Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJapan’s Accidental Entrepreneur – Yusuke Takahashi
Season 1 Episode 10
Yusuke epitomizes the new generation of Japanese startup founders. That means he is exactly the opposite of what most Westerners picture as a startup…
11 years, 2 months ago
The Hardest Working Slacker in Japan – Masanori Hashimoto
Season 1 Episode 9
Masanori Hashimoto is the hardest woking slacker in Fukuoka. He's bootstrapped a collaborative diagramming company that is growing internationally an…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Indirect Way a Startup is Disrupting Japan – Akiko Naka – Wantedly
Season 1 Episode 8
Akiko Naka is an amazing woman. When you first meet, her reserved and unassuming manner makes you wonder if she really knows how potentially transfor…
11 years, 3 months ago
How a Startup is Making Ticketing Pay – Taku Harada – Peatix
Season 1 Episode 7
Taku walked away from the kind of a career that most people dream of. He had proven himself at Sony Music, Apple and in his late twenties he was quic…
11 years, 4 months ago
Breaking Open Japan’s Closed Business Culture – Tadashi Tanimoto – Realcom
Season 1 Episode 6
Tadashi Tanimoto is a man with a big successes behind him and a big dream ahead of him. The IPO of Realcom was just a milestone in a longer journey t…
11 years, 4 months ago
Founding a Startup as a Foreigner in Japan – Jason Winder – MakeLeaps
Season 1 Episode 5
Jason came to Japan from Australia to study martial arts, and his company MakeLeaps is now kicking ass in online invoicing. Jason bootstrapped MakeLe…
11 years, 5 months ago
What Japan’s Startup Ecosystem Needs to Grow – Ikuo Hiraishi
Season 1 Episode 4
The startup ecosystems in America and Europe are built around people like Ikuo, but men like him are still quite rare in Japan. After founding a seri…
11 years, 5 months ago
Why Japan Needs to Change Its Communication Strategy
Season 1 Episode 3
It was a unique combination of Naoki's adventure driving through the US, his ongoing frustration in working for a large Japanese firm, and his love o…
11 years, 6 months ago
Exporting Japan’s Business Card Culture – Chika Terada – Sansan
Season 1 Episode 2
Business cards are far more important in Asia than they are in the West. Business cards command the same level of respect and deference as the person…
11 years, 6 months ago
Japan’s Coming Startup Boom
Season 1 Episode 1
Far too many people, including many of the Japanese themselves, consider Japanese society as inflexible and unable to change. This is simply wrong. …
11 years, 6 months ago