{"id":14101,"date":"2011-05-14T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T00:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2011-05-14T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T00:34:44","slug":"sf-new-tech-calls-for-entries-to-present-at-japan-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sf-new-tech-calls-for-entries-to-present-at-japan-night\/","title":{"rendered":"SF New Tech Calls For Entries To Present At Japan Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Hill, the CEO\/founder of San Francisco-based web consultancy btrax, gave us an invitation to potential presenters and attendees at a must-join tech start-up demo event that will take place next month.<br \/>\nAs of this writing,\u00a0four start-ups of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kayac<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chat-work.com\/ja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chatwork<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-grab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J-Grab<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cony.ac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conyac<\/a> have passed the first screening. \u00a0 Entries to present are acceptable until May 20.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s some of what we have covered the previous event. (including Ustream video)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/live-six-japanese-tech-start-ups-present-at-sf-newtech-japan-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live: Six Japanese Tech Start-ups Present At SF NewTech Japan Night<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/event-report-san-francisco-japanese-tech-entrepreneur-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Report: San Francisco Japanese Tech Entrepreneur Night<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s Brandon Hill:<\/strong><br \/>\nBorn in Hokkaido, Japan. \u00a0He has a Japanese mother and a American father. \u00a0Prior to founding web consultancy btrax in San Francisco in 2004, he was attending San Francisco State University where he started his carrier as a designer and programmer.<br \/>\n<strong>SF New Tech:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is literally a tech start-up&#8217;s demo and presentation event that takes place monthly at a nightclub in San Francisco. \u00a0 The event celebrated its 5th anniversary last month. \u00a0 Some events in a year feature start-ups from outside the US., which are titled like Belgian Night and Japan Night. \u00a0 btrax is deeply involved with organizing Japan Night.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14102 aligncenter\" title=\"SF New Tech Japan Night - Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sfn-jn_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"84\" \/><br \/>\nIn light of the Japan\u2019s worst disaster, web tech startups are giving the nation of Japan some hope for normalcy and economic recovery with their efforts to go global. In fact, the entry point for web tech globalization seems to be San Francisco. \u00a0In a local SF <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=119260&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, San Francisco was named as the second-fastest growing city in high-tech employment, with 65 percent growth over a five-year period. \u00a0The whole region which includes San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco supports over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/national\/2010\/12\/09\/high-tech-jobs-evaporate-by-the-thousands-in-detroit-and-san-francisco-bay-area-boston-san-diego-seattle-hold-their-own\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$48 Billion in payroll<\/a>.<br \/>\nLast year we wrote about a first of a kind tech event featuring Japanese start-up web tech companies called <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/japan-internet-tech-entrepreneur-event-in-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Japan Night<\/a>. This year, the organizer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btrax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">btrax, Inc.<\/a> a multicultural Web agency, is going to hold the event again this year.<br \/>\nLast year\u2019s SF Japan Night event was the capstone of a week of Japanese tech events and was a huge success. Over 500 people attended the week long event with over 300 people just showing up for SF Japan Night alone. One of the presenters, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygengo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myGengo<\/a> received seed funding after the event from the <a href=\"http:\/\/500startups.com\/about\">Dave McClure<\/a>\u2019s incubator program <a href=\"http:\/\/500startups.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 Startups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14103 aligncenter\" title=\"SF New Tech Japan Night - Snapshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sfn-jn_snapshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"244\" \/><br \/>\nThis year\u2019s event hopes to be even better with many start-up companies from Japan showing great interest including a company including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kayac. <\/a>Kayac Inc. is a Japanese digital agency with a strength on developing games and apps and plans to go public within the next year.<br \/>\nIn partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/sfnewtech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF New Tech<\/a>, btrax hopes to continue the theme of helping Japanese web start-ups go global. Brandon K. Hill, president\/CEO of btrax, said \u201cWe are again excited to help organize this event and with the great interest in sponsorships we hope to defer the web start-up expenses.\u201d \u00a0In fact, Mr. Hill told us that the event just received a sponsorship from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttip.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NTT Investment Partners<\/a> deferring a portion of the event\u2019s costs.<br \/>\nThis is one of the better platforms for Japanese web start-ups to begin their global journey. btrax works on coaching the start-ups in various aspects of the event, from developing a presentation style to coaching on how to answer business model questions that the SF Tech community audience typically asks. This gives Japanese start-ups an opportunity to interact with the SF Tech scene which is debated to be the hottest tech venues in the world. The btrax team helps the applying companies by providing a free feedback report on their services and if selected the presenting companies will get a more comprehensive feedback from the event\u2019s audience.<br \/>\nMr. Hill is also planning to hold &#8220;International Startup Night&#8221; in 2011, and a couple popular companies from SF Japan Night could get a chance to present and compete with other global start-up from around the world.<br \/>\nIf you are willing to sponsor please contact them at <a href=\"mailto:sfjapannight@btrax.com\">sfjapannight@btrax.com<\/a> and if you are willing to apply for demonstration please do so <a href=\"http:\/\/sfjapannight.com\/event_contact.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from here<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Hill, the CEO\/founder of San Francisco-based web consultancy btrax, gave us an invitation to potential presenters and attendees at a must-join tech start-up demo event that will take place next month. As of this writing,\u00a0four start-ups of Kayac,\u00a0Chatwork,\u00a0J-Grab, and Conyac have passed the first screening. \u00a0 Entries to present are acceptable until May 20.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sf-new-tech-calls-for-entries-to-present-at-japan-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SF New Tech Calls For Entries To Present At Japan Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24,37],"tags":[508,618,753,1776,1937,3287],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-usa","tag-btrax","tag-chatwork","tag-conyac","tag-j-grab","tag-kayac","tag-sfnewtech","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}