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Joi Ito Speaks to MBA Students on Open Innovation

Monday, January 11, 2010

On January 9th, 2010, I was one of the fortunate McGill MBA Japan students to hear entrepreneur, venture capitalist and activist Joi Ito talk about “open innovation”. He spoke eloquently on a variety of topics including attitudes in venture capital in the US and Japan, open innovation and the non-profit Creative Commons. He started the [...]

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A Quick Note on iPhone in Japan (or iPhone vs. Softbank)

Monday, July 27, 2009

Spending 20 minutes looking at iPhone through the lens of Google searches in Japan can tell us a lot. If you’ve never used Google Insight for Search, get your tail on over and give a zing. This is what I’ve found from a little noodling around about iPhone: 1. When comparing iPhone to Softbank, since [...]

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The Japanese – Wannabe Entrepreneurs

Sunday, July 19, 2009

One year ago, I made the impulsive decision to change the course of my life and career, took the GMAT (barely passing), enrolled myself into the McGill Japan MBA program and found myself spending long, grueling weekends studying business mathematics of the sort I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. But besides restarting parts of [...]

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