Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

These cooperation agreements with the school's laboratories were all signed this week, so they are all within 7 days.

Zhou Min thought that after she posted the notice and the post, a large number of people would come to break their contracts the next day.

It turned out not to be so.

The patent advisory department, which was on high alert, only received seven people after waiting all morning.

Moreover, all seven of them are students, and each of them only has a few projects.

Even if they all breach their contracts, the impact on the company will be negligible.

Everyone began to realize that they had made a mountain out of a molehill.

"It's okay, just wait a bit longer, there might be more later! Remember to register any breaches of contract in the system promptly."

After giving instructions to everyone, Zhou Min took a taxi to the factory.

Zhou Min acquired the factory at the end of last year. During the Spring Festival holiday, Zhou Min also hired a decoration company to renovate the factory, and now it is time for the equipment to be installed.

The person in charge of the factory was a senior factory manager with 15 years of management experience, whom Zhou Min found with the help of a headhunting company.

The factory manager is currently on-site, intently watching the equipment installation work.

Even when he saw Zhou Min arrive, he only greeted her briefly before going back to directing the equipment installation.

Seeing that he was busy, Zhou Min didn't disturb him and quietly began to wander around the factory.

Before Zhou Min acquired the factory, it was an electrical appliance company.

The company's main product is electric fans.

However, due to a lack of distribution channels and marketing expertise, the company's product sales have consistently been poor.

Last year, the owner and his family were preparing to immigrate, so they sold the factory, which had been losing money for years.

This factory is very large and has many workshops.

However, perhaps due to years of losses and the owner's continuous reduction of production capacity, only two workshops in this factory are still in use.

The other dozen or so workshops were abandoned and started to be used as warehouses to store old equipment, inventory, and miscellaneous items.

After Zhou Min acquired the factory, he did not shut down the electric fan production line.

The electric fans from this factory are of quite good quality.

Zhou Min thought that if they produced a batch now, it would sell very well in the summer.

Putting aside other things, just look at universities. When freshmen arrive to register, they can bring a truckload of electric fans to the school gate and hold a factory direct sales event. There should be a lot of people buying them then.

As the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, the capital city has no shortage of universities.

If they really can't be sold anymore, I can use the electric fans as prizes for the future online education platform and give them away to everyone.

Therefore, Zhou Min has no worries about sales at all.

While allowing the workers to continue production, Zhou Min also had other abandoned workshops in the factory cleaned up.

As a prize for this study tour activity, Zhou Min needs to set up three production lines to produce the works of the top three winners.

But Zhou Min's ambitions went beyond that.

From the moment Zhou Min decided to build the factory, she knew that she would definitely have many production lines in the future.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, the patents held by the intellectual property company will undoubtedly be selected by the company itself first.

Moreover, with their own production lines as a backing, the prices of these patents can be increased.

After all, if the company is not satisfied with the price offered for the patent, Zhou Min can choose to produce and sell it himself.

This is why Zhou Min chose a large factory with so many workshops.

At this moment, Zhou Min was looking at the several pieces of old, discarded equipment in front of her, lost in thought.

This workshop used to produce Walkmans, and all this equipment was originally used for producing Walkmans.

However, as Walkmans were phased out of the market, the factory owner upgraded the machinery in the workshop and started producing MP3 and MP4 players.

As a result, just two years after production began, before the cost of the equipment had even been recouped, MP3 and MP4 players were eliminated from the market.

After this incident, the boss got tired of making any more trouble and simply closed the workshop down and left it idle.

When the factory was sold this time, the owner simply sold the equipment as scrap metal.

After all, these are production equipment for products that have been phased out by the market. He had tried to sell these machines before, but he couldn't find a buyer.

Zhou Min, holding a utility knife, painstakingly removed the plastic film covering a piece of equipment and began to examine it closely.

This is a chip packaging machine that has been used for less than two years. Because the company's production capacity is relatively low, this chip packaging machine can be said to be 80-90% new.

Thinking of the other equipment in the workshop, Zhou Min's eyes couldn't help but flicker.

In fact, all of these devices can be modified by the equipment manufacturers.

The previous owner probably lost confidence due to a series of business setbacks; otherwise, with a few modifications, these machines could have been used to produce other products.

Zhou Min is now preparing to use these devices to produce electronic dictionaries, voice recorders, ear training and hearing learning machines, and early education machines.

The structure and function of these things are not much different from those of MP4 players.

Compared to MP4 players, these devices have more features such as Bluetooth, internet connectivity, search, and smart interaction. These devices look very sophisticated, but they are actually just a matter of adding a chip and writing a few lines of code.

For computer science students like Zhou Min, this is a piece of cake.

After examining the equipment, Zhou Min inquired about the design progress of their learning machine products in the company's R&D group.

Upon learning that the basic design was complete and that prototyping and sample production would begin soon, Zhou Min nodded in satisfaction.

Great! Once these products are manufactured, the company's online store can be launched.

Yes, Zhou Min plans to start her own e-commerce platform.

The number of daily visitors to online education websites has now reached hundreds of millions.

It would be such a waste not to use such a large amount of data.

Because the website's users are mainly students and parents, Zhou Min plans to focus on books and school supplies as the main products available on the online store.

We'll add the rest later.

By then, these children should all be grown up.

What I need to do now is to cultivate them into loyal users of the platform and the online store.