[conference] 실리콘밸리의 한국인: 글로벌 IT무대에서 활약하는 우리들의 이야기 (translation: Koreans in Silicon Valley: Our Action Story on Global IT Stage)

Subject	실리콘밸리의 한국인: 글로벌 IT무대에서 활약하는 우리들의 이야기 (translation: Koreans in Silicon Valley: Our Action Story on Global IT Stage)
Place	Naver Green Factory Connect Hall
Time	April 14, 2015 (Tue) 9:00~18:30
Speaker	list (link)
Host?	Naver, Startup Alliance, K Internet
Focus	start-up, career, innovation

1. 실리콘밸리101 - 당신이 알고 싶었던 실리콘밸리의 모든 것 [음재훈 Jay Eum, Co-Founder & Managing Director@TransLink Capital]
1. lesson
1. how to determine good company: use common sense
2. VC’s life: fundraising ⅓, investment ⅓,
3. advice on hardware startup
1. front-end: design, app
2. back-end: data, cloud
2. personal takeaway: use common sense to choose a startup to work for

2. Y Combinator에서 배운 스타트업 엑셀러레이션 [하형석 Hyungseok Dino Ha, CEO@Memebox Corp.]
1. lesson: growth focus, growth only
1. one question weekly asked: how much % growth for the past week
2. personal takeaway: you can’t succeed if you keep sitting around

3. 영어를 잘 못하는 창업자가 실리콘밸리에서 일하는 법  [이수인 Sooinn Lee, Co-Founder@Locomotive Labs]
1. lesson and personal takeaway: CEOs need to learn how to be CEO e.g. CEO Bootcamp

4. 하버드와 MIT의 수재들 디자인으로 리드하기  [이혜진 Hyejin Lee, CEO@THE MEME design]
1. lesson:
1. Good to Great: good is the enemy of great, who is more important than what
2. Meet your new you and converse with him/her
2. personal takeaway: in choosing where to work, among other lists to consider, choose who instead of what

5. 촌놈, 미국에서 글로벌 기업의 사업부를 이끌다 [오태호 Taeho Oh, Global business executive specialized in mobile and multimedia@Dolby Laboratories]
1. lesson:
1. business culture
1. passion, not emotion
2. productivity via email, conference call
3. work more than it looks
2. the way of thinking
1. always ask why
2. work together; debate
3. say it’s mine
3. to be a leader
1. communication by ongoing practice
2. build a great team
3. be confident
2. personal takeaway: always ask why and be confident

6. 실리콘밸리와 한국 스타트업의 문화 차이  [Mike Kim, Global Partnerships@Woowa Brothers]
1. lesson: best time to be in Korea for startups
2. personal takeaway:
1. list up what I learned from Google
2. list up what kinds of problems I have solved
3. list up experiences per domain experience, communication capability, teamwork

7. 나도 할 수 있다는 혁신 - 맨주먹으로 시작하기 [권기태 Kitae Kwon,Technical Manager@TSMC]
1. lesson:
1. bootstrapping: customer funded company by income, savings, credit cards, second mortgage, etc.
2. how boostrapping? e.g. through hacking
3. excel in execution: the only key for success
4. radical experiments: ready -> fire -> aim (reason: cost of fail < opportunity)
2. personal takeaway:
1. experiment, experiment and experiment fast!!!
2. build your product from starting with smaller projects