Disrupting Japan
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- Duración: 135:50:01
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Sinopsis
Japanese startups are fundamentally changing Japans society and economy. Disrupting Japan gives you direct access to the thoughts and plans of Japans must successful and creative startup founders. Join us and bypass the media and corporate gatekeepers and hear whats really going on inside Japans startup world.
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30: How to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan – Daisuke Sasaki
12/10/2015 Duración: 33minCorporate 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 thing. Daisuke Sasaki of Freee, however, is changing the way accounting is done in Japan from the bottom up. Bringing change to a conservative industry, however, is not easy. The fact is ...
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29: Turning a Toy into a Data Platform – Akinori Takahagi
28/09/2015 Duración: 28minThe 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 the Moff-band that allows kids to add sound effects to their every-day play. They toy had been successful, but for Moff to take the next step they need to create a platform around the toy.
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28: Live & Unleashed – Our One-Year Anniversary
14/09/2015 Duración: 01h04sDisrupting 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 of a live audience, had a few drinks, and talked about the future of startups in Japan. Our panel included perspectives from software, IOT, and venture capital, which led to some interesting discussions.
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27: Marketing in Japan is Broken. Here’s The Fix. – Sunao Munakata
31/08/2015 Duración: 32minMarketing 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 salarymen in navy-blue suits visiting clients and marketing, well until recently, most Japanese companies didn’t make much of a distinction between marketing and advertising. This week, we get a chance to ...
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26: Design in Japan is Different and That’s About to Change – Brandon Hill
17/08/2015 Duración: 31minEverything we thing we know about design is changing. This transformation is further advanced in America, but the seeds have already been planted in Japan and the changes are now starting to take root. Brandon Hill explains how design, rather than more traditional analytical methods, is the ideal prism from which to view potential solutions to business problems. Not just the best approach to improving products, mind you, but also the best way to improve business processes and even to better engage employees.
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25: Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Die – Hiro Maeda
03/08/2015 Duración: 33minAlmost all startup accelerators are going bankrupt and going away. Hiro Maeda, the founder of two of Japan's most successful, and most different startup incubators explains both the brief past and precarious future of startup incubators and accelerators. We talk not only about the mechanics and challenges of what it takes to make an incubator successful, but Hiro has some practical advice on when founders should consider joining an accelerator and how they can avoid the 99% of them that provide no real value.
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24: Can Mario Survive Japan’s New Gaming Disruption? – Rintaro Oyaizu
20/07/2015 Duración: 31minEvery 15 years, like clockwork, the Japanese gaming industry is disrupted by a new technology. The console giants were crippled by the first generation of mobile games published by companies like DeNA and Gree. Now those companies are now losing business to smaller publishers selling through the Apple Store and Google Play. Rintaro Oyaizu used to run
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23: The High Profits of Low Tech – Hiroki Kudo
06/07/2015 Duración: 30minI 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 product (or business) usually does not involve cool new technology. Hiroki Kudo of MerryBiz has rolled out a minimal solution to address their client’s bookkeeping needs, and he is now in the process of trying to gently walk his customers from this small, sustaining innovation to something more disruptive. Something that will change things in the long term. It’s an interesting path to be walking...
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22: Why Men Need Women Founders – Ari Horie
22/06/2015 Duración: 35minAri Horie has no interest "empowering" women and sensitivity training is not in her toolkit. Ari is showing the startup world that incorporating some of the problem-solving skills and leadership techniques favored by women improves their chance of success.
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21: Japan’s Startup Renaissance – Creativity, Risk & Process
08/06/2015 Duración: 24minSo many things that are labeled as "cultural differences" have much simpler explanations. There are perfectly rational (and even mathematical) reasons why we have not seen a lot of entrepreneurship in Japan over the last 50 years, why we are starting to see a lot more of if now, and why we are likely to see an explosion of Japanese startups in the coming decade.
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20: A Startup Changes CEO: How Open is Too Open? – Matt Romaine
25/05/2015 Duración: 33minGengo understands the need for small-batch translation. Global communication takes place exponentially faster than the project management cycle, and understanding is way too important to be left to machines. And with even the smallest and most early stage startups understand the importance of going global, Gengo seems to have found their niche.
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19: Crowdfunding in Japan is Not About Startups – Ryotaro Nakayama
11/05/2015 Duración: 32minMakuake 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 call him) as CEO. Crowdfunding has taken off more slowly in Japan than it has in the US, and it has followed a different growth path. It started out primarily as a way to raise money for charitable causes and at the moment crowdfunding seems to be having a more significant impact on corporate Japan than on smaller Japanese ventures.
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18: Japan’s New Agency Model for Innovation – Yuta Inoue
27/04/2015 Duración: 35minYuta Inoue and Quantum have developed a model to help large Japanese companies both work with innovative startups and to remember how to innovate internally. Many find it hard to believe today, but Japanese companies used to be some of the most innovative firms on the planet, and Yuta explains how a few of them are now starting to return to their creative roots.
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17: From Salarymen to Freelancers – Japan’s New Economy – Koichiro Yoshida
13/04/2015 Duración: 35minKoichiro Yoshida took CrowdWorks from idea to IPO in less than three years, and today both CrowdWorks and crowd-sourcing in general are seen as essential to Japan’s future economy. Just 10 years ago, Japanese politicians pointed to freelancers and part-times as part of the cause of Japan's economic woes. Fortunately, Japan's leadership is now beginning to realizing that having a flexible and skilled workforce is actually a tremendous economic advantage.
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16: Innovating by Asking for Help – Eiko Hashiba
30/03/2015 Duración: 34minStartup founders know that going from zero to one means not only making mistakes, but also asking for help. Unfortunately, in Japan asking for help has traditionally been seen as a sign of weakness. In both professional and personal life you are expected to be either a confident leader or an obedient follower. Such attitudes...
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15: Tea Ceremony in Blue Jeans & Startup Lessons
16/03/2015 Duración: 37minInvestors were skeptical that combining traditional face-to-face learning with a P2P web platform would work. Over the past three years, startup founder Takashi Fujimoto of StreetAcademy has been proving them wrong. Takashi is showing Japan that the new does not have to replace the old. Sometimes the new just makes the old things even better.
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14: Bursting the Filter Bubble – Atsuo Fujimura
02/03/2015 Duración: 33minOne 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 bubble" is a term that describes the natural, but tragic, result of search engines and news services giving us more and more of what we want. We end up seeing only information that reenforces what we already believe. Ideas that contradict our beliefs, ideas that might make us uncomfortable, and ideas we have never been exposed to get filtered out in the process of ...
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13: The Japan Startup Factory – Casey Wahl – Red Brick Ventures
16/02/2015 Duración: 33minCasey has been on the founding team of several Japanese startups in markets ranging from from retailing, to recruiting, to information sharing, to private social networks for pachinko parlors. Add to that the fact that he's just published a book on Japanese startup founders and their stories, and you won't be surprised to find that this turns out to be a pretty interesting discussion.
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12: Music, Maids & Startups – Hiroshi Asaeda – Beatrobo
02/02/2015 Duración: 35minStarting 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 between Japanese and American culture, never really belonging to either. Hiro found inspiration in an unlikely place; Nintendo games. They were uniquely Japanese, but universally loved and intuitively understood. His journey so far has ...
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11: Japan’s Seeds of Disruption
19/01/2015 Duración: 22minThe phrases "disruptive innovation" and "disruptive business" are thrown around far too often and far too loosely these days. Of course, at first glance, it would seem that the same charge could be leveled against this podcast. This is a special one-on-one episode where we talk about what disruptive innovation really means.