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Today and yesterday, Joi Ito’s Tokyo-based Digital Garage held the New Context Conference, an event which (at least for this year) took over the place of a relevant conference for the local web industry (instead of the Web 2.0 Tokyo, which was canceled). The conference slogan was “Open...

Yesterday, I came back to Tokyo from the TechCrunch50 conference that took place in San Francisco. Here are 10 things I found particularly interesting about the event (in no particular order): 1)The three days of the conference began with a professional singer who sang the Star-Spangled Banner...

I attended this month’s Mobile Monday Tokyo event, which took place in a bar in Akasaka. Two presentations were given and both were focused on the venture capital industry in Japan. Aki Ohashi, partner at venture capital firm NGI, explained how to get financial support from companies like...

Yesterday, this month’s Venture Beat Networking Party took place, this time in a new venue near Roppongi. As always, the invitation-only event, backed by CNET Japan, was attended by a number (over 50) of high-profile CEOs, VCs, Tech journalists…and me. For example, I was fortunate to...

OK, not of all these people were VCs. Some of them are also presidents of web companies. And we were not really in the woods but in the amazingly beautiful Fukui prefecture, hometown of Taisuke Fukuno. All this under the umbrella of Venture Beat, to my knowledge the most influential network in...