What: KASE/KAPS Speaker Series
When: Wed, March 3rd, 2010, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
Cost: $10
Snacks and refreshments provided
Sponsored by Royse Law Firm
Whether you have a job or are looking for one, starting your own company should always be an option. You may have a completely novel idea or an existing one, but with a passionate belief that you can do it better. However, an idea by itself gets you no where…you are still at your old job or perhaps still looking for a new one. Come to The Entreprenurship FAQ and learn how turn that something into a new Product, a new Service–a new Company!
The Panelists
Charles Mi
Before Opinmind, Charles spent several years working at the IBM Almaden Research Group focusing on information extraction, data modeling, and text analytics. Charles earned an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Paul Kim
Paul Kim is a passionate entrepreneur and founding CEO of Danal, Inc. who orchestrated the company’s $9.5 million Series-A fundraising in May 2007 in a rare transaction that married top-tier U.S. venture capital with a public, Asian company that pioneered the business of charging online transactions to the mobile phone bill. As chief executive, Paul strives to instill the company with his passion for success and vision for innovating the payment industry.
Prior to founding Danal in the U.S., Paul worked at Samsung’s
corporate venture capital group where he performed technology business development and investments on behalf of Samsung in the digital media, telecom, semiconductor, and internet sectors. Before Samsung, Paul worked in various capacities as a management consultant, consulting to both Fortune 100 companies in the high-tech and energy sectors, as well as for technology startups in the U.S. and Asia focusing on online gaming, eCommerce, and the internet. He also worked directly at several U.S. technology startups in eCommerce, online payments, and VOIP. Paul received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth as an Edward Tuck Scholar. Prior to that, he earned dual B.A. degrees in Economics and Political Science with honors from the University of California at Los Angeles as an Alumni Scholar. Paul is a member of American Mensa.
Paul has a unique background: he was raised in three countries (South Korea, Philippines, and the U.S.), and his father was a prominent opposition leader who fought for South Korean democracy during the country’s military rule in the 1960’s. He enjoys traveling to exotic countries and experiencing different world cultures, and he is an avid sports enthusiast who has been involved with soccer & martial arts since childhood and was once runner-up in the Mr. Korea Bodybuilding Competition. Paul has deep humanitarian ambitions and has been involved with numerous volunteer activities, including spending time in schools & refugee camps in post-war Afghanistan. He lives by the motto, “I would rather live one day and change the world than 100 years anonymously.”
Ken Ryu
Ken Ryu is CEO and Founder of GetQuik. GetQuik, www.getquik.com, is a leading online marketplace for restaurant ordering with over 500 participating restaurants. Prior to GetQuik, Ken served as Division Director for Robert Half Technology, a division of Robert Half International, a Fortune 1000 Staffing and Consulting Firm (NYSE: RHI). Ken earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
Dan Yoo
Dan Yoo is currently the Director of Business Operations at LinkedIn where he helps support the monetization efforts of the company. He was previously SVP of Corporate Development and Finance at Rhythm NewMedia, the leader in ad supported mobile videos, which is backed by Morgenthaler and Lightspeed Ventures . Dan was also the CFO at Parature, an Inc. 5000 Software-as-a-Service company, which is backed by Accel Parters, Sierra Ventures and Valhalla Partners. Prior to Parature, Dan co-founded ReliaQuote, a leading Internet insurance brokerage firm, which was acquired by Fiserv Inc. in 2003. ReliaQuote was ranked as the #1 life insurance site on the web by Forbes and SmartMoney, and named “One of the Top 50 Financial Websites” by Money Magazine. Dan has also worked on numerous technology financings and acquisitions as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch’s Technology Investment Banking Group and with Epoch Partners, a technology focused investment bank that was acquired by Goldman Sachs. Dan also recently opened a Korean restaurant in San Francisco called Stone Korean Kitchen.
Dan earned his M.B.A. at The Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, and graduated with a Business Administration degree from Georgetown University.
