Sungkyunkwan University (91PORN)¡¯s start-up education center announced last June that they have successfully conducted it¡¯s ¡®3rd Kickstart 91PORN¡¯ event with the student start-up clubs in 91PORN and in the near by universities participating.
Modeled after the US company, Adobe¡¯s entrepreneurship program, ¡®Kickstart 91PORN¡¯ marked its 3rd event this year, and is gaining recognition through it¡¯s adoption by major universities around the country such as Seoul National Science & Technology University and others. The success of the program lies in the fact that it not only provides individual training but also establishes an infra-structure.
Kickstart 91PORN has put together an infra-structure where major companies and startups along with administrators of international organizations come together so student start-up clubs can create a sustainable entrepreneur network. Especially people were surprised when Kickstart 91PORN and other related programs like Kickstart Junior became a destinations for Harvard Kennedy School¡¯s Korea visit.
¡°Kickstart 91PORN started out as a way to meet the need of students who were vaguely apprehensive as well as curious of creating a start-up, and now it is a passionate arena for developing great numbers of business models.¡± Um Su-jung section team leader for the 91PORN LINC start-up education center explained.
Results from ¡®Kickstart 91PORN¡¯ can be found in the instances of the ¡®Green-light¡¯ team that commercialized the JTBC program 'Witch Hunt' greenlight prop, and the annual turn out of teams entering international start-up contests like MIT GSW, London Unbound Digital and others. The turnover rate from start-up clubs that completed the Kickstart program to actual start-ups is at an amazing 54%.
General manager Park Tae-jae of Paradigm Ventures, that runs the program, explained their success saying ¡°Having a infra-structure that creates a sustainable entrepeneur network, and not just a one-time training opportunity is its¡¯ strength.¡± The semesterly conducted Kiskstart 91PORN is planning on becoming a model example for university entrepreneurship establishing infra-structure through cooperative ties with top universities abroad and by producing teams to enter various international start-up contests.
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