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[스타트업용어사전] 스타트업이란?
  ·  2013년 06월 21일

국내스타트업의 글로벌화와 해외 스타트업/VC들의 한국진출을 돕고자 하는 beSUCCESS는 스타트업 생태계의 다양한 목소리와 국내외 관련 소식을 전달하고 있습니다.    그 과정에서 스타트업 생태계의 다양한 용어들이 기사 속에 녹아들어가고 있는데, 그 용어들이 때론 낮설고, 다른 산업군과는 다른 의미 사용되고 있는 단어들도 있습니다. 이는 경우에 따라 독자여러분에게 혼란을 일으키거나, 기사 이해에 방해되는 경우를 발생시키기에 beSUCCESS는 “스타트업 용어사전”을 통해 독자분들의 이해를 돕고, 사용되고 있는 용어들의 의미를 되새겨 보고자 합니다.   그 첫 번째로 많은 이들이 사용하고 있는 용어이지만 정작…

What’s Up In Korea This Week? [20. Jun]
  ·  2013년 06월 20일

Samsung Galaxy S4 Understands Korean Dialects?!  Samsung Galaxy S4 ‘s ‘S Voice Engine’, ‘S Translator’ and ‘S Voice Drive’ now allows for a more correct translation of Korean dialects. The South Korean conglomerate have been collecting data about different dialects around Korea (and mind you, they are remarkably different from standard Korean). Samsung Electronics have been continuously making developments in the voice technology area. S4 had a ‘non-touch’ concept that allows you…

JFDI’s Recent Demo Day Attracts Strong Support From the Investor Crowd in SE Asia
2013년 06월 17일

Singapore, 12 June 2013 — Last week saw JFDI.Asia field seven new and two returning startups at the Demo Day which marked the end of its first seed accelerator program for 2013. Over 100 investor meetings were set up in the hour following the event and, this week, reaction from investors has flowed in with some prepared to nominate the startups that caught their eye. The JFDI.Asia 2013A Demo Day was sponsored…

The Rise Of Collaborative Consumptions And Korea
  ·  2013년 06월 17일

Business is a zero-sum game. Collaboration is a plus-sum game. Everyone seems to be talking about “The Sharing Economy” – everybody literally gets a share of your meal, and vice versa. Take the Korean startup, Zipbob. So: Forget zero-sum games; people are all about “collaborative consumption” now. And the people in Asia, especially Korea, are rising up. Wait. Collaborative consumption? Short answer: commercial arrangements and transactions in which participants share and access…

Kakao, Government, Startups: What Will 2013 Have In Store For Korea?
  ·  2013년 06월 13일

We wrote previously about the current situation in the South Korean startup ecosystem. We said that the global startup capital is declining whereas the Korean venture world is seeing more fundings, more startups, and more enthusiasm. The rise of startups in Korea really started with KakaoTalk i n 2010, and since then we have seen $191 million US dollars raised in Korea (in 2013, up from $189 mil in 2012), and increase…

Bon Angels Early Stage VC & Veteran Pacemaker
2013년 06월 13일

Bon Angels Early Stage VC & Veteran Pacemaker There is a visionary behind such rapid growth of Korean Startups.  Bon Angles Venture Partners, as a first ever investment company specialized in startups established in 2010, has been engaged in partnering with early stage IT companies and made a great success. What makes Bon Agels different from other investment companies, not to mention about their specialties, is a communication even before the company’s…

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg To Visit Korea At The End Of June. What Are Its Implications?
  ·  2013년 06월 12일

Facebook’s Co-Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will visit Korea at the end of this month, according to Yonhap News. Seeing that Bill Gates and Larry Page visited Korea recently, it seems likely that Zuckerberg, too, will discuss the future of IT with the Park administration. People are speculating that he will visit Cheongwadae (the presidential residence in Korea, or the ‘blue house’) at the end of June. He will be spending about…

What’s Up In Korea This Week? [12. Jun]
  ·  2013년 06월 12일

  KT Will Spend $2.65B Upgrading Network And Create Jobs Remember how KT said they set up a fund of USD 132 million by 2017 to help smaller and mid-sized firms in Korea earlier on this year? Well, according to Yonhap News yesterday, they will spend KRW 3 trillion (approximately USD 2.65 billion). KT is more ambitious than we thought. That means that the south Korean telco is spending approximately half of the USD 5.3 billion…

Noom Launches Noom Walk, a pedometer app that counts your steps and shares your progress with friends
  ·  2013년 06월 11일

Noom Walk is a free pedometer app that counts your steps and shares your progress with friends. Noom Walk is based on software that collects sensor data from the user’s mobile phone. Instead of relying on expensive wearable accessories, Noom Walk utilizes the smartphones users already own. In the future, Noom may explore integration with wearable devices, but for now Noom believes smartphones are sufficient. “We believe that smartphones can do 90%…

제 2회 Inside the Founders의 주인공은?
  ·  2013년 06월 11일

beSUCCESS는 이번 달 21(금)일  ‘제 2회 Inside the Founders(인사이드 더 파운더스)’를 개최한다. 인사이드 더 파운더스는 성공한 창업가를 스피커로 초청하여, 해당 기술산업 분야에 대한 통찰과 트렌드를 자신의 경험를 토대로 깊이 있게 전달하는 자리이다. 대한민국의 기술산업 활성화를 위하여 두번째 인사이드 더 파운더스의 자리를 빛낼 주인공은 BootstrapLabs(부트스트랩랩스)의 파트너 Ben Levy(벤 레비)이다. 실리콘밸리 소재의 엑셀러레이터 부트스트랩랩스는 글로벌 스타트업 발굴을 미션으로, 해외 스타트업들이 실리콘밸리에서 세계적인 기업으로 성장할 수 있도록 전방위적으로 지원하고 투자를 진행하는 엑셀러레이터형 벤처투자회사이다. 그들은 ‘혁신이 지역성 혹은 경계의 개념을…

This week’s Startup – JellyBus
2013년 06월 11일

This Week’s Startup – Jelly Bus Inc.   JellyBus Inc. <Picsplay Pro> <Official Web Link> Anyone can make awesome photos with us! Whether you are an unskilled user or a photo experts, Jelly Bus assures that you can make a stunning photo by this photo editing app service “Picsplay pro”. As it is called an Image processing engine, it provides a basic features and cutting-edge technologies. For example, its newest HDR functions…

PRISM: Why Global Citizens Are Concerned
  ·  2013년 06월 10일

We thought it’s about time we wrote about the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM program, the latest phenomenon around the world today – and yet, it’s old news, because information is and has always been the ultimate power. This issue is quite divisive – some people care, some people don’t, some people think you ought to care. What do you think about the PRISM issue? What is PRISM? PRISM is an electronic…

Korea And The Internet Of Things
  ·  2013년 06월 10일

Good thing the Koreans went for the fiber early. South Korea dominates the top lists when it comes to broadband, according to latest edition of Akamai’s State of the Internet report for the three months ending December 31, 2012. The quarterly State of the Internet report puts the South Korean city of Daegu at the top of the 100 fastest cities. Here are some highlights from Akamai’s official press release: Global On…

Interview With Seojoon Kim, Vice President Of KnowRe
  ·  2013년 06월 05일

Earlier today we talked about the rise of Korean startups… and what’s a better example than KnowRe? KnowRe is the recent Winner of Gap App Challenge (1st Place) 2013, Grand Prize Winner at Global K-Startup 2012, and Winner of Plug and Play Tech Center at beLAUNCH 2012? In much excitement, we interviewed the Co-Founder and Vice-President of KnowRe, Seojoon (Simon) Kim who was incredibly humble about this accomplishment. You can read our…

beSUCCESS 3 Morning Reads [31. May]
  ·  2013년 05월 31일

1. SoftBank Capital Raises $50M To Invest Exclusively In New York Startups Back in February, SoftBank Capital raised $250mil. focused on helping established tech startups break into Asia. As of this morning, they have just announced that they’ve raised $50 million that they plan to invest entirely into early-stage New York startups in hopes that it’ll boost the startup ecosystem there with a few big wins come out of the city already. (TechCrunch) 2. Waze mapping app gets a little more…

KnowRe Wins Gap App Challenge, To Be Piloted Across New York City
  ·  2013년 05월 30일

Meet KnowRe. “Your new digital teacher’s aide”… and the Winner of Gap App Challenge! KnowRe is humbly describes itself as an ‘educational technology company’ that develops innovative online adaptive service for mathematics, but I disagree – there is so much more to it than what meets the eye. They were listed by TechCrunch, GigaOm, TechwireAsia, The Next Web and VentureBeat (just to name a few!) as one of the hottest Korean startups…

[Breaking News] Maker Of AniPang, SundayToz To Join KOSDAQ
  ·  2013년 05월 30일

According to the Korean Financial Supervisory Service, SundayToz, the developers of AniPang, will be joining the KOSDAQ (Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations trading board), following an acquisition by Hana Green Special Purpose Acquisition Co. SundayToz is the developer of Kakao’s AniPang (adequately named “the national mobile game of Korea”). They are known as the company that literally ‘opened a new chapter for Mobile Games’ – and they made 23.8bil. KRW (approx. 23.8 million…

Events In Korea [30. May]
  ·  2013년 05월 30일

Today’s Events: 1. Jump Together! Running Mentoring Session (Kor) A great mentoring program for young startups, university students and other interested people. Vie for synergy, comrades! 2. The 5th DrinkEntrepreneurs Event Once a month, DrinkEntrepreneurs offers a relaxed environment for driven and motivated entrepreneurs to meet and exchange over a drink and music. This event differs from many networking socials having no format, name tags, business booths, or stuffy environments. It’s free (drinks available at the…

beSUCCESS 3 Morning Reads [30. May]
  ·  2013년 05월 30일

Good morning everyone, here are some news articles we picked out for you this morning. 1. Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin’s Consumerization Some interesting perspectives on Bitcoins. Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency first described in 2008 by a pseudonymous developer ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ who called it a peer-to-peer, electronic cash system that can be transferred through a computer/smartphone without an intermediate financial institution. (TechCrunch) 2. If you’re disappointed with big data, you’re not…

What’s Up In Korea This Week? [29. May]
  ·  2013년 05월 29일

*Remember folks, Wednesdays are your ‘Weekly News’ day! Cymera Tops 20mil. In Downloads So Cymera is kind of a big deal now – they just topped 20 mil. in downloads. We wrote about this earlier (maybe a week ago). On May 13, Cymera passed the 10 million mark in downloads outside of the Korean peninsula, proving popular in Thailand and Taiwan. SK Communications SNS affiliate said that the number of downloads recently…