Selects: Why Japan’s Geisha are disappearing in the social media age
You don’t usually think of Japan’s geisha as being an industry, but it is. In fact, strictly...
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 | Mar 31, 2020 | 0
Almost all startup accelerators are going bankrupt and going away. Hiro Maeda, the founder of two...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Feb 18, 2020 | 2
Most great startup ideas don’t grab your attention right away. It takes a while before 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 6, 2019 | 2
Startup founders claiming their company is going to “change the world” has become a cliche. But rarely do we see a product that could clearly and significantly make someone’s life better. D-Free is one of those products. However…
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 | Mar 19, 2019 | 2
Corporate accounting is not usually the first thing the comes to mind when you think of disruptive technology, and for the most part, that’s a good thing. Daisuke Sasaki of Freee, however, is changing the way sales are made in Japan from the bottom up.
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 | Dec 25, 2018 | 0
The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Dec 26, 2017 | 6
Japanese labor law is very different from what is standard in the US or Europe, and more than a...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Dec 12, 2017 | 0
Japanese fashion is unique, and so is the entire Japanese fashion industry. Today I would like to...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Nov 28, 2017 | 6
There are a lot of passionate opinions about Japanese design. From the beauty and subtlety of the...
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