Takuya Oikawa's second book, "The Complete Book of Product Management, from Business Strategy, IT Development, UX Design, Marketing to Team and Organization Management" was selected for the Shoeisha IT Engineer Book Award 2022 Business Book Category Grand Prize. This award is selected through a web voting by IT engineers and final vote at presentation competition by authors. Some of voters' comments include; "Product management was systematically written and this book can be used as a textbook.", "I strongly feel that our team members need to be on the same page. So all members should read this book."

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Ken Yasunaga presented at the panel discussion titled “Innovating traditional business: finding pandemic proof unicorns” at Super Return Asia Virtual. Together with renowned venture capitalists in Asia, Ken discussed about the internationalization of the start-up as well as potential collaboration between “Advanced Asia” and “Emerging Asia”. Ken also showed the attractiveness of Japanese tech start-up to those LPs interested in Asian market.

"The Complete Book of Product Management" is a second book authored by our founding partner, Takuya Oikawa. This book covers corporate strategy, IT development, UX design, marketing, team building and overall management relating to the Product Management. It describes the view of knowledge, skill, method and mindset. Must read item for all managers/engineers/designers who are involved in new business/service development, propping up the existing business, digital transformation, entrepreneurship, start-up, etc. Let’s go buy this book!

LinkedIn influencers is a thought leader within a particular industry who shares organic content to a large LinkedIn audience. LinkedIn has an invite-only, premium LinkedIn Influencer Program featuring the foremost thinkers and innovators in a field, such as Bill Gates or Richard Branson. Takuya was invited to this exclusive tier. LinkedIn Influencers in Japan include Kathy Matsui/ex-Goldman Sachs, Hiroshi Mikitani/Rakuten, Shintaro Yamada /Mercari, Miki Tsusaka/Boston Consulting and Marie Kondo/Tidying expert.

Ken Yasunaga had a fireside chat with Nicholas Brathwaite of WRVI, renowned technology venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, in the event hosted by Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA). Nic and Ken had candid conversation about various topics including, opportunities and challenges for Japanese start-up, VC’s role to help start-up to grow, the difference between US and Japanese VCs, etc.. It was a great opportunity for Japanese VCs to learn about the basic philosophy of top tier US VC. Ken is a chairman of Global Committee at JVCA.