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Richard Solomon
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Richard Solomon writes Beacon Reports, a personal blog at beaconreports.net about startups and business. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Entrepreneurship in the samurai tradition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked post covers Japan's startup culture, using Samurai Incubate, described as a Y Combinator of Japan, and its investment funds. The one comment quotes its funding figures and does not judge the writing.
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Beacon Reports reveals Japan through the lens of thought leaders.
Most-linked posts?
- Entrepreneurship in the samurai tradition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-02
What Hacker News says?
Samurai Incubate is like Y Combinator of Japan. Today Samurai Incubate manages ¥543 million (about $5.7 million) of investment capital spread across four funds. Sixty start-ups have received funding to date, each typically in the range of ¥4 million – ¥5 million (roughly $40k – $50k). - http://beaconreports.net/entrepreneurship-in-the-samurai-tra...
Comment linking /entrepreneurship-in-the-samurai-tradition/
on “Can Japan reboot its startup culture?”Submitted Building a SaaS startup in one of the least hospitable places on Earth: Japan as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a New Generation of Entrepreneur is Forging the Face of New Japan as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneurship in the samurai tradition as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex-CEO Akira Morikawa adopted guerilla style management to build LINE Messaging as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside Japan’s star making machinery as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Japan’s startup ecosystem gets lift from Silicon Valley’s Hiroshi Menjo as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tokyo’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Startup – Gengo as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Riding the digital revolution as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted IDEO’s Tom Kelley shares his dream to dial up entrepreneurship in Japan as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneurship in Japan: Separating fact from fiction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Samurai Loren Fykes of the Third Gundan releases recommendation app Quchy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to unleash Japan’s animal spirits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Silicon Valley Model Doesn’t Work in Japan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How A Little Known Japanese SaaS Startup Is Shaking Up The Global Music Industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build & Sell an Internet Startup to Japan’s Biggest Web Merchant, Rakuten as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ichiban Entrepreneur as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The cost of Japan’s missed ICT revolution as a story · 1 points
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