On successful and failed high-tech start-ups
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On successful and failed high-tech start-ups
Wed, 09/10/2013 - 14:15 to 15:15
Location:
Speaker:
Mr Takeo Miyazawa
Affiliation:
Businessman and Technology Innovator, Tokyo
Synopsis:
The presentation covers the “true story” behind both successful and failed high tech start-ups, which you can’t read from books and magazines. More than 30 year industrial collaboration experience, several research labs & universities such as MIT, Hebrew university of Jerusalem and so on, proved that the road to success is paved with knowledge. This talk will address the key factors of each stage of a start-up from research, marketing, business plan, investment, product development, management and finally “exit”.
Biography:
Takeo Miyazawa is a Japanese business man, who had the first high-tech start-up based on computer vision when he was 32 with Prof Tomaso Poggio at MIT. Since then, he has started several start-ups, mainly based on computer vision and computer graphics. His experience covers very successful M&A to fail close down. He started his business while he was studying cognitive psychology at Sophia University in Tokyo Japan. He was a member of the Japanese National Certification Committee of Multi-media Technology. He has also written several number of articles and tutorials about Neural network, Genetic algorithm and Fractal theory.