Takaaki Umada's 2024 Slides (Startup Strategy, Hypotheses, Careers, and Policy in 2024)

I was able to publish several slide decks in 2024, so I'm collecting them here by category.

• Startups
  • How to Start and Think About a Startup in 2024
• Hypotheses
  • Hypothesis Map, Loop, Leap
  • Steps from a Vague Idea to a Hypothesis
  • You Can't Do Good Hypothesis Thinking Without Action
• Careers
  • Thinking About Your Career with Must ➡ Can ➡ Will
• Policy
  • Diversifying Innovation Policy
  • The 3S Toward the GX 2040 Vision / GX 2.0
• Summary
  • 2023: "Build, Then Sell," "Sell, Then Build," and "Make It Sellable, Then Build"

Startups

How to Start and Think About a Startup in 2024

These are the materials from Startup School 2024. I talk about how the scale and strategies that startups should aim for may be changing.

Online, too, it felt like a year in which we often heard terms such as "decacorn," as well as compounds, roll-ups, and BPO.

After this deck, I published an article titled "To Stop the 'Beginning of the End' of Japan's Startup Boom," which was also widely read.

Stopping the "Beginning of the End" of Japan's Startup BoomI believe the "beginning of the end" of the startup boom is when VC fund sizes start to shrink, because that is what sets off a vicious cycle. Here is the reasoning. When fund sizes shrink, the capital startups can raise shrinks too…takaumada.com

Hypotheses

Because I published the book "Hypothesis-Driven Action" in December, I wrote several slide decks on hypotheses. I'd like to add a few more.

I hope the content of "Hypothesis-Driven Action" can become something of a shared language, so I hope it sells well. Please do read it over the year-end and New Year holidays.

Hypothesis Map, Loop, Leap

This deck depicts the process of working with hypotheses. I think Map, Loop, Leap is relatively easy to remember.

Steps from a Vague Idea to a Hypothesis

This deck focuses on the step of "creating" a hypothesis. I suggest it works well to think in the order of interest ➡ question ➡ inquiry ➡ hypothesis. I also introduce the concepts of a working hypothesis and a claim to express the strength of a hypothesis.

You Can't Do Good Hypothesis Thinking Without Action

This deck explains why action matters in hypothesis thinking. I feel that action is important in each of generating, testing, and realizing a hypothesis.

Careers

Thinking About Your Career with Must ➡ Can ➡ Will

This year, during the university course period, I think I wrote many articles about careers. This deck is a culmination of them.

Policy

Diversifying Innovation Policy

These are the materials from the Innovation Subcommittee in February. I've shared them with people working on policy several times, and I think I've reused them a number of times.

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The 3S Toward the GX 2040 Vision / GX 2.0

This is the deck I presented at a meeting with former Prime Minister Kishida. It focuses on GX, but I still feel that the challenge lies not in the budget but in "execution."

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An explanatory video and more are here.

What I Spoke About at the GX 2040 Leaders Panel (Session 3)On August 1, 2024, I took part in the GX 2040 Leaders Panel. I filmed a separate full version of what I wanted to say, so I am publishing it here.takaumada.com

Summary

If anything, it felt like a year in which my blog articles were read more.

2023: "Build, Then Sell," "Sell, Then Build," and "Make It Sellable, Then Build"

In 2023, the only deck I could publish was "Build, Then Sell," "Sell, Then Build," and "Make It Sellable, Then Build"," but even if you add up all the decks I published in 2024, that one was slightly ahead.

I published several decks in 2024, so I'm collecting them here.