While most start-ups try to build the next big thing, my guests today rather focus on solving many small problems. Ben Watanabe and David Smith are the co-founders of 96problems, a small venture aiming to build several simple solutions for small problems

While charity and profits are often seen as antagonist concepts, my guest this week has found a business model to encourage people donating to good causes. Naoe Miyata, is the Founder and CEO of a Thailand-based start-up called CoinBack. Naoe initially s

If you think that being funny is challenging, improv comedy takes the challenge to another level. You can’t really rehearse jokes. You have to deal with what the situation gives you. You can’t overthink. You just have to let go. My guest this

You may have the best product in the world but it won’t sell unless you know how to sell it. Far too many startups believe that best products always win. But the truth is that the best sales win. Products come second. The ability for a startup foun

Have you heard a few years ago about salaryman Sato? After his wife forbid him to buy a fancy electric shaver, he started a big movement to help other salarymen get free from their wives’ control over the family money! No, salaryman Sato didn&#8217

There are usually two ways to acquire new customers online: either you try to reach them, usually through paid campaigns, or you let them find you, in which case you should be findable. This concept of “findability”has never been that crucial

Masashi Takahashi was the very first user of Airbnb in Japan and has been hosting over two hundred travellers. Japan being a country where information in English is still very scarce, he was used to have guests asking him for recommendations of places to

Did you know that Japan’s white collars have the lowest productivity level among the G7 countries? According to my guest, Hiroki Kudo, this may be explained by the extensive number of hours that salarymen stay at the office. But staying late at nig

Some people dream to make enough savings during their work life so that they can finally travel to paradise destinations. Some others don’t wait to be old to live this freedom lifestyle. That’s the spirit of a nomad entrepreneur, or a Hobo-en

One thing most entrepreneurs have in common is failing. When you start a business, it is extremely rare to get it right the first time. The problem is that the vast majority of entrepreneurs are too slow to fail, and ultimately end up shutting down their