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In addition to this, I've also heard the government is also giving money to the incubators. They've managed to attract Joichi Ito to set up Neoteny Labs there: http://www.neotenylabs.com/ …

There is an option to reset your password, assuming you've set up an email for your account. Try to login, and when that fails, there is an option to mail yourself a new password. Note, I only found …

Yes, I live in an apartment in Shinjuku (though it is on the border with Nakano). It is a self-contained unit with its own bathroom, toilet, and kitchen (sink and one burner stove).

I don't have any furniture. I sit on the floor, and sleep on a Futon (Japanese-style http://www.yumetai.co.jp/img/goods/L/24623s1.jpg ), which I can fold up and put away during the day. Besides that…

It's Japan - so having a bath is an important feature, which I do. In fact, I think it would be pretty rare to find a place with just a shower. It's kind of a bath shower/combo, as is typical of Jap…

I'm living in a 170 square foot apartment in Tokyo. This is on the small side, but not so unusual for an apartment close to the city center. In addition to the savings in rent, I also save money by …

He isn't talking about charging $1,000/hr for coding. Rather, he is doing technical consulting. This means he should be able to deliver high value in a short time, and he'll only ever bill clients a…

I like Tarsnap's http://www.tarsnap.com/legal.html

But surely, someday, there will be a non-phone-carrier wireless networking technology with far greater range than Wi-Fi. This technology already exists. Here in Japan, emobile sells a "pocket wifi …

Wow, $4332 for a month. That sounds pretty expensive.

You might try CakePHP ( http://cakephp.org/ ), the rails inspired framework.

If I wasn't in Singapore for the week, I'd be there.

You are off by 10. 90 + 1995 - 1965 = 120 She died in 1997 at 122 years according to above link to wikipedia.

Video calling has been available in Japan for about a decade - but no one really uses it. In part, it is because of the price. But I believe fundamentally most people don't want to make video calls. …

By 3 founders, I take it you don't have any other employees. If your company only has 3 people in it, then I wouldn't be worrying about titles at this stage. Focus on getting your product up and out…

You could try embedding a google form: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/05/embed-your-forms.html

I'd think a bit more about what your actual goals are. To me, going to an renowned school like MIT is a means to an end not a goal. Depending on what you want to do after, it may or may not be a wise…

This is just a summary of the actual interview available from http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/how-i-t... …

He mentions that FarmVille maintains both their own servers and EC2 servers. That's an interesting approach to maintain some baseline capacity locally and use the cloud for scaling. I suppose its ob…

This solution will be vastly inferior for catching potential cheaters than having them take a test in the classroom. Requiring an invigilator to inspect individual camera feeds isn't feasible. Furth…

Apple, probably through its partnership with the iPhone carrier SoftBank, has done a great job of marketing their product in Japan. They've managed to get many programs to do infomercial-like special…

Perhaps you can be more specific as to what your startup is and what qualities you are looking for?

Newspapers, magazines, cable television, DVDs, movies in the theatre, all of these you pay for and yet still see ads. Why should a product just have one revenue model? If it weren't for advertising, …

If you have a trademark, you can file a domain name dispute and try and claim it that way. http://www.chillingeffects.org/domain/faq.cgi …

I don't really like the example solution. LatLong.to_xy is not an object oriented way of doing things, and is abusing the ruby convention of to_* methods. Also, the LatLong method extends self, withou…

The first goal of universities charging to cover their costs. Stanford isn't pocketing that 1.8 million.