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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s.

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Tips for Startups looking to recruit employees in Japan

The Startup Magazine

Are you a Startup planning to enter Japan? If you are planning a Japan entry then for sure you will be planning to hire employees locally. According to a report by Nikkei Asia, it was found that 114 companies in Japan went bankrupt due to a shortage of labor in 2017. Challenges in Recruitment in Japan.

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Israel & Japan: Konnichi Wa to Collaboration, Sayonara to Stagnation

VC Cafe

Japan is the world’s #3 economy…but not for Israel. To strengthen bi-lateral trade, Avi Hasson , Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Israeli Innovation Authority, led a delegation of 11 Israeli IoT startups this month to Tokyo and Osaka. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, visiting Israel in January, 2015. Billion ($1.6

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10 Lessons To Be Learned By Winning Teams Everywhere

Startup Professionals Musings

He was able to identify ten lessons from the common threads to survival in the winning explorer teams, which I believe apply equally well to the survival and success of business startup teams today: Never lose sight of long-term goals, but focus real energy on short-term objectives. Teamwork is the hallmark of high-performing startups.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems. As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. There was a time when much of U.S.

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Hiring in Non-English-Speaking Countries

The Startup Magazine

A very good example of this is Japan – and not just Japan but Japanese multinational companies’ operations in other countries. Hiring has been very challenging in Japan traditionally. For example, if you wish to hire people with Japanese language capabilities, it is important to use a Japan or Japanese-specific job board.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. I talk about failure a lot because I think it can be tremendously instructive and I think that success without failure often masks underlying lessons.