'venture capital' Category
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Playing nice when capital is abundant
January 25, 2019I bet you wish you never burned that bridge (oh nooooo, ‘cause now you’d like to cross it) — Shaggy alongside Chronixx There is loads of VC money sloshing around the startup ecosystem these days. if you need proof, the recent reports from both CB Insights and Crunchbase bear this out. With just over 34,000 […]
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Patron saint of the amateur investor
January 20, 2019This past week witnessed the passing of John Bogle, the pioneer who helped create what has arguably become one of the greatest financial innovations of all-time: the low-cost index fund. I’ve referenced Bogle on numerous occasions on this blog (e.g. here, here, or here), for I found his “cost-matters hypothesis” laudable. In Bogle’s view, the […]
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2018 in reflection; 2019 in anticipation
January 7, 2019As is customary this time of season, I will take a moment to reflect on the year that just ended, revisit my prior predictions, and dare to make some audacious new forecasts for the upcoming year in VC and tech. First, a look back Looking back, 2018 proved to be a fulcrum year in terms […]
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ベンチャーキャピタルファンドでのインターン
December 31, 2018入社時期: 2019年 勤務期間: ４~６ヶ月、開始日未定・相談次第 勤務地: 東京（大手町） 概要: グローバルVCファンドでのインターン機会 職務内容： ポートフォリオ管理、ディール・ソーシング、ポートフォリオ会社の支援、市場・企業分析、プレゼン作成、財務モデリング その他 日英・英日翻訳、一般実務 詳細: 見学可：起業家によるピッチ、取締役会、戦略・対策会議、バリュエーション等 VCに関連する様々なプロジェクトに携われるチャンス。 テック関連スタートアップや起業家と接して、知識を深めるチャンス。 VC業界で使用する技術をハンズオンで学べるチャンス。 リーン・スタートアップ・マネジメント論を学ぶチャンス。 適切な給与。 成果を残す方には卒業後、新卒入社可。 応募資格: 必須： 4年生大学、又は大学院在学の学生のみ、 日本語ネイティブ、語彙力・読解力・文章構成能力に自信がある人、 日本国籍又は永住者・定住者（学生ビザ不可）。 独創力：知的好奇心を刺激的する、厳しい環境の中で自律的に行動が取れる人。 オープンマインド：グローバルなチームと共に働きたい人 (英語力日常会話程度)。 プラス：Word、PowerPoint、Excel、グラフィックデザイン、ワードプレス、SNS。 応募方法: 英式レジュメのPDFファイルを 「stageアットrudeドットvc」 にお送りください。ファイル名形式：性－名.pdf (例：yamada-hikari.pdf）
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Happy holidays
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2018 Holiday gift guide
December 18, 2018By popular demand, here’s my holiday season gift guide featuring companies and projects in which I’ve invested or have been involved in some form. GoCater. Order catering services for your office party this holiday with GoCater. GoCater’s American counterpart, EZCater, raised $100 million to acquire GoCater this past summer. So that means GoCater now sits […]
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A quick start suddenly slowed, but now LINE Quick Games are back
December 11, 2018Looks like LINE quick games are finally back after a sudden false start. I’m eagerly awaiting some official communication from LINE explaining the November shutdown. In the meantime, I encourage LINE users to give the quick games a try during the holiday downtime. Daily Sudoku (今日のナンプレ) is my favorite, but I’m biased.
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My cat ate my {insert product}
December 4, 2018Holiday season is upon us, along with holiday shopping season. Perhaps this problem has existed for a while, but it seems that fake online product reviews have jumped by an order of magnitude this year. The severity of the fake review problem first struck me this summer, when I found myself in the middle of […]
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AI Frameworks infographic
November 14, 2018Although I am the proud investor in one promising AI startup in Japan already, most of my deal flow involving innovation in AI is still coming from Europe nowadays, most predominantly from France. France’s prowess in AI might be one of the best kept secrets in innovation these days globally. As I find myself explaining […]
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LINE Quick Game… not so fast
November 7, 2018Well, that’s embarrassing. It looks as though every single HTML5 Quick Game on LINE Messenger is undergoing “maintenance” for the month of November. This must be egg on the face for LINE, since they released the Quick Game platform barely two months ago. I quickly became a fan, mainly because I found it far less […]
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Startup boards – The Culture Map
November 2, 2018One of the aspects I appreciated most about being a VC in Europe for so many years didn’t occur to me until after I shifted the balance of my portfolio to Japan. Specifically, the cultural diversity of the startup boardroom in Europe is broader and more heterogeneous than I’ve ever experienced in ecosystems like Japan, […]
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Why I invested in MakeLeaps
October 26, 2018When I first met Jay Winder back in 2014 he struck me as a hyperactive listener. I don’t mean that he was hyperactive. On the contrary, he had the composure of a Zen acolyte running his startup, clearly at inner peace with himself. Rather, I mean that he was actively engaged in the conversation and […]