Lynnsan

Sapporo is a great city and it swells and swells and swells during the snow festival. I lived there five years so I saw my share of these. It doesnt take more than a day to really see everything though. There’s a particular pleasure to seeing the snow festival, having a nice bowl of sapporo ramen or yakitori in a smokey little hole in the wall, and then tossing down a few drinks near or in Suskino.

Ive started three companies, and one of the two I still run could easily be broken up into three others. I know a lot of people who have tried, then ended up running their business quickly into the ground. They usually failed because -

1. The amount of risk was too much.
2. They werent prepared or didnt prepare for the market they were entering.
3. Ran out of cash and never figured out how to raise more.
4. Didnt have a grasp of the competitive market space.

If you think “man, I just have to escape this rat race robot factory where I work” – well, research first. If you are all secure in the four points I outlined above, its more likely your venture is going to thrive and grow – and make you happy at the same time :-)

I write and write and write every day – but its all business. Twice a week I can sit down and spend about 30 minutes in a cafe with a laptop.