Chicago 1990

The next day, he went to the airport to see Fergie, Al, Dion Wilson and other people. They were going to London to shoot the MV of London Bridge. As A+ Records signed a five-year release contract with Sony Columbia Records, her debut album was also It will be released by Sony Columbia Records. The MV budget of the strongest single is not low, so the two sides are equally divided.Then Dion Wilson was inspired by this song and planned to re-arrange some of the recorded songs. For this reason, the budget for this song was slightly overrun and increased to two million dollars.

"Brother, good luck."

Song Ya personally sent Fergie into the check-in channel and hugged each other one by one, "Help me watch her closely..." he said to Al.

"No problem, leave it to me."

Al beats his chest with his fist. In this single, he will be friendly with Dion Wilson, so he will all go to England.

"Thank you APLUS, for giving me this opportunity." Another black, Gary Gray, came up and fisted him.

"You deserve it. You shot Cooper's It? Was? A? Good? Day MV very well." Song Ya said jokingly: "But don't change the script I made."

Gary Gray smiled, "I know, don't worry."

Finally he shook hands with Yeremov, "You are the producer, and I leave it to you."

Saying goodbye to them and leaving the airport, "Why don't we go to London with Fergie to shoot the MV?" Amy Adams, who was in the car, asked Song Ya immediately after he got in.

"We have another job."

Song Ya coaxed her. In fact, it was Jimmy who had hinted to himself that it was not convenient for her to participate in the MV. This is normal. No actress would want a girl who is more beautiful and stealthy than herself in her MV. This should be Fergie's idea, although she and Amy have a good relationship.

But Amy still doesn't understand this, so she can only take care of it.

However, the two did a little bit of work. Target opened ten stores in Chicago this year. Amy had picked up some of his print shop advertisements. This time they were rich enough to invite Song Ya to participate in Orland Park. The opening ceremony of the branch, cut a ribbon for $250,000.

This is the first big business advertisement invitation with a good offer after the Harlem nightclub incident. Although there will be a lot of people there, Song Ya decided to take it and make a good start for 1993.Old Mike asked him to wear a bullet-proof vest under his coat. Anyway, everyone wears a lot in this spooky weather in Chicago and can't tell.

The group rushed to the store ahead of time. All the store employees were already in place, but the opening time had not yet arrived. Song Ya walked around the brand new store accompanied by the store manager and others, and the cameraman followed the filming.

He feels that the goods in it are generally more expensive than Wal-Mart supermarkets, of course, he has not visited Wal-Mart in a long time.

When I whispered this feeling to Taraji and Amy, they immediately drew the eyes of the two women, "Is it not the same positioning? The quality of things here is better, and the target customers are more female, otherwise, why would they invite you to come? "Taraji said.

Most of Amy’s print advertisements wear aprons and pose POSE with various kitchens and cleaning appliances in the store. The target customers are also family women. Before she saw her humanoid sign, she was very happy, and walked over and let the photographer direct the photo. .

"APLUS, take it higher, okay."

Song Ya also found the group photo. The A+ album in the audiovisual product section is priced at $14.99, but since it has been on sale for more than half a year, it has been placed in the 10% discount area. He took his record to his face and smiled white teeth.

"The records here are so cheap."

At the end of the shooting, he noticed that many old records had great discounts, even cheaper than other audiovisual chain stores, and he heard that coupons could still be used on this basis.

"They are fighting a record price war with Best Buy." Taraji did some homework.

Song Yanunu said nothing, but was taken to the door by the store manager.

The crowds were already crowded outside, waiting for the opening bargainers to come in and buy bargains. More than one copy was housewives, and many black bucket aunts took the top spot.

"APLUS!" Target had previously publicized, and people immediately became excited when they saw Song Ya who appeared in front of them.

A ribbon was blocked in front, with Target's Logo and a red bullseye pattern on it.

Song Ya smiled and waved to the crowd. The red bull's-eye made him a little nervous, and the old Mike and others guarding him gave him a sense of security.

"Can you start?" He asked the store manager beside him.

"hold on."

He and Amy lined up with some people from the shop, waiting for the host to stir up the atmosphere, and then cut the ribbon with scissors on time during the countdown. Song Ya waved and smiled to the crowd again, and then returned the scissors. Turning back into the store, a group of people walked away from the staff passage.

The gates had already been opened outside, and countless people came in like a tide. Some people tripped on their feet and fell to the ground. They patted their buttocks and got up and continued to rush in.

But this is none of my own business, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is good.

Amy also wants to stay to help the store's promotional activities platform, because the quality of the song Show me the money is not so outstanding, she has not many close-ups in the MV, so the development is still very ordinary.

However, because of her good-looking and family-oriented appearance, she has gradually begun to attract the attention of some housewives-oriented advertisers.

"Bring Amy to the west coast?" Taraji asked.

"No, now reporters are paying attention to me again." Song Ya replied. The news that he was about to enter the University of Chicago began to spread. Many reporters did not believe that he was admitted on the basis of his true ability. People began to go to the previous high school to inquire about the situation. There is nothing to question the results, so let them go. As long as the rumors are not spread, I believe that after the truth is unearthed, he can add points to his public image.

Time was tight, and a group of people rushed to Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley, and Palm was also here.

"Are there any prototypes?"

As a potential investor with a large amount of cash in hand, Palm has made full preparations for the arrival of APLUS. Several angel investor representatives have also arrived. Song Ya visited a small factory. , This company is unexpectedly software-based. They focus on writing the operating system of the PDA, so most of the partitions are programmers sitting in front of the computer.

"Please see."

The founder, Jeffrey Hawkins, took out an LCD screen commonly used in electronic watches. It is indeed only as big as a palm, but the data cables are used to connect various devices of large size. "These internal devices have very mature products. After the official product comes out, it will be much more portable."

The product is not perfect yet. He is afraid that Song Ya will run away. He will talk about Moore's Law from the future development direction of human electronic products, and from his Intel work experience to the past successful cases of angel investors.

Song Ya was unmoved in his heart, but he knew that among white people, sometimes the local tyrants of black stars are a good protective color, and he asked about A round investment.

The other party set the company's valuation at $10 million, and Song Ya is the only investor who is willing to enter the A round.

Except for the angel round, if it is a project with good prospects, all the investors behind are not just taking money, they have to provide a variety of resources to enter the market, such as DTS A round, Spielberg is willing to adopt DTS Technology shooting Jurassic Park, B round, Universal Pictures people are willing to purchase DTS equipment to transform the theater sound system, in the future C round or later rounds will go to Wall Street investors to help listing.

Judging from their willingness to participate in the A round, Palm, the PDA product named Zoomer, is not favored by the venture capital industry. After all, the resources they can provide are very limited, and at most they can help with advertising at a preferential price in the future.

"I heard that Apple will launch its own PDA product in August. It seems to be called Newton PDA? Can your product compete?" Song Ya poured cold water on the other party.

"Uh, we and Apple each have technical advantages, we..."

Jeffrey Hawkins hurriedly boasted again.

In fact, Song Ya did not listen carefully. As someone who relies on Apocalypse to grasp the future, he has seen good prospects from their series of patents. These have all let Dile know in advance, "Okay, but my time is limited. , Let's set the valuation, and then I will enter the market. Ten million is definitely not appropriate, you..."

Song Ya pointed to the small working space of the other party and the huge finished product. "My money can help you further improve the product. After all, it is the famous Apple that is competing with you. I heard that subsequent companies such as HP will also have similar products. , There are also book companies, you know, when the book’s electronic products are released, few companies in the United States can compete."

"I know."

The other company’s executives and the angel investment representatives closed the door for a meeting, reducing the company’s valuation to 8 million dollars. After Song Ya approved it, he dropped 1.6 million and easily got 20% of the shares. .

The journey of buying, buying and buying did not stop there, and then he went to C-CUBE to meet with Sun Yansheng and the director of a Huaguo electronics company Wan. In a cordial and friendly atmosphere, he invested 3 million and won the Huaguo company. A 15% stake in a company called Wanyan Electronics is used to produce a player that uses the MEPG standard format to play movies and other video files, temporarily named VCD.