Category: Podcast
118: This Japanese Startup Is Using Your Phone to Make Insurance Social
The insurance industry has proven very resistant to innovation. In fact, it has not really changed...
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117: Japan’s Secret Strategy for Global Drone Domination
Blue Innovation attracted a lot of international attention last year when they announced the...
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116: How Startups Can Attract, Retain, and Develop Staff in Japan
Have you ever been at a crowded and noisy party and heard a conversation across the room? You...
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115: A Successful Kickstarter Campaign Almost Bankrupted This Startup
Hardware is hard. In fact, sometimes the simplest and most straightforward ideas turn out to be...
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114: This Japanese Startup Is Bringing The Human Genome to The Mass Market
Right now, it looks like the most profitable business models that are emerging from the mapping of...
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113: Japan Announces Plans to Land on The Moon by 2020
We startup founders and investors like to talk about “moonshots”. It points out startups that have...
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112: Why Artificial Intelligence Is The Key to Fixing Japan’s Rigid Education System
Using artificial intelligence to change the way the education system works seems like a fool’s...
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111: How Startups Can Compete In The New Energy Markets
The global energy markets are transforming themselves right before our eyes. Very little...
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110: Why Your Freemium Strategy Might be Hurting Your Sales
Having a free product tier is a time-proven way for startups to get a foot in the door by giving...
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109: What Every Foreigner Needs to Know about Hiring Staff in Japan
Japanese labor law is very different from what is standard in the US or Europe, and more than a...
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