A hero’s journey
Joseph Campbell wrote about mythical stories transcending time and culture. Often, he noted, the stories follow a familiar pattern....
Tag: japan entrepreneurship
Panasonic makes game-changing efforts to innovate
The gray-walled silent corridors were ominously foreboding. I had come to visit the man tasked with jump-starting creative innovation at...
Keep Climbing!
One voice stood out amid the cacophony of Slush Tokyo 2019, the annual tech event which now defines Tokyo’s...
Investing in the young, the fast and the furious
Bright, handsome, outspoken, tech savvy and most of all—young, Mike Eidlin ticks all the right boxes for becoming the...
Opportunity knocks for hard-working entrepreneurs in Japan’s capital city
“If you told me 20 years ago that I was going to sell office furniture in Japan, I would’ve...
What will ignite growth in Japan?
First published by The Japan Times Danny Risberg, Chairman of both the European Business Council in Japan and of Philips...
How positive thinking turned a bright idea into a billion dollar company
Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed 10,000 times…. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways...
Free Internet access in Japan just got easier
Free Wi-Fi hotspots began popping up across the country a few years ago, in the run up to the...
Why the Silicon Valley Model Doesn’t Work in Japan
Foreign entrepreneurs and investors who want to follow the Silicon Valley venture capital model in Japan can do so,...
Creative entrepreneurship in Japan
Many Japanese entrepreneurs clone businesses whose concepts are already proven somewhere else. However, it is the rare creative entrepreneur...