Welcome back to the podcast US Market Entry where we're wrapping up our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In the final part, we'll hear a panel discussing the pitfalls and opportunities one might face when entering the US market and Silicon Valley from abroad. Along with the Japanese executives from our last podcast, this panel includes:

• Doug Felder, Director of OEM Business Development for NextHop, CEO of Felder Associates
• Karin Hollerbach, CEO of Taku Group
• Stephanie Keller-Bottom, Partner and Co-Founder of i2 Innovation Intelligence
• Phil Wickham, Managing Director of Procap Partners
• Tim Ome, Managing Director at Trenwith Securities
  

Welcome back to US Market Entry as we continue coverage the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part five, we cover the business presentations of three Japanese companies with their eye on entering the US market. The representatives include:

• Hiro Takahashi, CEO of DTS, Inc.
  
• Yuuki Ishikawa, Principal Engineer of Realcom
  
• Nao Ito, President and CEO of Shop Airlines, Ltd (a subsidiary of NetPrice)

Welcome back to US Market Entry and our continuing coverage of the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part four, we hear a presentation by Chuck Erickson, CEO of the US Market Access Center, on the current state and trends of the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley and the US at large.

In this edition of US Market Entry we continue our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part three, we'll hear a panel discussing the issues relevant to Silicon Valley companies interested in entering the Japanese market. along the executives from our last podcast, this panel includes:

• Takashi Baba, VP at Fujitsu America
  
• Hiroshi Honjo, Managing Director at NTT Data AgileNet, LLC
  
• Yoshifumi Nakata, President and CEO of Mitsui Comtek Corp.
  
• moderated by Makoto Abe, Principal of Japan Business Solutions
  

In this edition of US Market Entry we continue our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part two, we'll hear the presentations of four Silicon Valley based companies looking to enter into the Japanese market. The company representatives are:

• Orlando Campbell, CEO of Thaddeus Systems, Inc.
• Brenda Fox, VP, Corporate Development of Codenomicon
• David Murphy, CEO of SilkCloud Inc.
• Thomas Ludwig, CEO of TBD Networks, Inc.