Podcast Episodes

Why boring startups are actually the most interesting

Season 1 Episode 160

Some of the most important startups are ones you never hear about. Some industries are so complex and arcane that its hard for people on the outside…

6 years ago

DJ Selects: How this Musical Shoe is Helping Hospitals

Season 1 Episode 159

Most great startup ideas don’t grab your attention right away. It takes a while before the founder’s vision becomes obvious to the rest of us. On the…

6 years, 1 month ago

Why Japan’s #KuToo is Not Really About Shoes

Today I am going to correct two big mistakes; one of my own and one of society's. I lot of listeners emailed me about the comments I made regarding …

6 years, 1 month ago

Big News for Disrupting Japan! – Japan Startup News

Season 1 Episode 157

There is big news for Tim and for Disrupting Japan this week. It's a very short episode, and I have no special links or show notes this time around.…

6 years, 2 months ago

How Japan’s forgotten past can stop IoT’s dystopian future

Season 1 Episode 155

Technology is global, but ideas are local. The same IoT technology is being deployed all over the world, but a small Japanese startup might be who h…

6 years, 3 months ago

Japan leads the world in this one important branch of AI

Technology develops differently in Japan. While US tech giants have been grabbing artificial intelligence headlines, a business AI sector has been q…

6 years, 3 months ago

DJ Selects: Why Men Need Women Founders

Season 1 Episode 153

Ari Horie has always had a different approach to supporting women entrepreneurs. She doesn't talk about "empowering" women and ...

6 years, 4 months ago

The big reason Japanese companies can’t innovate

Episode 153

Japanese enterprises are their own worst enemy when it comes to innovation. In this live panel discussion, I talk about my experience driving innova…

6 years, 4 months ago

The hardest thing about hardware startups : Live from CEATEC

This year at CEATEC, I worked with Plug & Play Japan to bring on stage founders from two very different hardware startups. We talk in-depth about wh…

6 years, 5 months ago

Artificial Intelligence’s broken promise and its secret truth

The promise of AI is easily understood by anyone with an imagination, and for 40 years, venture capitalists have been enthusiastically investing in t…

6 years, 5 months ago