According to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups on the 16th, the second phase of everyone's start-up will be announced in early July and successful candidates will be selected in early September. The number of successful applicants will be 10,000, doubling from the previous 5,000. The input budget is about 200 billion won, which will more than triple from 62.8 billion won in the first period. Eligibility to apply will also be eased. During the first period, they were prospective founders or re-founders in other fields within three years of their start-up, but during the second period, they can even apply to re-founders in other fields within seven years of their start-up.
The second phase of everyone's start-up strengthens the mentoring system. This is to supplement the evaluation of some idea feedback and poor mentoring in the first phase. First of all, it will introduce a multi-faceted evaluation system jointly reviewed by three mentors. Considering the increased workload, we also introduce an artificial intelligence (AI) verification model.
To help 58,000 applicants who were eliminated in the first period continue the challenge, feedback on complementary ideas and mentoring for re-challenge will also be provided online and offline from the 22nd to July 22nd. In offline re-challenge mentoring, a start-up care manager provides on-site mentoring within 15 minutes on the general and basic start-ups such as start-up procedures and how to write business plans. Lectures necessary to prepare for start-ups such as problem definition, marketability verification, and customer analysis strategies will also be held. It also provides online mentoring related to improving ideas and improving business models. It will be held during the same period through responsible mentors nationwide released on everyone's start-up platform. In addition, university leagues, youth start-up camps, and global leagues will be established.
[Reporter Seo Jeongwon]
