Focus on driving growth through Product Design, Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success.

Japan's First Hybrid Cashless Payment and employee ID Card App for ID Tech, and we launched the 1st ring-shaped payment and healthcare device.

International startups community and networks in Tokyo to support entrepreneurs and startups

Flow saves you time by automatically capturing moments from your Zoom meetings and moving the info to your Hubspot account.

AI-powered tools for eCommerce sellers to automatically edit your merchandise pics and turn the images look professional photographer taste of images.

This project is a user-driven AI incubation program for students to help start their idea from zero and up through acceleration and growth during Summer. - Design an incubation program to cover general issues and critical points for pre-launch startup founders- Support students to build AI startups from zero to a product-market fit- Plan and lead lectures, Q&A discussions with industry leaders, and individualized team guidance sessions

DEEPCORE, AI-focused seed-stage venture capital firm. Designed and launched an AI-focused global accelerator program.

Invested in early-stage AI/ML startups. Build the biggest and most valuable AI network in Asia. Ran an accelerator program and building a network and community among founders. We made a strong global and AI brand in Asia. The program went well. One company was acquired six months after the program ended. We organized the biggest demoday in our company’s history, which 600 people attended. That increased the exposure for startups to raise capital and close potential deals.

My previous startup Foxsy was a chatbot for people to socialize on messaging platforms. Let’s say AOL chats meets messaging apps. Foxsy can introduce other people based on the user’s profile, interests, and the type of conversation they enjoy. It grew from zero to 1 million users. Traction was that Mau was 150,000 and DaU was 15,000. By building a new brand and working with PR and media, our service was able to grow by word of mouth. And we worked with Google, Viber, and FC Barcelona to test our recommendation engine to show them personalized ads. The conversion rate was 1.7%.

As I am involved Growth and develop ChatBot with my team, I though there is a huge space to growth ChatBot experience more, because we can access few and limited information about ChatBot, especially User Interface and technical perspective. If we can share it, everyone will be able to increase efficiency about the ChatBot development. Thus, we started to have the interview with ChatBot Folks, which I would call Bot-Chatter. As I am from Tokyo, I would use this unique market preposition to become cross-bridged the ChatBot writer. Thus, mainly we publish the article based on the U.S ChatBot companies to Japanese Tech Media follower. Moreover, we share some tips about how PM and Developer work on the ChatBot in terms of Project Management and Technical perspective too. As we are from Xpresso, we explain you about pressed information in the express- way. For instance, during taking espresso, you can read our article. But, the espresso should be the double not the single please. If you have the question, please contact here.jin@tastexpresso.com

Founder and CEO :As a travel lover and serial entrepreneur, this business idea comes from my own experience.When I traveled with my best friend, Giovanni Salzoro, he brought me to unique and very local places in Amalfi, Italy. As a result of being exposed to a new culture, I noticed life is very beautiful. Italian people like to call this lifestyle theory "La Dolce Vita".Therefore, I decided to share this experience with more people. Then, when I was in UC Berkeley, I worked for a start-up in San Francisco, which provides a touristic marketplace to tourists and tour guides. However, what I wanted to provide was blocked by the language barrier and local system not provided by own country's UI in terms of User Experience.Therefore, my friends and I started to think about what could be a core factor to digest information and to make people taken actions. And then, as we researched, talked with UC Berkeley Psychology Professor, and did survey, we got the answer as user's feelings and desire as a human factor. Here's what we are doing now. The app, called AsKompass is "Revolution of an on-time search engine driven by user’s future feeling in a specific location". For example, how do you wanna feel and what do you wanna feel there. Based on users feelings, they can get activity suggestions to be able to find the most appropriate activities for them.

We grew the occupation rate from 10% to 90% and made the business profitable. What we did was to build a very unique global startup brand and identify clear North Star Metrics among the team. Since day 1, we had user interviews to determine the value proposition for us to increase brand awareness and existing users’ engagement to increase Word of Mouth and Referrals. Planned a marketing strategy and established marketing channels for both online and offline and event partnerships. The main KPI was to increase people who visit the co-working space. Otherwise, people would not be able to experience the space. The cheapest and most effective way to do this was to organize events. That brought more people to space, and people started to invite other people because they liked it. And we designed the experience when they opened the door and trained them how to show the space with a great operation team.

Worked for Japanese internet giant Recruit where I led the US localization of AirREGI, the largest POS system in Japan. He worked to localize the AirREGI product and user experience by conducting market research with over 100 stores in the California Bay Area. Utilizing user feedback he also constructed the AirREGI product localization plan using lean methodology.

I worked for AnyRoad on the Market Expansion for Japanese Market. It is Sales for our Operation System as AbyGuide to Individual tour guides and tour conducting companies and marketing roles, especially Customer acquisition and service as contents acquisition by E-mail marketing. Both used Marketing theory as a funnel, CRM, and Back-end analytical tool to be able to track user's activities, growth rate, engagement, and churn rate. Finally, succeeded to accomplish weekly user's acquisition rate 580% for 6 months. And, achieved the final goal to acquire customers and to keep user's engagement rate as 10% as weekly active users.

- Seek for business opportunities both B to B and B to C - Promoted company’s promotions and private party events

- Established a recruiting company for Non-Japanese in Japanese Markets for Engineer and Programmer- Planned and implemented business strategies - Reformed management structures and a company’s administration- Negotiated investments with banks for lunching a new business

- Managed three 7-Eleven convenience stores- Got Award 2012 best store as the highest sales records, the best customer service, and a model store out of 1000’s- Trained new branch managers specialized management, finance, Sales, Marketing and business developments- Maintained excellent sales record, increased ordinary profits by 25% and 150% a number of customers- Identified & pursued new business opportunities to enrich customer service by implementing a catering service- Cooperated with Yamato Ltd., to open Daiso flag shop in Sao Paulo, Brazil