US Market Entry Podcast

Ep. 8: 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit (6/6)

Wed, 21 May 2008 06:00:00

Welcome back to the podcast US Market Entry where we're wrapping up our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In the final part, we'll hear a panel discussing the pitfalls and opportunities one might face when entering the US market and Silicon Valley from abroad. Along with the Japanese executives from our last podcast, this panel includes:

Doug Felder, Director of OEM Business Development for NextHop, CEO of Felder Associates
Karin Hollerbach, CEO of Taku Group
Stephanie Keller-Bottom, Partner and Co-Founder of i2 Innovation Intelligence
Phil Wickham, Managing Director of Procap Partners
Tim Ome, Managing Director at Trenwith Securities

Ep. 7: 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit (5/6)

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:00:00

Welcome back to US Market Entry as we continue coverage the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part five, we cover the business presentations of three Japanese companies with their eye on entering the US market. The representatives include:

Hiro Takahashi, CEO of DTS, Inc.
Yuuki Ishikawa, Principal Engineer of Realcom
Nao Ito, President and CEO of Shop Airlines, Ltd (a subsidiary of NetPrice)

Ep. 6: 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit (4/6)

Mon, 05 May 2008 06:00:00

Welcome back to US Market Entry and our continuing coverage of the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part four, we hear a presentation by Chuck Erickson, CEO of the US Market Access Center, on the current state and trends of the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley and the US at large.

Ep. 5: 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit (3/6)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:00:00

In this edition of US Market Entry we continue our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part three, we'll hear a panel discussing the issues relevant to Silicon Valley companies interested in entering the Japanese market. along the executives from our last podcast, this panel includes:

Takashi Baba, VP at Fujitsu America
Hiroshi Honjo, Managing Director at NTT Data AgileNet, LLC
Yoshifumi Nakata, President and CEO of Mitsui Comtek Corp.
moderated by Makoto Abe, Principal of Japan Business Solutions

Ep. 4: 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit (2/6)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:00:00

In part two, we'll hear the presentations of four Silicon Valley based companies looking to enter into the Japanese market. The company representatives are:

Orlando Campbell, CEO of Thaddeus Systems, Inc.
Brenda Fox, VP, Corporate Development of Codenomicon
David Murphy, CEO of SilkCloud Inc.
Thomas Ludwig, CEO of TBD Networks, Inc.

Ep. 3: 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit (1/6)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:00:00

In this edition of US Market Entry we begin a special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In this first part, we'll hear an introduction by Yuji Muranaga, Chief Executive Director of JETRO San Francisco. We'll also hear Yutaka Hayami discuss the current state and future trends of the Japanese IT market.

Ep. 2: Firat Kahraman

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:00:00

Firat Kahraman, originally from Turkey, is an entrepreneur with Vizyontech Imaging, Inc. (www.vizyont8.com (http://www.vizyont8.com/)), a biomedical start-up located in the Silicon Valley. In this episode, we talk with Firat about the experiences of coming to the US as an entrepreneur, building a company from scratch, working simultaneously as a businessman and an engineer, and the challenges of getting funding in the Valley.

Ep. 1: Chuck Erickson

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:00:00

Welcome to US Market Entry. In this episode we are talking with Chuck Erickson, Executive Director of both the US Market Access Center and the Software Business Cluster in San Jose, California. Chuck is a long time executive and entrepreneur in the high tech field, and for the last 10 years he has served as an adviser to over 100 companies, both domestic and international, as they compete to break into the US and Silicon Valley markets. In our interview Chuck will share his insights about the business incubation community, and the challenges faced by the companies he has worked with.

Ep. 0: Our Inaugural Podcast

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:00:00

Welcome to the new US Market Entry podcast from the US Market Access Center. Every two weeks, your host Richard Vaughn will interview CEOs, government officials, entrepeneurs and more. In each episode we hope to shed some light on the issues that affect a company trying to enter the Silicon Valley. Thanks for joining us and enjoy!