STRATEGY PARTNER

A decision-making partner by your side

Not a consultant who drops a report and leaves — an ongoing partner who executes with you.

Running a business is a constant stream of firsts.

Decisions in unfamiliar territory can be daunting.

To reduce the cost of failure, you need the perspective of someone who has been there.

You sometimes wonder whether your organization and business are headed in the right direction.

You need someone who can add an objective view to your direction — and help give your decisions weight.

LifeOdyssey Agency with you — move faster, fail less

An SNU founder who has raised over KRW 900M, including VC funding, helps with your decisions

We reduce your cost of failure with insight tested in the field.

From business strategy and growth to organization and talent — we help where you need it

Business-model assessment, growth hacking, acquisition and funnel improvement, hiring, and organization operations.

We combine the latest startup theory with hands-on experience

We share knowledge that has been tested in practice, not just theory.

BACKED & TRUSTED BY
  • Mashup Ventures
  • BioSleepCenter
  • 서울대학교 OSCAR 캠퍼스타운
  • 영어의숲
GROWTH FUNDAMENTALS

The growth vocabulary every founder should know

01

What is growth hacking?

A method that brings marketing, product, and engineering together as one team to run fast experiments and find the levers of growth. Instead of burning a big budget, it builds the growth curve through repeated, data-validated experiments.

The point isn't spending more — it's finding where to push to make growth happen. Decisions come from experiments and metrics, not gut feel.

02

What is a funnel?

It views the customer journey — visit → sign-up → purchase — as a funnel that narrows at each step as people drop off. You have to examine the whole journey, from ad and marketing channels all the way to the product experience.

A clear business model is ultimately the product of these stage metrics — visitors × sign-up rate × purchase rate × average order value. And each metric becomes a lever the team can lift through experiments.

03

What are CAC / LTV?

CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) is what it costs to acquire one customer; LTV (Lifetime Value) is the total profit that customer generates over their lifetime. Their ratio (LTV/CAC) is a core signal of business profitability.

As a rule of thumb, LTV should be at least 3× CAC to be healthy. Below 1× it's better to stop spending — and watch the payback period too.

04

What is contribution margin?

It's revenue minus variable costs — cost of goods, payment fees, shipping, whatever is spent each time something sells. It's the share that covers fixed costs and 'contributes' to profit on every sale.

Both LTV and CAC payback ultimately come from contribution margin. So your structure has to leave contribution margin, not just revenue — only then does growth become profit.

COVERAGE

What you can hand off

Business Strategy

  • Market and competition analysis → positioning
  • Business and revenue model assessment → a plan to close the gaps
  • Set the company's current action priorities
  • A business-model narrative you can use for fundraising

Growth

  • Deep funnel analysis, from acquisition channels to the product experience
  • When product-market fit (PMF) needs work, sharpen product direction
  • When effective go-to-market (GTM) is the priority, strengthen acquisition
  • Building a culture of customer-centered decisions

Org & Talent

  • Build a hypothesis- and data-driven operating rhythm
  • Assess your org structure and align it to where you want to go
  • Insight on equity structure (splits, vesting, dilution)
  • Tap our SNU network when you need talent
PROCESS

By your side weekly — cutting the cost of failure.

DISCOVERY

Free consultation & assessment

We start by assessing your business model and market position together. We pinpoint the most urgent challenge and where to start. The consultation and assessment are free.

DEEP DIVE

Onboarding deep dive

The first month goes deep into your business, market, and team. Rather than giving surface advice, we study your data and operating reality so decisions are grounded in context. We turn that work into a strategy roadmap.

ENGAGE

Always-on strategy partner

We don't hand over one report and leave. We move alongside your decisions every week, correcting course when it drifts and keeping execution from stalling. We work like an insider, not an outside consultant.

REVIEW

Review & adjust

We review results regularly against the metrics we set. We confirm with data what worked and what missed, and quickly adjust the next priorities and direction.

WHO WE ARE

Team

Seonghoon Choo

Seonghoon Choo

CEO / Engineer / Business Strategist

A Seoul National University Business graduate with 5+ years of IT founding experience. After founding ZalaCompany Inc., he raised roughly KRW 900M in early-stage funding, including VC investment. From business strategy and partnerships to hands-on product development and build, he stays a growth partner for your company end to end.

Lee Gyuri

Lee Gyuri

Designer / Marketer

A designer with 10 years of experience across web, UX/UI, brand operations, and marketing. Having founded and run her own commerce brand — designing everything from branding to website, checkout, and marketing — she creates growing brands, not just designs. She helps brands drive real results through conversion-focused design and marketing.

PORTFOLIO

Selected work

012025–2026

English Forest

AI English-conversation learning app

Ongoing strategy & management advisory; Meta performance marketing setup & execution (2 months)

Selected for national startup programs (2025–2026)
300%+ ROAS

  • Strategy Partnership
  • Performance Marketing
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Let's create the next turning point for your business

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