On: Talking About Money

[MyNameIsMK]

@Patio11, I met you once on a trip to Tokyo. When/why did you decide to live in Tokyo other than the fact that your wife is Japanese? Any takeaways in terms of culture and operating a SaaS business from that region?

Thanks.

[patio11 → MyNameIsMK]

We live in Tokyo, as opposed to Ogaki, because a) my wife did not enjoy living in Ogaki due to social isolation and b) we recently greeted a daughter in October and were worried about the sociocultural implications of her growing up in Ogaki.

We live in Japan, as opposed to the US, mostly because I've been there for my entire adult life and kind of enjoy it. We might at some time decide to split our time between the US and Japan.

I wrote a long blog post about doing business in Japan which talks about running a SaaS company here in more depth than I can reasonably go into in a comment: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

[Elepsis → MyNameIsMK]

Did you by chance have the opportunity to read his post about doing business in Japan late last year? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

It's not specific to the questions you ask, but it might answer some of them.