Disrupting Japan
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 139:51:52
- Mais informações
Informações:
Sinopse
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.
Episódios
-
38: Disrupting the Final Frontier – Yuya Nakamura
01/02/2016 Duração: 31minThere are not many industries more resistant to disruption than satellite and aerospace. The dominant firms thrive largely because of the massive capital requirements and strong government connections. Yuya Nakamura of Axelspace is confident he can change that.
-
37: Creating Japan’s Open Internet – Kaneto Kanemoto
18/01/2016 Duração: 26minMore than ten years before Quora and ZenDesk became famous, there was OKWave. Kaneto Kanemoto founded OKWave to address a massive problem that was unique to the Japanese internet in the mid-1990’s. Most of the country felt the situation was inevitable, even natural, but Kaneto knew it had to change.
-
36: The Happiest Company in the World – Yuka Fujii
04/01/2016 Duração: 25minYuka considers Famarry to be the happiest company in the world, and looking at who her customers are, I think she just might be right. But behind this happy company is an aggressive plan to disrupt a cartel of photo studios that have dominated the market for decades.
-
35: How Startup Thinking is Changing the Japanese Government – William Saito
21/12/2015 Duração: 38minIt’s hard to imagine an organization more resistant to change and disruption than the government of Japan. But today’s guest, William Saito has made it his mission to bring innovation to the way the Japanese bureaucracy operates. And more astoundingly, he’s actually having an effect.
-
34: The Myth of the Successful Startup Failure – Hiroshi Nagashima
07/12/2015 Duração: 37minStartup culture has crazy and contradictory views about failure. As founders we are told to fail fast, but also to never give up. We are told to follow our vision, but be ready to pivot. Somehow this macho-bullshit culture of “I never really fail and ‘m not afraid of failure.” has become dominant amount founders. But it’s the result of denial. Trivializing failure is a way of not thinking about it’s effects. The truth is that failure sucks. Failure is painful. Failure ...
-
33: How Japan Can Get Her Innovation Mojo Back – Sorato Ijichi
23/11/2015 Duração: 32minJapan 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 are betting on startups to change the course of the Japanese economy and to some extent, that’s already starting to happen. Ijichi Sorato of Creww, however, is betting on a different approach to win out, that of Open Innovation.
-
32: Why Japanese VCs are Losing Out – James Riney of 500 Startups
09/11/2015 Duração: 35min500 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 seen such large and diverse startup ecosystems emerging around the world. Japan, however, often changes more slowly than other nations.
-
31: Why Japan Will Thrive on Disruption
26/10/2015 Duração: 19minToo 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. In this episode, we look what happens in Japan when the gatekeepers who stand between the creative people and the broader public are removed.
-
30: How to Sell Without Salesmen in Japan – Daisuke Sasaki
12/10/2015 Duração: 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 ...
-
29: Turning a Toy into a Data Platform – Akinori Takahagi
28/09/2015 Duração: 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.
-
28: Live & Unleashed – Our One-Year Anniversary
14/09/2015 Duração: 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.
-
27: Marketing in Japan is Broken. Here’s The Fix. – Sunao Munakata
31/08/2015 Duração: 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 ...
-
26: Design in Japan is Different and That’s About to Change – Brandon Hill
17/08/2015 Duração: 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.
-
25: Why Your Startup Accelerator is Going to Die – Hiro Maeda
03/08/2015 Duração: 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.
-
24: Can Mario Survive Japan’s New Gaming Disruption? – Rintaro Oyaizu
20/07/2015 Duração: 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
-
23: The High Profits of Low Tech – Hiroki Kudo
06/07/2015 Duração: 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...
-
22: Why Men Need Women Founders – Ari Horie
22/06/2015 Duração: 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.
-
21: Japan’s Startup Renaissance – Creativity, Risk & Process
08/06/2015 Duração: 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.
-
20: A Startup Changes CEO: How Open is Too Open? – Matt Romaine
25/05/2015 Duração: 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.
-
19: Crowdfunding in Japan is Not About Startups – Ryotaro Nakayama
11/05/2015 Duração: 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.