The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry
This is our 200th episode, so I wanted to do something special. Everyone loves to complain about...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jan 10, 2023 | 22
This is our 200th episode, so I wanted to do something special. Everyone loves to complain about...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Oct 11, 2022 | 0
The way we get our food is changing. Many are discussing how to make modern farming more...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jun 14, 2022 | 0
Manga is one of Japan’s best known exports, but it’s surprisingly hard to make money...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jan 5, 2021 | 10
Today we are going to look at a different kind of innovation. It’s not technology....
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Nov 10, 2020 | 2
Startups exist to develop new solutions to problems. But many of society’s biggest problems...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Aug 4, 2020 | 2
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…
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