Tim Romero
Over the past 20 years Tim has started four companies in Japan and worked to grow many others. He's an investor, adviser, hacker, author, podcaster, picker, grinner, lover, sinner.
Articles
Disrupting Japan: Why Men Need Women Founders
Ari is showing the startup world that incorporating some of the problem-solving skills and leadership techniques favored by women improves their chance of success.
Disrupting Japan: Creativity, Risk & Process
There are perfectly rational (and even mathematical) reasons why we have not seen a lot of entrepreneurship in Japan over the last 50 years.
Disrupting Japan: How Open is Too Open?
Global communication takes place exponentially faster than the project management cycle, and understanding is way too important to be left to machines.
Disrupting Japan: Innovating by Asking for Help
We also talk about Eiko’s transitions from housewife, to single mom, to MBA, to startup founder.
Disrupting Japan: Crowdfunding in Japan is Not About Startups
Crowdfunding in Japan is having a larger impact on corporate Japan than on smaller Japanese ventures.
Disrupting Japan: A New Agency Model for Innovation
These is as much creativity in Japan as there is anywhere in the world. The problem recently, however, has been in letting the innovation bubble up and commercializing it.
Disrupting Japan: From Salarymen to Freelancer
Since so much of modern business culture in Japan is based on the idea of belonging to a specific company, the move to large-scale freelancing will lead to large social changes as well
Disrupting Japan: Tea Ceremony in Blue Jeans & Startup Lessons
Innovation in Japan does not have to mean replacing the old with the new
Disrupting Japan: Bursting the Filter Bubble
The filter bubble is a term that describes the natural, but harmful, result of search engines and news services giving us more and more of what we want.
Disrupting Japan: Live and Unleashed
The Disrupting Japan podcast is live and unleashed at Super Deluxe in Roppongi!
