innovation

Past, Present and… Future?

July 31, 2018 Editorial Innovation Personal Startups

[Internal] Micro and Macro. Internal and Eternal. Past, present, and future. “Wait… what? Future? I haven’t thought of that. Hmmmm.” I’m always confused how people don’t know of ‘future’. I’m always looking always looking at the future and its how it got here. Past and present are always there. No…

Oh! I get it! It’s the same thing, only with “cryptocurrencies” (blockchain).

July 23, 2018 Innovation Startups

Daam, I wanted to be first write you (the reader) and ‘Oh! I get it!’. I agree totally (with the crypto craze). (Article here: VentureBeat) I was wondering as well, South Korea is solid leader in the blockchain community… huh???? When the hell became number leader in the blockchain community. I’m slowly…

Google is preparing to launch Google Shopping in South Korea. I say, “Eh.”

July 16, 2018 Editorial Innovation News

[External] Things are really heating up in Korea. Google is preparing to launch Google Shopping in South Korea. A big move, and who knows? Google can finally shake things up for Naver and Kakao… haha! I jest. Mobile and website? I say…”Not.” Shopping ads account for 50% of revenues for both Naver and…

Sparklabs Demo Day 2018

June 25, 2018 Innovation Startups

John Chi, VC (Venture Capital, iDream Ventures) and Sam Baik, Director, Pacific-Asia New Business Dev. at Meizler UCB Biopharma S/A , I met them there and we went the Sparklabs demo day. (John Chi and I go way back into the Seoul Reservoir Dogs and, basically, just hang out. Ha.). 🙂 I went…

Forbes: South Korean Up-and-Coming Startups (2018)

June 20, 2018 Innovation Startups

Elaine got the heads from Forbes up-and-coming startups to hit the scene. I will do interviews with some of them. And I got an interview with Elaine before she heads off to the States again (I’m editing!). (I did not write this. Elaine wrote it.) Elaine Ramirez , Opinions expressed by Forbes…

First Facebook Korea Developers Meetup: Recap! (That was a long time ago.)

March 5, 2018 Innovation Startups

Woah! That taking us back! Maan, I don’t know what day is it …but sometime in 2011? Seoul Space rocks! Here was the first article I wrote. 🙂 ———- Who hosted the first “Korea Facebook Developers Meetup” in Korea? Seoul Space! We were proud to have Facebook Korea ask us…

Jan Smejkal and Mike Kim – lunch with some guys

February 8, 2018 Innovation

Startup Grind Asia – Jan Smejkal (his Facebook) He is building an awesome startup community in China, APAC, and beyond #StartupGrind, Google Campus Korea, CEO – Mike Kim (his Facebook) Lunch with some friends. 🙂