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March 2005 10

college days

From 65438 to 0997, Hu started his college career in the Computer Department of Hangzhou Commercial College (now Zhejiang Gongshang University). In this college with the goal of being a businessman, his grades are not good, especially in mathematics, and he always fails, so he studied for five years before getting his diploma. But what impressed students most was that Shaoxing locals often skipped compulsory courses and went to elective courses such as marketing and management.

Hu "set foot in business" earlier. I have been a student union cadre in the university, and I went to work in Netease Zhejiang Branch in my sophomore year. At that time, he made many good friends, including Ji Hua, who is two years younger than him. Now he is the CTO of China Blog Network.

Because it became an important source of disaster information and personal experience in the "9. 1 1" incident, "blog" officially entered the field of vision of mainstream American society in 2006.5438+0. The rapid development of "blog" in China is unexpected. In the second half of 2002, "Blog" began to appear in China and was translated into "Blog".

In June+10 of the same year, Ji Hua, a Hu major, founded China Blog Network. China's first blog hosting website, Blog China, was launched only three months ago.

Ji Hua, who was a junior at that time, showed Hu the original "website". At that time, Hu "hitched" and "vaguely felt promising". So, I called another friend, and the Chinese blog network was born with the help of three people.

In July 2003, the company was established with the name of Hangzhou Blog Information Technology Co., Ltd. ... At that time, there were not many real registered blog websites in China. Even now, there are still many personal websites.

It should be said that at the beginning of the birth of China's blog network, Hu's intentions were obvious. He is not content with a few friends playing there. In Ji Hua's words, Hu is "smart and business-minded", and their goal is the same, which is to make Blogcn bigger and better.

Hu's own explanation is that they just seized the opportunity, and if they don't do it, others will do it. In fact, there are currently more than 40 such blog hosting websites, and only four or five of them are relatively large.

Compared with mass media, blog is a kind of personal media and a publishing base for personal works. Blog is known as "self-media in the network age" and "Magellan in the information age". Hu understands the blog like this: "One is the online diary, and the other is the fool's personal homepage." Hu himself is also a blogger. He became the first registered user of Blogcn in 2003.

According to the latest data, there are currently 2 million blogs in China, among which China's blog network users exceed 1 10,000, far ahead of the second-according to media statistics, there are less than 200,000 blog website users with the second registered user in China.

Everything is centered on blogs.

When spring comes, Hu travels back and forth between Nanjing and Beijing. Hu, who has always been cautious, said in an understatement that he is busy with blogging and needs new development in the new year.

The base camp of China Blog Network is located in Hangzhou Wenhua Road, which is a quiet place. At the end of 2004, they just camped here. At present, there are more than 30 employees, most of whom are 1980.

But when China Blog was founded, there were only three or four people in the whole company, working in their own homes or school dormitories, and several of them were part-time bloggers. Hu goes to work in his old unit every day, and then runs home to work on his blog after work.

For the development of blog, this young man, who just graduated from college for one year, left his favorite games and football and sent his favorite pets, a pair of cat brothers and sisters, back to his hometown in Shaoxing. Since then, everything in his life has been centered on the Chinese blog network.

The biggest difficulty of China's blog network was in 2004. Hu said, twice. One time was in March, because the user's blog content was illegal, the server was temporarily shut down for 4 days, and four were stopped that time; The second time was in July, because of technical problems, it stopped for seven or eight days. This is a fatal blow to the website.

Ji Hua recalled that at that time, Hu's performance was very calm. They had been changing procedures and structures for a week, and finally relieved the pressure. Because of this, now half of the employees in the company are doing technical work.

Hu is still worried about the two downtime of the website: "Without the impact of those two times, it is estimated that there will be1.50,000-2 million users at present."

When he said this, he rubbed the cartoon water cup in his hand. Under the warm wind, Hu standing in front of the reporter looked very thin. 1.75 meters high and weighs only 59 kilograms, which is a little too thin. My dad said distressfully, you should grow some meat. For the sake of his father's wish, he specially gave himself a net name, called "Meat and Bone Bug", which means "Meat and Fat Bug" in Shaoxing dialect.

The Road of Blog Charging in China

At present, the media's understanding of blog is that blog must be commercialized if it is to develop further. When Hu realized that he was looking for financing channels, a famous foreign venture capital company that first entered China also "targeted" them.

Hu personally talked about financing, and he speaks English quite well. Financing went smoothly. Nonsense, the negotiation between the two sides only took 10 days. "This is their fastest investment." . It is said that venture capital companies have invested in more than 60 websites in China, and "10 days" is enough to show their confidence in China's blog network.

At present, China's blog network is a joint-stock system, and they have hired professional managers. Everything is developing in the direction of renewal.

Another question that has always been concerned is, will blogs still charge fees? Hu definitely answered this question. They plan to launch some fee-based services in the near future.

Hu said frankly that in fact, since its establishment, China's blog network has basically not made any money. Before foreign investors came in, the website funds, because there was no income, he could only call home. Now, after more than two years of development, China's blog network is becoming more and more mature, and they have reason to get some returns from it.

Hu is definitely the kind of person who doesn't like publicity. He doesn't want to "expose" the new service that will be launched within a week. I was lucky enough to witness some new features they developed, and I thought it was very good, but Hu still didn't want to disclose these new gadgets in advance. He said, "Just do it and let the users experience it themselves." However, he revealed that the fee will not be too high, "it will not exceed 10 yuan".

Blogcn's team and friends

The photographer asked Hu to sit on the table at the door. He was very excited and a little hesitant: "I have never sat on a table and taken photos." Oh, I am sitting here. People in the company won't hit me, will they? "

There is no such name as "Chairman Hu" in the company. People call him Coase. This English name was invented by Hu himself in the first grade. At that time, he liked watching cartoons. In Japanese cartoons, there is an ugly god who always appears when people are in trouble and helps them with his wisdom. Similar to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, except that she is a man.

Young Coase usually works in a big office, with seats in the last row. Computers, tables and chairs are no different from others. In fact, he has his own chairman's office, but he seldom visits it. He likes to sit with everyone.

Of course, everyone likes hanging out with Hu. The chief financial officer of the Internet privately revealed that you can "eat for free" with Hu. These 1980 single men and women are always clamoring for Hu to treat after work. Hu is always responsive, and about half of his monthly salary is for employees to eat.

Hu Xian's rest time is very short. He only sleeps five or six hours a day, so his eyes are usually red. In 2008, China Blog Network can be listed on NASDAQ, which is his goal. His other goal is that China's blog network can have 3 million to 5 million registered users.

Today, Blogcn has many users.

More and more people are active in blogs, and more and more celebrities. In 2004, China Blog Network successively published three best-selling author books: The Forgetting Book of Beijing Women Patients, Mei Zi's Lover's Recipe and Chairman's Special Introversion. Blog has already broken through the meaning of online diary and become a culture.