Startups

Startups: The Scene in Korea… Way Back Then

January 20, 2019 Innovation Startups

Korea Startups: The Beginning I was going through that stuff, in order to see my stuff from the past. And a lot has changed, but much has stayed the same. Here is my one from TechCrunch Japan 2010 (11? 12?). I don’t really know, but it a way a long…

John Lagerling and me!

January 13, 2019 Health Innovation Startups

Old Friends It’s good to have old friends and that bonding moment. Yes, everyone, women and men, have had that moment. We have been hanging out for years ever since the Google days, but we have a close friends ever since. We hung out while and had some old talks…

Richard Min’s 1st Podcast

January 2, 2019 Editorial Health Innovation News Personal Startups

Yay! My 1st podcast. Anchor.fm: “Richard Min” …named “Richard Min” podcast. Haha! (Remember, I was speaking the 3 words of the hospital: my name, parents name, and “F#ck” (!!). I don’t why. (-_-) It’s going to be a lot of gradual improvement… slowly.) It will be: Me interviewing guests (VIP…

Ventures Firms Total of Annual Sales Reaching 130 Trillion Won in Korea

November 30, 2018 Innovation Startups

Here is an interesting article on the VC firm total of annual sales with reaching 130 trillion won (US$114.4 billion) in Korea. Venture Firms with Annual Sales of More than 100 Billion Won Increases to 572 Hong Jong-hak (6th from right), minister of SMEs and startups, and venture entrepreneurs…

Spin sold for $100 million. Oh yah, go Euwyn!

November 23, 2018 Innovation News Startups

Euwyn Poon, Co-Founder and President of Spin, is rockin!! $100 million. That’s a score! Just got finishing connecting with him, and secretive is the new thing now (drat!). Lots of work needs to be done… let just say, my interpretation, he was smiling from ear to ear. Here is…

Sebastian Togelang, Founding Partner of Kejora Ventures, and InterVest raises $60 million fund from Korea.

October 16, 2018 Innovation News Startups

I met with Sebastian Togelang, Founding Partner at Kejora Ventures and Michael Kim, two of my friends. We met up and started talk business and other fun stuff, AND his raise of the Kejora Venture/Intervest Korea of a whooping $60 million fund in Southeast Asia by 2018. Here are some news articles on it Bloomberg:…

Pitching Deck Review

October 10, 2018 Innovation Startups

Huh. I came to realize that I did not reviews my “Pitch Deck” in a while. I did to one to a person. He had a great product, but he didn’t a great pitch. Well, it was horrible. I got the pitch down, but I couldn’t understand of way he…