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And, all the work has different conditions. Somebody has to make the schedule for them. Yuki: And they all have different kind of skill sets. Yuki: Field service is actually people who go outside. Rather than have me explain about Zest and what field service software is, Yuki why don’t you tell us what it is. Tim: I’m sitting here with Yuki Ito of Zest, who makes field service software. Yuki’s an amazing, resilient woman with a great story to tell. When she was starting out girls just didn’t do that kind of thing.

We talk about Zest itself, of course, but we also talk a lot about Yuki’s rather incredible journey to become a programmer and a start-up founder, when seemingly all of society was conspiring, with the best of intentions mind you, to prevent her from doing that. The latest incarnation of her company, Zest, sells cloud based field service software, which is used to dispatch expensive resources for complex jobs. Yuki Ito has been running a technology start-up long before it was cool or even practical for that matter. I’m Tim Romero and thanks for joining me. Straight talk from Japan’s most successful entrepreneurs. Yuki’s book on founding a company in Japan.Yuki at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce.What the Japanese government should be doing to help startups.How the role of women is changing in small business.The long-term danger of just making employees work harder.The difference between relationship and product companies.Turning rejection and denial into an advantage.Why Japanese schools don’t produce enough programmers.