DEV Korea’s Startup Acceleration Program ‘Start it Up in New York’ Demo Day will be held in seoul this afternoon. DEV Korea is one of a growing number of domestic and international accelerators in Seoul that are capitalizing on the rapid growth in the domestic startup ecosystem Sparklabs will also hold their demo day December 11. DEV Korea was nominated as the 2014 Global Accelerator Develop Management Agency by the Ministry of…

SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea, hosted its third Demo Day in Seoul yesterday.  While startups in earlier batches were all based in Korea, the most recent session welcomed companies from Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo and Seoul and sought to disrupt a wider range of industries from mobile music to wearable tech to professional online photo distribution, than previous batches which predominantly focused on mobile and e-commerce. This sets a trend which…

Review of The Best of Sparklabs Session 3 Startups, from beSUCCESS Writer Christine Bernard 1Day1Song is a Korean music discovery app. For a full day, the app will play a song from its artist of the day and will then display an exclusive background information provided by the performer. They have already launched on iOS with 64,000 users, and will launch on Android this summer. The app will also be launched in…

Global? Vs Localization? “영어를 사용하는 고객보다 더 중요한 타겟층은 없다고 생각하는데요.”라고 말한다면 세계 시장을 제대로 인지하고 있는 것이라 볼 수 없다. 여전히 경영진 대다수는 전 세계인의 70%가 영어를 사용한다는 관념에 사로잡혀 있지만, 사실 27%에 불과하기 때문이다. 온라인 유저를 비교해보더라도 비영어권 사용자는 15억 명에 달하지만, 영어권 유저는 5억 명에 불과하다. 즉, 영어권 서비스를 통해 100명의 고객을 얻는 대신, 230명의 비영어권 유저를 잃는 것이라고도 볼 수 있다. Common Sense Advisory의 리서치에 의하면 온라인 고객의…

Singapore, 12 June 2013 — Last week saw JFDI.Asia field seven new and two returning startups at the Demo Day which marked the end of its first seed accelerator program for 2013. Over 100 investor meetings were set up in the hour following the event and, this week, reaction from investors has flowed in with some prepared to nominate the startups that caught their eye. The JFDI.Asia 2013A Demo Day was sponsored…

한국의 엑셀러레이터 스파크랩스가 7일 첫 번째 Demo Day를 개최한다. 이 행사에서는 모바일, 빅데이터, 개인 생활 기록, 전자 상거래, 교육 기술 분야의 다섯 개 스타트업이 발표할 예정이다. 또 스파크랩스는 이들의 엑셀러레이팅 분야를 헬스 케어 분야까지 늘릴 것이라고 한다.