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Disrupting Japan

  • 68: Why Ride-Sharing is Different in Japan – Ryo Umezawa – Hailo

    21 JAN 2017 · Ride sharing works differently in Japan. Hailo lost the global market-share war to Uber and Lyft, but Hailo won the battle in Japan. Today, Ryo Umezawa details Hailo’s Japan market entry strategy and explains how they were able to succeed where Uber has failed. While Uber vowed to disrupt transportation by taking on both government and industry, Hailo worked within the system. They designed and launched a platform that was completely legal and made life better for all major stakeholders, including the taxi companies.
    47m 22s
  • 69: How Japanese Startups are Breaking into Silicon Valley – Ramen Hero

    16 JAN 2017 · More and more Japanese founders are moving their startups to San Francisco. It’s easy to see why. There is more venture capital, more startup know-how, and more startup energy in that city than anywhere else in the world. In fact, there is a small, close knit Japanese startup community in San Francisco, with Japanese startups, […]
    38m 13s
  • 67: The Global Niche Startup Strategy – Cerevo – Iwasa Takuma

    2 JAN 2017 · Cerevo wants to be a “global niche” player. That makes sense for this Internet of Things company. The IoT has become so pervasive and so successful that the terms ha become almost meaningless. Today we simply except and accept that almost everything should naturally be connected to the internet. Of course, it wasn’t always that […]
    42m 56s
  • 66: How U.S. FinTech Stripe Broke into Low-Tech Japan – Daniel Heffernan

    26 DEC 2016 · Stripe’s Japan market entry did not go according to plan. Things worked out worked out well in the end, but they did not go according to plan. Stripe is one of the world’s largest payment processing companies, but they remained flexible and agile enough to take advantage of some of the surprises they faced in […]
    53m 28s
  • 65: How to Make Startup M&A Work in Japan – Naoki Yamada

    19 DEC 2016 · Startup M&A is changing in Japan. In August, Naoki Yamada sold his startup Conyac to Rozetta for $14 million. It was an unusual journey of alternating cycles of rapid growth and near bankruptcy, and today Naoki explains how he managed to make the deal happen and also how M&A is changing in Japan, and it seems that change […]
    33m 25s

Japanese startups are fundamentally changing Japan's society and economy. Disrupting Japan gives you direct access to the thoughts and plans of Japan’s must successful and creative startup founders. Join us...

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Japanese startups are fundamentally changing Japan's society and economy.

Disrupting Japan gives you direct access to the thoughts and plans of Japan’s must successful and creative startup founders. Join us and bypass the media and corporate gatekeepers and hear what’s really going on inside Japan's startup world.
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