Podcast Episodes

Why The Sharing Economy is Different in Japan – Spacee

Season 1 Episode 59

Spacee has staked out an interesting position in the sharing economy. Spacee enables companies and individuals to rent out unused meeting room space …

9 years, 4 months ago

Taking Control Back from the Distributors – Allen Miner – Oracle

Season 1 Episode 58

Today is the first episode off our new expanded format. From today, we’ll be covering both disruptive Japanese startups and detailed market entry cas…

9 years, 4 months ago

Making Money in Other People’s Closets – Rie Yano

Season 1 Episode 57

Material Wrld has found a way to innovate in online fashion commerce, and that’s no easy task. It’s a crowded market, with tight margins. Rie Yano an…

9 years, 5 months ago

Japan’s Airbnb for Satellites – InfoStellar

Season 1 Episode 56

The aerospace industry has been particularly resistant to disrupting in Japan. In the rest of the world, launch vehicle and spacecraft technology has…

9 years, 5 months ago

Startup Fundraising in Japan – Live & Unleashed

Season 1 Episode 55

Disrupting Japan is two years old and ready to party.  To celebrate, we gathered the leaders of Tokyo's venture capital community together in front o…

9 years, 6 months ago

Brick-and-Mortar is Japan’s New E-Commerce

Season 1 Episode 54

Ten years ago, everyone know that e-commence would drive most retail stores, especially specially stores out of business, and with the Amazon juggern…

9 years, 6 months ago

Why AirCloset is Not Afraid of the Fashion Box Curse

Fashion is a tough business, and fashion subscription boxes are even tougher. From the top down, this seems like a great business model. Subscribers …

9 years, 7 months ago

Taking Akiba Back from The Otaku – Mitsuo Hashiba

Season 1 Episode 52

Long before the maker movement existed, Akihabara was world famous as a destination for hardware geeks, robotics nerds, and audiophiles and tinkerers…

9 years, 7 months ago

The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan

Season 1 Episode 51

Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the very thing that make these companies …

9 years, 7 months ago

IoT and the Future of Poop – Atsushi Nakanishi

Season 1 Episode 50

Startup founders claiming their company is going to “change the world” has become a cliche. But rarely do we see a product that could clearly and sig…

9 years, 8 months ago