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'Startup Mentoring'_Instructor John Kim/Yonsei University

2026-10-24

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Client Yonsei University · Date 2026-10-24 · Topic Startup Mentoring · Instructor John Kim, Lead Instructor
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This morning in Daejeon, I held the second in-person mentoring session of the IR consulting program for companies in Yonsei University’s Future Startup Incubation Center. My counterpart was the CEO of Alpion, a sports equipment manufacturer that makes its own products and has sold them overseas, and is now preparing a new product aimed at the domestic market. Following the direction we set in last week’s online diagnosis, we rebuilt the IR deck into 10 slides and ran through it from start to finish in a flow of one minute per slide, finishing within 10 minutes. The order is problem, solution, traction, market, customer journey, and investment ask. In the market slide, we moved the calculation basis to the back and left only the large figure up front. At the end, we attached ten questions the judges are likely to ask, one per slide, and practiced jumping straight to the matching slide whenever a question comes up. One thought kept coming back to me as we prepared. For this deck too, AI produced a good share of the visuals and the first draft. Building the slide structure or generating likely questions now takes just a few minutes. But what we spent more than an hour on today was something else: re-examining who actually pays, remembering that judges stop listening when the technical explanation runs long, and, when a question comes, the CEO being able to say, “I built this myself.” Choosing the customer, cutting what doesn’t matter, and persuading in your own voice is still, I believe, work for people. Next Friday, I’ll hold the second mentoring session for the remaining companies in Wonju.
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FAQ

  • Client: Yonsei University
  • Date: 2026-10-24
  • Topic: Startup Mentoring
  • Instructor: John Kim

This morning in Daejeon, I held the second in-person IR consulting mentoring session for a resident company of the Yonsei University Future Startup Incubation Center. My counterpart was the CEO of Alpion, a sports equipment manufacturer that has built its own products and sold them overseas, and is now…

The “Startup Mentoring” session is delivered through Nanum Consulting’s Startup Mentoring course. Led by Nanum Consulting CEO John Kim, it is a practical 4-hour intensive program that builds a startup solution you can apply right away. See details of the Startup Mentoring course →
Yes. As in the Yonsei University case, we adjust the curriculum of the “Startup Mentoring” training to each company’s audience and level. It usually runs as a 4-hour intensive course and is available both on-site and online.