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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Disrupting Japan</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/show/disrupting-japan</link><description><![CDATA[Japanese startups are fundamentally changing Japan's society and economy. <br /><br />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.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/2132338/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Business</category><copyright>Copyright Tim Romero</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg</url><title>Disrupting Japan</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/show/disrupting-japan</link></image><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 03:06:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Tim Romero</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Tim Romero</itunes:name><itunes:email>tim@disruptingjapan.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>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...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Japanese startups are fundamentally changing Japan's society and economy. <br /><br />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.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Business"/><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><googleplay:author>Tim Romero</googleplay:author><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg"/><googleplay:email>tim@disruptingjapan.com</googleplay:email><googleplay:description>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.</googleplay:description><googleplay:category text="Business"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit><item><title>68: Why Ride-Sharing is Different in Japan – Ryo Umezawa – Hailo</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/timoth3y/dj068-hailo-japan-market-entry-ryo-umeza</link><description><![CDATA[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.<br /><br />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.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/10352787</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 03:03:36 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/10352787/dj068_hailo_japan_market_entry_ryo_umezawa.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Tim Romero</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>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...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.<br /><br />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.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2843</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>japan,startup,market,uber,entry</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>Tim Romero</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>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.&#13;
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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.</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>69: How Japanese Startups are Breaking into Silicon Valley – Ramen Hero</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/timoth3y/69-how-japanese-startups-are-breaking-in</link><description><![CDATA[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. 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Of course, it wasn’t always that […]</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>66: How U.S. FinTech Stripe Broke into Low-Tech Japan  – Daniel Heffernan</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/timoth3y/66-how-u-s-fintech-stripe-broke-into-low</link><description><![CDATA[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. 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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 […]</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/54fa360f39475c04132b79cb0f8ce535.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>65: How to Make Startup M&amp;A Work in Japan – Naoki Yamada</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/timoth3y/65-how-to-make-startup-m-a-work-in-japan</link><description><![CDATA[Startup M&A is changing in Japan. In August, Naoki Yamada sold his startup Conyac to Rozetta for $14 million. 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