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《YouTube风险投资分析》

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一、案例
一、玩出奇迹
为了把搞笑的晚餐会录像与朋友分享,一个简单的YouTube网站就此诞生,成就了年轻人的好玩心理。如今,Google要以16.5亿美元买下这个视频分享网站。陈士骏,这位台湾出生的毛头小伙子从此咸鱼大翻身,一夜间成为巨富。
二、一切为了分享
YouTube去年2月成立,与Google当年创立时一样,这家公司的雏形也是诞生在车库中。创造人之一为27岁华裔青年陈士骏(英文名:史蒂夫•陈)。
陈士骏出生于中国台湾,上中学的时候移居美国。他从高中开始就痴迷于数学和科学,曾在伊利诺艺术和科学院学习编程和计算机科学,后进入伊利诺大学香槟分校学习计算机科学。
陈士骏在供职于网上付款公司Pay-Pal期间,认识了大学校友查德•赫尔利。查德•赫尔利和陈士骏均于1999年加入Pay-Pal公司,是其最初的二十名雇员之一。
陈士骏从第一份工作离职后,欠下大笔信用卡债,后来他决定自己和朋友一起创业。
创建YouTube这个网站的初衷非常简单。陈士骏和赫尔利的原意是为了给朋友之间提供一个分享录影片段的场所,没想到网站却在短短一年时间里成为网民的回忆储存库和作品发布场所,特别是在年轻人中的影响力尤其广泛。
2005年1月,陈士骏和赫尔利拍下了一次非常搞笑的晚餐会录像,两人想把这段有趣的录像与他们在旧金山的朋友一起分享。但由于视频文件太大,每次他们的电子邮件都被拒绝发送。于是两人决心设计出一种简单易行的视频共享解决方案,最终他们在赫利的车库里创办了YouTube.com网站。
戴粗框眼镜、笑容腼腆的陈士骏回忆说:“当我们开始创业的时候,网络上几乎没有相关的服务。”
三、走红速度惊人
YouTube网站名的原意为“你的电视机”,即指让网友们分享自拍录像的影音平台。陈士骏和查德•赫尔利当时完全没有预料到他们的发明将会造成多大的冲击。今天,它已经一跃成为互联网上最受欢迎的网站之一。
由于YouTube采取的是用户自制并上传视频短片的模式,短短几个月的时间,它就聚集了大批用户。YouTube服务的宗旨就是“允许任何人上传并共享任何视频内容(非法内容除外)”,因此,它的大部分内容都是由用户自己创作的。点击率最高的短片很有可能是两个男孩的无伴奏Hip-Hop演唱,或者是一个女孩面对摄像头的独白。
因为其新颖的形式,YouTube在网上积聚了极高的人气,不断有各种各样的新奇录像被传上来,而且大部分的作者都是30岁以下的年轻人。
许多录像仅仅只有几分钟长,但大多数都很有趣:有人在唱歌,有人在跳舞,还可以看到关于猫咪的趣事,还有的是对政客的嘲讽短片。
创业不到几个月,大名鼎鼎的美国红杉投资(曾投资Google)给YouTube开出了1.15亿美元的巨额投资。后来的发展表明,红杉果然慧眼独具。
四、日浏览量破1亿
也许在很多专业制作人眼中,YouTube的视频节目都非常业余,根本不值一提,但事实证明观众的反应与此截然相反。
“不管你有多老,你总能在YouTube上找到一些能引起你共鸣的东西。” 美国老太太Laipply说,“我65岁了,我在看YouTube,我女儿也看,我女儿的女儿也在看,我们都很开心,我们很喜欢这个网站上的短片。”
今年7月,YouTube的视频日浏览量突破了1亿次,这相当于2/3的美国网民每人看了一次。根据估计,YouTube已经成为最大的互联网视频提供商之一,影响力超过了Yahoo和Google的视频服务。调查数据显示,Google的网络视频只占10%市场份额,而YouTube则排在首位,占据市场份额的46%。
目前YouTube在全球有5000万用户,拥有视频节目超过1亿部,而每天上传的视频文件也已超过6.5万个。现在,就连许多商业电视台和电影制作公司也都希望能将它们的作品放到YouTube网站上来。
华裔小伙陈士骏也凭YouTube名利双收。今年6月,美国《Business2.0》公布全球50大企业影响力人士排行榜,陈士骏排名第28位。
Google首席执行官埃里克•施密特高度评价陈士骏和赫尔利,把他们同Google创始人谢尔盖•布林和拉里•佩奇相比。现年33岁的布林自己也说,YouTube让他想起了Google的创业时期。
五、难掩喜悦心情
YouTube虽然迄今为止尚未赢利,但却被搜索领军者Google相中,后者将以16.5亿美元收购YouTube,这是Google创建8年以来出手最大的一笔并购案,这让创建YouTube的两个毛头小伙子一夜之间成了超级富翁。
Google宣布并购意向后,YouTube的两位创始人陈士骏和赫尔利就在该网站上传短片,与广大网友一起分享公司被并购后他们的心情和想法,受到许多网友的追捧。短片发布不到一天,点击率就已经超过74万次。
登上YouTube网站,网友可以点选一个大约一分半钟的录像,两位创始人在片中现身说法,向网友表达他们现在的喜悦心情。
赫尔利难抑被搜寻巨擘Google高价买下的喜悦,有点“语无伦次”地说:“就像两个国王在一起,可以提供更多的服务。”在一旁的陈士骏立刻笑弯了腰,表示“怀疑”什么是“两个国王”? 赫尔利忙着解释说:“就是搜寻引擎之王和影视之王呀。”
两位创始人都感谢YouTube庞大的网友社群的支持。陈士骏在网络上说,若没有YouTube社群的帮助,他们无法达到今天的境地。赫尔利则表示将继续开发服务,让网友们能在YouTube网站上过得有趣和尽兴。
陈士骏还说,通过聆听社群的声音与回馈,YouTube网站将重整组织来解决问题,为网友大众打造更新与功能更强的服务。
六、这才刚刚开始
根据YouTube公司在网上的自我介绍,公司现在才只有60多名员工,是5月份时的两倍,上周才搬到了比先前“稍微大一点、老鼠少一点”的办公室。
Google对YouTube的并购预计将于今年年底完成。并购完成后,YouTube还将保留自己的商标、公司总部和它的所有67名员工,其中包括陈士骏和查德•赫尔利。而Google在并购完成后,也还会保留自己网站上的视频服务。
“利用Google的技术和搜索领域的领军地位,我们将拥有把服务提升到另一级别的资源,”陈士骏9日在同谷歌管理人员举行的电话会议上说,“我们相信,这才刚刚开始。”查德•赫尔利说:“我们为获得新资源能更快发展感到兴奋。”
这笔天价并购让华尔街的一些经济学家感到惊讶,他们认为Google把这么多资金投向一个无赢利且没获得什么风险投资的公司上太过冒险,但谷歌管理者表示,YouTube只要能继续吸引网民,赢利毫无悬念。
媒体报道说,微软公司和雅虎公司等Google的竞争者最近几周也在同YouTube商谈可能的并购意向,但Google最终脱颖而出。
虽然此次收购不涉及现金交易,但对国内外的互联网行业都带来不小震动,Google公司受此消息影响股票上升了8.5美元,这使得Google的总市值升高了20多亿美元。
Google成功收购YouTube后,将一跃成为市场老大。而对YouTube而言,Google的注资不但有助公司大展拳脚,更可化解它名声不小却未赢利的难题。另外,YouTube不少短片都是有版权的作品,令公司备受法律困扰,Google可利用其开发软件的经验,研发一套自动阻截用户上载版权作品的系统。
资料来源:陈士骏:玩出奇迹—Google天价买下YouTube
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二、案例分析
YouTube是风险投资成功的典型案例。YouTube的最重要贡献是使在线分享视频变成了主流概念。YouTube因在06年10月份Google以16.5亿美金价格收购(股票收购)而出尽风头,这是2006年互联网公司的最大退出,也是Google到现在为止最贵的一笔收购。每一天,YouTube上的视频都会有超过一亿次的访问量。
采访引导:YouTube员工的采访和公开发言在本文中被使用。
YouTube的成功因素有以下几点:
1、围绕在线视频分享概念创造更好的用户体验
视频提供者在YouTube上可以毫不费力的上传视频。他们可以用关键词tag视频。在消费段,借由使用Macromedia Flash技术的嵌入web页面的几乎可以即时播放视频的播放器,YouTube消灭了那些需要下载的本地视频播放器。用户现在可以使用关键词搜索视频,使用邮件链接分享视频,同时还能为视频评分和添加评论,这样做的结果是,流行的视频以有机的方式被顶到最前沿,并被更多人看到。可以看到,除了播放器,YouTube上其他的功能和Flickr那样的图片分享网站的功能设计雷同,YouTube通过这样的模仿,将图片分享网站的成功经验复制到视频分享中。
2、热门内容的分发(通常是拥有版权的)驱使用户接受网站
免费的平台允许用户上传任何内容而不用在乎是否违反版权法。YouTube允许用户很轻松的在任何网页上和博客中嵌入他们的视频。这使得他们在社会网络社区,特别是Myspace中独树一帜。在widget中的内嵌链接同时也帮助YouTube增加自己的Google Page Rank,使得从搜索引擎得到更多的流量。
3、为用户所需要的用户体验选择正确的技术平台
YouTube使用的技术的概念是使用Macromedia Flash格式的图像编码并倚靠已经被千万台电脑安装了的Flash Player(无需再次安装解码播放器)的良好平台。当Macromedia发布带有视频回放能力的Flash 7时,YouTube是第一批利用此功能进行开发的网站之一。另外,借由开发团队过去在PayPal工作的经验,他们能够开发出能够快速拓展并适应内容和流量病毒式增长的平台。
4、在环境因素巨变下敏锐的抓住市场时机
在线社会化网络成为互联网络最重要的组成部分。YouTube的腾飞最重要的一部分来源于MySpace.com的用户开始将YouTube视频嵌入他们自己的页面中。这些用户和他们社交网络中的朋友开始接受YouTube。YouTube利用现存的成熟社会化网络而不是从头开始建一个自己的。
对生产者来说,制作视频变得更加容易:便宜的数码摄像机现在可以连接到电脑上,感谢在普通家用电脑上的USB2.0/火线接口。同样,带有摄像头的手机也变得更容易获得。年轻一代试图寻找全新的在线体验并在娱乐上花费大量时间。 平台端的技术变得更便宜:只要花费少许的费用,它们变得可存储,管理和支持大容量储存。
5、布策略和营销
创始人在2005年2月份开始着手建立YouTube并且在2005年5月份推出公共测试版。YouTube一开始时做的就是克隆版的HotOrNot.com(HotOrNot是面向年轻的成人市场的照片评论网站)。这个初始的站点只吸引了一点点人来玩儿。在2005年6月份YouTube重新设计了站点,主要包括:
1.创造一个普遍意义上的视频分享平台。
2.通过提供“相关”内容增加可以看到的视频数量。
3.鼓励用户之间的交流。
4.提供可以内嵌在Myspace.com这样的网站中的外链式视频播放器。
Google的收购背后的原因看起来更像是直觉。YouTube和Google在将用户对其所有内容访问转变为文字广告收入方面是一致的。YouTube的巨大用户群结合他自己的用户可以给予Google恐怖的市场能量和影响消费者行为的能力。同时,因为看起来YouTube被媒体巨头收购的可能性并不大,这次收购粉碎了像Yahoo那样的竞争者在视频分享领域分食的企图。
红杉资本(sequoia capital)是一个真正的传奇。作为一家运营近35年的风投公司,它战胜了科技跃迁和经济波动,从而获得与这一生命长度相呼应的优秀项目密度:在大型机时代,它发掘了pc先锋苹果电脑;当pc大肆发展,它培养起网络设备公司3com、思科;而当电脑被广泛连接,互联网时代来临,它又投资于雅虎和Google……因其秘而不露自己的投资业绩,外界便常引用这样一种说法:它投资超过500家公司,其中130多家成功上市,另有100多个项目借助兼并收购成功退出。因其投资而上市的公司总市值超过纳斯达克市场总价值的10%。
对红杉,YouTube的主要投资者来说,这次的投资是教科书般的巨大成功。红杉在初期为YouTube估值1500万美金并投资350万美金,在第二轮投资中追加800万美金投资。外界估计红杉拥有月30%的YouTube股份,现在价值起码在4亿9500万。这代表在不到两年的时间内这笔投资带来了高达43倍的投资回报。YouTube的创始人因为之前和红杉保持的良好关系确实从开始就懂得YouTube的概念而选择红杉。
从YouTube的发展过程中可以看到,如果没有风险投资的及时介入,让其有了第一笔发展资金,甚至是第二笔资金的融入,今天YouTube是否还会存在都是一个问题,更不用说被Google以天价收购了。在新经济的发展中,特别是高科技企业的初始阶段,风险投资起着不可替代的作用,它往往也是处于初始阶段的高科技企业的主要融资渠道。当下,经济的发展很大程度上依赖于科技创新,风险投资显得尤为重要。
当然,上述的故事也是发生在硅谷的。下面需要引用《风险投资学》第十章的内容。
硅谷是高科技公司的聚集地,之所以能孕育出像YouTube那样的公司,风险投资所起的作用至关重要。风险投资与硅谷的发展是一种互动关系。
(一)风险投资具有“资金放大器”功能
(二)风险投资对企业具有孵化功能
(三)风险投资具有市场筛选决定功能
(四)硅谷为风险投资提供适合的项目
(五)硅谷对风险投资的高回报
(六)硅谷培育出大批风险投资家
硅谷的优势更在于它有适宜风险投资成长的一系列外部环境条件。
(一)政府是裁判,规范各经济主体行为,为企业发展提供一个良好的环境。
(二)大学及科研机构为企业提供科技成果、高科技人才,帮助培养和培训人才,更直接投资办企业。
(三)宽容开放的硅谷文化:敢于创业和冒险,宽容失败,崇尚创新,忠于职业,能者至上,在竞争中开展合作,尊重创新的市场价值和人才的自由流动。
(四)硅谷的高科技经济最显著的特征是快速且连续的技术创新和市场节奏的明显加快,以创新和速度占领市场。
(五)硅谷具有良好的工作、生活和投资环境。

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