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...
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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 | Dec 25, 2018 | 0
The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Aug 22, 2017 | 0
Fewer than 1% of Japanese consumers have ever purchased a product or service from a sharing...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Jul 11, 2017 | 3
Japan has a long history of small shopping streets and tiny markets. In fact, despite 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 | Mar 21, 2017 | 2
Miwa Tanaka, CEO of Waris, is working to make things better for working women in Japan. Although...
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 | Oct 25, 2016 | 2
Material Wrld has found a way to innovate in online fashion commerce, and that’s no easy task....
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Oct 11, 2016 | 2
The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the...
Read Moreby Tim Romero | Apr 26, 2016 | 0
Everyone talks about the importance of international markets and how startups need to think globally from day one. Few companies, however, build that goal into their DNA as completely as Miku Hirano’s Cinnamon.
Cinnamon’s core product, Tuya is a micro-video sharing platform…
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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