Learning from the Silicon Valley

Team D : s1230048 Shuta Ozawa

s1230115 Ryuzo Sugita

s1230123 Kota Moteki

s1220224 Ryota Mukai

s1210192 Riki Iwanabe

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Which area is SV?

•Country : USA

•State : The state of California

• area of LAND : 1854 square mile

•There are a lot of IT company

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Why should CS students know more about SV culture and how it work?

・ There are famous IT companies ・ Comfortable surroundings ・ Without worrying about the money ・ Being able to convey freely an idea ・ To introduce SV culture in our country

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My initial impression about SV

•Center OF development

•Beautiful place

•Priority developer

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Watch picture SV’s company

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SV ecosystem

1 University 2 Funding Organization 3 Service Providers 4 Research Organization 5 Support Organization 6 Big Companies 6

How important is it for a tech startup to be in SV?

•Securing human resources

•Selecting business place

•A founder’s personal connections

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Pindrop’s business Pindrop analyze voice and sound of caller and prevent company from suffering telephone fraud.

The main user is insurance enterprise,government agency,retailer,four bank of America.

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Pindrop's technology

Pindrop examine basic data such as signal place and number of phone and caller's voice.

Pindrop Analyzes frequency filter and codec data, packet loss,frame.

Their data makes risk profile. Risk profile suggests possibility of fraud.

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Starry’s business

Starry Station is high speed, low cost and broadband connection service who is absolutely wireless.

Starry Station unnecessary complicated wiring such as router,modem,wire.

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Starry’s technology

Starry set up wireless node on the roof of building in each city.

This node(Sttary beam) uses radio waves of wavelength beyond 30 GHz which is not used.

The radio waves reflects on building wall and reach user’s Starry Point.

Starry Point is put by window of user’s house and connected innovate Wi-Fi router which is called Starry Station.

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Uber’s business model

Uber is the service which call taxi with a smartphone if you say easily.

You can designate on the map which location you want driver to come pick with a smartphone, and you can know the how long the taxi will arrive if you are in the service.

There is ride sharing called Uber-X and individual

can conduct business like taxi with private car.

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What is Sharing economy? Sharing economy is un umbrella term with a range of meanings,often used to describe economic activity involving online transactions.

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TESLA’s business

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TESLA’s technology

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Tokyo ecosystem Shibuya is Tokyo’s capital for youth fashion,

culture and entertainment.

Is Shibuya still the epicenter of the Tokyo

startup ecosystem?

How does the Tokyo startup ecosystem

Look geographically?

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Stanford Silicon Valley - New Japan Project

Objective:

Powerful connection between SV and Japan,

Use SV’s ecosystem from Japan, Japanese start-ups

Motivation:

The idea is to learn from the SV’s ecosystem and replicate the system in some local form in Japan.

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Project components

●  Public forum series with networking ●  Research and publications ●  Policy research and implementation ●  Outreach symposia and activities

45 Japanese startups are participating in this project.

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Case Study: Chatwork

Arrival to SV: 2012

Provided a real-time communication tools for business

Initiative:

Built company in Japan first.

Learn SV work style via intern in SV.

Built Chatwork in SV.

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Case Study: SanBio

Arrival to SV: 2001 Developed products for brain cell regeneration therapy. Initiative: Learn biomedical in SV. Built company.

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Relationship between SV and Japan SV and Japan is said to that Third Time now.

First time: Late 1980s and early 1990s

Center of PC and Hardware

Second Time: late 1990s and early 2000s

Dotcom bubble, Internet

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Japan’s attempt to enter into SV In SV, Japanese companies are had bad reputation

1. Demanding a huge amount of information

2. Taking a long time before coming to any decision

but,　KOMATSU was defferent

Surveying 3D models

of construction site.

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Which cities are competing to become Japan's SV?

・These areas are selected as National Strategic Special Zones. ・Fukuoka city, Kyoto and Shibuya contribute much to start-up and employment expansion.

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Shibuya:

Kyoto:

Fukuoka:

Bit Valley Until around 1990, numerous IT companies were established in Shibuya.

Global establishment and employment creation special zone

Hardware industry Nintendo, Kyocera, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

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Plan to start-up a Company in Japan It is important for start-uper to find a profitable idea, a suitable place choice, and a clear goal. Among Japanese universities, University of Aizu has a high percentage to start a business after graduation, and there are many successful cases.

(number of venture from universities per 1,000 students)

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A map application that mascot will tell you the direction that you want to go. (Aizu Lab)

Application that can gather sightseeing area not being used brochure or internet information.

Aizuwakamatsu city has developed as a sightseeing area, and I think that there are many demands in the system that can be used for sightseeing.

Plan to start-up a Company in Japan

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・Do you think that Tokyo can ever rival SV?

I think Tokyo can ever rival SV. Reason: As I have said, Fukuoka City, Kyoto, Shibuya and many cities are trying to develop. For Japan where is a dense population, I believe it is easier to build a city with concentration of technologies.

Final message

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Thank you for listening

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