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세계적인 IT 전문사이트 Techcrunch.com - K Startup 공동대표이자 이태원뉴스 홍보대사 미스코리아 장윤진양 소개: 우수한 한국기업 세계에 알리고 자금 펀딩 돕고파 - 실리콘밸리에도 탄탄한 투자자 그룹 인맥갖고 있어; 2014.06.25 22:43 입력

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<p> 미국에 유학하여 고교를 졸업한 후 한국으로 돌아 와 이화여대 영문과와 경영학과를 졸업하고 26살의 뒤늦은 나이에 미인대회에 출전, 2010년 미스 코리아 선(善)으로 당당히 당선되어 국제 콘벤션 MC 로 활동하는 한 편, IT 업계에 진출한 2012년 미스 코리아 장윤진대표가 지난 4월 30일자로 세계적인 IT 전문사이트 Techcrunch.com에 소개된 사실이 뒤늦게 밝혀져 화제가 되고 있다.<br><br>현재 IT전문회사 K Startup을 공동으로 운영중인 장윤진 대표는 타고난 미모와 능숙한 외국어 솜씨로 우수한 한국IT 기업들을 미국 실리콘밸리의  펀드 운영자들에게 소개하고 자금을 연결하는 매칭 펀드 레이저 역할을 수행하고 있다.<br>사실 세계적으로 둘러 보아도 미인선발대회 우승자가 국제 IT관련업계에서 몸담고 있다는 사실은 유례가 없는 일로 IT업계 종사자들은 이런 사실에 무척 놀랍고 고무된 반응이다.<br><br> 그러나 업계의 이런 반응과는 달리 정작 장윤진대표는 "앞으로도 우리 한국기업들, 특히 Startup 기업들에게 자신의 노력이 도움이 되었으면 좋겠다" 고 말한다.<br> " 본래 미인들은  잠도 많고 휴식을 많이 해야 피부도 좋아질텐데....."하는 물음에<br>"빡빡한 미팅 스케줄에 늘 잠시 쉴 틈도 없지만 함깨 열심히 일하시는 동료 분들을 생각하면 더욱 더 열심히 해야한다고 생각한다" 고 전혀 흔들림이 없이 말한다.<br> 평소 일단 맡은 일에 대해서는 철저하게 책임감을 갖고 끝마친다는 곧은 소신과 옳은 일에는 스스로 봉사를 자원할 정도의  따뜻함을 함깨 가진 장대표의 성격은  현역 장군인 아버지의 군인정신과  온화한 어머니의 성품이 잘 조화된 영향을 받은 탓이 아닐까 하는  추측을 갖게 한다.</p>
<p><br>* 아래는 지난 4월 30일자로 소개된 장윤진대표의 회사 K Startup의 활동내용 원문기사<br>이경록 기자</p>
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<h1 class="alpha tweet-title">Finishing Its Third Batch, Korea’s <br><br>KStartup Accelerator Sees Great <br><br>Hope For Seoul’s Tech Ecosystem</h1>
<div class="byline">Posted <time class="timestamp" datetime="2014-04-30">Apr 30, 2014</time> by <a title="Posts by Danny Crichton" href="http://techcrunch.com/author/danny-crichton/" rel="author"><u><font color="#0066cc">Danny Crichton</font></u></a> <span class="twitter-handle">(<a href="https://twitter.com/DannyCrichton" rel="external"><u><font color="#0066cc">@DannyCrichton</font></u></a>)</span></div></div>
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<div class="tag-item"> </div><div class="tag-item"><a name="title" title="Find others with this title" dir="auto" href="https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?title=Partner&trk=prof-exp-title"><font color="#0066cc"><u>Partner</u></font></a></div><div class="tag-item"><header><h5><span class="new-miniprofile-container /biz/miniprofile/4830707?pathWildcard=4830707" data-li-miniprofile-id="LI-1461605" data-tracking="mcp_profile_sum" data-li-url="/biz/miniprofile/4830707?pathWildcard=4830707" data-li-getjs="https://static.licdn.com/scds/concat/common/js?h=a1ktvk9o0qh0fprqbtphg9c0c&fc=2"><strong><a dir="auto" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/4830707?trk=prof-exp-company-name"><u><font color="#0066cc">Kstartup</font></u></a></strong></span></h5></header><p class="twitter"><span class="experience-date-locale"><time>January 2013</time> – Present (2 years 3 months)<span class="locality">Seoul, Korea</span></span></p><p class="description summary-field-show-more" dir="ltr">Kstartup is considered as No. 1 startup accelerator in Korea, and Kstartup (www.kstartup.com) is dedicated to helping Korean startups to grow and to expand their business in the global market.<br> It is the first accelerator partner in Asia of ''Google for Entrepreneurs'<br> (http://www.google.com/entrepreneurs/initiatives/appcenter-kstartup.html),<br> and supported by Google, SK Planet, Banks Foundation, and AppCenter.<br><br> We are running a 12-week acceleration program twice a year, which consists of bootcamps, fireside chats, and weekly workshops.<br> Currently having 40 portfolios including Korbit, Malang Studio, Incujector and so on.<br> All get funded 40,000 dollars from Kstartup( sponsored by SKP& Bank Foundation).<br><br> In charge of selecting startups, managing startups, Investment, mentor recruitment, Pitch Clinic(Every Friday) teaching (Enhancing Startups' Presentation skills: "How to pitch to Investors."),and being a "Mom" to 40 startups.</p></div>
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<p><a href="http://kstartup.com/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">KStartup</font></u></a>, a Seoul-based non-profit accelerator started by David Lee and KJ Byeon and operated by both of them along with Yoonjin Chang, is designed to not just assist startups, but to build a wider ecosystem. “It’s a harder job here versus a lot of the Valley accelerators,” says Lee, who currently serves as partner on the team. “There is a lot that is taken for granted in the Valley, because everyone there is in the same industry.”</p>
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<p>The team is focused on Korean entrepreneurs, but they have had several international founders, including one who previously graduated from YC.</p>
<p>The differences noticed by international investors in Korea can range from small nitpicks to fundamentally divergent approaches to business. Korean entrepreneurs often use localized English vocabulary, such as SNS instead of social network or IR instead of fundraising, that can result in confusion for global investors. More substantively, Korean startups are often pushed by advisers to emphasize their intellectual property and early revenue possibilities, approaches that are antithetical to the typical investment philosophy of Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road.</p>
<p>To ready founders for the world of entrepreneurship, the accelerator organizes a series of bootcamps led by leaders from Silicon Valley and New York to teach skills like fundraising, user interface design and customer acquisition – areas that are lacking in the nascent local market. These mentors stay in residence for a focused three days of activities, and since the inception of the program, some 33 mentors have stopped by KStartup to teach their skills.</p>
<p>For KStartup’s third demo day, held yesterday at the D.Camp co-working building, the team focused on the fundamentals of great startup pitches, something Lee learned through his involvement with Y Combinator. The team offered advice on what slides to include and how much text to include (always less!) and also offered English advice for their founders, some of whom had never presented before in the language. The resulting demo day was attended by some 200 people, about double from last year’s total.</p>
<p>Following the program, the team continues to push their startups to focus on product, and help them fundraise as well. Of the 20 startups that have completed the first two batches, 9 have raised follow-on funding from local and international investors. One example is Korbit, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/20/korbit/"><u><font color="#0066cc">which raised $400,000 from Silicon Valley investors as the first bitcoin exchange in the Korean market</font></u></a>.</p>
<p>Lee emphasizes that patience is a key element of working in an early ecosystem. “It’s more like iron mining versus panning for gold, it’s about unlocking the big stones than just finding the flecks.”</p>
<p>Below is a short description of the 10 companies who presented at KStartup’s demo day.</p>
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<p><strong>Chinchin</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://chinchinapp.com/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Chinchin</font></u></a> is a social club startup app that is designed to create a better way to meet new people than Facebook’s current product offerings. Social networks allow you to keep up with your current friends, and thus, it is hard to meet new people via existing social networks. Online dating services offer options for building romantic relationships, but Chinchin is designed to allow you to build new relationships through your mutual friends without the risk of rejection. They currently have 2,600+ beta users across their iPhone and Android, and the company highlights that their 90 day retention is around 30%.</p>
<p><strong>REH – Reality Expands Here</strong></p>
<p>REH is a game studio building games around the concept of “always on” and “always connected” mobile devices. Their game tracks your location and detects collisions between your “force field” and those of other users of the game. When the collisions take place, a battlefield engine takes over where you compete to expand your borders to cover the physical location. Thus, the game takes place both in the physical world and in an online fantasy world. The company hopes to use in-game ads as a business model.</p>
<p><strong>Jumping Nuts</strong></p>
<p>Kakao Story is a popular app among Korean users, but it lacks certain key features desired by teenagers who prefer writing long stories as small comments, as well as blogging around webtoons. <a href="http://www.jumpingnuts.com/teaser/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Jumping Nuts</font></u></a> is an app designed to provide a new social experience for teens around these sorts of social modes, and the app also provides granular controls over followers to ensure that users can decide who sees their content. Since their launch seven weeks ago, they have had about 22,000 unique visitors.</p>
<p><strong>ModacTV</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://modac.tv/2" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">ModacTV</font></u></a> is a new app that allows you to see your friends’ reactions while they watch videos. As users watch videos, they can write comments that appear as thought bubbles, which are then shared with their friends. The goal is to create a communicative video service that can be more engaging than current offerings from YouTube and Vine. Like many social services in Asia, the company hopes to monetize through the selling of emotive stickers, which can be placed over the video to express a wider range of reactions than mere text.</p>
<p><strong>MyDrives</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.f6s.com/mydrives" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">MyDrives</font></u></a> bills itself as a storage consolidation service, which makes it easier to find files across different cloud providers like Dropbox and Google Drive, as well as local storage. After installing the software, MyDrives indexes all sources of files and creates a master directory. When it comes to sharing the files, MyDrives can create an easy set of links no matter how the file is saved to quickly get your file to other users. It hopes to develop a premium service such as smart backups and unlimited sharing links. The app is currently in beta testing and is expected to be released soon.</p>
<p><strong>Linky</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://thelinky.com/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Linky</font></u></a> is a business messenger so that you can easily listen to feedback from customers and build relationships. Linky needs to be downloaded by the owner of a store, but customers only need to navigate to a special URL to provide feedback, lowering the friction for customers to be social with business owners. Owners can chat with their customers, offer discounts and free goods, and accept requests. Locally, the app competes with Kakao Plus accounts, which are priced out of range for most small businesses at $20,000. Linky is $25 per month for business owners.</p>
<p><strong>eTALK – Everybody Talk to Me</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://angel.co/everybody-talk-to-me" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">eTALK</font></u></a> allows you to talk with celebrities by interacting with pre-recorded videos of them online, making it feel like you are actually talking to the celebrity (obviously, it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief). Celebrity videos are taken from soap operas, movies, and other sources of content, which the company has licensed from several providers. Long-term, the founders hope to expand the software beyond merely entertainment, to also include language learning and general social videos.</p>
<p><strong>NetStory</strong></p>
<p>NetStory is a game studio that focuses on a mobile shooting RPG series called Demon & Demon. They have developed a new battle system that can be best best described as a continuous shooting game designed for mobile devices, while also focusing on classic RPG elements like a main storyline, characters, and inventory of items. They are freemium with an in-app purchase model for unique items, and “attractive characters.” Their second game is called Tower of Doom, which is an action-based MMORPG. The founders have extensive experience at several of Korea’s top game studios, such as Nexon.</p>
<p><strong>KBeat</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://kbeat.net/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">KBeat</font></u></a> is designed for K-Pop fans to share their excitement of the popular music genre by uploading their own content. Unlike competitors like Allkpop and Soompi, two leading K-Pop sites that have a professional staff of writers and content producers, KBeat is designed to focus exclusively on fans expressing their own feelings about music. They are developing a subscription box targeting K-Pop fans that provide gifts and other paraphernalia.</p>
<p><strong>Easiaid – Media Mining</strong></p>
<p>The goal of this video advertising platform is to move from pre-playing video ads to in-video advertising that allows viewers to purchase products they see. Their software “mines” videos for products and locations, and connects users to online stores. One example is a user watching a music video, and being connected to the artist’s product page or concert schedule where the user can buy tickets. The company takes a small scrape of the transaction of any purchases made.</p>
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