#264 – Growing a 2-Person Business to $80k/Mo...

Lukas (@_lhermann) and Liz Hermann (@lizmhermann) talk having ambition as an indie hacker, scratching other people's itches, having kids or spouses to help run your empire, making $8k/month from a simple idea, and charting a course to $100M/yr with (@csallen) and Channing (@Chann ...  Afficher plus

Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) talks making millions in content subscriptions, working at a16z, putting the AI genie back in the bottle, thread boys on Twitter, educational vs entertainment podcasts, and media companies that monetize aspiring entrepreneurs with Courtland (@csallen) ...  Afficher plus

We look at Japan’s bid to compete with Silicon Valley. Japan is well known for innovations such as the walkman, bullet trains and Nintendo games, but the country hasn’t produced a killer product to really wow the world for decades. The government wants to change that by increasin ...  Afficher plus

Guided by world-renowned chef Masa Takayama, Anthony Bourdain’s return trip to Japan begins with a tour of outdoor food markets and a conversation with an ex-geisha at her teahouse. Plus, he enjoys a special omakase experience at Tokyo’s acclaimed Ginza Sushi-ko, where Masa train ...  Afficher plus

Erik recently interviewed Wendy Pease, an entrepreneur who runs a business in Boston that translates 200 different languages. She is very familiar with interacting with other business people in other countries, other cultures and also exporting what Americans do to those other co ...  Afficher plus

Long hours, unpaid overtime, traditional working culture and hierarchical structures – these are some of the things that often come to mind when people think about working in Japan.

In this episode I had my friend Taka-san to talk about what it's like to work in Japan a ...