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[Interview] Startup Express: Winter Seasons – Winning Teams (Vlogr, B&B Brothers, Brave Peach, and G
2017.03.16 Views 4167 경영대학
The young entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas and fiercely competed at the 2016 Startup Express: Winter Season. Of the 43 teams, △Vlogr (Grand Prize), △B&B Brothers (Excellence Award), △Brave Peach (Encouragement Award), and △GridaZip (KUBS Research Association Award) were recognized for their excellent business items and won the competition. The four teams have moved into the Iljin Center for Startup Incubation, located on the second floor of KUBS Main Building, and are focusing on their startups. interviewed the two teams to hear more about their business items and future plans.
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Grand Prize (First Place) - Vlogr
“Videos can fully convey people’s lives. We want to help people caption and share their daily life instinctively and conveniently using Vlogr.” The motto of Vlogr (CEO TaeJun Lee, Business, ’11) is making video editing instinctive.Vlogr, which is a combination of the word “vlog (also as known as video blog)” and “er (indicating a user),” is based on a video editing app. Vlogr aims to lower the entry barrier of video editing programs through instinctive and automatic functions.
“Many people want to share daily moments of their lives, not professional videos. However, the exiting editing programs are difficult use because there are so many complicated functions. So, our team wanted to help people use an editing program as intuitive as possible and make their video contents even better.”
Excellence Award (Second Place) - B&B Brothers
“We want to help people keep things organized effectively using Internet of Things (IoT).” B&B Brothers (CEO Jae Hyun Park, Public Administration, ’04) aims to expand the existing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to medium sized businesses by utilizing a basket-shaped storage platform “Stack (a tentative name).”“Most IoT services are applied to home appliances. Even conglomerates are only concentrating on developing home appliances. However, if we think a little further, household goods with IoT can be used in many different places, such as small shops and homes.”