is a Japanese software

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

. Takasuka founded Cybozu, one of Japan's first Web-based groupware products. In 1997 with a $200,000 loan and two partners, Takasuka left his position as Vice President of Matsushita Electric Works V-Internet Operations in

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, Japan for the small city of

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, where he went to work developing Cybozu. Japanese for "cyber-kid", Cybozu held an

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(IPO) within three years. In April 2005 Takasuka resigned his position as President and CEO at Cybozu, and in January 2006 founded LUNARR, Inc. with his business partner, Hideshi Hamaguchi in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. He currently lives in

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and

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, Japan.

Personal history

Born (1966,

Ehime is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,342,011 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 5,676 km2 (2,191 sq mi). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, Tok ...

, Japan)LUNARR - Create. Flip. Share

Education

1990, B.S. in

Engineering Management Engineering management is the application of the practice of management to the practice of engineering. Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving ability of engineering and the organizational, admini ...

, Hiroshima Institute of Technology

Professional

Joins Matsushita Electric Works in 1990 in client-server networking and R&D. In 1994, develops Japan's first corporate Intranet with Hideshi Hamaguchi. In 1996, becomes Vice President/Director, V-Internet Operations Matsushita Electric Works, an in-house venture company he helped create.

External links

about.lunarr.com * :ja:LUNARR Wikipedia.org Japanese

The Oregonian Article

References

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