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Articles and posts related to entrepreneurship, by Paul Roberts, a Tokyo-based tech recruiter.

Profile #36: Kaido Chiwata – co-founder of Billpay

08/05/202506/01/2025 by Paul

Paul: Kaido Chiwata is a co-founder of BillPay, a Tokyo-based billing solution for foreign companies entering the Japanese market. Kaido and I spoke about how he went from bullied returnee … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan, Startup

Profile #21: Philippe Khin – Solo founder of SewaYou

08/05/202509/07/2022 by Paul

Paul: Philippe Khin is the Tokyo-based founder of SewaYou, an app that helps you easily find language partners in your area. Philippe and I talked about him coming to Japan … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Entrepreneur, Living in Japan, Startup

Profile #18: Drew Terry – founder of OpenSalary.jp

12/28/202507/11/2022 by Paul

Paul: Drew Terry is the founder of OpenSalary.jp, a website promoting salary transparency for the tech community in Japan. Drew and I spoke about starting his career as a software … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Entrepreneur, Living in Japan, Startup

Profile #17: Raymond Murphy – Tokyo-based creator & marketing creative and now founder of the Irish apparel brand ‘Cnota Gaelach’

12/28/202506/02/2022 by Paul

Paul: Raymond Murphy is a creator and marketing creative who first arrived in Japan in 2004. He launched ‘Cnota Gaelach’, a Tokyo-based Irish apparel brand in 2021. Raymond and I … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan, Startup

Profile #13: Sushant Pandey – IoT entrepreneur & future Tokyo resident

12/28/202501/22/2022 by Paul

Paul: Sushant Pandey is the founder of Scurid, a distributed digital identity platform bringing scalable security to the world of IoT. A Shibuya Startup Visa holder, Sushant will be relocating … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Entrepreneur, Startup

Profile #12: Jatin Kumar – software developer, HR specialist & curry enthusiast

12/28/202501/11/2022 by Paul

Paul: I first learned about Jatin Kumar after stumbling upon an online post about his GoCurry community last year. I was fascinated to learn more about Jatin’s background as a … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Entrepreneur, Mercari

Profile #11: Tanmay Goel – product manager and community organiser

12/28/202511/08/2021 by Paul

Paul: Tanmay Goel is a Tokyo-based product manager and organiser in the product management community here, with a background as an international student & entrepreneur, and interests including tech, the … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan 1 Comment

Profile #10: Miho Tanaka – supporting entrepreneurship in Shibuya

12/28/202505/26/2021 by Paul

Paul: A recent introduction to Miho Tanaka from Sasha at Le Wagon Tokyo was a case of perfect timing, as I’d just been reading about Miho’s work at Startup Welcome … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan, Startup

Profile #9: Greg Jeanneau – freelance UI/UX designer

12/28/202504/29/2021 by Paul

Paul: Greg Jeanneau is a talented UI/UX designer who moved to Tokyo from his native France in January of this year. We talk about Greg’s background as an engineer, his … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan, UI/UX

Profile #8: Sylvain Pierre – Entrepreneur & co-founder of Le Wagon Tokyo

12/28/202502/03/2021 by Paul

Paul: Sylvain Pierre is an entrepreneur, co-founder of the Le Wagon Tokyo coding bootcamp, and Tokyo resident since 2016. We talk about how Sylvain got into entrepreneurship, his experiences in … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Entrepreneur, Living in Japan

Profile #6: Misha Yurchenko – Author, Blogger and Entrepreneur

12/28/202501/07/2021 by Paul

Paul: I met Misha Yurchenko for the first time a couple of years ago after coming across his excellent newsletter (you can find it and more of his writing at … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan