DJ Selects: What You Need to Know To Sell Services (and Saas) in Japan
Selling services in Japan is very different than selling products or software. Everyone knows that...
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How I Made $8,000 per Month Podcasting, and Why You Probably Don’t Want To
This is a rather personal episode. We have no guests this time. It’s just you and me. New...
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Why Wind and Solar Energy Make Sense in Japan
The promise of renewable energy has always been alluring. Now that the technology has caught up to...
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The true reason for Japan’s critical developer shortage
It’s a great time to be a programmer in Japan. Everyone is hiring and there simply is not...
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DJ Selects: How to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan – Daisuke Sasaki
Corporate accounting is not usually the first thing the comes to mind when you think of disruptive technology, and for the most part, that’s a good thing. Daisuke Sasaki of Freee, however, is changing the way sales are made in Japan from the bottom up.
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Silicon Valley has Chatbots all Wrong. Here’s How They Really Make Money.
A few years ago, shiny new startups were using their marketing dollars to tell the world that...
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You need to Ignore the Worst Advice being given to Female Founders
Everything about employment in Japan is changing. Lifetime employment is gone. Skilled workers...
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DJ Selects: The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan
Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the very thing that make these companies so transformative in the United States ensures they will never succeed in Japan. You see…
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An Inside Look at Japan’s Curious Coding Bootcamps
The developed world is facing a severe programmer shortage. Around the world, coding boot...
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Is There (Finally) a Practical Way for Foreigners to Live in Japan?
For decades, Japan has been struggling with the economic need to attract more foreign residents to...
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