Startups

Fashion Technology Accelerator: A View in Perspective for 2018

May 8, 2018 Innovation Startups

I found this to be relevant. Go FT Accelerator, Milan, Italy! _____ 2018 is coming: a year in perspective according Fashion Technology Accelerator. The end of the year is coming, and as any good tradition, also this year I would like to share with you my view about what happened in…

Top 3 Most Successful Korean Entrepreneurs

May 6, 2018 Editorial Startups

I just came across this one circa 2015! I had no idea. Haha! …and it came across Investopedia, one of my frequently reads. ^-^ Here is the article: Top 3 Most Successul Korean Entrepreneurs Some of the most successful and well-known entrepreneurs from Korea include Daniel Shin, Lee Byung-chul and Richard Min.…

ContextLogic’s Founders: “Move quickly, iterate quickly… and focus!”

April 28, 2018 Startups

Ah! I forgot about ContextLogic (March 23, 2011), known as “Wish”, the shopping site (April 2018). ContextLogic was turned into “Wish”. What a difference a half of decade can make! “Wish” has gone way above and beyond in term of funds and revenues, and looks do 1 trillion (that “Trillion”…

Managing Gen Y offers benefits, challenges

April 28, 2018 Innovation Startups

Here’s an interesting article from ZdNet about managing Gen Y as part of an enterprise workforce. A primer on the identification and description of the population cohorts in America as currently widely (but not universally) agreed upon by demographers and market researchers. Generation Y, Echo Boomers or Millenniums Born: 1977-1994…

L’Oreal and StyleNanda (M&A)

April 26, 2018 Startups

Marking Enrico Beltramini leaving, I just keep hearing things popping up. StyleNanda (stylenanda.com), otherwise known as “Nanda”, the fashion startup way back when I started (yikes! haha), is expected to be sold to L’Oreal, the world’s largest cosmetics company. (Sorry. Only in Korean, but you get the drift anyways.) 1세대 패션 스타트업 ‘난다’, 로레알에 매각……

Enrico Beltramini, Founder of Fashion Technology Accelerator

April 23, 2018 Innovation Startups

Back on the scene…sssllloowwllyyyyyy. (Remember, health is 80% …. “work” is getting up there!) —— Enrico Beltramini, Founder of Fashion Technology Accelerator (FTA) and Fashion Intelligence Ventures (FIV)… Yeah!! (Richard Min, Manager Partner of FDA/FIV and Enrico Beltramini, Founder of FDA/FVI.) Enrico Beltramini is here in Korea. Yah! Fashion Technology…

David Y. Lee, Founder and CEO of Shakr, and Richard Min

April 5, 2018 Innovation Startups

David and me. Maan, has it been that long? (ever since … hmmm…Wetoku (2009?) days. Heh!) It been quite a ride. David Y. Lee and Richard Min and adventures we’d shared… and still going! Looking Forward Shakr is the move! David Shakr (that’s what I call him, David Shakr. We have…