Christmas Party

My co-worker invited me Christmas home party. He is married to British.

I took a real Christmas dishes in first time. Especially the whole roast turkey made me very supply. I very much enjoyed the Christmas dinner.

Screening

I went to school for screening.

A professor told about his business promotion. I was impressed it.

DEN AQUAROOM AOYAMA

I went out with other department member in my company. They are optics designers. I don't know almost peoples for the first time. So I told them about interesting story.

The restaurant was good design. There is a big aquarium and little some aquariums.

Haagen-Dazs

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Caspita! Shinbashi

I went out with co-worker at Caspita! Shinbashi. It was early year-end party.
The picture below is today's sweets.

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Principles of Corporate Finance

I will join to a class of corporate finance from December. I look for it. Because I never learn it until now.

I bought a class book that it's the Principles of Corporate Finance at Amazon. Of course, it was translated Japanese. But I bought another one in English. I want to learning it in English.

Gifts from Thai friend

Sawadee kap. Sabaidee mai kap?

Last week, Thai engineer came to Japan for a business. When I go to Thailand, He takes me out for a dinner every time.

He passed me gifts. It's a glass ship, fragrant candle and candle stand. It made me very happy.

His schedule was quite tight, so I couldn't go out dinner this time.

My Last Lesson in English

Henry who is my English teacher will go back United States next month. So yesterday was my last lesson. I studied English about two years.

I think that I will keep to learning English in the future.

Thank to Henry and Anna!!

English

In the classroom discussions, I said that exit strategy of start-up ventures have continued to rise since Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I knew about it on the web. But I didn't have the fact. Usually, we must have a fact with comments at the classroom discussions.

My classmate helped me, he searched the fact from NVCA. Yes, this website is in English.

About 70% information and 80% communication use English on the web.

I think anew English of need.

Kiva

This loan is my 5th loan.

I made a loan to "Chreal An" in Khsach Kandal district, Cambodia.

I hope to help her succeed.

Noblesse oblige

Do you know noblesse oblige? I just knew this word recently. This mean is below.

the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.

Souce: Dictionary.com

In US, it appear that rich people make a contribution.
For example, Bill Gate founded "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(B&MGF)". And Warren Buffett made a contribution to B&MGF.

WEB2.0 Election

Barack Obama knows well enough web2.0 that he join Facebook, it's a famous story.
He was supported a lot by Facebook users.

I felt that understanding web2.0 requires not only business but also politics.

Facebook page of Barack Obama
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama

Time Management

I guess that time management is very important.

I go to work and school. My school is on the web. So moving time is nothing.
But it needs to study a lot of time.

Almost all classmate have a job and maybe they are very busy for work. But they join with a good discussion everyday on the web. Why do they join it everyday?

At first I think that they have a lot of knowledge and experience, because they are older than me.
But I was wrong. If there is good knowledge, they say high level things. We search and think new things, we do the same things.
I noticed that the different is time management.

My friend wedding

I went to wedding. I met him at high school. He'd been always smartly dressed. So, this wedding was very nice atmosphere restaurant.

When we were students, I went to trip with him and other friend to Las Vegas, Hawaii and whatnot.
It was good memories.

Congratulations

Hello Muka and Rie-san,
Congratulations on your wedding! I'm very happy for you!

After this I will go to your wedding. See you later.

Ultra Mobile PC

I bought a Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) , the model was Acer ASPIRE ONE. Now, I can join on Web anytime, anywhere.

My school is on the Web. So, I always want to be ready for taking classes. Because, I often go on business trips, but every week I need to make reports.


Now I'm bringing my UMPC to Starbucks. I had a good time.

Sequoia Capital

Do you know Sequoia Capital? It is famous venture capital in Silicon Valley.
They invested following company:
Apple, Google, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Oracle, PayPal, YouTube etc.
These are massive company now.

There is a "ELEMENTS OF SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES" in Sequoia Capital's HP.

ELEMENTS OF SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES
Start-ups with these characteristics often foretells the success of a business and the likelihood of it becoming an enduring company with a sustainable business plan. We like to partner with companies that have:
CLARITY OF PURPOSE
Summarize the company's business on the back of a business card.
LARGE MARKETS
Address existing markets poised for rapid growth or change. A market on the path to a $1B potential allows for error and time for real margins to develop.
RICH CUSTOMERS
Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering.
FOCUS
Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition.
PAIN KILLERS
Pick the one thing that is of burning importance to the customer then delight them with a compelling solution.
THINK DIFFERENTLY
Constantly challenge conventional wisdom. Take the contrarian route. Create novel solutions. Outwit the competition.
TEAM DNA
A company’s DNA is set in the first 90 days. All team members are the smartest or most clever in their domain. "A" level founders attract an "A" level team.
AGILITY
Stealth and speed will usually help beat-out large companies.
FRUGALITY
Focus spending on what's critical. Spend only on the priorities and maximize profitability.
INFERNO
Start with only a little money. It forces discipline and focus. A huge market with customers yearning for a product developed by great engineers requires very little firepower.

Source: Sequoia Capital

The slide folow seems that they said to their investing company. It said that resentry economy.

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession)

Meltdown in global market

On October, meltdown in global market. Japan's market is same.

My asset go down more than 30%. I do not panic, because I was learning about market this year. So I know to have a risk in market. And this money don't just need my life. I guess that market returns. But I don't know when it will go back, maybe after 5 years, 10 years, 20 years...

A magazine said that this finacial cricis is once a century. I hope that it uptrends our economy once a century too.

This article was written down Kenichi Omae who he is the author of "The Borderless World," "The Invisible Continent" and "The Next Global Stage" about U.S financial bailout plan.
"What is needed to make the U.S. financial bailout plan a success"

Past a week, joined a business course

Past a week, I joined a business course.

The course is very difficult for me. I'm not surprised. If it is easy, I do not join it. Right? I do not know a lot of technical word. I check it up one by one. I've learned it about 2-3 hours and weekend about 8 hour.

When I finish this course, I will grow up.

Moreover I am enjoying to learn now.

My friend Wedding

I went to a wedding for my high school and university friend. He was my basketball team mate at high school.
So, I could met a lot of team mates after a long time. I enjoyed my time.

This picture was taken at wedding. There is a hart-shaped cloud. He was a lucky man.
Dishes was very good.

Entrance ceremony

I attended my entrance ceremony at graduate school. It made me very happy.

My classmates have good careers. I did not have it. So, I am glad to learn with them and I'm thinking I want to exchange knowledge and experience with everyone. So I decided to study very hard during two years. And then I want to make a social contribution.

DREAM.6

I went to DREAM.6 last week. Once again, my brother passed me tickets, because he went to Switzerland for business.

This time, my co-worker who fondness of combat sports almost bought a ticket... So, I asked a friend from university days to come with me.

Bought there at Seven-Eleven in Thai

I drank a Red-Bull every day...
It was good.

Movies theater on the aricraft

When I go to Bangkok, movies is one of my fun on an aircraft.

It take about 6 hours from Japan to Bangkok one way. I usually watch 2 or 3 movies round trip. There was one of the movies not release in Japan.

This time, I watched 3 movies.
IRON MAN


SEX and the CITY


Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

We are smarter than me

I read the book "We are smarter than me".(Japanese name=クラウドソーシング)

This book was wrote about crowdsourcing. And It made me surprise, this book was writing for crowdsourcing. So, there are more than 4000 authors!!
How did authors write the book? It site is "we are smarter than me".

You know Wikipedia. It's one of most famous crowdsourcing. This book introduce good actual example with each theme. For example, theme of product development list P&G.

If you are interesting crowdsoursing, you should read this book. But it was released 2007, perhaps you read it.

I am home.

I am safely back at home.

ประเทศไทย -Suvarnabhumi Airport-

ประเทศไทย -today's dishes-

Yahoo! Cafe

Do you know Yahoo! Cafe in Terminal 2 of Narita Airport?

You can access it for free and use a high-speed internet. Only check your passport. There are about 20 PC. I found out about it for the first time.

I can usually access the airline's lounge. It use an internet. But this time, my ticket didn't access the lounge. So, I had a lot of time and walk around Duty-free shops. At that moment, I found Yahoo! Cafe.

I recommend it!! When you go to Terminal 2 Narita Airport, you try to access it!!

Narita Airport

I am at the airport. I am boarding thethe aircraft.

I'm going to Bangkok!

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Put a movie on my iPod

I could put a movie on my iPod for the first time. It's very nice.

I've watched it on the train going to work.

My English teacher told me how to put a movie on iPod. Thanks teacher!

The software is videora. It's very easy-to-soft.

Apple released new iPod nano in this week. And my iPod model cuts a price...

Bear market

The mood of recession has deepened in the global economy for credit crunch in US. Japan market is no exception, stock was underperforming.

This week, one of the most interesting news is Lehman Brothers stock going down more than 40%...

I can not see my holding stocks price. Because it goes down stocks price such as jetcouster.

Depending on the perspective, it's bargain now.

For your information, the picture's bear is when I went to Hard Rock cafe on July, they passed our it for each reservation.

Kiva

This loan is my 4th loan.

I made a loan to "Kosar M. Akram Group" in Pakpattan, Pakistan. I hope to help them succeed.

Entrepreneurs have repayed me little by little. So, I relend to them using it. I guess it's a good cycle.

Demo of Bangkok

I have a schedule business trip to Thailand. But I am not going there now.
Because, there is a demo in Bangkok now. So the company stop business trip.

In fact, I stayed in Thailand, when there is a coups last year. But the area I stayed was very quite.

Got a iPod touch

I got a iPod touch 8GB.

When I went on a trip in July, I lost my iPod nano... So, I bought a iPod touch. Just a years ago, I posted somethings about it.
I put some music and pictures on my new iPod. It's good operability and display.

But I think the keyboard is hard-to-use. But I don't adjust it. So, I'll see how it works.

Passed the oral interview

I passed the admission exam!! Last week, I received the news. I'm so glad!! I become a student in October.

I got an opportunity. It's a big investment in my future.

My friends told me that almost all people that take the admission exam pass. And then it's very hard. Exactly, I think so that too. I haven't done nothing yet.

3 way to become another person

My reading mail magazine said, there are only 3 way to become another person.

1. changing time management
2. changing a place where you live
3. changing people you meet

Most nonsense is to decide. Nothing changes only decide.
Only change concrete your action.

What do you think it?

Passed the documentary examination

I took a briefing session for a MBA in July.　I had 3 concerns in taking classes, but I sent my resume and 3 essays.

I passed the documentary examination!!

I thought that I will try it next April. When I talked to my fried, I changed my opinion. I'm glad for my friend's opinion.

Next Saturday, I will go to the oral interview.

Hiroshima - City Museum of Contemporary Art(広島市現代美術館) -

Hiroshima -Hiroshima Castle(広島城)-

Hiroshima - Peace Memorial Park(平和記念公園) -

Hiroshima - A-Bomb Dome(原爆ドーム) -

Hiroshima -Itsukushima Shrine(厳島神社)-