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 | 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 | 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 | Jul 24, 2018 | 0
Japan had been a global leader in robotics for decades, but recently the traditional Japanese...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Feb 6, 2018 | 4
Using artificial intelligence to change the way the education system works seems like a fool’s...
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...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | May 9, 2017 | 2
Seeking help for even minor mental health problems still carries a stigma in Japan. This is...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Nov 22, 2016 | 4
You don’t usually think of Japan’s geisha as being an industry, but it is. In fact, strictly...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Aug 10, 2016 | 12
Uber’s disastrous failure in Japan was not caused by local competition, but by a uniquely American strategy that simply could not work in Japan.
You see, Uber represents a new kind of startup. The very thing that makes them so successful in America dooms them to failure in Japan.
by Tim Romero | Aug 2, 2016 | 37
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 | Mar 29, 2016 | 3
Over the last 25 years, both Zest and Yuki Ito have been through several different incarnations. Interestingly, these incarnations perfectly mirror the changes we have seen in Japan’s startup scene in that time.
Today Zest makes cloud-based, field-service software, which …
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