At the end of August.
On this day, the government of Silicon Valley held a new Internet Summit again, which was much slower than usual, because there are too many new Internet enterprises in Silicon Valley this year. Compared with the same period last year, the number of enterprises has increased seven times.
There are more than 4700 exhibitors.
Among them, there are nearly 3500 Internet enterprises, which were newly established in 1997.
Yahoo, Netscape, Amazon, e-tois mall, ICQ and other "Internet myths" constantly stimulate people's psychology with their huge interests. In addition, the "information highway" plan implemented by the US government this year directly led to the big explosion of the development of the Internet industry in the United States in 1997.
The quantity is developing rapidly!
On this day, Zucker visited the Silicon Valley Internet Summit again. In addition to Zhuke's two bodyguards, one of them was the president of LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner.
"Jeff, I read the recent development report of LinkedIn yesterday. I have to say that you have done a good job." He praised.
"Thank you for the boss's praise, but we haven't done enough. I believe that by the end of the year, the development of the company will reach a new level."
Jeff Weiner said solemnly.
After the failure of the first promotion, Lingying adjusted its publicity strategy at the first time. Judging from the current effect, it is quite good indeed.
As of yesterday, the daily traffic of LinkedIn's official website has reached 1.5 million, the number of registered members has reached 600000, and the number of online cooperative enterprises has reached more than 2400; Advertising profits also climbed to $300000 this month.
Of course, LinkedIn is still in a state of loss.
However, from the perspective of traffic and registered members, LinkedIn has become a new star in the Internet market, and a unique talent in the field of online recruitment. Its convenient Internet services and creativity are loved and welcomed by many netizens.
As long as we are steady, we believe that Lingying will be able to make profits in 2-3 years.
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This year's Silicon Valley Internet starts!
First of all, the officials and members of the regional government delivered a brief opening speech. The content of the speech was nothing more than to explain the development data of this year and imagine the vigorous development of the next year.
This is extremely boring, but the data given by the organizer really shocked everyone on the scene.
"At this year's summit, we have attracted 4700 exhibitors, a seven fold increase over last year."
"As far as the United States is concerned, as of one month ago, the number of Internet companies in the whole industry has exceeded 15000. Compared with last year, the number has increased 3.9 times again!"
"At the same time, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and other Internet industry leaders also increased their turnover in the first half of this year by 5.2 times compared with last year!"
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A cold data, but directly ignited the blood of all the people present.
Money, beauty, dreams and so on have become the pursuit of every Internet participant. They are also eager to succeed, and to achieve brilliance in a short time like Amazon, Microsoft and ICQ.
After the Internet Exchange summit, representatives of investment institutions and individual investors frantically began to pursue the goals they needed.
"Well, your company is Internet office equipment? Good. I'm going to invest in you. Tell me how much money you need. "
A middle-aged man with a big stomach stood in front of several young people who were slightly shabby and said that he would invest in their dreams.
Investment dream?
Bullshit!
To put it bluntly, it is to make money!
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At the same time, in a booth next to the middle-aged man, there is also a representative of an investment institution who is betting on his favorite enterprise.
"What?"
"You said your company has just been established for less than two weeks, and the company is short of income and funds?"
"Do you have a company location? Well, No. How much money is there? 200000 dollars. "
"Never mind, young man."
"I like to support young people's dreams. As long as you can convince me, I can invest $1 million. Of course, if your plan is good enough, I can give $10 million at one time."
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One booth.
A young man about 20 years old is selling his dream to the public.
"Ladies and gentlemen, invest in my company, invest in my ideas, and I promise you'll make a lot of money!"
"What? You call me a liar
"You damned fellow, don't smear my great dream with your shallow ideas!"
"My company is not long established, but my dream is priceless. My planning is excellent enough, and I also have enough ability. I firmly believe that in less than 10 years, or even only 5 years, my company will be able to surpass Yahoo, surpass Microsoft, and become the first company in the Internet industry! "
"Guys, invest in me and my company now, and I promise to pay you back the future of a billionaire!"
"My God, what are you waiting for?"
Although the young people's impassioned words are full of loopholes, they still attract a group of crazy and blind investors to negotiate with them.
There's a lot of chaos!
Yes, the birth of Internet myths, one after another from Silicon Valley, has completely drowned investors' rationality.
"You can make a fortune by investing in the Internet. It's unreasonable. I can't do it!"
This is a very popular investment concept in the American market.
Zhuke watched the scene coldly, his heart also fluctuated frequently. It's not that Zhuke is not calm enough, but that the atmosphere is too crazy. It's not much worse than the atmosphere of the world cup and the Olympic Games.
Internet companies in the late 1990s were crazy enough.
It can be reflected by one data, that is the American Spring Festival Gala (super bowl of rugby)!
January is the time of the super bowl every year. On this day, more than 100000 people will watch the game live, and tens of millions more will watch the game live on TV.
Half time advertising has attracted a large number of companies.
In recent years, most of the Super Bowl advertisements are Internet companies.
For example, in early 1997, the Super Bowl attracted hundreds of Internet companies, of which 17 won the advertising time at a high price. The advertising cost in just 30 seconds exceeded $1.6 million, nearly double that of last year's 850000.
They spend a lot of money, but they enjoy it.
In 1998, the 30 second advertising fee was increased to 1.75 million US dollars;
In 2000, each enterprise delivered us $2.2 million; Moreover, one of the Internet companies, in prime time, offered lucky participants $10 million in bonuses.
These are enough to witness the madness of the Internet.
However, in 2001, because of the outbreak of the Internet bubble, one after another Internet company went bankrupt. In this year, only three Internet companies bought ads, and the cost was much lower than in previous years.
Zhuke also strolled around and found that most of the Internet companies participating in today's exhibition are unreliable, and many of them even cheat money.
"Well, it seems that the good luck is not as good as last year. Last year I got an ICQ, but this year it seems that it's out of the question."
"Why?"
Suddenly, Zhuke noticed an Internet security software company called "McAfee".
what the fuck!
In an instant, Zhuke is a thrill.
"Isn't this the famous security software McAfee
McAfee security software may be a strange friend in China, but in the 21st century America, it is also known as an anti-virus software giant with Symantec and Kaspersky.
"The first watch" is presented.