I'm the Founder and CEO of messaliberty which is a web application development company based in Osaka Japan. messaliberty is providing an event information platform messa.in, a co-working space TechSpace, a regular meetup OpenCoffee Osaka and more. I'm blogging here mainly about technology and startups, doing consulting for international companies in Japan and foreign companies seeking to promote their products in Japan, and of course building apps. Currently I'm working on hulor.com.
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Osaka is the second largest city of Japan but to be honest, it’s not the best place to start a start-up. Why?
The reason is quite simple. Osaka have not many universities in the central part of the city. I feel it every times when I work with companies in Kyoto or Tokyo.
This kind of products will make a new tech/business trend, I think. Currently we don’t have any tools to pay small amount of money each other except cash inside your pockets.
What kind of dream you can imagine with this brilliant concept?
Didn’t know but Jack Dorsey joined as co-founder. Sounds cool.
I’m just thinking about the next step of my business on the internet. Some of my thought were different from his one. On the ohter hand, some were same.
Anyway, I got inspired a lot. Let me quote some of his words. It may long and only in Japanese, sorry.
6. Microsoft focuses on hardwares dept and OS dept – Yahoo! will be a separated dept though Microsoft send in executives. Microsoft’s core business divisions keep fine.
7. Lot’s of startups get out from Yahoo! – And some of it will become successful.
8. Yahoo! falls off – Then Jerry Yang may act like Steve Jobs, or Yahoo! Japan’s Masayoshi Son may do something.
9. Microsoft sells Yahoo! then acquires Sony – To focuses on hardware dept and OS dept more. Vaio & Walkman + Windows VS Apple, PS + X Box VS Nintendo.