This document discusses Silicon Valley and its culture, comparing it to startup ecosystems in Japan. It provides examples of successful startups from both regions, such as Hudl and Nowait from Silicon Valley, and Lang-8 from Japan. While Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka are trying to emulate Silicon Valley's success, it will be difficult to duplicate due to cultural and business differences between the US and Japan. Developing connections between the two regions through initiatives like the Silicon Valley - New Japan Project may help Japan better leverage Silicon Valley's strengths.

1. Silicon Valley Awareness
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Tsukasa Ueno
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2. Which area is SV?
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3. Why should CS students know about SV
culture?
・Learn bussiness
・Learn technology
・How to raise funds
・Be a challenger
・Fail Fast, Fail Cheap, Fail Smart
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4. My initial impression about SV
・My initial impression about SV is good
・There is challenge mind
・It is in not only workers but also Venture Capitalists
・We should have this mind before get jobs
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5. Short video about SV
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6. SV ecosystem
・There are many elements in SV ecosystem
・There are 2 types connection, money flow and people flow
・Venture Capitalists mainly invest start-ups
・People working in SV have challenge mind
・They have an important mind that they don’t just want profitable business models, and want scalable
opportunity
・Universities have US students and Foreign students
・Students get jobs in start-ups or large corps 6

7. How important is it for start-up to be in the
SV?
・SV is the most popular place to start companies
・But it is difficult to be top-funded company in SV
・The same can be said in second-tier markets such as LA, Austin, Seattle,
Boston, DC, Tel Aviv and London.
・So, it is good choice for entrepreneurs to start in third-tier markets
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8. Discuss a SV start-up company(1st)
・Hudl
・It works to help sports teams and athletes win games
・Using users own devices, they can
・record or upload videos to its platform
・annotate it with text, drawings or voice
・share it with players 8

9. Discuss a SV start-up company(1st)
・Its service is also used recruiting
・Players can appeal themselves to high school, university, or professional
team.
How is it special?
・It focused on using technology for sport
・This mind is unique and its service is useable easier
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10. Discuss a SV start-up company(2nd)
・Nowait
・It allows users to virtually “get in line” at a restaurant
・Guests can contact the staff using its app
・It aligns to about 4,000 restaurants
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11. Discuss a SV start-up company(2nd)
How is it special?
・It tries to change our ordinary habituation by using smart app
・Such challenge can dramatically change our lives
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12. Business and Technology model of Uber
・Uber’s business is worthful for rider and driver
・Its app is free and can be used easier
・Rider can choose various cars according to the purpose
・Driver can use Uber to earn pocket money
・It is said that it is possible to earn as much as $ 90,000 a year at maximum.
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13. Business and Technology model of Uber
・Uber appeared at the beginning, it became famous as a breakthrough sharing economy service.
・Sharing Economy refers to a service that lends out personal property
・Uber incorporates a mutual evaluation system
・Rider and Driver can get better service and avoid malicious users
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14. Business and Technology model of Tesla
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15. Business and Technology model of Tesla
・more important nodes are bigger,
neer by center, and have hot color.
・less important nodes are smaller,
neer by outside, and have cool color.
・Sale node is the most important
because it has many edges
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16. Tokyo ecosystem
・Shibuya is the hub for young enterpreneurs
and start-up
・This map has many top-funded start-ups,
VC firms, accelerators, and incubators
・VCs, startups, accelerators and incubators
are dispersed across several downtown city
centers
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17. Silicon Valley - New Japan Project
・This project aims to create sustainable platform for interactions between
Silicon Valley and Japan
・It is difficult to duplicate SV ecosystem anywhere else
・The key challenge is to figure out how Tokyo can “harness” SV ecosystem
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18. Silicon Valley - New Japan Project
・This platform is for dense interpersonal relations to enable Silicon Valley to
benefit from Japan, and for Japan to better harness Silicon Valley.
・This facebook account contributes some information about project
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19. Japanese start-ups and their SV initiative
・Lang-8
・It developed platform, “HiNative”
・In this platform, language learners can ask questions to native speakers
easier
・This is used about 120 languages in 170 countries
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20. Japanese start-ups and their SV initiative
・It is funded for ¥ 200 million by venture capitalists, companies and business
angels
・Its CEO, Youyou Ki, began this service when he was a student of Kyoto
University
・He had a very interesting idea
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21. The major points about Japan’s attempt to enter into SV
・Japanese companies understand open innovation
・And they are committed as never before to Silicon Valley
・ Companies in Silicon Valley are now pursuing technologies and businesses
that directly affect the mainstream businesses of many Japanese corporate
giants
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22. The major points about Japan’s attempt to enter into SV
・Japanese companies demand huge amounts of information and then take a
long time before coming to any sort of decision
・In Silicon Valley, companies dislike taking a long time to make a decision
・So, Japanese companies should speedup their business in order to enter into
SV
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23. Which cities are competing to become
Japan’s SV?
・Tokyo
・Shibuya has many top-funded start-ups, VCs, and incubators
・Osaka
・In shopping mall, people can test experimental prototypes such as drones
and holograms.
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24. Which cities are competing to become
Japan’s SV?
・Fukuoka
・The industrious port city welcomed 2,800 new companies
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25. My plan to start-up a company in Japan
・I will develop and sell iOS and Android app development tool for many devices
・Customers can develop apps easily using this tool
・Also, they can develop professional app and sell it out to the app store
・Basically it is free to use, but it costs money if customers use it more seriously
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26. My plan to start-up a company in Japan
・I expect to fund by JFC finance of Japan Finance Corporation
・I can take out a loan up to ¥ 10 million and this rate of interest is low
・I am going to start my company in Takadanobaba foundation support center
・I will rent a office space, and I can get some information and consult about
administration there
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27. Can Tokyo ever rival Silicon Valley?
・There are many social problem such as elderly society, society with declining
birth rate and so on
・Also, most of Japanese companies still use old technology
・If we don’t solve them, Japan will never become rival of Silicon Valley
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