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by jason_tko 13y ago
I feel like doing a startup in Japan is not yet cool, from a general society perspective. I think that almost every one of these new founders are having regular arguments with their parents, who would be trying to convince the founders to g
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by jason_tko 13y ago
There is a tremendous benefit of grabbing hold of an opportunity, and doing whatever the hell it takes to strangle the value out of it. Which is what these guys were trying to do. This was such an outlier in terms of standard use cases of t
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The psychology of why people don’t value PDFs, no matter how great the content(summitevergreen.com)
3 points by jason_tko 13y ago|0 comments
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by jason_tko 13y ago
This is something I see pretty often. I'm a business co-founder, so this stuff is pretty much my bread and butter. An idea I've been kicking around is some kind of "Social Skills Primer" type product, probably done by vi
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by jason_tko 13y ago
As always, this event will be a blast. Hope you can all make it!
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Surviving a Startup: Finding Your Oxygen Mask(jasonwinder.com)
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Introducing the new Google Maps(google.com)
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by jason_tko 13y ago
One of the most enjoyable things about reading this that even in the first 3 usenet messages, Linus states engineering tradeoffs cleanly, simply and un-apologetically. All qualities that Linus was to become famous (and infamous) for, before
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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #26 – 11th of September, 2013(hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp)
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by jason_tko 13y ago
As a tourist for a few weeks - sure, no problem. You'll be fine.
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by jason_tko 13y ago
No, Google Translate is not totally useless for an amusing conversation about cats at say, a cafe. For a job interview or a more formal business environment though, you're going to start at a considerable disadvantage if you don't
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by jason_tko 13y ago
Great article and excellent advice as always Patrick. Accurate all the way down to their accounts department not caring at all about your invoicing terms.
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by jason_tko 13y ago
Come to the HN Tokyo meetups we organise. We often get VCs dropping by. Here are the details for the next one: http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/5489
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by jason_tko 13y ago
Thanks mate, appreciate it. Hope you can make it to the next HN Tokyo event too!!
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by jason_tko 13y ago
Many thanks - really appreciate the kind words. I agree with Paul. We're pretty ambitious on the spaces we want to go after, and we have a lot of room to grow inside Japan first. As Paul mentions, Japanese businesses have very high exp
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by jason_tko 13y ago
As a founder of a Japan based startup catering to businesses in Japan (MakeLeaps) and also as a co-organiser of the Hacker News Tokyo Meetups with my co-founder Paul, I found this article to be full of defeatism, inaccurate and generally di
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List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks(apple.stackexchange.com)
203 points by jason_tko 13y ago|65 comments
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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #23 – Thursday 13th of June, 2013(hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp)
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by jason_tko 13y ago
This thread is part of my re-calibration. There's always a trade-off between practicality and security, and I'm interested to see where it falls for everyone else.
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Ask HN: What do you use when you need a "secure" VoIP/IM connection?
9 points by jason_tko 13y ago|4 comments
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by jason_tko 13y ago
This is a great article. After holding off on switching to automatic Dropbox iPhone camera uploads for months, finally I switched it on as a test and immediately wondered why I had waited. Very impressed with the OpenPhoto initiative too. A
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by jason_tko 13y ago
I'm the business co-founder of a startup in Japan called MakeLeaps. Co-incidentally, I run the Hacker News Tokyo meet-ups with my co-founder Paul. I'd be interested to learn some programming (enough to be dangerous) perhaps by working on a
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by jason_tko 13y ago
StavrosK, I hope that you've posted this looking for some feedback, because after seeing your site I really wanted to give you some constructive criticism. If you want more people to use it, I'd suggest making your site more clear and easy
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by jason_tko 14y ago
Not sure if you'll check back on this thread, but this part of your comment kind of made my day :) >> Honestly, I really fucking love optimising databases.
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by jason_tko 14y ago
15 spots left! This is going to be another good one, so book quickly if you want to come.
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HN Tokyo Meetup #21 – Thursday 11th of April, 2013 (50 people max)(makeleaps.jp)
9 points by jason_tko 14y ago|2 comments
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by jason_tko 14y ago
Not really. Just loosely around the hashtag #hntokyo. It's a pretty relaxed meetup without too much structure - it's mainly based around chatting and meeting people.
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by jason_tko 14y ago
See you guys there. Looking forward to putting up the tweet wall again #hntokyo #lovethattweetwall
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Experienced tax accountant doing an extensive AMA on Reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by jason_tko 14y ago|0 comments
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by jason_tko 14y ago
It'll be good to see you there. It's been a while!

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