Disrupting Japan

Disrupting Japan gives you candid, in-depth insights from the startup founders, VCs, and leaders who are reshaping Japan.

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Show 33: How Japan Can Get Her Innovation Mojo Back – Sorato Ijichi

Posted November 23, 201500:32:35

Japan was once home to some of the most innovative companies on the planet, but those companies lost their innovate edge a long time ago. Today, many...

Show 32: Why Japanese VCs are Losing Out – James Riney of 500 Startups

Posted November 9, 201500:35:18

500 Startups has been one of the driving forces behind the utter disruption of how seed funding is done.  That shift is one of the reasons we have...

Show 31: Why Japan Will Thrive on Disruption

Posted October 26, 201500:19:46

Too many things that are labeled as “cultural differences” have much simpler explanations. There are perfectly rational (and even mathematical)...

How to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan - Daisuke Sasaki

Posted October 12, 201500:33:08

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...

Show 29: Turning a Toy into a Data Platform – Akinori Takahagi

Posted September 28, 201500:28:23

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 called...