Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan – Daisuke Sasaki
Season 1 Episode 30
Corporate accounting is not usually the first thing the comes to mind when you think of disruptive technology, and for the most part, that’s a good t…
10 years, 5 months ago
Turning a Toy into a Data Platform – Akinori Takahagi
Season 1 Episode 29
The Internet of Things is becoming so commonplace that it is almost almost invisible. About a year ago, Moff launched an extremely clever IoT toy cal…
10 years, 6 months ago
Live & Unleashed – Our One-Year Anniversary
Season 1 Episode 28
Disrupting Japan is one year old, and ready to party. To celebrate , we gathered some of the leaders of Tokyo's startup community together in front o…
10 years, 6 months ago
Marketing in Japan is Broken. Here’s The Fix. – Sunao Munakata
Season 1 Episode 27
Marketing automation is new in Japan, and it’s taking a lot of Japanese companies off guard. For decades, sales in Japan have been done by armies of …
10 years, 6 months ago
Design in Japan is Different and That’s About to Change – Brandon Hill
Season 1 Episode 26
Everything we thing we know about design is changing. This transformation is further advanced in America, but the seeds have already been planted in …
10 years, 7 months ago
Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Die – Hiro Maeda
Season 1 Episode 25
Almost all startup accelerators are going bankrupt and going away. Hiro Maeda, the founder of two of Japan's most successful, and most different sta…
10 years, 7 months ago
Can Mario Survive Japan’s New Gaming Disruption? – Rintaro Oyaizu
Season 1 Episode 24
Every 15 years, like clockwork, the Japanese gaming industry is disrupted by a new technology. The console giants were crippled by the first generat…
10 years, 8 months ago
The High Profits of Low Tech in Japanese Startups
Season 1 Episode 23
I love low-tech solutions. They are more likely to be solving real problems, and if we are being honest with ourselves, a true a minimum viable produ…
10 years, 8 months ago
Why Men Need Women Founders – Ari Horie
Season 1 Episode 22
Ari Horie has no interest "empowering" women and sensitivity training is not in her toolkit. Ari is showing the startup world that incorporating some…
10 years, 9 months ago
Japan’s Startup Renaissance – Creativity, Risk & Process
Season 1 Episode 21
So many things that are labeled as "cultural differences" have much simpler explanations. There are perfectly rational (and even mathematical) reason…
10 years, 9 months ago