I started running a business in Japan in 2002-2003. After around 2 years when the company had grown a lot, we started having all sorts of problems trying to man

I started running a business in Japan in 2002-2003. After around 2 years when the company had grown a lot, we started having all sorts of problems trying to manage quotes and invoices. Unfortunately there was no shrink-wrapped solution that could fix our specific problem that supported both Japanese and English, so I ended up designing and having built some software that generated our invoices automatically. I spent more and more time working on this, until I realised there was a lot of demand for this product, and a real market need. I met my co-founder (through Hacker News actually), and we decided to build out a multi-tenant solution for the Japanese mass-market.