Moboff: how coworking can stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan

Coworking can help entrepreneurs meet likeminded people and, then, give them a hand to grow their business faster. In Japan, the entrepreneurship spirit remain low as compared with other developped country.

DWF, an office design company, has started the Moboff (contraction of mobile-office) project. Five coworking spaces recently opened up in downtown Tokyo (Shibuya).

“Nomad workers and entrepreneurs aren’t looking only for a place to seat. They aim to meet people and join new kind of communties”, says Nicolas Koruni, product manager of Moboff. Our ideal would be to have such coworking places all over Tokyo”.
Moboff spaces, where event are organized on a regular base, are becoming a focal point for a number of topics, related to technology a.o.

Business schools do not teach the startup spirit, so we launched a Startup Academy

Alex Barrera is the co-founder of the Tetuan Valley, a network of web companies based in the North of Madrid, in Spain.

According to him, no business school in Europe teaches the spirit neither the vision of a startup runner.

“In Business Schools, we learn to replicate a business model that works elsewhere. Not to be and entrepreneur inventing something new. Operate a company is easy to learn. That is no rocket science. Starting a company requires another set of competences, though”.

That is the reason why Alex Barrera (who has his own startup, Inkzee) has launched, along with other, a startup academy.

It brings coaching, vision and entrepreneur solidarity. Here is his interview

Coworking and the future of entrepreneurship

“You startups, don’t look for perfection in the early days. Just go forward !”