A down period for startup investment with opportunities for global expansion. EO 82 Startup Summit Live + Session : Q&A With Korean Founders' Take on Global Growth and Global Investment Attraction Q. Tell us About your Venture Capital Firm * Jae-wook Kim, Vice President of Atinum Investment Our investment company is a first-generation venture capital firm founded 34 years
Dress for Success: The Traits Needed to Make Successful Startup Investments On the live talk show 'Come Up 2022 EO', GFT CEO Jay Eum, a venture capitalist who invests in emerging technology companies, shared his startup investment experience in Silicon Valley, a major hub for startups. If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them CEO Eum worked at
The Man vs. The Market: How "The Big Short" Shocked the Financial World The movie The Big Short shows how hedge fund experts made huge profits by predicting the housing market collapse and short-selling the market (in other words, betting on market declines). One day, in 2006, hedge fund manager Michael Burry noticed an increase in delinquency and default rates on real
A Blank Check and Branding: The Power of Name Recognition In a market where demand is rapidly growing, companies perform better than one might think while providing low-quality products and services. However, the companies that eventually come out on top are those that provide brand recognition and offer high-quality products and services. The movie 'Founder' can
A Day in a Startup Accelerator: Evolution of Bio Startup IR 5 a.m. I turned off the alarm and barely woke up on time. It was the day we held a bio startup IR event for venture capitalists at COEX. After a great deal of preparation in the morning, I headed to the event venue. Five bio startups attended the
startup 'Founder': Is McDonald's Just a Hamburger Company? In 1954, when the concept of fast food didn't exist, Ray Kroc went to a hamburger restaurant to sell multi-mixers that could make several milkshakes at a time. However, the owner of that restaurant rejected Kroc's proposal. As you can see, selling even one multi-
How did WeWork Become WeCrashed? WeCrashed is about the founders and investors of WeWork, a company specializing in shared offices, and is currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). We can easily find WeWork signs in major cities worldwide, including Seoul. But why do we say that WeWork "exploded"? The reason
k-startup Attending a Shareholders Meeting The season of meeting with shareholders is finally upon us. Today’s main goals are 1) to approve the major agendas of the companies we are invested in and 2) to see whether or not we can successfully exit(withdraw) our initial investments. From time to time, we do get
The Downfall of Unicorn, Theranos and its Founder: TV series 'The Dropout.' CEO of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, was convicted on four counts, including fraud, and is awaiting her final sentence in September. Theranos was a unicorn company with an enterprise value of US$ 9 billion. How did this happen? Since childhood, Elizabeth Holmes was very ambitious. From a young age, she planned
networking What makes me good at Networking: Connecting Dots with Lines The world we see and feel in the movie Matrix is a virtual world made of numbers and data. To me, all people I met seem like numerous dots, and these black dots seem connected by multiple lines. Sometimes people say I'm good at networking; it’s probably
