Services
Cafetalk
We are a global, online marketplace of students and teachers
One of Japan's largest online learning sites connecting students and teachers from the world for lessons in languages like Japanese and French, to interests and intellectual pursuits from music and yoga to the game of go.
Culture Bento
Program to offer extra-curricular Japanese language and culture lessons
Successful partnership with Commodore Sloat School in San Francisco (ranked among the top 10 public elementary schools by SF Business Times) resulted in delivery of semester’s worth of lessons.
Activity
San Francisco J-pop Summit
For two years in a row, Small Bridge USA hosted a booth at the J-POP SUMMIT, a Japanese cultural festival held every summer in San Francisco.
Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival
As a result of these activities Cafetalk has recruited 1,000+ prospective tutors either from or residing in the USA since January 2015 (of which approximately 200 are currently active)
Cultural Exchange
Japanese Language Speech Contest 2015
As part of a campaign to promote our global learning platform Cafetalk.com, Small Bridge USA co-sponsored the Japanese Language Speech Contest hosted by the Embassy of Japan in San Francisco.
Cultural Exchange Events 2016
Small Bridge USA hosted cultural exchange events which were attended by more than 50 people intereseted in Japanese culture and language.
Speaking Engagements
Business Dojo Silicon Valley 2016
Prominent knowledge-sharing community Hacker Dojo invited Small Bridge USA CEO Kotaro Hashizume to speak about why he decided to bring his online learning site Cafetalk to San Francisco from Japan, and his experience so far in Silicon Valley.
Market Research
DNP - Market Research Contract with top Japanese Printing
Dai Nippon Printing – the top industrial printing and chemicals company in Japan partnered with Small Bridge USA to conduct a series of market research projects using tutors who are registered on Cafetalk.com.
The market research sessions were conducted in San Francisco.
This business relationship is expected to continue in 2017.
Web Development
Jfood411
Operated by Cimplex Marketing Group, Inc.
Under contract from Cimplex Marketing, Small Bridge USA handled planning and development for “jfood411” – a site whose mission is to introduce and promote Japanese foods to the US market.
Small Bridge was selected as the lead technical partner for the project due to our expertise in localization and our knowledge of both US and Japanese markets.
Market Research
San Francisco Japan Night 2014
Cafetalk was selected as one 5 top finalists to present their business at Japan Night, an annual demo event for up and rising Japanese startups.
Exposure in this event lead to a five-minute segment featuring Small Bridge USA CEO Kotaro Hashizume on Bloomberg TV
Other Media Exposure for cafetalk.com
Small Bridge’s flagship service Cafetalk has also been featured in numerous top Japanese media including a segment on WBS (World Business Satelite) – a prime time business news show on TV Tokyo.
