One-Person Operations: Startup Hub and Ground Floor

one-person operations: From one-person operations running out of a locker and a laptop on the ground floor, to fully-fledged offices on the upper levels, Seoul's startup hub has supported 1,282 operations in various stages of growth in the past two years, according to The Guardian. It has all the bells and whistles you come to associate with startup hubs across the world shared dining and working spaces, a rest area with beanbags and egg-shaped couches, a fully decked-out kitchen for food-tech companies, a broadcast studio, a library, a slide between two floors and even a 7-Eleven for those powering through the night. Out in the west of the South Korean capital, a nine-storey building dressed in bright colours with a giant red bull outside is home to more than 100 startups. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seo-yeon Oh, the founder of Amuse Travel. There are 85 accelerators in Seoul, and the amount of angel investment increased from about US 170m 250m in 2015 to US 250m in 2017. Photograph Josh Taylor/The Guardian There were about 467 accelerators, venture capital funds and government organisations supporting startups in Seoul and its surrounding province in 2018, some backed by bigger companies such as Samsung and Naver. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.