What it's like to join a startup in Japan • Hacker News Board

Re: What it's like to join a startup in Japan

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Post by gwilkes » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

bluedanieru wrote: post #24

patio11 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From HN meetups, which is most of my exposure to the Tokyo tech grapevine, I have heard good things about a gigantic multinational advertising firm and an assortment of finance companies. Tokyo's a big place and every industry you've ever heard of, and most multinationals in those industries, has some presence there.

How do I get into these HN meetups.

I went to my first one last month a week after the earthquake and saw it here on HN. You should definitely come out for the next one which will probably show up here:

http://blog.makeleaps.com

It looks like the founders of MakeLeaps (po and jason_tko on HN) have been organizing them roughly every two months for about a year now. I was thinking of bugging them pretty soon to see when they were thinking of having the next meetup.

Re: What it's like to join a startup in Japan

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Post by collateral » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 7:10 AM UTC

I've sent in my internship application to them. fingers crossed

Re: What it's like to join a startup in Japan

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Post by white_devil » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 3:37 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #17

white_devil wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How exactly does visa-self-sponsorship work? Is it required that you've had a company-sponsored visa before applying for self-sponsorship (or can you self-sponsor your first visa)? How is it determined whether you are allowed to self-sponsor?

It's complicated. This is one of my favorite hacking-a-non-technical system situations: you are allowed to self-sponsor if you can convince the examining clerk that you are allowed to self-sponsor. Points in favor: you are capable of writing a letter in support of your application which repeat the requirements of the Japanese immigration law and convinces him you pass them, you have contracts and invoices which demon…

Are the tax receipts and attorney really necessary?

Can you self-sponsor your first visa? Do you want the technical answer or the useful answer here? Technically, yes, I suppose you could. It would help if you have a stamped letter from the Emperor attesting that your freelance web programming skills are the only thing standing between Japan and total annihilation. If you have that letter, I'd give you fifty-fifty odds.

I can't imagine what the reason for turning a simple "No" into an outburst of snide verbal masturbation was.