Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a private sitting with the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, along with 18 other entrepreneurs.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
SparkLabs , an accelerator program in South Korea that is bringing a Silicon Valley-like approach to the Asian country’s startup ecosystem, showcased its second batch of startups to investors at Demo Day today. TrakInvest (Finance/social network). Asia Entrepreneur News Roundups South Korea startups'
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The Next Web
MARCH 2, 2014
An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection).
K9 Ventures
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Sooinn had over a decade of experience working in the game industry in South Korea. Yet she doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley stereotype of an entrepreneur. All of this made it harder for Sooinn to get traction with investors in Silicon Valley. Instead she is a mother. Sooinn has insane perseverance.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Not in Europe or South Korea. In California.
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 10, 2020
Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance. Those aren't major geographies for Khan Academy, but we do have users there.
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