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  1. How Startups Can Contribute to Realizing Harmonia Japonica (Harmony Through Japan)

    Summary by NotebookLM. Without solving the world's problems, you cannot build a global startup. Until now, examples of such big problems were climate change and healthcare. And lately, in addition to those global problems, a new problem seems to be emerging: how to bring about harmony in the world…

  2. Industrial Policy and the Industrial Dynamism Created by Startups

    Summary by NotebookLM. Countries are trying to bring industrial policy back. "Bringing manufacturing back to America" is a major example. These policies can look inefficient in economic terms, but if leaving things to the market widens inequality at home and destabilizes society…

  3. From Entrepreneurs to Industrialists: People Taking On 'Creating New Industries' and 'Rebuilding Industries'

    In times of great change, legendary entrepreneurs emerge. In Japan, examples include Eiichi Shibusawa and Yataro Iwasaki, and in the postwar era Soichiro Honda and Masaru Ibuka, people who contributed greatly to building industries. Such people went beyond the frame of the 'entrepreneur' who simply starts a new business, and thought about how to build industries for the sake of the nation and society…

  4. Product/Society Fit (PSF) for Non-Profit Organizations and Its Journey

    It is said that the first thing a for-profit startup aims for is Product/Market Fit (PMF). As the name suggests, it is a state in which the product fits the market, and once it is reached, a phenomenon is said to occur in which the company is overwhelmed by inquiries from customers…

  5. Umada's Startup NotebookLM: Ask Questions and Bounce Ideas Off My Slides

    NotebookLM has added a public sharing feature, so I loaded my recent startup-related slides into NotebookLM and made it public. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/…

  6. It's Time to REBUILD: Startups Rebuilding a Creaking Japan

    Summary of this article by NotebookLM. In April 2020, when anxiety over the COVID-19 pandemic was growing, Marc Andreessen's essay It's Time to Build (Japanese translation) became a hot topic…

  7. Entrepreneurship Education in KOSEN and Regional Japan

    I was asked for my views by people in government on entrepreneurship education in regional areas, and in KOSEN (colleges of technology) in particular, so I am turning the materials I submitted into this article*1. As a premise, I believe that entrepreneurship education should differ somewhat from school to school…

  8. Innovation Is Not 'Linear'

    When we think about innovation, we tend to fall back on a linear model (a supply model) of basic research ➡ applied research ➡ development ➡ innovation. But working on the front lines of startup support, I feel it would be better to understand it through a somewhat more systemic approach...

  9. The Age of Supply Capacity and Startups

    Summary by NotebookLM. Over the past decade, how to stimulate demand has been an important agenda. But the center of gravity seems to be shifting recently toward supply. Of course, demand remains important, and in some individual areas…

  10. Elites, Redistribution, and Updating the Social Contract

    Summary by NotebookLM. One of the responsibilities I feel as an individual working at The University of Tokyo is, while contributing to the organization through everyday work such as education and services, to aim at maximizing the interests of society and the public good. As one of the country's leading top schools and a school that produces elites…