A few serial entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley invented it 10 years ago, and now it is widely recognized as a standard format among entrepreneurs.

Let’s think about getting out of laboratories to test business feasibility of your research.

• Partner, Learning Entrepreneur’s LabVisiting Professor at Waseda University
• Started career as a derivative trader at an investment bank to move on to a mergers and acquisitions specialist at General Electric, engaging in the transaction itself as well as post-merger integration of the management of acquired businesses.
• Finding it more interesting to actually new value creation than to acquire the value someone else created, engaged in three startups since then: two in Japan and one in the U.S.. (success ratio is one in three)
• Leveraging the career as an entrepreneur joined a venture capital as a partner for 10+ years.
• Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab is a process-oriented startup accelerator, investing/coaching early stage startups encouraging Lean Startup methodology.
• B.A. in Law from Tokyo University, MBA from Harvard University