DJ Selects: Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Disappear
Almost all startup accelerators are going bankrupt and going away. Hiro Maeda, the founder of two...
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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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Beneath the Cherry Blossoms with Dave McClure – 500 Startups
Today we sit down with Dave McClure under the cherry blossoms and talk about startups, funding,...
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Startup Fundraising in Japan – Live & Unleashed
Disrupting Japan is two years old and ready to party. To celebrate, we gathered the leaders of...
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Why Japanese VCs are Losing Out – James Riney of 500 Startups
500 Startups has been one of the driving forces behind the utter disruption of how seed funding is done. That shift is one of the reasons we have seen such large and diverse startup ecosystems emerging around the world. Japan, however, often changes more slowly than other nations.
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Live & Unleashed – Our One-Year Anniversary
Disrupting Japan is one year old, and ready to party. To celebrate , we gathered some of the leaders of Tokyo’s startup community together in front of a live audience, had a few drinks, and talked about the future of startups in Japan.
Our panel included perspectives from software, IOT, and venture capital, which led to some interesting discussions.
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Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Die – Hiro Maeda
Almost all startup accelerators are going bankrupt and going away.
Hiro Maeda, the founder of two of Japan’s most successful, and most different startup incubators explains both the brief past and precarious future of startup incubators and accelerators. We talk not only about the mechanics and challenges of what it takes to make an incubator successful, but Hiro has some practical advice on when founders should consider joining an accelerator and how they can avoid the 99% of them that provide no real value.
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The Japan Startup Factory – Casey Wahl – Red Brick Ventures
Casey has been on the founding team of several Japanese startups in markets ranging from from retailing, to recruiting, to information sharing, to private social networks for pachinko parlors. Add to that the fact that he’s just published a book on Japanese startup founders and their stories, and you won’t be surprised to find that this turns out to be a pretty interesting discussion.
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What Japan’s Startup Ecosystem Needs to Grow – Ikuo Hiraishi
The startup ecosystems in America and Europe are built around people like Ikuo, but men like him are still quite rare in Japan. After founding a series of successful (and a few less than successful) startups, Ikuo moved to the other side of the table and begin investing and mentoring.
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