Our founder and CEO, David Lee, was invited to speak as part of a series on innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership at the Korea Society in New York. To quote the Korea Society: Korea, rich in a talented workforce that is driven and globally minded, appears attractive for start-ups and innovative entrepreneurs. David Lee, CEO of Shakr Media, discusses innovation and entrepreneurship and why Korea is attractive for global venture capitalists, incubators, and start-ups.
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Homebuyers demand video, and YouTube is where they go to find it. According to The Digital House Hunt, a joint study by Google and the National Association of Realtors, 51% of home shoppers looked for information directly on YouTube as part of their home search. And that makes sense. Video is highly accessible and highly engaging. Unlike text-only articles, it does’t just tell a story, it shows a story. Realtors can use video in many ways to boost sales, and setting …
Our mission at Shakr is “Everything to Video” and recently we found something new we could bring to video, real estate. In the past, realtors had to hire a professional video crew to make a short clip, or just settle for a click-click-click slideshow. The former is expensive and the latter isn’t all that effective, other than on a static website. Real estate video production was hard. We’ve worked with some top designers and top realtors to create a collection …
Christina Larson of Bloomberg Businessweek sums up Shakr, in a nutshell: On shakr.com, developers can upload video templates for everything from weddings and children’s birthdays to real-estate sales. A user can insert personal photos into the template and download a low-res video for free or pay about $40 for an HD version. Since the website was launched on May 1, about 40 percent have chosen to pay for the higher-quality version. To date, Shakr has received about $2.4 million in …
Well, not really. There may have been some confusion after a recent article in the Wall Street Journal’s Korea Realtime blog about Shakr. The post was headlined: “For Founder of Korean Tech Startup, A Sudden Move to Silicon Valley“. It’s partially true. We have filed papers to have an official presence in San Francisco. Some of us in the company, David and Erik, especially, will be spending much more time there, too. And that’s smart business. Deals are getting done. …