these two people.
"You don't believe what I say?"
Ning Xue frowned.
Xia Xiaolan shook her head, "No, I know you don't tell lies, and I trust you very much. I don't trust others. Since these two people are yelling at each other, Senior Li, who organized the international student party, why must they invite them?
Who are going to participate? Shouldn't they be kept out of the circle to prevent more compatriots from being deceived? "
This is true.
Ning Xue hadn't thought about this, it was a very contradictory approach, and it didn't make sense logically.
"Do you mean that someone deliberately isolated and excluded, or even smeared the two senior brothers Xu and Ma?"
Xia Xiaolan spread her hands: "I didn't say anything, it's just a guess."
Ning Xue is smart, but she doesn't have much experience in the world. Xia Xiaolan didn't want Ning Xue to be deceived. Maybe it was the foreign country that made Ning Xue less vigilant. She remembered that Ning Xue never followed suit before. When she first entered Huaqing, others misunderstood her, and she did not see Ning Xue being affected.
Ning Xue's face suddenly looked ugly.
It was not that she was angry with Xia Xiaolan, but she felt that she had been fooled.
I am also angry that the international students in China are not united. They are studying abroad together, and instead of helping each other, they engage in such things.
Xia Xiaolan had always been Ning Xue giving her lessons. She thought she was wasting her talent and not making progress. I didn't expect her to teach Ning Xue in turn... I don't know why, but Xia Xiaolan felt pretty cool.
"Am I just a pervert who likes to bully people?"
Xia Xiaolan reviewed herself for three seconds and left the classroom with a good mood.
She should also give Xu Jing and Ma Hai an answer. At least she should go to New York to see their current results.
Back at Wen's house, Hu Ying probed from the kitchen:
"You're back? A young lady surnamed Xiang called today and said she wanted to come to the house to bring you something, but she didn't make it clear on the phone. It doesn't matter if I ask her to come over at eight o'clock in the evening?"