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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. I wanted this book not only as my “secret weapon,” but also for all entrepreneurs in Japan.

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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. That’s why I have links open new tabs.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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12 Questions: Meet Naoki Haruyoshi (Japan)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Naoki lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Hi, I’m KIONA, from Tokyo, Japan. I watch DVD, then maybe work.

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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. ” There are currently over 400 restaurants and over 700 blog post links in the database.

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Why Nobody is Finding Your Content

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a digital marketing expert and founder of Backlinko , an SEO training blog. Backlinko is now one of the most popular marketing blogs online. Backlinko is now one of the most popular marketing blogs online. He is a digital marketing expert and founder of Backlinko , an SEO training blog. It’s true. What is LSI?

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Find Out Why Nobody is Finding Your Content

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a digital marketing expert and founder of Backlinko , an SEO training blog. Backlinko is now one of the most popular marketing blogs online. Backlinko is now one of the most popular marketing blogs online. He is a digital marketing expert and founder of Backlinko , an SEO training blog. It’s true. What is LSI?