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• Tour de Tohoku

  November 7, 2013

  Although I generally conserve my limited athletic abilities and energy for triathlons rather than single bike or run races, the chance to cycle in the Tour de Tohoku was an opportunity that I could not pass up. A gorgeous ride through the rolling hills of the jagged coastline of northeastern Japan, the Tour de Tohoku […]

  posted in triathlon by mark bivens

• Japan’s renewed appetite for Europe?

  November 6, 2012

  The Rude VC disappeared to Japan last week for a combination of business meetings and some spiritual recalibration. I return refreshed and pumped up. Pumped up because the country that the West likes to deride as the one of the “lost decade” is demonstrating a renewed appetite for expansion abroad, especially in the tech sector. […]

  posted in technology by mark bivens