Category: Podcast
95b: Life Changes & Why Nerds Need to Stop Reading Tolkien
(Photo Credit: WurFi) This is a short and very personal episode. Things will be changing for me...
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95: How This American Got The Japanese Government to Fund His Startup – enTouch
Two of the most persistent and damaging myths about Japan are that it is hard to start a company...
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94: How Micro-Retail Shops Are Changing Japan – Nokisaki
Japan has a long history of small shopping streets and tiny markets. In fact, despite the...
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93: The Fastest Way to Start a Startup in Japan – Mobingi
Platform as a Service (PaaS) has been a difficult startup business model in the US, but Wayland...
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92: The Little Startup from Japan That Took Down NTT – TownWiFi
It’s rare for a Japanese startup to challenge NTT and come out ahead. But that’s exactly what...
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91: I Was Wrong. Startups Are Not the Future of Innovation in Japan
This is a rather personal episode. We have no guests this time. It’s just you and me. We talk a...
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90: How this Musical Shoe Startup is Helping Hospitals – No New Folk Studio
Most great startup ideas don’t grab your attention right away. It takes a while before the...
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89: How One Good Idea Emerged from Japan’s Nuclear Disaster – Safecast
After the March 2011 earthquake and the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO and...
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88: How You Can Build American Startup Culture in Japan – OpenTable
Selling innovative software to conservative Japanese businesses is never easy, but it’s...
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87: How This Startup Makes Money from Children’s Old Notebooks – Arcterus
Education is one of the hardest sectors to disrupt — or even improve upon — and most...
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