Many people still ask me to help out their business, and I'm a board member of several companies, but I try to avoid more of those other tasks and concentrate on my own. He's now president of Gifty Gifty, a Net company he started in February. Kyoko Fujimoto talked with him at the Gifty Gifty offices in Tokyo. It's a gift-giving Web site. It does look like a B2C type of service, but actually it's more than that.
Gift giving involves culture, and the Internet can make it easier.
You may want to send a gift to someone who you know through business, but not to his office. But then you don't know his home address. Many people say B2C is a difficult business model. But we're planning to become a kind of ASP using the B2C model. For example, when you want to do something on the Web, you first need to find clients.