What could over 150 entrepreneurs possibly all have in common? At the
Google for Entrepreneurs (G4E) Week event in Seoul, we heard from two founders who shared their stories about overcoming challenges that all entrepreneurs in the room could relate to...
Donggun Lee is the founder of
myRealTrip, a website that connects Korean travelers with locals to give them an authentic experience of a foreign city, and Minhee Lee founded
Bapul, an app that enables experts to help students with math questions. These are very different businesses, but both faced the same challenge: finding the right human capital to help them succeed.
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| Google for Entrepreneurs Week events from Seoul to Cyberjaya. At the bottom left are Heewoo Lee, venture capitalist and author of “Just Start, Don’t be a Chicken”, moderating a panel with Minhee Lee, founder of Bapul.net, and Donggun Lee, founder of myRealTrip.com |
Donggun’s business idea was all about enlisting people living in popular tourist destinations around the world to act as tour guides for visiting Koreans. But how was he to find people who were both fluent in Korean and the local language? Minhee’s first startup idea was based on having a finite number of hired professionals handle the influx of student queries. Both entrepreneurs found it difficult to sustain and scale their businesses this way.
This is when they decided to iterate and adopt more open platforms. Bapul today allows any expert who’s been approved by the company to answer questions posted to the app. Relying on a social network-based approach has allowed both businesses to flourish. At the heart of this solution was establishing solid relationships. As Minhee put it, “Good people bring other good people along”.
This is part of what we’re trying to do with Google for Entrepreneurs Week, with the Seoul event being just one of the G4E events that took place in 64 cities around the world this year. We want to help bring members of the startup community together to learn from and inspire one another by sharing ideas and experiences. In case you couldn’t be part of G4E Week,
check out the startup communities near you to see how you can get involved throughout the year and build the relationships to help you succeed.
Posted by Sanghyun Lee, Public Policy, Google Korea
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