Those "old" Internet companies

China's Internet is open to the public, never really count only 10 years of history, the most "old" Internet companies, is only 10 years old shop. If the age of the dog, 1 years is equal to 7 years, these 10-year old shop is almost the same as the 70 old shop. However, the "old" I am talking about here is not entirely a concept of time, it is mainly about the vitality of the organism.

Founded in 1997-1999 between those internet companies, such as the three major portals Sina, Sohu, NetEase, such as E-commerce Alibaba, the network Sheng, when, for example, do the network advertising good Yes, and so on, now have become the Chinese Internet on the dignitaries, respected, bossy. More importantly, compared with their resources, funds and talents, they can bring the innovation and value for the Chinese Internet, they have changed, their changing youth has become the past, the annual growth of Baife has become a distant memory (net Sheng has even been plunged into negative growth).

Not only in China, in the United States, many people think that Yahoo! is also old, in fact, Yahoo! but only 13 years old, but compared with the 9-year-old Google, Yahoo! is indeed senility. In a fast-moving industry, the new emerges fast, the old goes fast, the so-called new, just an instant thing.

But the good fun is, these years some "old" companies, they have lost their spirit, successfully reduced to the traditional industry on the internet, but become the darling of the capital market, such as the network Sheng technology. There are also a lot of "old" companies that are also figuring out the money in the pockets of investors, such as Alibaba and when. Alibaba's tens of billions of dollars seems to be within reach, Dangdang's 1 billion dollar valuation is not afraid of the wind big flash the tongue.

Perhaps in other industries, the old is a kind of seniority, but in the Internet is not the vitality of innovation is. Yahoo! from being sought after by investors, to be abandoned by investors, also for a few years time. Investors found that although it was edible, the digestive function was declining; although it boasts huge numbers of users, revenues are almost no longer growing.

Not all "old" companies have lost their energy. However, I found that all the lost vitality of the "old" company, almost are very high-profile companies, and those who are "old" and keep the vitality of the company, but mostly very low-key, such as Tencent. Perhaps, high profile is only camouflage color, used to conceal the loss of vitality of the "old."