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Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
Tim Romero: Serial startup founder in Japan and indomitable innovator
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Startups are changing Japan, and Japan is once again starting to innovate. Disrupting Japan introduces you to some of the Japanese innovators that will be household brands in a few years and explains what it’s really like to be an innovator in a society that values conformity.
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- 01Why Does Tim Romero Say Honest Stories Work Better Than a Polished Interview?How I Made $8,000 per Month Podcasting, and Why You Probably Don’t Want To
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- The surprising things AI wants to know about your health
- The $290 billion e-commerce trend you’ve never heard of
- The dangerous defect in most SaaS startups
- Will Japan’s Manga industry ever really change?
- How Snack Smuggling led to millions in VC funding
- The secret edge of Japan’s best SaaS startups
- How do you know if your startup idea is bad?
- How do you know if your startup idea is bad?
- Can Japan’s “Anti-Uber” disrupt global airport transport?
- What three-card monte can teach you about NFTs
- Passion alone can’t make cars fly
- But what if your data is too big for the Cloud?
- DJ Selects: How Government Money is Hurting Japanese Startups
- This disruptive tech started with a dance move
- The Future of Disrupting Japan
- The new era of Evocative Machines. Why you’re going to love it.
- Why the robot uprising will give us Robot Pets, not Robot Masters
- One way that AI is transforming family farms
- What you can learn from this “PoopTech” startup
- An Instagram for skin disease? Wait, this could work!
- So, your startup wants to play in Japan’s Regulatory Sandbox?
- Why people are afraid to trust AI. And how to fix it
- What you can learn from Japan’s seven-minute miracle
- This startup built the first open-source driverless car
- Why startups should be better than charities at solving social problems
- The Dream of Flying Cars meets the Truth of Aviation Startups
- What’s really changed after six years of Disrupting Japan
- How this silkworm startup is taking on the pandemic
- How to travel to the one place your GPS can’t find
- Selects: Why Japan’s Geisha are disappearing in the social media age
- Your Japanese textbooks are lying to you
- DJ Selects: Why startups lose control of their sales channels, and how to fix it – Allen Miner – Oracle
- Why people pay for new online events
- Why public humiliation is the secret to success
- The Japanese Trap of the Glorious Failure
- DJ Selects: Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Die – Hiro Maeda
- One important lesson startups will forget after the panic
- Why boring startups are actually the most interesting
- DJ Selects: How this Musical Shoe is Helping Hospitals
- Why Japan’s #KuToo is Not Really About Shoes
- Big News for Disrupting Japan! – Japan Startup News
- The Ultimate Guide to Raising Money in Japan
- How Japan’s forgotten past can stop IoT’s dystopian future
- Japan leads the world in this one important brach of AI
- DJ Selects: Why Men Need Women Founders
- The big reason Japanese companies can’t innovate
- The hardest thing about hardware startups : Live from CEATEC
- Artificial Intelligence’s broken promise and its secret truth
- DJ Selects: A Japanese MBA Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
- How scammers are using your devices to steal money
- These robots are changing cooking forever. But one thing will never change
- Outside of the Bubble with Japan’s Startup Girls: Mone Kamishiraishi
- Live from Stanford: Where are Japan’s Unicorns?
- DJ Selects: IoT, Japan, and the Uncertain Future of Poop
- How Govemment Money is Hurting Japanese Startups
- What You Need to Know to Raise Money in Japan
- DJ Selects: The Myth of the Successful Startup Failure
- Live: What You Need to Know to Work at a Startup in Japan
- The Unexpected Profit Plan for Emotional Computing
- Why Your New Smart-Home Won’t Really Belong to You
- DJ Selects: What You Need to Know To Sell Services (and Saas) in Japan
- Why Wind and Solar Energy Make Sense in Japan
- The true reason for Japan’s critical developer shortage
- DJ Selects: How to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan – Daisuke Sasaki
- Silicon Valley has Chatbots all Wrong. Here’s How They Really Make Money.
- You need to Ignore the Worst Advice being given to Female Founders
- DJ Selects: The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan
- An Inside Look at Japan’s Curious Coding Bootcamps
- Is There (Finally) a Practical Way for Foreigners to Live in Japan?
- DJ Selects: Japan’s Airbnb for Satellites – InfoStellar
- Can capitalism ever allow us a good night’s sleep?
- The Secret to Making E-Payments Work in Japan
- How a Rumor Can Destroy Your Business in Japan
- What This 330-Year-Old Company is Learning from Startups
- Disrupting Japan Trailer
- Live & Unleashed – How to Run a Startup as a Foreigner in Japan
- How Dancing Satellites from Japan Will Clean Up Outer Space
- The App Store for Medical Devices Is Being Tested Right Now
- Men and Women Watch TV Differently. Here’s how to make money from that.
- Foreign Startup Founders Have Secret Advantages in Japan
- How Japan’s Unique Relationship with Robots is About to Make it #1 Again
- What They Never Teach You in Language School – Peter Galante Japanese Pod 101
- How Japan’s evocative machines are quietly creating new startup unicorns
- Japan’s Business Card Giant Explains Why Business Cards Are Disappearing
- How to Solve Japan’s Innovation Bottleneck in Healthcare
- This Startup Just Built Japan’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
- A Japanese MBA Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
- This Japanese Startup Is Using Your Phone to Make Insurance Social
- Japan’s Secret Strategy for Global Drone Domination
- How Startups Can Attract, Retain, and Develop Staff in Japan
- A Successful Kickstarter Campaign Almost Bankrupted This Startup
- This Japanese Startup Is Bringing the Human Genome to the Mass Market
- Japan Announces Plans to Land on the Moon by 2020
- Why Artificial Intelligence Is the Key to Fixing Japan’s Rigid Education System
- How Startups Can Compete in the New Energy Markets
- Why Your Freemium Strategy Might be Hurting Your Sales
- What Every Foreigner Needs to Know about Hiring Staff in Japan
- This Japan Startup Is Changing the Way Your Kids Buy Fashion
- Why Japanese Design Is So Different & What You Should Learn from It
- How Machine Learning Is Changing the Way We Watch Video
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Asia
- This Japanese Startup Beat Out NASA to Create Affordable Bio Jet Fuel
- The Hard Thing about Hardware Startups in Japan – Logbar
- Live & Unleashed – Japan’s New Wave of Hardware Innovation
- How You Can Prepare for Japan’s Coming Wave of Cybercrime
- Why I Turned Down $500k, Shut Down My Startup, and Joined the Enterprise
- What You Don’t Know about Japan’s Sharing Economy – Anytimes
- This Startup is Turning Investing into a Lifestyle Brand
- This Is Why Japanese Startups Can’t Pivot
- Why Japan is Already Becoming the World’s FinTech Leader
- Why Nerds Need to Stop Reading Tolkien
- How This American Got The Japanese Government to Fund His Startup – enTouch
- How Micro-Retail Shops Are Changing Japan – Nokisaki
- The Fastest Way to Start a Startup in Japan – Mobingi
- The Little Startup from Japan That Took Down NTT – TownWiFi
- I Was Wrong. Startups Are Not the Future of Innovation in Japan
- How this Musical Shoe Startup is Helping Hospitals – No New Folk Studio
- How One Good Idea Emerged from Japan’s Nuclear Disaster – Safecast
- How You Can Build American Startup Culture in Japan – OpenTable
- How This Startup Makes Money from Children’s Old Notebooks – Arcterus
- Why Only the Uncomfortable Succeed in Japan – Jeff Sandford – Wovn.io
- Can This Founder Solve Japan’s Hidden Mental Health Problem? – Hikari Labs
- Beneath the Cherry Blossoms with Dave McClure – 500 Startups
- These Japanese Bio-Hackers Are Growing Affordable Meat in A Lab – Shojinmeat
- How Virtual Reality is Changing Surgery in Japan – Holoeyes
- Japan’s Laundry Folding Robot Is Taking Over Your Closet – Seven Dreamers
- How a Failing Music Startup in Japan Pivoted to Global Success – Nana
- The Missing Link in the Internet of Things Ecosystem – Soracom
- How This Startup is Getting Japanese Moms Back to Work – Waris
- The Real Reason Japan Can’t Innovate & What to Do About It – Xenoma
- Japan’s Return Path to Innovation – Tim Rowe – CIC
- Foreign Tourism is Reinventing Hiking in Japan – Yamap
- How to Create a Micro-Startup in Japan – Patrick McKenzie
- Japan’s Toys to Life is the Future of Gaming – PowerCore
- What You Need to Know to Sell Services in Japan
- This Low-Tech Japan Travel Startup is Going Global – Bed & Art
- In Japan Partnerships are a Two-Edged Sword – Doug Chuchro – Fastly
- How Japanese Startups are Breaking into Silicon Valley – Ramen Hero
- Why Ride-Sharing is Different in Japan – Ryo Umezawa – Hailo
- The Global Niche Startup Strategy – Cerevo – Iwasa Takuma
- How U.S. FinTech Stripe Broke into Low-Tech Japan – Daniel Heffernan
- How to Make Startup M&A Work in Japan – Naoki Yamada
- Dealing with the Bad Things First – Expedia Japan – Hidemaru Sato
- What Airbnb’s Japan Problem Can Teach Your Startup
- How to Build a Market in Japan Without Localization – Derek Sorkin – GitHub
- Will Japan’s Geisha Survive the Digital Age? – Disrupting Japan
- How to Win Over Japanese Regulators – Jonathan Epstein – PayPal
- Why The Sharing Economy is Different in Japan – Spacee
- Taking Control Back from the Distributors – Allen Miner – Oracle
- Making Money in Other People’s Closets – Rie Yano
- Japan’s Airbnb for Satellites – InfoStellar
- Startup Fundraising in Japan – Live & Unleashed
- Brick-and-Mortar is Japan’s New E-Commerce
- Why AirCloset is Not Afraid of the Fashion Box Curse
- Taking Akiba Back from The Otaku – Mitsuo Hashiba
- The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan
- IoT and the Future of Poop – Atsushi Nakanishi
- The Business Model Behind Startup Events – Antti Sonninen
- The Dark Side of Japanese Crowdfunding – Ryota Matsuzaki
- Crowdsourcing My Career
- Pivot Till It Hurts: Making Mobile Video Profitable – Pocket Supernova
- Japan’s Unfair Advantage in Driverless Cars – Yuki Saji
- What’s Wrong With BioTech in Japan – Molcure
- How a Startup Went Global in Only 4 Seconds – Miku Hirano
- What’s Holding FinTech Back in Japan – Paul Chapman
- Winning When Everyone Tells You to Quit – Yuki Ito
- Japanese Startups, This Must Change Now!
- Why Gay Rights Are Good Business in Japan – Koki Hayashi
- The Hard Truth Behind Japan’s Cute Robots – Shunsuke Aoki
- Disrupting the Final Frontier – Yuya Nakamura
- Creating Japan’s Open Internet – Kaneto Kanemoto
- The Happiest Company in the World – Yuka Fujii
- How Startup Thinking is Changing the Japanese Government – William Saito
- The Myth of the Successful Startup Failure – Hiroshi Nagashima
- How Japan Can Get Her Innovation Mojo Back – Sorato Ijichi
- Why Japanese VCs are Losing Out – James Riney of 500 Startups
- Why Japan Will Thrive on Disruption
- How to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan – Daisuke Sasaki
- Turning a Toy into a Data Platform – Akinori Takahagi
- Live & Unleashed – Our One-Year Anniversary
- Marketing in Japan is Broken. Here’s The Fix. – Sunao Munakata
- Design in Japan is Different and That’s About to Change – Brandon Hill
- Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Die – Hiro Maeda
- Can Mario Survive Japan’s New Gaming Disruption? – Rintaro Oyaizu
- The High Profits of Low Tech in Japanese Startups
- Why Men Need Women Founders – Ari Horie
- Japan’s Startup Renaissance – Creativity, Risk & Process
- A Startup Changes CEO: How Open is Too Open? – Gengo
- Crowdfunding in Japan is Not About Startups – Ryotaro Nakayama
- Japan’s New Agency Model for Innovation – Yuta Inoue
- From Salarymen to Freelancers – Japan’s New Economy – Koichiro Yoshida
- Innovating by Asking for Help – Eiko Hashiba
- Tea Ceremony in Blue Jeans & Startup Lessons
- Bursting the Filter Bubble – SmartNews – Atsuo Fujimura
- The Japan Startup Factory – Casey Wahl – Red Brick Ventures
- Music, Maids & Startups in Japan – Hiroshi Asaeda – Beatrobo
- Japan’s Seeds of Disruption
- Japan’s Accidental Entrepreneur – Yusuke Takahashi
- The Hardest Working Slacker in Japan – Masanori Hashimoto
- The Indirect Way a Startup is Disrupting Japan – Akiko Naka – Wantedly
- How a Startup is Making Ticketing Pay – Taku Harada – Peatix
- Breaking Open Japan’s Closed Business Culture – Tadashi Tanimoto – Realcom
- Founding a Startup as a Foreigner in Japan – Jason Winder – MakeLeaps
- What Japan’s Startup Ecosystem Needs to Grow – Ikuo Hiraishi
- Why Japan Needs to Change Its Communication Strategy
- Exporting Japan’s Business Card Culture – Chika Terada – Sansan
- Japan’s Coming Startup Boom
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