Deep analysis of why Shanghai Internet industry sinks

Once, Shanghai is not the reason why Ma Yun (micro-bo) of the fiery moment, which represents the hope of Shanghai up and down the desire to develop a good internet. However, 8 years in the past, not only did not appear in Shanghai, MA, the entire Internet industry development instead of people worried.

In recent years, although Shanghai has been similar to hungry, ocean terminals and other cutting-edge Internet enterprises, but not only the number of enterprises, the scale of development is not big, but some once hot internet enterprises depressed quickly.

For example, Shanda, Giant, nine city, long tour and so on once dazzling enterprise fast decline. A handful of relatively large mature internet companies have also been merged, in the last 2 months, million to 300 million U.S. dollars holding fast money, 58 of the same city 267 million dollars to acquire a tenant.

And the two years of Beijing's rise of millet, the United States, Beijing-East and other enterprises, Shenzhen has produced a large gene, the Xinjiang Science and Technology and other enterprises, rely on intelligent hardware again, the birth of Guangzhou micro-letter, only goods will, Hangzhou is the creation of Ali surrounding ecological chain.

The PC Internet era is still the leading Shanghai, but in this wave of mobile internet gradually marginalized, so many people sigh, in the mobile internet era, the internet industry in Shanghai is sinking, Shanghai may no longer be the internet entrepreneurial Holy Land.

Shanghai Internet 2014: large-area rout

Recently 58 in the same city with cash and stock method of mergers and acquisitions second-hand housing electric dealers, after the transaction, the original CEO Liang Weiping (Weibo) will start two times. According to Tencent Science and technology, Liang Weiping early in June 2014 has been actively preparing for the sale of tenants.

The reason is that the housing and real estate intermediary chain, such as customer relations tension, and Sprint IPO failure, Liang Weiping has been considering the transformation of the tenants, but the transformation challenges are too big, simply start a new light, to join the more fiery O2O venture.

Soon after, Wanda Group spent more than 300 million U.S. dollars holding tenants of the same city brothers, third party to pay the enterprise fast money. Quick Money This veteran enterprise, after years of independent operation, has finally invested in the embrace of Wanda's electric and financial ecosystems.

More resolute change comes from grand. Throughout 2014, Shanda continued to sell its original 3 core assets-games, literature and video. In particular, the game was a grand start of the industry, but the grand interaction has no longer hold a grand game any shares.

The number of Internet enterprises in Shanghai is not much, in the nine cities lonely, giant network privatization, from the grand, fast Money, a series of movements of the tenants, but also announced the loneliness of Shanghai Internet industry, Shanghai in the mobile internet era than the PC era more outdated.

This sparked an exclamation of internet entrepreneurs in Shanghai. Business Card Almighty CEO Town, said the new Tencent technology, Shanghai's Internet also has a period of brilliant, that year, "legendary" very prosperous, nine city agent of "World of Warcraft" is also popular.

The new town said that when Shanghai had a very good internet entrepreneurial atmosphere, but very regrettable, Grand did not keep the glorious past. "If the grand continues to glory, can play a certain role in driving, I believe will bring some changes to Shanghai." ”

The chief executive of the network CEO Cai Rui 18 years old came to Shanghai, now 36 years old, its time in Shanghai has been with the same length of time in the home, Shanghai is its sway youthful blood place. Fu Cai Rui start-up is listening to the grand and Chen overpass story in the house started.

Shanda first to make money on the Internet model, Chen and the first successful, inspired a large number of young people want to gold in the Internet. Although Shanda initially just play games, a large number of Shanghai Internet entrepreneurs can learn from the grand.

Voyayary said, the Hu network 2009 came to Zhangjiang, grand on the edge of Zhangjiang, these years down, to see the changes in Zhangjiang, Hearts have a lot of sigh. When the grand to the Internet, and then look at the Internet entrepreneurs in Shanghai, unavoidably sigh unceasingly.

"This is our youth entrepreneurial place, we will say, after Shanghai is still not the internet entrepreneurial Holy Land." When the Grand retreat, the representative is not an enterprise's behavior, but the Shanghai era, is a very big change. ”

Voyayary pointed out that when the internet industry around the booming, diligent and hard to think of entrepreneurs, enterprises are difficult to do poorly. Conversely, when Shanghai Internet entrepreneurial environment is not good, all fall very badly, there will be a dependent feeling.

This makes a lot of people miss the original Chen Pride, ready to build the era of Internet Disney, grand everywhere mergers and acquisitions, everywhere to recruit talent, the momentum is far overshadowed by today's top three big Internet giant bat.

When the grand in Shanghai once gathered many well-known entrepreneurs and professional managers, such as Cool 6 founder Shanyou (Micro Bo), pop founder Xu Chang (Micro Bo), the former chairman of the Grand Game Tan, the former Grand literary CEO Hou (Weibo), the former Grand Cloud CEO Ti Xinhua.

These people have been in the grand struggle, and now leave, as those flowers, once opened, but also withered. The difference is, scattered around the "Sheng fighters" in their respective fields and epoch-making, and fireworks dispersed, empty left Shanghai melancholy.

What happened to the Internet in Shanghai?

The end of the era of Chen Tianqiao is also opening up another era of Shanghai Internet. At the end of 2014, has been following his brother entrepreneurial more than 10 years of "Invisible Man", Grand Coo, Chen Flyover brother Danian began from behind the scenes toward the front.

On the eve of the Spring Festival of 2015, Danian was more amazing, handing out year-end awards to the WiFi Universal key team, regardless of position, and each colleague who had been in the office for more than four months earned a nearly million-dollar Tesla sports car as a year-end bonus.

Danian Year-End Award for the issue of Tesla sports car uproar, the outside has praise, there is envy, there is doubt. However, Danian pointed out that there are more important reasons behind this, is their respect for the talent and desire, is "daughter buy horse Bones."

Danian in particular about the development of the network industry in Shanghai and Beijing, saying that Shanghai Internet industry is a bright color in the national Internet industry, which has produced many excellent companies, excellent products and excellent business models.

As a Shanghai Internet practitioner, I know very well that Shanghai's internet industry has no shortage of effort, creativity and capital. However, there is a short board can not be ignored, the number of internet workers in Shanghai compared with Beijing is very large. ”

Danian said this is one of the important gaps in the internet industry between Shanghai and Beijing. This is also willing to give all employees a Tesla's motivation, hope to reflect the company's respect for talent, with sincerity to attract more people to Shanghai.

Why, as China's largest city, Asia, or even the world's financial center, Shanghai lacks internet professionals?

The original Grand film CEO, now "micro-music mobile phone dynamic wallpaper" partner Zhaoyu's experience may be more descriptive of the problem. Zhaoyu is a Shanghainese, but he came to Beijing to start a business. Zhaoyu said that Shanghai Internet entrepreneurship has several core issues:

1, the pattern of people in Shanghai has always been known to be shrewd, like to calculate the return on investment, especially in the early 1-2 years of investment return, if the yield is not high, or even a loss, as investment in real estate, automobiles and other more insurance projects.

This makes Shanghai's Internet entrepreneurs focus on the industry from the near-money, such as games, internet finance and other subdivision areas, which is why Shanghai can be born in a grand, nine cities and other enterprises, rather than Tencent, Ali, Baidu and the reasons for these enterprises.

However, games and other enterprises, although the money is fast, but with a cyclical, very easy to encounter challenges, Tencent, Ali, Baidu, these enterprises although not to make money, but later can have very rich returns, all this also determines the current pattern of the industry.

2, Shanghai People's characteristics are like "comprador" culture, a large number of Shanghai 500 enterprises, the locals like to enter the world's 500 strong work, drink coffee every day, life is the priority is to buy a house and car, entrepreneurship is a risky thing, not most people accept.

Shanghai people pay more attention to the quality of life, working hours are naturally lagging behind other places. Business Card Almighty CEO Zhen Li said that Shanghai people pay attention to the quality of life, most people work on average time than Beijing, Shenzhen people to short.

"As an individual may feel little impact, but as a group of groups, Shanghai and Beijing, Shenzhen every day the problem is very bad." "The new town said, the internet industry is changing rapidly, the competition may be in a few days between the winners and losers."

This produced a very interesting phenomenon, in Beijing 3W, garage coffee, beta coffee has formed a very strong entrepreneurial atmosphere, Haidian book City quickly become a pioneering street, everywhere entrepreneurs and investors, every person recommended projects or want to find someone to finance.

Shanghai is not the same, Shanghai has also been the birth of some entrepreneurial cafes, but many are facing closure. As the CEO of the network, said the Shanghai Internet entrepreneurial atmosphere is not strong in Beijing, contact with little, are immersed in doing business, ignoring the other.

As a Shanghai person, Baofan, the CEO of Huaxing Capital, who has been doing internet business for a long time, also has words. Baofan to Tencent Technology, Shanghai people do not entrepreneurial passion, outsiders are unwilling to Shanghai, even to Shanghai, will be assimilated by the local culture of Shanghai.

Baofan said, the majority of Shanghai People's idea is, after graduation to find a stable job, to be a senior white-collar, do not want to go to the start-up company, of course, the relevant departments of Shanghai's entrepreneurial support efforts are not big.

"Shanghai is not short of market, Shanghai is China's largest market O2O, O2O and so hot." There is no shortage of talented people in Shanghai, Shanghai's colleges and universities every year to produce a lot of talent, Shanghai is not lack of money. "That only boils down to cultural problems," Baofan said.

The Shanghai People's shrewdness can be embodied in many details. Once a friend of the internet in Beijing to Shanghai, in a restaurant with friends to eat, happened to be next to the table on the two Shanghai people talk about technology industry, so several people chat together.

After talking, both sides of the checkout, from Beijing people very readily take out the wallet direct payment, the other side took out the phone after a long brush, one of the other said, put your mobile phone to me to use, my public comments brush not open.

Beijing's friends in the side looked at the instant feeling "dumbfounded", two Shanghai people eat less than 200 yuan, to be able to use the public to comment on more than 10 dollars, before and after dawdling for more than 10 minutes, the other can not help but sigh, this is why the public comments in Shanghai was born.

Perhaps the Shanghai people's such shrewd will let outsiders think is clever, but missed the big thing. This trend in turn is bad for the internet industry, when the industry is not good, people in Shanghai are often accustomed to the establishment of the enterprise like a business deal.

For example, the same company in the face of development challenges, the CEO Liang Weiping Choice is to get rid of the old baggage of the tenants, once again, "hot money anyway, new projects are not short of money." But the attitude of the Tianquan CEO is to lead the company forward.

A businessman in the industry points out that Shanghai's entrepreneurs seek to secure wealth rather than forge ahead. Chen and Baidu CEO Robin Li as an example, the same is through the Internet to become rich, promoted to China's top rich, the logic of the two sides is completely different.

Today, Chen Tianqiao prefers a non-internet industry. The above people pointed out that in the non-Internet industry, Chen Tianqiao only hire people to help manage wealth, can save a lot of heart. "To the extent that Chen Tianqiao is, the primary requirement for wealth is security, not a higher return." ”

Now the problem is, when Shanghai's Internet entrepreneurs tend to be conservative, Shanghai, many people do not favor the Internet business, then, how does Shanghai not in the mobile internet age sink? Can Shanghai also call for the appearance of Jack Ma figures?

Attached: The major events of Shanghai Internet Prosperity organized by Tencent Technology

August 1999, ebay was founded in Shanghai, Main E-commerce, by Shao Yipo (Weibo) and Tan Hai founded.

September 2001, the grand official to enter the online game Operation Market, open a large-scale network game "legend" Open Test prologue.

2002, ebay allied itself with ebay, renamed ebay ebay, and quickly developed into the country's largest online trading community.

2003, just founded Taobao was blocked by ebay, "turtle" and "Mud turtle" broke out of the war.

February 2004, the nine cities won the "World of Warcraft" exclusive Agent right.

May 2004, Shanda in the United States Nasdaq stock market successfully listed.

2005, the public on the Nasdaq listing.

November 2007, the giant network in the United States listed on the NYSE.

ebay's China business failed in May 2008, when John Donahoe, then chief executive, acknowledged.

July 2008, "Shop No. 1th" Officially on the line, creating a Chinese electric dealer "online supermarket" precedent.

December 2008, Sina and the audience announced an agreement, Sina will merge the digital outdoor advertising business.

June 2009, nine city Lost "World of Warcraft" agent, from the collapse.

September 2009, Sina divided the public merger case aborted.

November 2011, the Grand Network withdrew from the Nasdaq.

May 2013 and September, divided media, giant network, respectively.

February 2014, Tencent shares in the public comments, the public comment on the exclusive payment of the letter.

2014, the grand to the Internet, has stripped away the game, literature, video assets, transformation into investment holding company.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)