Your Japanese textbooks are lying to you
They probably mean well. They are telling you something that is easy to understand and that seems...
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Category: Tim on Japanese Startups
Why public humiliation is the secret to success
I’ve never managed to find a direct road to success. My bio reads like a random walk down...
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The Japanese Trap of the Glorious Failure
Japanese businessmen famously fear failure. But that understanding is horribly incomplete. In...
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One important lesson startups will forget after the panic
Innovation drives society forward, but everyday competence keeps it on the road. Over the past...
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Why Japan’s #KuToo is Not Really About Shoes
Today I am going to correct two big mistakes; one of my own and one of society’s. I lot of...
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Big News for Disrupting Japan! – Japan Startup News
There is big news for Tim and for Disrupting Japan this week. It’s a very short episode, and...
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The Ultimate Guide to Raising Money in Japan
There has never been a better time to be raising money in Japan than right now. Founders ask me...
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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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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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How Japan’s evocative machines are quietly creating new startup unicorns
This is a rather personal episode. We have no guests this time. It’s just you and me. Today,...
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Why I Turned Down $500k, Shut Down My Startup, And Joined the Enterprise
Welcome to our 100th show. If you are new, welcome to Disrupting Japan. If you are a long-time...
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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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