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Ikuo HiraishiEntrepreneur, Startup, Education, Society, Life, and about Japan.
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Don't underestimate the power of ignorance!
My first car, BMW Z4 3.0i. Purchased in 2004
The older I get, the more I find myself thinking about things I never used to notice. On a recent morning jog, I caught myself wondering: Will I be able to see those cherry blossoms next year? T...
Home Is Not the Point.
Three Investments, One Pattern
Over the past six months — from last autumn through this spring — I made three new angel investments. On the surface, they have little in common. One is building an AI-powered credit infrastructure for immigr...
Japan’s Winning Formula in the AI-Dominant Era: Diversity, Not Isolation
Between 2025 and 2026, global equity markets and startup ecosystems have reached a historic turning point.
Today, I want to explore the current state and future prospects of Japan’s startup market — drawing on macroeconomic data, comparati...
The Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market Top 20: A Year in Review (2025–2026)
I am one of the entrepreneurs from the so-called dot-com bubble.
The top startups by market capitalization listed on the former Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market (now the Growth market) were founded around the same time, such as CyberAge...
What is OpenAI's IPO really telling us?
Growing up, I remember the moment our household television made the leap from black-and-white to color. When I share stories like that with the students at Musashino University’s School of Entrepreneurship (known as Musashino EMC), I can al...
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Serial entrepreneur, Angel investor, and Professor based in Tokyo. One went public at TSE, and Yahoo! Japan acquired the other. The portfolio includes a unicorn, Infarm, a16z-backed AnyRoad, and ModuleQ, backed by The London Stock Exchange Group.
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