Chapter 403 (1/2)
Simon is looking at the business plan in his hand, and the sound comes again. Deborah Lipman, the d-girl, also comes in.
Beckoning Deborah to sit down on the other side, Simon raised his business plan for girl c, and asked with a smile, ”do you have an idea?”
Deborah shook her head sheepishly. ”Not yet.”
D girl said, can't help but look at Simon on the other side, worried that Claire will expose himself.
In fact, D girl has also come up with a business plan, she hopes to set up a make-up company.
However, after the business plan was submitted to the vase fund team affiliated to cersei capital, it failed to pass the audit at all and was quickly returned.
Janet also said that the girls can only submit a plan once every six months. If all the plans submitted by them in the five-year contract period fail to pass, the investment of 10 million will not be considered.
What's more, Janet also forbids them to disturb Simon with plans that fail.
Once it's found out, go straight away.
After the initial excitement, the girls soon found that the money of the westrow family was not easy to take.
Simon didn't know the details, so he didn't know that except for the housekeeper Alice Ferguson's two plans closely related to igritte, the only one that passed during this period was the C girl's card camera plan.
The business plan in hand, market research, prospect forecast, investment budget, development cycle, operation ideas and other core points are clear and clear.
In some attached materials, C girl has even reached an agreement with a senior engineer of Kodak, a giant camera company, who focuses on the research and development of digital cameras.
As long as the project plan can be passed, the engineer will leave Kodak and set up a company with C girl. The other side focuses on camera R & D, and C girl is responsible for the company's financial marketing and other affairs. They each share 25% of the company's shares, and the vase fund invests $1 million to obtain the remaining 50% of the shares.
Card cameras are actually consumer digital cameras, as opposed to professional SLR digital cameras.
The highest pixel of the top SLR digital camera of this age has reached more than 1.5 million. Naturally, the price is as expensive as the one Simon gave to Sandra, which is tens of thousands of dollars.
However, the card camera C girl plans to develop has only 100000 pixels of 320 * 320 resolution.
This level of image quality is absolutely enough for personal computers in the early 1990s, because the resolution of the mainstream personal computer monitors is about this level. Even in a few years, the 100000 pixel card machine mainly used to send network pictures will not be too late.
Since it's a complete Internet camera, it doesn't need to take into account the development and printing quality.
Moreover, the core sensor of digital camera, compared with the mainstream CCD sensor in this era, C girl also plans to use CMOS sensor which has been marginalized.
CCD sensor and CMOS sensor were born in the 1960s, which has decades of development history.
The advantages and disadvantages of the two sensors are also very clear. CCD sensor has excellent image quality, but the process is complex, the price is expensive, and the power consumption is also very large. CMOS imaging image quality is low, the advantages are simple process and low energy consumption, the most important point, cheap.
Of course, no matter how simple the CMOS process is, it can't be researched and developed with a mere $1 million investment.
C girl plans to develop this camera, the main components will be purchased from the corresponding manufacturers customized, to put it bluntly, is an assembly machine.
Of course, even the Apple phone in Simon's memory, according to this idea, is just an assembly machine.
The senior engineer who plans to change jobs from Kodak is mainly responsible for developing the camera control system, combining a series of components into a whole, and optimizing the card machine within the cost range.
In Simon's plan, C girl hopes to control the cost of the planned card camera at about $300 and the selling price at $500 on the basis of ensuring certain image quality and function. The $500 is still a bit expensive for a simple card camera, but it's within the reach of the middle-class Internet users of this era.
Moreover, as long as the market demand is large enough and the scale effect is realized, the cost and selling price can certainly be further reduced.
The $1 million investment in the first stage is mainly used for prototype R & D and the production of the first batch of products for water testing. C girl also plans to conduct marketing directly through the Internet platform, so as to save costs as much as possible.
If the market feedback meets the expectation, the second round of financing will be conducted from the vase fund.
The term of the whole business plan is three months.
After reading the business plan in hand, Simon found that he could not put forward more suggestions for a while.
C girl's idea is absolutely right. Even if this attempt fails, it's just that she chooses CMOS sensor with foresight, which is enough for Simon to support her to continue to try.CMOS sensor, but later camera phones mainstream sensor.
It can be said that this card machine plan is similar to the photo phone widely involved by various manufacturers many years later.
What's more, whether it's this card camera or the camera phone in memory, it's all about people's desire for expression. It's just that many years later, we all turned to the mobile social platform. At this time, this card machine focuses on the PC social platform.
Since Simon started his social network business on PC in advance, this card camera has a very considerable market potential.
Think about it, when you're alone at a party, when you're traveling, when you're with your kids, when you're having fun with your pets Take a picture with a card camera, pull out the floppy disk, transfer it to the computer and upload it to the Internet conveniently and quickly, share the details of your life with you, and get the praise and comments from many people around you, which can definitely bring social pleasure and satisfaction.
If card cameras become popular and users upload a large number of pictures, they can also quickly enrich the content resources of the Internet.
Close the business plan in hand, Simon hesitated, temporarily did not say he intends to give the business plan additional support words, or wait for C girl to come up with results. So he just asked, ”is the 3-month R & D time in a hurry?”
Clare shook his head and said, ”Neil has completed a simple prototype in private and submitted his own plan to Kodak. It's just that Kodak doesn't pay much attention to the digital camera business. Three months is mainly for further optimization of the prototype, as well as customized procurement and assembly of components. ”
C girl's name is Neil Brantley, who is the senior engineer who plans to change from Kodak.
Simon thought about it for a moment, and was soon relieved.
In fact, many electronic products in our daily life are not as high-end as we think. Apple's first batch of personal computers were actually made by a group of founders who pooled money to buy components and assembled and welded them in the garage. It can be described as DIY by hand.
Because it sold well, I got the investment later.
Neil Brantley developed his own card camera in his spare time, similar to when Steve Wozniak invented the personal computer.
It's really not difficult for technical masters with profound professional knowledge to independently develop some electronic products.
What's more, compared with professional digital SLR cameras, card cameras are much simpler in technology.
Simon remembers that with the development of technology, ordinary people could buy their own DIY digital cameras, just like assembling personal computers. Of course, the digital cameras produced by DIY are definitely far from being compared with professional cameras.
”In that case, I don't have any suggestions for you just because of the business plan itself,” Simon handed the folder back to Claire, saying, ”but maybe you can develop an image processing software with it. Since this camera is only the basic model of consumer level, the imaging effect is certainly not too good. The development of an image processing software, the user can cut the image, adjust the brightness or add text and other simple functions, is certainly very practical
Claire is full of confidence in her business plan. Unlike some other girls, she just wants to get investment as soon as possible, so she has done a lot of detailed work in the early stage.
I just want to let my boss know that I'm doing it.
However, hearing the suggestion of image processing software, C girl is still in front of her eyes.
Since it is a consumer grade card camera, many professional camera functions have to be abandoned for the sake of cost, which will inevitably lead to poor imaging quality. It's really an excellent way to make up for the shortcomings of this camera by secondary processing and repair through computer software.
However, C girl quickly added: ”but, boss, it needs extra time and budget.”
Simon vaguely remembers that Photoshop software appeared in recent years.
However, the image processing software in the plan certainly does not need the complicated functions like PS, and is more inclined to the memory of Meitu XiuXiu and so on.
”You can first ask in Silicon Valley if anyone has developed similar software. If so, you can directly cooperate with each other, which can save software development time. If not, apply for another budget. ”