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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. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video. Evangelizing Customer Development in Japan.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. And it is this desire that has driven the evolution of communication technologies — from simple phone calls and text messages such as SMS, to real time conversations and interactions through new app features such as video calls.

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Learn from People, Not Classes

Reid Hoffman

At the time, PayPal was suffering seemingly endless delays in the launch of PayPal Japan. Reid called eight friends with good connections in Japan and asked whom they knew who might be able to help. Consider how Reid solved a major business issue at PayPal by drawing on the knowledge of his network.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector. Many are no doubt trying to change this culture.

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Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.

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Video: How Seoul will become one of the world’s best startup cities

The Next Web

The small Asian country truly punches above its weight as it’s starting to rival the digital prowess of its much bigger neighbors, China and Japan. Watch the video above to find out more and follow TNW to Start-Up Seoul: Tech-Rise 2019.

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What to Expect When Developing an App in 2021

Up and Running

With the spread of the pandemic of 2020, certain apps have become extremely popular like video conferencing apps, on-demand service apps, etc. . The mobile-savvy nations are China, Norway, United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia. The mobile app development market is evolving at a rapid speed. Take a look at some of the stats.