CURRENT MISSION

IT Startup

ABOUT ME

*** OVERVIEW ***
I am 26years old male, Half-German(Mom), Half-Japanese(Dad). I was born in Wurzburg, Germany, raised in Tokyo, Japan. I lived 1year in San Francisco:USA, 1year in Toronto:Canada as an exchange student. I loved all of them! Foods are great, people are energetic, skyscrapers are amazingly beautiful. After working at Chocolate Company (yes, pretty stupid to think about it now) as a marketer and financial analyst, I've started 1-year travel-around-the-world backpacking tour, which was one of my best experience in my life. And now here I am at SF, to start-up an IT Venture focused on iPhone/Android Application. Love to talk about this stuff.

***PERSONALITY***
- I love to keep my life busy in both business and party with full of people.
- I love to know new things and culture from the world.
- I love to be myself; down-to-earth, open-minded.
- I love to hang around with people.

*** JOB ***
- 2008:Mars.Inc, : Marketer for 2years
- 2010:Mars.Inc, : Financial Analyst for 1year
- 2011:Traveller around the world.
- 2011:IGNIS Co, : IT Entrepreneur for startup at United States

***SPONSORED TRAVEL-AROUND-THE-WORLD***
I've done Travelling Around the World from 2011.Jan to 2011.Sep. I was sponsored from companies : LENOVO(IBM), KARRIMOR(outdoor company), EVERNEW(Japanese outdoor company), JICA(Japan International Cooperation Agency...imagine US Aid.), while also working as a self-employed Web Designer. See the web (sorry its all japanese, but you can see the company logo)...http://www.lohaspackers.com/ I can teach you how to get sponsored your travel if you're interested :)

PHILOSOPHY

"Everyday Bungy!" - Keep things busy and exciting just like when you're feeling your adrenaline running through your body upon bungy jump.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used to host couchsurfers at Tokyo, Japan. Now my house in SF, and I'll be couchsurfing when I start my 2nd world-backpacking around 2015.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted 100 + people at my house in Tokyo,Japan (in different account) in 2009-2010, Traveled around the world in 2011, now started hosting again in SF, California, United States.
* Takuro - Guatemala
* Yuma - Japan
* Sara and Cecilie - Denmark

Interests

As an IT Entrepreneur, I'm creating iPhone/Android application and trying to market them in USA and other countries. I might ask you to try the product and opinion when you are my guest, please bear with me :) I just love changing the world through technology! :)

I also love Manga/Comic/Anime. It may sound geeky, but it's pretty ordinary for Japan-raised people :) Except that? Hmmm...Of course, traveling. I will do my 2nd world-backpacking in 2014-2015. Whatelse...Snowboarding, Scuba Diving, Cooking, Partying, Studying English. Hope that's enough!

• culture
• writing
• design
• environment
• cooking
• chocolate
• running
• partying
• technology
• anime
• traveling
• karaoke
• outdoor activities
• backpacking
• scuba diving
• snowboarding
• business
• entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

I love movies. David Fincher. He is the one. "Game""Seven""Fight Club""Panic Room""The Social Network"...I loved all of them. I listen to basically any genre of music, starting from Electronica, Rock, Classic, Pop to anything worldwide.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- "IT Entrepreneur" - Being IT Entrepreneur at SF,USA is very exciting!
- "Travel around the World" - Done travelling around the world in 2011.

Teach, Learn, Share

- I could teach you anything related to Japan, where to visit, what to enjoy, manga, anime, comic, IT
environment in Japan and so forth. We could go Karaoke too if I have time :)
- How to get sponsored of your travel since I was sponsored my previous world-travel in 2011.
However, Don't ask me via e-mail since its kind complicated and I have no time writing it in e-mail.

I want to learn...
- Your opinion upon our product
- What application is in your iphone/android? (If you don't hesitate to show me)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Guatemala, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Poland, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Japan, United States