{"id":15456,"date":"2011-10-05T00:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15456"},"modified":"2011-10-05T00:36:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:36:52","slug":"7th-mashup-awards-ninja-challenge-to-take-place-in-palo-alto-october-19-call-for-presentations-ends-october-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/7th-mashup-awards-ninja-challenge-to-take-place-in-palo-alto-october-19-call-for-presentations-ends-october-12\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Mashup Awards &#8220;Ninja Challenge&#8221; To Take Place In Palo Alto October 19 (Call For Presentations Ends October 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/7th-mashup-awards-ninja-challenge-to-take-place-in-palo-alto-october-19-call-for-presentations-ends-october-12\/7th-mashup-awards-ninja-challenge\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15457\" title=\"7th Mashup Awards Ninja Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/7th-Mashup-Awards-Ninja-Challenge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/ma7.mashupaward.jp\/?locale=en\">Mashup Awards<\/a> have a relatively long history in Japan&#8217;s web world, with the 7th event scheduled to be held in Japan next month (<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/mashup-awards-6-doting-father-develops-social-web-for-recording-his-daughters-growth-2\/\">here<\/a>&#8216;s Asiajin&#8217;s report on the last event from December 2010).<br \/>\nIt has been organized in Japan every year so far, but now the Mashup Awards 7 (MA7) event is coming to Silicon Valley, too: on October 19, there will be some sort of sub-event in Palo Alto called <a href=\"http:\/\/ma7en.tumblr.com\/post\/10461062226\/ma7-ninja-challenge-palo-alto-calls-of-entries\">&#8220;MA7 Ninja Challenge&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe organizers explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the event, up to 10 startups interested in the Japanese market will be presenting in front of industry experts in the market to get professional advice.<br \/>\nAt this event, developers in the US (including CTOs in startup companies or engineers who are interested in the Japanese market\/ Asian market) will give a presentation (pitch) about their products, services or technologies they have developed.<br \/>\nIn contrast, for the companies which participate in MA7, the experts who are familiar to the Japanese\/Asian markets will participate in this event. Expert advisors will give advice through Q&amp;A of each participant and discuss about how to expand as well as support the product&#8217;s growth into the Japanese market . Also, this event becomes a great place to meet developers and partners in Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s cool is that the winner of the contest in Palo Alto gets the chance to move to the 2nd Round of the so-called &#8220;Mashup Battle&#8221; and win MA7 as a whole, too.<br \/>\nThe call for presentations<strong> ends on October 12<\/strong>. All US-based startups\/individuals interested in entering the Ninja Challenge can apply <a href=\"http:\/\/ma7en.tumblr.com\/post\/10461062226\/ma7-ninja-challenge-palo-alto-calls-of-entries\">here<\/a> (in English).<br \/>\nDetails of the MA7 Ninja Challenge event:<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> 6:00pm, Wednesday, October 19, 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.docomoinnovations.com\/\">DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Map:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;z=13&amp;q=3240+Hillview+Avenue,+Palo+Alto,+CA+94304\">3240 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tickets:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ninjachallenge1.eventbrite.com\/\">http:\/\/ninjachallenge1.eventbrite.com<\/a> (the event is free)<br \/>\nMore information about MA7 in English can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/ma7.mashupaward.jp\/?locale=en\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ninjachallenge1.eventbrite.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The so-called Mashup Awards have a relatively long history in Japan&#8217;s web world, with the 7th event scheduled to be held in Japan next month (here&#8216;s Asiajin&#8217;s report on the last event from December 2010). It has been organized in Japan every year so far, but now the Mashup Awards 7 (MA7) event is coming&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/7th-mashup-awards-ninja-challenge-to-take-place-in-palo-alto-october-19-call-for-presentations-ends-october-12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7th Mashup Awards &#8220;Ninja Challenge&#8221; To Take Place In Palo Alto October 19 (Call For Presentations Ends October 12)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[3,17,37],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-15456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-japan","category-usa","tag-7th-mashup-awards-ninja-challenge","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}