El Syed·Oct 31The Sovereign Co-Specialized HelixWhy renting intelligence is not the same as catching up, and what the Global South can build instead
Japan Startup Brief·Oct 3Japan Rewrote Its Stock Option Guidance for a Different ReaderThe cap went up in 2024. But the change that unblocked unlisted companies was a circular from the year before — and the guidance still…
Japan Startup Brief·Sep 19Japan Fixed Its Personal Guarantee Problem. Not for Startups.A supervisory rule moved the number 13.7 points in one year. The part of the programme with “startup” in its name did not.
Japan Startup Brief·Sep 12Why Japan Split 100 Billion Yen Four Ways and Nobody MovedThe state ranked four universities in 2012. Private investors spent the next decade agreeing with it.
