Disrupting Japan: Why Japanese VCs are Losing Out – James Riney of 500 Startups

What it does

500 Startups has been one of the driving forces behind the utter disruption of how seed funding is done. That shift is one of the reasons we have seen such large and diverse startup ecosystems emerging around the world. Japan, however, often changes more slowly than other nations.

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