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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Tag: Women Founders
DJ Selects: Why Men Need Women Founders
Ari Horie has always had a different approach to supporting women entrepreneurs. She doesn’t talk about “empowering” women and …
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DJ Selects: Japan’s Airbnb for Satellites – InfoStellar
The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the...
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What You Don’t Know about Japan’s Sharing Economy – Anytimes
Fewer than 1% of Japanese consumers have ever purchased a product or service from a sharing...
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How Micro-Retail Shops Are Changing Japan – Nokisaki
Japan has a long history of small shopping streets and tiny markets. In fact, despite the...
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Can This Founder Solve Japan’s Hidden Mental Health Problem? – Hikari Labs
Seeking help for even minor mental health problems still carries a stigma in Japan. This is...
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How This Startup is Getting Japanese Moms Back to Work – Waris
Miwa Tanaka, CEO of Waris, is working to make things better for working women in Japan. Although...
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Will Japan’s Geisha Survive the Digital Age? – Disrupting Japan
You don’t usually think of Japan’s geisha as being an industry, but it is. In fact, strictly...
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Making Money in Other People’s Closets – Rie Yano
Material Wrld has found a way to innovate in online fashion commerce, and that’s no easy task....
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Japan’s Airbnb for Satellites – InfoStellar
The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the...
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How a Startup Went Global in Only 4 Seconds – Miku Hirano
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…
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Winning When Everyone Tells You to Quit – Yuki Ito
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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