한밭대학교

- Prospective founders and lead mentors participate to refine startup ideas and support successful startups

□ Hanbat National University (President Oh Yong-jun) Startup Support Foundation announced that it held the Kickoff Day for the 'Everyone Startup Project' on campus on the 17th marking the full-scale start of the startup journey for the selected prospective founders.

 ○ The 'Everyone Startup Project' is a national startup project supporting anyone with a startup idea to challenge starting a business promoting the enhancement of prospective founders' commercialization competency and the vitalization of the startup ecosystem.

 ○ On this day, the event was attended by selected prospective founders lead mentors university officials and others and it was conducted in the order of program introduction appointment ceremony for lead mentors startup special lecture and mentor-mentee networking and mentoring.

 ○ Especially, by matching prospective founders with lead mentors a customized mentoring system was established to refine startup items and establish commercialization strategies allowing practical advice and support to be provided throughout the entire startup process for the selected prospective founders.

□ Through, the subsequent networking and group mentoring participants shared their startup ideas and had time to discuss the direction of commercialization and they materialized their commercialization plans while being guided through programs and support details to be provided in the future such as lead mentoring AI solution support and startup activity fund support.

□ Hanbat National University Startup Support Foundation Director Lee Seong-ho said, “Starting a business is a realm of possibility where anyone can take on the challenge.” He added, “We will spare no field-centered support so that prospective founders can develop their ideas into actual businesses.”