Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Startup Changes CEO: How Open is Too Open? – Gengo
Season 1 Episode 20
Gengo understands the need for small-batch translation. Global communication takes place exponentially faster than the project management cycle, and …
10 years, 10 months ago
Crowdfunding in Japan is Not About Startups – Ryotaro Nakayama
Season 1 Episode 19
Makuake is one of Japan's largest crowdfunding platforms. It was spun out of CyberAgent in 2013 with Ryotaro Nakayama (or Naka as his foreign friends…
10 years, 10 months ago
Japan’s New Agency Model for Innovation – Yuta Inoue
Season 1 Episode 18
Yuta Inoue and Quantum have developed a model to help large Japanese companies both work with innovative startups and to remember how to innovate int…
10 years, 11 months ago
From Salarymen to Freelancers – Japan’s New Economy – Koichiro Yoshida
Season 1 Episode 17
Koichiro Yoshida took CrowdWorks from idea to IPO in less than three years, and today both CrowdWorks and crowd-sourcing in general are seen as essen…
10 years, 11 months ago
Innovating by Asking for Help – Eiko Hashiba
Season 1 Episode 16
Startup founders know that going from zero to one means not only making mistakes, but also asking for help. Unfortunately, in Japan asking for help h…
11 years ago
Tea Ceremony in Blue Jeans & Startup Lessons
Season 1 Episode 15
Investors were skeptical that combining traditional face-to-face learning with a P2P web platform would work. Over the past three years, startup foun…
11 years ago
Bursting the Filter Bubble – SmartNews – Atsuo Fujimura
Season 1 Episode 14
One Japanese startup founder is on a mission to change not only the way we think about the news, but the way we think about each other. The "filter b…
11 years ago
The Japan Startup Factory – Casey Wahl – Red Brick Ventures
Season 1 Episode 13
Casey has been on the founding team of several Japanese startups in markets ranging from from retailing, to recruiting, to information sharing, to pr…
11 years, 1 month ago
Music, Maids & Startups in Japan – Hiroshi Asaeda – Beatrobo
Season 1 Episode 12
Starting and growing companies is nothing new to Hiro. He's been doing it his whole adult life. In his younger days, he always felt caught somewhere …
11 years, 1 month ago
Japan’s Seeds of Disruption
Season 1 Episode 11
The phrases "disruptive innovation" and "disruptive business" are thrown around far too often and far too loosely these days. Of course, at first gla…
11 years, 2 months ago