Posts by Yurie Miyazawa
AI Won’t Replace Trust in Marketing
Generative AI is impressive, but it still misses what matters most in marketing: trust. That’s my stance, and it comes from hard-won experience. As a founder and operator, I’ve watched the hype grow louder while the work of earning trust has not changed. Marketing runs on authenticity, not shortcuts. When content feels fake, people check…
Read MoreThe complete guide to building an MVP with no-code tools
You know you need to ship something to validate your idea, but hiring engineers feels premature, expensive, or slow. You’ve sketched flows in Figma, collected a few “sounds interesting” responses, and now you’re stuck between overthinking and overbuilding. This is the moment where many founders stall. Not because the idea is bad, but because the…
Read MoreHow to create a simple marketing strategy for your first year
You know you need “marketing,” but your runway says you can’t afford experiments that take six months to maybe work. You’ve posted a few times on social, sent some cold emails, tweaked the homepage headline, and hoped something would click. Instead, results feel random. That’s normal. Most first-year founders don’t fail at marketing because they…
Read More7 ways to run small scale paid tests to validate marketing channels
If you are early-stage and bootstrapped or close to it, every dollar you spend on marketing feels heavier than it should. You know you need distribution, but you also know that betting big on the wrong channel can quietly kill your runway. Most founders do not fail at marketing because they lack creativity. They fail…
Read More7 reasons raising too much money too soon makes you weaker
There is a moment many founders quietly fantasize about. The big check clears. The bank balance looks real. You finally feel like you can breathe. In the startup world, raising capital is treated like validation, momentum, and safety all wrapped into one. But here is the uncomfortable truth most people only learn after the wire…
Read MoreStellantis plunges after taking 22 billion euros hit on EVs
The writedowns, which include some 6.5 billion euros in cash payments mainly to compensate suppliers Published Fri, Feb 6, 2026 · 06:47 PM [MILAN] Stellantis shares fell the most on record after the automaker announced 22 billion euros (S$33.4 billion) in charges linked to walking back its electric-vehicle strategy. The writedowns, which include some 6.5…
Read More7 reasons founders who delegate early almost always scale faster
There is a quiet moment almost every founder hits. You are juggling product, sales, support, ops, maybe payroll, and you still feel behind. You tell yourself this is just the season you are in. Hustle now, delegate later. The problem is that later rarely shows up on its own. Founders who scale faster usually do…
Read MoreWall Street opens lower on anxiety over Alphabet’s capex plans
Published Thu, Feb 5, 2026 · 10:45 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday (Feb 5) as investors fretted over Alphabet’s spending plans and Qualcomm’s downbeat forecast. At 09:30 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 324.80 points, or 0.66 per cent, to 49,176.50, the S&P 500 lost 63.21 points,…
Read MoreHPH Trust’s H2 DPU down 9.7% at HK$0.065; braces for continued uncertainty over US-China tariffs
The trust warns of ‘gradual restructuring of shipping routes and cargo flows’ as trade remains volatile [SINGAPORE] Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) declared a distribution per unit (DPU) of HK$0.065 for the six months ended Dec 31, 2025 – down 9.7 per cent from HK$0.072 in the year-ago period. This brings the trust’s full-year…
Read MoreApac economies that gained from AI boom like Taiwan, Singapore drive outbound travel in 2025: Visa
Japan, South Korea, China see strong inbound travel amid demand for pop culture tourism [SINGAPORE] Asia-Pacific economies exposed to the artificial intelligence (AI) boom drove outbound spending in 2025, amid an increase in their strength, data by Visa indicated. In the region, AI investment is largely into semiconductor manufacturing and data centres, and economies exposed…
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