'DMM.Make' Tag

  • Panel discussion on hardware investing

    April 20, 2017

    The other day Yohei Sawayama (500 Startups) and I gave a panel discussion on hardware investing at the DMM.Make hardware incubator in Tokyo. Some people requested a recap of our points, so here are some of the key takeaways. I’ll post the video when I get it. Thoughts for hardware entrepreneurs IoT is not the […]

    posted in venture capital by mark bivens

  • The France Japan Year of Innovation is more than mere words

    March 1, 2016

    Government-sponsored initiatives involving startups and innovation often meet skepticism. I understand because I often tend to be one of the skeptics. It’s a familiar drill. A group of politicians announce with great fanfare some theme of cross-border collaboration, accompanied by numerous platitudes extolling the virtues of entrepreneurship, job creation, etc. The official framework here dates […]

    posted in venture capital by mark bivens