startup asia tokyo 2014
Startup Asia Tokyo 2014 at a glance (INFOGRAPHIC)
Here are all the important numbers from our inaugural conference in Tokyo.
J.T. Quigley · · 1 min read
Y Combinator’s Kevin Hale on why ‘Silicon Valley style’ is overrated (#StartupAsia Tokyo)
You will never see Kevin Hale wax poetic about Asia’s smartphone penetration or its cheap labor. The YC partner believes in smart people first, market potential second.
Josh Horwitz · · 7 min read
Despite relatively small funding amounts, experts agree that Japan is on the cusp of a startup bubble
The CEOs of two hot young startups and the VCs that funded them unanimously agree that a bubble is forming – but don’t believe everything you hear.
J.T. Quigley · · 4 min read
EZTable wins Tech in Asia’s Startup Arena at #StartupAsia Tokyo 2014
Taiwan’s EZTable gets the Startup Arena trophy for its restaurant reservation app.
J.T. Quigley · · 2 min read
Highlights from day 2 afternoon sessions at Startup Asia Tokyo 2014
Here’s everything you missed at today’s Startup Asia Tokyo 2014 day 2 afternoon sessions.
Paul Bischoff · · 4 min readMoneytree wants to help ‘appwardly mobile consumers’ wrangle their personal finances (#StartupAsia Arena)
Moneytree is already pre-installed on all of the iPhones in Apple Japan’s retail stores – but will the Arena judges want to install it on theirs?
J.T. Quigley · · 2 min readAppota debuts social mobile gaming app called onClan at #StartupAsia Arena
Appota just took the stage at Startup Asia Tokyo today, with its new product, onClan. Do Tuan Anh, founder and CEO of Appota, says that the product is a social
Anh-Minh Do · · 3 min readTaiwan’s EZTable will doggedly charge forth in Southeast Asia (#StartupAsia Arena)
The Taipei-based restaurant reservation startup pitched in front of a panel of investors at Tech in Asia’s Startup Asia Tokyo 2014
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min readCapy replaces Captcha gibberish with puzzles that any human can solve – but computers can’t (#StartupAsia Arena)
Capy took the stage at Startup Arena Tokyo to pitch its safer, easier version of Captcha.
J.T. Quigley · · 2 min readPicocandy lets you add your own stickers store with two lines of code (#StartupAsia Arena)
Even established messaging apps like Viber have been using content from PicoCandy.
Daniel Tay · · 3 min read