Originally posted by [i]伊甸园丁[/i] at 2007-4-1 03:00 PM:
伊甸文苑决策，征求网友意见！

最近，中国新浪网通过正式渠道联系了我们，提出收购伊甸文苑，整合海外文学论
坛的建议。对此我们正在慎重考虑，并希望广泛听取伊甸网友的宝贵意见。谢谢！

It is a tough question.

I have been trying to build up an IT business full time in the past 5 years, and I think if I can attract a big business to buy me out, I may need another 5 years (it may never happen).

Yidian is only one year old and big guy like SINA is interested. Yidian is at the right time doing the right thing. Yidian learns from the other overseas Chinese literature forums. Make it better if not most famouse one. Also yidan's system - discuz, is better than most other forums, and may make it easier to merge to sina. Yidian's mission concentrate on overseas Chinese literature, keep it clean and simple also may play a role here.

In other words, yidian is at the right time doing right thing and yidain is new, clean and simple, make it a candidate for buy out. If you let this opportunity go, you may never see it again.

If sold

advantages:
1) the owners will get some money or maybe some big stocks 🙂 (I hope that sina will be generous).
2) yidian will expand and yidian will attact more writers and readers.
3) yidian will have sina's big budget for the future growth.

disadvantages
1) it will be a business, and busienss will be for money.
2) it will not be a quiet tea house anymore, it will be a starbucks. Not the yidian owners or friends originally wanted it to be.
3) if it is sina china, it will follow the Chinese government's governing rules.

If not sold now

Advantage is yidian will still have the freedom to do everything the owners and yidian friends want.

The disadvantages

1) How long can the owners and donators can keep yidian running, in terms of money and time?
2) Yidian will grow but it will grow very slowly. If it grows too slow, when more and more other similiar forums appear, yidian may fade out slowly later on. If that is the case, then sold out can get money now, and keep yidian alive for a longer time (may be not the exact same yidian).

Personally, I don't want to see Yidian sold out. But at the same time, I am not an activated member here in writting or replying, and I won't be able to contribute to yidian's growth in the near future either.

I think Yidian owners should consult with the managers like 土干，and the writters who write a lot of articles for yidian.

🙂

有钱能使鬼推磨，有钱能买伊甸园。伊甸园里的长篇小说$10，000一部，短篇$2，000一
篇，散文$1，500，诗歌$1，000。

伊甸园里的夏娃$1，000，000，亚当$800，000。。。。。:P:P

hey, wait a minute, is this April 1st joke? That would be a good one if it is. That makes a lot of sense of a big guy from China to buy one of this kind site as the entrance point to this area. None of them does it yet.

But at the same time, would sina asks you to keep it confidential for buy out, usually it is top secret for the buy out business?

我正要大声疾呼呢，被海雨抢了先。伊甸里的女士们先生们，大家可要记得今天是4月
1日！

You have to believe it 1st place.

That means to believe 伊甸园丁.

Well they got xzhao2 because he is in the investing business. They got me because I was dreaming someone would buy me out someday. It does make a lot of sense, like Google buys out youtube, and also many smaller but good business. Google can build up a youtube kind business by itself. But buying youtube out, Google gets the higher ground when it just gets into the business. Some business is very small when google buy them out too, just becasue they are good in their specail area.

In this IT business, saw someone built up the company to worth 1.2 million cash buy out from 8000 dollars loan in 2 years but went down from peak to closing in 2 months. Anything is possible.

Good one, 伊甸园丁!:)

很酷的头像，海雨！:)

Hope this is not April fool......

:P:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

Originally posted by [i]伊甸园丁[/i] at 2007-4-1 03:00 PM:
伊甸文苑决策，征求网友意见！

最近，中国新浪网通过正式渠道联系了我们，提出收购伊甸文苑，整合海外文学论
坛的建议。对此我们正在慎重考虑，并希望广泛听取伊甸网友的宝贵意见。谢谢！

Originally posted by [i]伊甸园丁[/i] at 2007-4-1 03:00 PM:
伊甸文苑决策，征求网友意见！

最近，中国新浪网通过正式渠道联系了我们，提出收购伊甸文苑，整合海外文学论
坛的建议。对此我们正在慎重考虑，并希望广泛听取伊甸网友的宝贵意见。谢谢！

同志们，
大家过了一个快乐成功的愚人节，太棒了！黄杨先生的文章在那里提示，园丁还是把我们愚弄了一把。祝贺园丁！非常狡猾，十分幽默！

涌波啊，
你咋这么明白呢？我糊涂得好痛快，太痛快啦，哈哈哈哈，您把我的好梦搅啦。明年请您沉住气，知道也不说，背地里偷着乐，让我们多做几小时的发财梦！！！