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The Startup Lecture Series Held Monthly
The KUBS Startup Institute hosted the 2017 Lecture Series every month to help startup teams and KUBS students to have a basic grounding required to serve as a future entrepreneur.
On March 14, the first lecture series, titled “Things You Should Never Do with Your Startup,” was delivered by PeopleFund CEO Joey Kim, a P2P financial enterprise. “It is important to figure out if your tendency fits in △Perspectives, △Choice, △Execution, △Leadership, and △Humility,” said CEO Joey Kim (Business, ’00) who is an alumnus of Korea University Business School (KUBS).
On April 18, Fast Track Asia CEO Jiwoong Park, Korea’s flagship company builder, presented a lecture, titled “Everything about Startup M&A and Investment.” CEO Jiwoong Park answered the question of what is the most important quality of a venture capitalist. “If you invest for a long period of time, you may become arrogant and have too much confidence in a certain industry.” he told the audience. “So, maintaining your humility will help you build trust in relations and play a key role when investing.”
On May 18, the third lecture series was given by Flitto CEO Jung-soo Lee, a crowdsourced translation platform. CEO Jung-soo lee talked frankly about Flitto’s founding story and a tough funding environment. “A company must prove it with its business performance, not the process that a founder went through,” he explained. “You will be able to endure the ruthless reality if you have a clear reason for starting your own business.”
The last lecture series in Spring 2017 was held on June 13. Finda CEO Hyemin Lee, a financial product recommendation platform, gave a lecture which was jointly sponsored by Future Entrepreneurs’ Society (FES) under KUBS. In a lecture entitled “Serial Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship,” CEO Hyemin Lee covered how she was able to seize startup opportunities consecutively and vividly described her experience on how startups that were not yet funded could survive from Death Valley.