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  1. Instead of Searching for What You Want to Do, Look at What You Should Do

    Students sometimes come to me with what is almost a question: "I don't have anything I want to do," or "There's nothing I'm interested in enough to take action." When that happens, lately I've been telling them, "Instead of what you want to do, why not think about what you should do?" and "Why not start with something you can do…

  2. You Don't Need an 'Origin Experience': Start Building the 'Past for Your Future' Today

    When I talk with young people interested in starting a business, I notice that quite a few of them hesitate to take action, saying things like 'I don't have an origin experience,' 'I'm a humanities (or science) person,' or 'I don't have the skills.' In fact, before starting a business, I hear there are even workshops that ask 'What is your origin experience?'…

  3. Embedded Entrepreneurship Education

    Previous plans for rolling out entrepreneurship education in primary and secondary schools have faced several challenges. For example, the following. As a way to solve these problems, I propose "Embedded Entrepreneurship Education (Embedded Entrep…

  4. "Society" and "Solving Social Problems" for Students

    The word "shakai" (society) was apparently not originally a Japanese word, but a term newly coined in the Meiji era to translate the word "society." This word "society" has two main meanings, which are said to be:

  5. Company Creation with Large Corporations - Open Innovation from the Demand Side

    Vargas Holding, the Swedish "impact company" builder we covered recently, has launched a new textile startup, Syre, which came into the public eye with a funding round in March 2024. Syre is polyester fiber...

  6. A Ruler for Measuring Success📏

    Even among people who are all called "entrepreneurs," I feel that their perceptions of success differ greatly. Some start businesses because they see wealth, fame, and power as success, while others choose entrepreneurship in order to leave behind a better society or to achieve something greater. Even wealth alone…

  7. "Indie Startups" and Small Businesses

    At a social gathering, the topic came up of calling ventures built on contract development or self-funding "indie startups" or "indie businesses." Startups and small businesses are often compared, but the term "small business" ...

  8. The Harms and Side Effects of an Ambiguous Definition of 'Startup'

    Partly because of national policy, 'startups' are getting attention, and with budgets attached, the 'number of startups' is starting to be set as a KPI by public bodies and others. I personally support increasing the number of startups, but what we need to be careful about is the definition of the word startup.

  9. Make Something the Future World Needs

    In the Silicon Valley of the past, young hackers created one groundbreaking software service after another, guided by th…

  10. Exit Quantity and Quality: The Bottleneck in Japan's Startup Ecosystem and the Trillion-Yen Company

    The medium- to long-term (10-year span) challenge that Japan's startup ecosystem as a whole must address in 2024 is, I believe, how to produce decacorns (companies worth 1 trillion yen) from Japan. The background to this is that VC…