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Ikuo HiraishiEntrepreneur, Startup, Education, Society, Life, and about Japan.
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The Question Four Students Could Not Answer
In early March 2019, I took four working professionals from the MBA program I was teaching to Silicon Valley.
The idea came from the previous summer. I had asked the class whether anyone had used Uber or Airbnb. A few hands went up for Air...
What We Didn’t Know We’d Left Behind
If she reads this, she will know immediately that I am writing about her.
I think it was 2002. Through DreamGate, a Japanese government-backed entrepreneurship initiative, a second-year university student came to shadow me. The program was...
The Next Investors in Japan’s Startups
Still small compared to Silicon Valley, Japan’s startup funding increased in the first half of 2026. That sounds encouraging.
But after reading Speeda’s latest report, Japan Startup Finance 2026 H1, I found myself thinking about the people...
The Life I Didn’t Plan
Recently, an article in The New Yorker about “surveillance and privacy” reminded me of the concept of a trade-off. How much privacy are we willing to give up in exchange for safety?
It also made me think about the choices in my own life....
9 Minutes to Catch the Narita Express
It was on my way back from Narita Airport in Tokyo on the 30th, the last Sunday in August 2026.
I was debating whether to go all the way to Shibuya or get off at Shinagawa, and wondering which station I should buy a ticket for. Eventually,...
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Tokyo-based entrepreneur, angel investor & professor. Co-founded WebCrew (TSE IPO) & Interscope (acquired by Yahoo! Japan). Investor in a16z-backed AnyRoad & WHILL; active in the U.S. Available for U.S. market feasibility studies & entry planning.
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