Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThis Startup is Turning Investing into a Lifestyle Brand
Season 1 Episode 98
The financial services industry in Japan is pretty unsophisticated. There are relatively few options for brokerages and mutual funds, and what option…
8 years, 7 months ago
This Is Why Japanese Startups Can’t Pivot
Season 1 Episode 97
Japanese enterprises are particularly susceptible to disruption, and Japanese startups have a harder time than most pivoting. Both of these problems …
8 years, 7 months ago
Why Japan is Already Becoming the World’s FinTech Leader
Season 1 Episode 96
FinTech in Japan is far more advanced than most outside observers imagine it to be, and based on new deregulation and government incentives, finTech …
8 years, 8 months ago
Why Nerds Need to Stop Reading Tolkien
Season 1
(Photo Credit: WurFi) This is a short and very personal episode. Things will be changing for me and for Disrupting Japan, and sometimes when you are…
8 years, 8 months ago
How This American Got The Japanese Government to Fund His Startup – enTouch
Season 1 Episode 95
Two of the most persistent and damaging myths about Japan are that it is hard to start a company here and that it is hard to do business as a foreign…
8 years, 8 months ago
How Micro-Retail Shops Are Changing Japan – Nokisaki
Season 1 Episode 94
Japan has a long history of small shopping streets and tiny markets. In fact, despite the population density, American-style mall culture never took …
8 years, 8 months ago
The Fastest Way to Start a Startup in Japan – Mobingi
Season 1 Episode 93
Platform as a Service (PaaS) has been a difficult startup business model in the US, but Wayland Zheng, founder and CEO of Mobingi, has found a way to…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Little Startup from Japan That Took Down NTT – TownWiFi
Season 1 Episode 92
It’s rare for a Japanese startup to challenge NTT and come out ahead. But that’s exactly what Takehiro Ogita and his team at TownWiFi have accomplish…
8 years, 9 months ago
I Was Wrong. Startups Are Not the Future of Innovation in Japan
Season 1 Episode 91
This is a rather personal episode. We have no guests this time. It’s just you and me. We talk a lot about Japanese startups on this show and the ro…
8 years, 9 months ago
How this Musical Shoe Startup is Helping Hospitals – No New Folk Studio
Episode 90
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…
8 years, 9 months ago