What you can learn from Japan’s seven-minute miracle
Today we are going to look at a different kind of innovation. It’s not technology....
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Today we are going to look at a different kind of innovation. It’s not technology....
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Startups exist to develop new solutions to problems. But many of society’s biggest problems...
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You don’t usually think of Japan’s geisha as being an industry, but it is. In fact, strictly...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jul 7, 2020 | 2
They probably mean well. They are telling you something that is easy to understand and that seems...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Dec 24, 2019 | 2
Technology is global, but ideas are local. The same IoT technology is being deployed all over the...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Nov 26, 2019 | 2
Ari Horie has always had a different approach to supporting women entrepreneurs. She doesn’t talk about “empowering” women and …
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Aug 20, 2019 | 4
Those of us who spend our lives working with startups live in a bubble. Whether you spend your...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jun 25, 2019 | 8
Startup culture has crazy and contradictory views about failure. As founders we are told to fail fast, but also to never give up. We are told to follow our vision, but be ready to pivot. Somehow this macho-bullshit culture of “I never really fail and ‘m not afraid of failure.” has become dominant amount founders. But it’s the result of denial. Trivializing failure is a way of not thinking about it’s effects.
The truth is that failure sucks. Failure is painful. Failure …
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Feb 5, 2019 | 10
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…
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jan 8, 2019 | 14
For decades, Japan has been struggling with the economic need to attract more foreign residents to...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Oct 16, 2018 | 0
The conventional wisdom is that traditional Japanese companies can’t innovate. And...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jul 24, 2018 | 0
Japan had been a global leader in robotics for decades, but recently the traditional Japanese...
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