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Re:Post-Mortem of a Tokyo-based Web Start-up by menloparkbum on Saturday July 21, 2007 @02:43PM (#35864)
Emotional investment is overrated.

The reason this endeavor didn't work is:

1. foreigners living in Tokyo (I lived in tokyo for a year; hugely distracting, hardly an epicenter of web software innovation)

2. trying to build 3 apps while doing consulting work (no focus)

3. the author was a dick to his only employee (wtf? why?)

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Re:Post-Mortem of a Tokyo-based Web Start-up by dhouston on Saturday July 21, 2007 @06:19PM (#35894)
4. not much effort spent figuring out what market they were going after or what problem they were solving
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Re:Post-Mortem of a Tokyo-based Web Start-up by dpapathanasiou on Saturday July 21, 2007 @06:46PM (#35895)
Maybe, but they were doing something right: one site had 7,000 users after 2 months.

It seems their real problem was impatient investors.

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