Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #11 – 2nd March 2012

At MakeLeaps, in addition to creating small business software, we also organise events catering to the Hacker News community (run by Y Combinator, an entry-stage Venture Capital firm based out of San Francisco).

These Tokyo events are popular with people interested in business and technology, local small business owners, startup founders, and people thinking of building startups.

If you’d like to come to this event, please make sure you’re registered on Hacker News, and follow the below instructions. This time we also have limited attendance, so please confirm early.

We’re pleased to announce we’re organising another HN Tokyo Meetup on the 2nd of March, 2012.

Registration

This event will follow a similar un-structured, ‘mixer’ format as the last one. As before, If you’d like to come along, please:

  1. register at http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/, including a 1 sentence profile on yourself, and your HN username.

You will then receive information about the venue and time.

PLEASE NOTE : The act of registering does not guarantee a place at the HN event, as we have limited space. Please await email confirmation of your registration.

Future Events

If you would like to be notified of future HN events, please monitor this blog, #hntokyo, and @MakeLeaps.

Time

The event will be from 6pm to 9pm, with an after-party at a local bar.

Food and Drinks

We will also be organising a caterer to provide everyone with food and drinks.

Make Sure To Register

We don’t want to have to turn away people who have not registered, so if you’re a Hacker News reader and you would like to come, please make certain you’ve followed the above instructions and booked in advance.

Please only register if you’re certain you are coming. We order food and drinks based on the number of registered people.

There will be a 2,500 yen fee to cover the food and drinks.

See you there!

MakeLeaps Newsletter, 20th of February, 2012

Become a MakeLeaps Partner

We’ve put together a new partnership page that describes how your clients and your business can benefit from introducing customers to MakeLeaps.

In summary, we’re offering :

  • promotion for your business through
    • link/logo exchanges on our websites
    • a partnership announcement through Facebook, Twitter and our blog, and
    • guest posts on our blog
  • your clients a great way to improve their quotations and invoices while saving time and money
  • a free Professional Business license for your company (available to companies introducing more than 3 clients converting to monthly plans within a 3 month period)

For full details, please check here:

http://www.makeleaps.com/en/partner-with-makeleaps/

New MakeLeaps Articles

We’ve written a couple more articles for your entertainment.

Sorry, these articles are currently only available in Japanese. We’ll have some English content for foreign companies operating inside Japan shortly.

MakeLeaps Newsletter, 10th of February, 2012

Hello. Thank you as always for using MakeLeaps.

We’ve got some new updates and some new features for you.

Improved Interface

We have a shiny new interface that helps you work even faster. Click an invoice, select your action. You’re finished almost before you start.

These improvements are all part of our mission to make your document management and administration faster and smoother.

More Speed Improvements

MakeLeaps is even faster now. Log in and give it a spin.

Understand More About Your Invoices

MakeLeaps now helps you track more information about your invoices. Helping you instantly answer these questions about your business:

  • Did I send that invoice yet?
  • What date was it sent?
  • Has the customer paid?
  • If they have paid, what date did they pay ?

We hope these new improvements are making your life and work even easier. As always, please contact us if you have any feedback or comments.

MakeLeaps Newsletter, 19th of January, 2012

Happy New Year !

We hope you had a great holiday season and that 2012 is a year with plenty of outgoing invoices.

Built For Speed

We’ve listened to our customers, and a common request was a speedier interface. We’ve made a bunch of infrastructure improvements, and we’re now proud to say that MakeLeaps is nearly 3 times faster.

We’ll keep working on improving the speed even more.

Quote Your Customers

Another highly requested feature was a quotation generation module. This new feature is also live and ready to be used to quote your customers.

Once you’ve perfected your quote, and your client has signed on it, one click turns your quote into a shiny new invoice.

To access this new feature, simply log into MakeLeaps here, and click on “Quotes”. Naturally, you can use all of your existing clients, or add new ones.

We’re hiring!

The MakeLeaps team is continuing to grow. We’re looking for interns in Tokyo with bilingual ability to help us with a variety of tasks.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a resourceful person to learn about business, sales, marketing in a small foreign company environment.

For a full description, please check (Japanese language only):

http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/2011/12/makeleapsでインターン大募集!/

Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #10 – Friday 20th of January 2012

At MakeLeaps, in addition to creating small business software, we also organise events catering to the Hacker News community (run by Y Combinator, an entry-stage Venture Capital firm based out of San Francisco).

These Tokyo events are popular with people interested in business and technology, local small business owners, startup founders, and people thinking of building startups.

If you’d like to come to this event, please make sure you’re registered on Hacker News, and follow the below instructions. This time we also have limited attendance, so please confirm early.

We’re pleased to announce we’re organising another HN Tokyo Meetup on Friday the 20th of January, 2012.

Registration

This event will follow a similar un-structured, ‘mixer’ format as the last one. As before, If you’d like to come along, please:

  1. register at http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/, including a 1 sentence profile on yourself, and your HN username.

You will then receive information about the venue and time.

PLEASE NOTE : The act of registering does not guarantee a place at the HN event, as we have limited space. Please await email confirmation of your registration.

Future Events

If you would like to be notified of future HN events, please monitor this blog, #hntokyo, and @MakeLeaps.

Time

The event will be from 6pm to 9pm, with an after-party at a local bar.

Food and Drinks

We will also be organising a caterer to provide everyone with food and drinks.

Make Sure To Register

We don’t want to have to turn away people who have not registered, so if you’re a Hacker News reader and you would like to come, please make certain you’ve followed the above instructions and booked in advance.

Please only register if you’re certain you are coming. We order food and drinks based on the number of registered people.

There will be a 2,500 yen fee to cover the food and drinks.

See you there!