Social Capital Exercise III

Hyosuk Roo

- She used to be a freelancer as a graphic designer but after she got a graduate degree from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea, she joined a company. She taught multimedia classes for several years in college. She is a hard worker and willing to help and work together with people who need her help. She is active in providing best quality products with supporting follow-up service of final products if there are needed some amendments.

- She and I worked together in my company to develop user interface for a Windows-based computer system. She was charged of the design tasks. She developed screens, colors, and icons on screens. She not only easily understood what I asked but also brought out new ideas about improving user-friendly interface.
- She can help us with t-shirt design by using a graphic software and web design if we launch our web site.

Sungmoon Kwon

- One of my wife’s college alumni lived in the same apartment building where we lived. Her husband worked for KTB Network, a venture capital company, during his graduate school days. Now he has been studying a doctoral program of computer science at University of Maryland, College Park here. Four months ago, I was introduced to him and realized that he is also my alumnus with the same major, computer engineering in college.
- He has been touch with Mr. Kwon, the CEO of the venture capital since he was involved with his projects in his graduate school. The CEO’s wife visited last winter break to take care of her child in the Child Care Resources On-Campus (CRC) winter camp at University of Maryland. My alumnus said that the CEO has many experiences of investing startups and handling M&A cases, and so our team can get advice from him about feasibility of our team project. The CEO can help us with how to plan, finance our team project, and come into a real product.

Insik Joh

- He is one of my close friends and alumni. He has become a venture capitalist for several months. Two weeks ago, I chatted with one of my friend in Korea over the MSN messenger. The friend told me that Mr. Joh entered a venture capital because his business failed but he did not have any information about the detail of the failure. He was involved in an IT venture company that developed and manufactured a touch screen targeted on cellular phones. He was one of the four cofounders, one of whom had a patent on the technology. He can give us the way not to fail in starting up a business.
- He has some experience as a salesperson in a telecommunication industry for several years as well. I guess he has a human network for us to use.