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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by masklinn on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:39PM (#21631933)
> Does Japan really want foreign entrepreneurs? It's always been very conservative

My understanding is they're also very financially conservative, I think it was pinboard who was talking about his experience as an independent entrepreneur?

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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by mariuolo on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:48PM (#21632017)
I also remember this guy's perspective: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by masklinn on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:37PM (#21641215)
Ah yes, that's who I was thinking about, I confused patio11 and pinboard (sorry to both).
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by alteria on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:44PM (#21633627)
Fantastic read, thanks for sharing!
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by techstrategist on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:27PM (#21632428)
Patrick (Patio11) wrote (still writes occasionally) extensively about his experience running his business from Japan.
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by masklinn on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:37PM (#21641222)
Indeed, that's who I was thinking about rather than pinboard, sorry 'bout that.
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by JauntTrooper on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:11PM (#21633362)
It’s interesting how much times have changed.

If you read Phil Knights autobiography about starting Nike, he couldn’t get funding in the US and actually raised a lot of capital from Japanese financiers in the 70s.

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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by erikig on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:38PM (#21633561)
Raising capital from Japanese financiers to run a business in the US is different from launching and running a business in the US
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by godzillabrennus on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:50PM (#21632662)
Isn’t SoftBank a Japanese group?
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Re:Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing? by adventured on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:27PM (#21632990)
Masayoshi Son (founder & CEO of SoftBank) has been infamous in Japan since the 1990s for rattling the very conservative Japanese business environment. He has been considered a maverick, an outlier there since the beginning. Both in his thinking and his actions; his willingness - almost eagerness - to pursue higher risk endeavors that few business people in Japan would similarly consider.
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