Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
Tim Romero: Serial startup founder in Japan and indomitable innovator
How a Startup is Making Ticketing Pay – Taku Harada – Peatix
36 minutes Posted Nov 24, 2014 at 9:00 am.
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Taku walked away from the kind of a career that most people dream of. He had proven himself at Sony Music, Apple and in his late twenties he was quickly rising thought he ranks at Amazon Japan. He and his friends knew they had an amazing career ahead of them, and that terrified them. At that point they knew they had to go out on their own and build something amazing.

Four years and two companies later, Taku has moved to New York where he runs Peatix, a rapidly growing event management and ticking platform with growing numbers of customers around the world and concentrated in America, Japan and Singapore.

We have a personal and heartfelt conversation about how entrepreneurship is really must a means to an end, and that end is not money. Taku explains starting a company is something to do when you have to not when you want to.

Show Notes
- Starting up in Japan & the early days of Peatix
- How a hardware problem lead to a industry changing innovation
- How to build a global startup from Day 1
- Why Japanese startups should not be Japanese companies
- Some mistakes even large multi-nationals make in Japan market entry
- The best reasons you should never start a startup
- Importance of focusing on the similarities not differences
- Which startups will survive the next crash
- Why mistakes as some of your most valuable intellectual property