The Orange Planet Startup Foundation (CEO Sang-Bong Seo, hereinafter referred to as ‘Orange Planet’) announced on the 22nd that it will hold the second round of the 2022 Startup School Startup Meeting at the Jeonju Center on the 26th (Tuesday). This start-up school start-up meeting will be held under the theme of ‘strategy to enter the market in the early stage of business and measures to secure users’.
Startup School is a startup growth support program operated by Orange Planet Jeonju Center since 2020. It aims to help local young people to start a business and grow. In particular, this year, we are focusing on preparing a venue where preliminary and early startups can hear the stories of ‘growing senior startups’.
Geun-young Kim, director of LRHR, which is servicing luxury repair platform ‘Papis’, and Hyun-min Lee, co-founder of Moyo, which operates ‘Everyone’s Rate Plan’, an affordable phone price comparison platform, will attend this meeting. Director Kim and co-founder Lee will share vivid business experiences and growth histories as senior startup founders.
LRHR launched and is operating the first non-face-to-face luxury total care platform in Korea, Papis. As the center of gravity of the luxury market is gradually shifting online, it is a startup that started from the awareness that the repair market needs a change that suits it. There are about 40 repair shops that have entered Papis so far, and the cumulative number of visitors has exceeded 100,000 in about half a year since the service started in November last year.
Moyo introduced ‘Everyone’s Rate Plan’, a price comparison platform for affordable phones in September 2021. Within 10 months of launching the service, it achieved 800,000 cumulative users. It has signed business alliances with 16 budget phone partners and is rapidly expanding its services by introducing ‘compare prices for self-sufficient handsets’ and ‘internet combination business’. In February of this year, it received a 1 billion won seed investment in recognition of its potential.
Earlier, in the first round of the 2022 ‘Startup School Startup Meeting’ held at the Jeonju Center on June 29 (Wednesday), Jeong-jin Song, CEO of ‘Taper Labs’ and Young-hoon Yoon, CEO of ‘Asi’ gave lectures as mentors. A total of 9 startups participated in this event to share practical business cases and to share deep concerns about the business.
Local entrepreneurs who participated in the meeting said, “It was beneficial to gain insight through experiences based on real business cases, and it was a great help to directly ask questions about running a company through the networking that followed.” I want to share vivid field experiences through the senior entrepreneurs of ”.
On the other hand, Orange Planet Jeonju Center is a startup support center opened in 2019 by Jeonju City and Smilegate to discover and nurture promising startups in the Jeonbuk region. The focus is on bridging the gap in support for startups between the Seoul metropolitan area and the region. It has been at the forefront of discovering and nurturing local startups by holding the ‘Jeonju Startup Contest’ every September and October and providing an accelerating program along with a prize money necessary for growth.
Sang-Bong Seo, the head of Orange Planet’s center, said, “The Startup School Startup Meeting is meaningful in that it allows senior founders to experience the know-how they have acquired through direct experience and serves as a place for human exchange that is essential for startup growth.” It will serve as a ‘Startup Sarangbang’ in the Jeollabuk-do region, providing programs that can be used for this purpose and sharing the vivid experiences of growing startups.”
