Free Startup Education for Success of Kibo, Prospective and Early Entrepreneurs Provided

'2020 2nd Venture Startup Workshop' Held

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The Korea Technology Finance Corporation (Chairman Jung Yoon-mo, hereinafter referred to as Kibo) announced on the 16th that it is recruiting trainees for the '2020 2nd Venture Startup School' to support the successful startup of prospective and early-stage entrepreneurs.

The Venture Startup School will be held over two days, on the 27th and 28th of next month, at the Samgyeong Education Center in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, and is completely free of charge. The target participants are prospective entrepreneurs preparing to start businesses in technology-based industries such as manufacturing, information and communication technology (ICT), renewable energy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution fields, and knowledge and cultural industries, or early-stage entrepreneurs within three years of starting their business. Kibo plans to select around 50 trainees through a screening process.

This training will be conducted in a hybrid format, both online and offline, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The curriculum consists of practical knowledge-oriented lectures related to technology startups, including ▲ startup law ▲ startup support policy funds ▲ tax and accounting, human resources and labor ▲ investment attraction and IR ▲ business plan writing, and customized startup consulting will be provided free of charge to outstanding graduates.

Kibo has been operating this course since 2001 to support the successful startup and stable business foundation of prospective and early-stage entrepreneurs, and has produced a total of 4,889 graduates to date. Graduates of the training are also provided with Kibo's customized startup guarantees separately, making efforts to discover and nurture technology-based startup companies.

Baek Kyung-ho, a director at Kibo, said, "Kibo has been operating demand-tailored startup education programs to contribute to the creation of an open innovation startup ecosystem in line with the government's Smart Korea implementation plan," adding, "We will continue to operate the program so that creative technologies and ideas can be commercialized and lead to successful startups."

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