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How do you know if your startup idea is bad?
Season 1 Episode 189
Coming up with ideas is easy. Spotting the bad one early is a rare skill. Today we talk with Yo Shibata serial entrepreneur an investor about how yo…
4 years ago
Can Japan’s “Anti-Uber” disrupt global airport transport?
Season 1 Episode 189
Once the disruptors become the incumbents they are ripe for disruption. Uber, Grab and rest of the ride-sharing startups have clearly disrupted the …
4 years, 1 month ago
What three-card monte can teach you about NFTs
Season 1 Episode 188
NFTs are easy to understand if you examine their core utility. Unfortunately, there are thousands of NFT promoters spending millions of dollars to m…
4 years, 2 months ago
Passion can't make cars fly
Episode 187
We have been dreaming about flying cars (and startups have been promising them!) for over 70 years, and it looks like we might almost be there. Order…
4 years, 3 months ago
But what if your data is too big for the Cloud?
Season 1 Episode 186
Cloud visionaries promised us unlimited scalability, but they greatly underestimated the amount of data we would start producing. Today we sit down …
4 years, 4 months ago
DJ Selects: How Government Money is Hurting Japanese Startups
Season 1 Episode 185
Japanese university and government venture funds play a much larger role in Japan than in the West. I've always considered this difference to be, on…
4 years, 5 months ago
This disruptive tech started with a dance move
Season 1 Episode 184
It's hard to get paid to do what you love. Perhaps no one understands this better than dancers, but Taku Kodaira and his team at Mikro Entertainment…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Disrupting Japan
Season 1 Episode 183
Disrupting Japan turns seven years old this week! Unfortunately, because of current conditions in Japan, we won't be able to sit down over a beer an…
4 years, 7 months ago
The new era of Evocative Machines. Why you’re going to love it.
Season 1 Episode 182
We speculate a lot about our future "robot servants" or "robot masters", but that whole metaphor is wrong. It's not going to happen that way. This i…
4 years, 8 months ago
Why the robot uprising will give us Robot Pets, not Robot Masters
Season 1 Episode 181
Japan has a very different approach to robotics. Japan leads the world in industrial robots, but there is also a growing movement that is reinventin…
4 years, 9 months ago