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Lesson #5: Create the Market Where There Is None
In 1950, the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation had a problem on their hands. Morita and Ibuka had finally conceived and designed Japan’s first tape recorder by grinding up magnets and sticking the powder to strips of paper that they had covered with rice paste. The product worked, and they believed it had great potential, but as of yet, there was no demand.

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The Man Who Made Sony: The Early Years of Akio Morita
He turned what was once a small bombed-out department store in Tokyo into the world’s most successful consumer electronics company. Not only that but Akio Morita, co-founder of the Sony Corporation, was also one of the few entrepreneurs that helped Japan’s economy recover in the aftermath of World War II. Today, more than half a century after the company’s initial inception, and with Morita at the helm until his only recent departure, Sony remains one of the world’s largest media conglomerates, with over 158,000 employees worldwide and revenues in excess of $63 billion.

Lesson #5: Create the Market Where There Is None
In 1950, the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation had a problem on their hands. Morita and Ibuka had finally conceived and designed Japan’s first tape recorder by grinding up magnets and sticking the powder to strips of paper that they had covered with rice paste. The product worked, and they believed it had great potential, but as of yet, there was no demand.

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