When Alice finally returned to Los Angeles... everything was quiet.

Although she was kidnapped in the Albuquerque drug dealer gun battle, she only reported briefly on state television stations and newspapers. Although she was given gifts from many condolences in the hospital, it was at best at this level.

After all, it is not the Internet era, otherwise it would have caused a sensation across the United States long ago.

In the next period of time, Alice returned to her ordinary life again, without the thrill of kidnapping by drug dealers, and without the storm of the mall today to hold a meeting tomorrow. After all, this is the main theme of life. Especially now she has graduated from elementary school, which is the longest summer vacation in her life. How can she not enjoy her life well?

Of course, it is precisely because of the more free time that Alice and Posack couples have a very high call frequency, so they continue to grasp the company's development progress.

In short, after Cisco registered in the living room for a month, Sandy finally gave up on the idea of ​​developing a better router, and by this time she had already spent 4,000 US dollars, making the already tight funds even less.

In the hot summer, cicadas can be heard everywhere. One morning, Alice was standing in her corridor wearing a short-sleeved shirt and cropped trousers, chewing gum in a local area, and communicating with Professor Posack in a phone call.

"So Alice, we plan to start looking for financing from venture capital companies, with the initial goal being around $500,000. With this money, the company's development speed can definitely be higher than the next level. What do you think?"

Posack is very anxious now. He now realizes that starting a business is really different from ordinary life. Although the couple has a small savings and can raise tens of thousands of dollars with loans, and buying a car and a house is more than enough, when they spend the money on developing a startup, it is really not enough!

Although this has something to do with Sandy's will, the 4,000 US dollars has indeed been spent in vain. Although this money is the level of their monthly salary, as authentic Americans, the couple are now carrying car loans and mortgage loans. Coupled with the pressure of various insurances and taxes, there is really not much money to use to develop a company!

Alice chewed gum with a chewing gum: "Five hundred thousand dollars is not a small number. There are only three people in our company at present, and the working capital is only 6,000 yuan, and the registration amount is only 5 yuan. No matter how you describe the prospects as magnificent, the managers of those venture capital companies can't throw so much money, right?"

"You mean... the amount of financing is too high? 500,000 should not be too high, right? Although we have a relatively small number of people, your technology will indeed lead the development of the times. Internet hardware technology, those venture capitalists in Silicon Valley will not be able to recognize its development potential, right?"

When he heard Posack say this, although it was not reasonable, Alice couldn't help but have a secret fun.

The Posacks are obviously not aware of the inside story of the venture capital industry.

Although they are telling the truth, which entrepreneur did not blow his career away when he came to venture capital managers? Especially this is Silicon Valley, which is the cradle of the computer industry in Chaoyang, and a typical area that can cultivate nouveau riche.

There are too many small businesses in Silicon Valley. After all, the basic equipment required by Internet companies is really just an office, a garage, three or two people and three or two computers to register. The cost is really low. Haven’t you seen that many large companies in later generations were born from garages?

So, just like Hollywood film companies, it is really created every day, closed down every day, and countless talents continue to follow. In the current situation of Cisco, there are not a thousand or eight hundred in the entire Silicon Valley. With five yuan registered capital, a few thousand yuan of working capital and a mere two people, I want to easily obtain venture capital of hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Even if they are "dignified" Stanford University professors, this is really a bit of a dream...

After all, the threshold for the computer industry is very low, and it is also very high. The title of a professor in the computer department... Neither Gates nor Jobs came from the computer department. Gates studied law at Harvard, but look at him now?

It was not until this moment that Alice felt more intuitively why Posack in history had been searching for more than two years and found more than 70 venture capital firms, and finally received 2.5 million from Don Valentine. The reason why Valentine was willing to give them 250 was because she had lost a lot from Jobs...

After rubbing his forehead, Alice smiled wickedly, but only the voice could be heard: "Then come on, try to invest directly at a million-level investment, that would be satisfying. But, Leonardo, don't forget the agreement we wrote into the contract. If you can't find financing in the top 30 venture capital companies, I will expand the equity ratio."

Posackron laughed loudly. What is the concept of thirty? Even if you stop a taxi during the rush hour in Manhattan, you can't be so unlucky, right?

"No problem, no problem! Just as we agreed at the beginning, if Sandy and I really can't find financing in thirty venture capital firms, then you can just add money to the paid-in capital account. I will definitely rewrite the share allocation for you!"

"Haha~ Then come on, come on~"

After continuing to chat for a few simple words, Alice hung up the phone with great satisfaction.

"Hey, sister."

At this moment, Hannah, who had been listening to her for a long time, blinked her big eyes and said sly: "Why do you have to smile so badly? No matter how you look at it, you are all malicious."

"Hehehe~ Hannah, do you want to see your sister become the chairman of a super big company?"

Alice groaned and patted Hannah's head. After the latter screamed and pulled her hands away, she reached out to touch her red little head: "When I make a lot of money, I can buy you whatever you want. Say, my dear, what gifts do you want next year's birthday? Make a reservation now, right?"

Hannah's bright eyes were rolling, and she was a "big" girl at least. She frowned and thought hard, and then said strongly as if she had made up some difficult decisions: "I want the full amount of Transformers toys!"

After saying that, her white and tender face turned red in an instant, and her big eyes stared at Alice fiercely, obviously looking like "Don't laugh at me for being a boy's stuff"!

"Well……"

Alice was indeed shocked by her sister's hobby. After all, her bedroom is always full of various Barbie dolls, not just in the kindergarten inventory. In fact, Sophie bought another one for Hannah last month...

However, the problem that Alice thought of was...

"Transformers already exist? Ah no, it's released? Ah no, Hannah, why don't I know when you watched this animation?"

Alice was really confused. Of course she knew that Transformers was originally a toy from Hasbro, and then adapted into an animation by Japan. But she really didn't know when it happened!

Hannah felt relieved when she saw that her sister didn't mean to laugh at her, but immediately she turned into a contempt expression and said, "Is it good that it was just released this year? Almost all the boys in the class are watching it. I said, Vivi, you are only two grades higher than me, so it's not as big as a generation gap, right?"

As he said that, he didn't forget to throw a more contemptuous expression to Alice: "It's amazing to think I'm going to be in the seventh grade? Isn't it just a street from San Anto? Cut ~!"

"Oh, hey, Hannah, I'm wrong. Come on, go to the living room and go to the living room, my sister will peel apples for you~"

"Hey? Eat an apple? OK, okay, but you have to cut it into six pieces, six pieces, don't count it any other..."

Just as Alice and her sister were walking into the living room while playing and scrambling, James sat on the sofa and just put down the newspaper in his hand.

"Oh, Vivi, you're here just in time. I'll tell you something."

Waving to Alice, James looked at her with relief and said, "The Los Angeles University Federation is going to hold a celebration. Several universities such as UCLA, California Institute of Technology, and Southern California are going to hold celebrations. I will definitely attend your dad. So, are you interested in going to see it too? You can meet many experts and professors there, which will be very helpful for expanding your connections."

If ordinary people hear the following sentence, they must find it extremely strange. For a quasi-seventh-grade child, how is it necessary to expand his connections among university professors?

However, James said this to Alice for granted.

"Southern California, UCLA, California Polytechnic, tsk, dad, why did I suddenly realize that you are so good~"

At the same time, as soon as Alice finished listening, she danced her feet and rushed to her father quickly, and kissed him in the face!

"Hey, so many spitting stars!"

"Haha~ I can't help it. Who told me to have such a good dad? University Federation, haha, Dad Mo is the one who knows me!"

The last sentence was even said in Chinese, and Hannah stood aside and blinked inexplicably: "Vivi, why are you so happy? Is there anything fun to go there?"

"What a fun thing? Ah~Of course!"

Alice sat down on the sofa, picked up an apple, and peeled it up quickly.

"It's all college, Hannah, it's all the Internet, it's all the money!"

Still standing aside with an inexplicable look on his face, Hannah didn't understand her sister's meaning, but there was no doubt that the dollar signs were shaking in her big blue eyes, like a slot machine.

"Oh... well, give me the apple."
Chapter completed!