PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Food Truck

4月

17日

I see more and more food ruck everywhere. It is a very interesting business model and it may work for some Japanese food too.

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This is today's image of Shorewood Heights (FKA Shorewood Apartment) in Mercer Island. This is where I incorporated Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. back in 1987.

No. I did not start PSP in a garage. I started in my apartment.

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Startup Businesses

4月

9日

Old Amacon.com HQ Building

Seattle is a home for many startup businesses. That includes companies like Amazon.com, Starbucks, Costco. I sometime wonder if the bad weather in the winter (actually except for June to August) has to do with this.

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No POS/Cash Register

4月

7日

I went to COACH outlet today and found that there is no more cash register at the store any more. They are using iPhone/iPad based device to scan and run your credit card. I don't know if that make payment process any faster but it is different. I think that is the way everything is moving.

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More about Jinya

3月

21日

Studio City, California, Jinya Menu

New York, Jinya Menu

Seattle, Jinya Menu

Jinya Ramenbar

I went to new Ramen restaurant called Jinya in Crossroad, Bellevue. It tasted okay but the food was very small and too over 30 minuets to serve. Too slow for Ramen. And the price was very high for Ramen.

Today, I checked the website and found the same Ramen costs $10.55 in Studio City in California costs $11.80 in Bellevue and $14.00 in New York. Considering this is a franchise restaurant, do you think it is a good idea to set different prices depending on the city?

http://www.jinya-ramenbar.com

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Next Business Model … Back to Basic!!!

3月

15日

Packaging boxes have arrived.
We will be making packages of our products and services.

We will be marketing our products through brick and mortar stores as well VARs and Resellers.

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Web.com … bait and switch???

3月

4日

Yesterday I registered domain web/email at Web.com at low price of 1.99/month. Our hosting price is much higher than this. After looking at this, I was wondering how we can compete with this company. I cannot lower our price to $1.99.

I looked at the billing section today to find out $1.99 only applies to the first month and it will go up to $20.95 just for a web. I am calling Web.com to find out more about how much it really costs. I am currently on hold for over 10 minuets.

I will keep you updated.

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Otsuka Shokai Solution Fair

2月

5日

Visited Otsuka Corporation Strategic Solutin Fair in Tokyo. This is the only IT show that I know of 95% of people attending including myself wear Suite and Tie and other 5% are ladies.

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A New Printer for Data Center

1月

31日

We took a delivery of brand new HP printer from the cartridge Family this morning.

http://www.cartridgefamily.com

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Email Service Problem … I am sorry!!!

1月

24日

We took last several months to design and implement the new email software with new servers and storage system. They turned out to be faulty and unstable. We have to rethink the design and implementation in last one week. The system is now more stable, but we are very sorry the new system caused many headaches.

I have not gone home before 11:00pm all this week including last Saturday and Sunday. I am getting too old for this. We will get this right.

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