w00kie's ramblings

Tag: business

  • Starting a business – part 1

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    Since the start of the year Fumina and I have been playing with the idea of starting an outbound online shop—selling Japanese products to customers abroad. Last month we finally launched Chuchulu and it’s proven to be quite an interesting adventure. Finding a product The first step was to find a product category: It had…

  • Business card at a job interview

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    Expanding on my previous tweet, this is of course from a Japanese “business practices and manners” point of view… When arriving at a job interview, as with any business meeting, your interviewer will usually give you his 名刺. It is considered polite in Japan to accept it with 2 hands, bow, place it neatly on…