Professional website continues to heat up the Internet investment in Wang City is not reduced

In 2004, as many as 9 Chinese Internet companies listed successfully on NASDAQ or Hong Kong, people exclaimed that they had finally ushered in the "second spring" of internet investment. Careful analysis of the 9 listed companies, it is not difficult to find that 8 of them are professional service sites, so it should be said that the "spring" is a professional website.


Venture Capital Research Center forecast: 2005, the overseas IPO market will last 2004 years of upsurge, and will have more characteristics of more distinctive Chinese network companies landing in the international capital market.


reporter learned in the interview, and News, Pole, the Chinese elite, search rooms, Pacific Internet, Baidu, Taobao and other companies are doing listing preparation, and some sites have entered the silent period.


"stock Company" Keep Cloud open


"Internet companies are divided into two types: one is a new company, it is not previously, one is the previous ' stock ', is the first wave of the Internet five or six years ago, the company already existed, now the most attention is the stock companies. "Qing ke Information Consulting Co., Ltd. President Gavin Ni a language of the new rise of the professional website of the historical identity." "Like last year, Alibaba took 82 million of dollars in investment, which is the embodiment of the value of stock." Now many stock companies are VC (venture capital) bullish. ”


Indeed, the recent rise of the site is some with Sina, Sohu and other portals generated by the same industry vertical web site. At that time their sharpness was covered by the portal site. But in 2004, these industry sites only after the bitter end, began to show their feet, Ctrip, E-Dragon, Shanda and other companies successfully listed and listed after the good performance is the best proof. Inspired by these successful cases, 2005 includes Chinahr, Baidu and some Internet stock companies are also preparing for the listing.


By contrast, the number of innovative internet companies is not large, but the trend is also gratifying. Among them, the biggest two one is to do marriage, dating social networking sites, one is to do blog (Burke) website. These areas, though not very well financed, can get money. For example, billion Friends Entertainment network has won the United States de Fungjie venture capital, Japan Optical Communications Company, the United States, such as Liuzhou Investment company, such as a number of VC's favor, and then got the air network 500,000 of dollars in strategic investment, and recently in financing.


excessive competition leads to intensive


After the dotcom bubble people gradually reached a consensus-essentially, the internet is just a more channel, from the long-term trend of development, it will be the same as traditional industries, to carry out the industry market segmentation. In the business strategy and means, the entire Internet industry in the traditional field close, tend to mature and rational. The rise of professional websites once again confirms this truth.


"I think there are only two ways to do the Internet, one is to do the media, the second is to do business." To do the media is to do the information, business must be rooted in an industry, which is the same as the traditional domain. The future opportunity of wired network is mainly in the industry vertical service website. "As the founder of the senior Investor and Meuu website, Dr. Lisong This analysis of the future of the wired Internet.


In addition to industry segmentation, and the advantages of traditional industries is a professional website to win one of the key factors. In the case of it-type Web sites, most of the domestic it sites, have a traditional industry background. Tenkine is the predecessor of the "Computer newspaper" network version, Sadie Network is the "China Computer newspaper" website, as well as the world of information backed by the computer group. Only one by one of the Silicon Valley's dynamic website, which started with venture capital, has also maintained a good resource-sharing partnership with its brother, the paper-Media internet weekly. Another two it stores based on the IT site is also very typical, one is Guangzhou Pacific Internet, officially launched in 1999, is the first professional computer market Alliance based on a large IT information site.


"2005 will be a year of rapid development of professional websites." The past few years of insistence and accumulation so that professional website to wait for the development of a very good time, its development speed is bound to exceed the portal site. "Tenkine President Li does not evade the opportunity to meet the development, but also encounter fierce competition:" It site competition has entered a sensitive period, now each site's advantages are not obvious, the fittest will follow. ”