atomi x consulting | the atomi way (do)
Andrew Yong Chuan TAN
Owner of atomi | ACTUS h?use | Managing Partner of atomi Consulting | Author of "The Atomi Way" | Part-Time Lecturer & Mentor for undergraduates, postgraduates courses, and CET
Last month, I celebrated my birthday with a new role. I have inked a book contract to write a book on Japan, atomi and our beliefs. This book is about the way ("do" in Nihongo) we envisage atomi, our vision and our mission. Many have been fascinated by Japan, the Japanese way of anything and everything. From the Way of Tea (aka sado), the Way of Gentle (aka judo) and The Way of Flowers (kado), we have them all. I have decided to pitch the publisher about the <The atomi way>.
Since those days as a fresh graduate, I have had the opportunity to work on several consulting projects in Japan. There were many things to do before heading to Japan back then. I need to get a local handphone to plug onto exclusive Japan’s mobile network during those days. And I was very fascinated by their mobile phones, especially their iconic clamshell editions, not available anywhere else in the world. Since then, I started to travel to Japan often, immersed in their business culture, living in the community and engaging the society. Shortly after, I got to know Mitsuko, who had just moved to Singapore in 2002.
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The birth of atomi, the Japanese abbreviation of Andrew & Mitsuko, is the life story of a Singaporean-Japanese international cross-cultural marriage started personally before extending its reach to set up our business and beyond. I have travelled extensively throughout Japan and covered many of the 47 prefectures. The understanding of Japan deepened beyond the surface of a tourist, corporate warrior and now the business owner and son-in-law to a Japanese family in Tokyo. As the husband and father of a loving Japanese wife with two young Singapore-Japanese daughters, I felt that now is the time to start journaling down on words.
As always, I am a big advocate of how we can work together and seize the perfect opportunity to enter the Japanese market. I am getting ready to arrange for my next visit this coming summer. I am looking forward to sipping on the sake during my next flight to Japan as we help you explore suitable opportunities around the Land of the Rising Sun. Email me at [email protected] if you search for a new venture overseas.
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Being in control of your own destiny is better than being fucked around repeatedly
2 年Will there be Atomi furnitures in NFT ? ??????
Owner of atomi | ACTUS h?use | Managing Partner of atomi Consulting | Author of "The Atomi Way" | Part-Time Lecturer & Mentor for undergraduates, postgraduates courses, and CET
2 年Hopefully, PM Kishida is going to be the most knowledgeable recent Japanese prime minister when it comes to the realities of the economy and finance as he claimed to be. And he will continue to advance policies by listening to the voice of markets as well as the people on the ground. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Transcript-Japan-PM-Kishida-s-speech-in-London
Owner of atomi | ACTUS h?use | Managing Partner of atomi Consulting | Author of "The Atomi Way" | Part-Time Lecturer & Mentor for undergraduates, postgraduates courses, and CET
2 年I intend to further encourage these positive changes in Japanese society. We will create an environment where young people can jump into start-ups more easily. This will require a set of integrated measures: The creation of start-up campuses, including with leading overseas universities; The drastic expansion of the SBIR (Small Business Research Initiative) system for start-ups; The attraction of overseas venture capital, combined with public capital participation in overseas VC; The circulation of personal financial assets and long-term investment funds from institutions such as the GPIF into venture investment; And the development of stock options and other measures to promote the growth of start-ups. Steps to foster such a start-up ecosystem will be consolidated as a five-year plan, and a cross-cutting command post function for implementation will be clarified.
Owner of atomi | ACTUS h?use | Managing Partner of atomi Consulting | Author of "The Atomi Way" | Part-Time Lecturer & Mentor for undergraduates, postgraduates courses, and CET
2 年It is therefore my earnest wish to create the next start-up boom in Japan. Changes are happening on the ground in Japan. Instead of taking conventional jobs at large corporations, many brilliant university students are launching their own start-ups after graduation. Even at the University of Tokyo, the oldest university in Japan, and best known for producing leaders for government and major corporations, change is happening: more than 300 venture companies are being created from the University. There is another important change. More and more entrepreneurs have strong aspirations to solve social problems. One woman I spoke with recently while sitting down with a small group of social entrepreneurs, had launched a new business while still at school and, soon after graduation, started a crowdfunding start-up. Her work has helped both hospitals struggling with surges in patients and restaurants struggling with fewer customers due to COVID-19. I hastened to add she studied at LSE. I have high hopes for the future of such practitioners of a "new form of capitalism", which pursues the dual goals of economic growth and social entrepreneurship.
Owner of atomi | ACTUS h?use | Managing Partner of atomi Consulting | Author of "The Atomi Way" | Part-Time Lecturer & Mentor for undergraduates, postgraduates courses, and CET
2 年#BreakingNews #JapanOpeningUp #June https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-05/japan-premier-pledges-to-relax-border-controls-by-next-month