Reposted from our newsletter. ** Friends, Leapin’ lizards!  A month has passed from our last epistle. (Didn’t read it? Don’t worry, we’ll wait.)  With fall has come good news. We have started work for FujiFilm’s Open Innovation Hub in Santa Clara.  Open Innovation Hub is a showcase for core technologies developed by FujiFilm, and the company is now […]
Category Archives: telecom
The Signal #16: SoftBank and spider powers
from our July 27 newsletter, The Signal.  (Sign up for more installments here) *** Friends, So, like, SoftBank is buying ARM.  We’ve gotten a fair bit of questions about this and so will comment here. First and foremost, it can be helpful to think of SoftBank as an investment company that owns a telco, rather […]
The Signal #15: Pyromania
from our July 11 newsletter, slightly edited for public consumption: ** Friends, July is here, and with it, San Francisco summer weather. Our panel on the on-demand economy on June 28 came and went. Many thanks to those who joined us. Â Shanea King-Roberson with Google shared insights about their Android nanodegrees; Michi explained labor demographic […]
Unlocking Japan (part 1)
A lot of people ask me what I “think about Japan”. It’s a broad question, but usually it implies, do you think Japan will grow again? At that point, I typically point out macro-level trends. Shrinking and aging population. Significant use of temp labor that is paid less than full-time employees, something which has likely […]