When this domain is repatriated by Japan the story will continue on Bartz.com.
Bradley Lawrence Bartz
1965
Born as 4th kid
1972
First business success rewarded with pony
1977
Sold more candy than Baseball Field snack shack and at better profit
1979
First Job. Selling Radio Advertising over telephone.
(tall one in the back - his voice was taller) Jolley, Frank: KNAC, 1970-71 and 1972-74; KHJ; KKDJ, 1971-72; KROQ; KYMS, 1972.
Frank owns and operates an independent film company that produces movies for tv and theatrically released films. He owns and operate kkdj.net and rockhouse.mobi online radio stations 24/7 and is "the life of Riley" in Citrus Heights, California. Over the years, Frank was Mentor Chairman of the Producers Guild of America.
1980
First company. B&B Gardening with brother Mike (he could drive)
1986
Danced with Princess Leia (Carrie Fischer) on the Queen Mary, Long Beach
1986
First corporation. Telemarketing Visions Institute, Inc. A Non-for-profit corporation for teaching the blind how to sell on the telephone and get jobs.
1986
First University case study of a Brad Bartz business by senior class of Dr. Fred Keisner
1986
Got accepted to Loyola Marymount University day before classes started by the Dean of Admissions
1989
Graduated Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1989
Arrived in Japan, met wife on plane
1990
Launched first Japanese Interent Company
1990
Launched IAC-Online BBS
1990
Pardoned by Japanese Emperor Akihito
November 1990 new Emperor Akihtio pardoned 880,000 citizens and me from small offenses. Mine was drink driving ticket that I was actively contesting.
1990
1991
Japan Press Network starts uploading press releases to Bloomberg Business News
1992
Married Tomoko (25 years now!)
1992
Bradley Jr. born with bi-lateral cleft palette. Metamorph search engine used with 1000 pages of medical text about cleft-palletes (mitsu-kuchi) provided by friend and data
vendtor.
1992
Sold Coca-Cola the 1st ad online - on the planet!
1992
Second Univeristy case study of a Brad Bartz business with Dr. Willam Bolton at Keio Univerity, Yokohama, Japan
1993
Electornic book on Floppy disk with The Japan Times with an embedded natural language search engine and 1000 pages of JT news.
1993
Traded ad space to Budweiser on BBS with ANSI-SYS "BUDNET" campaign
1994
FIRST advertisement on a computer with a 5MB website installed on 300,000 IBM Japan Apitva Computers. Let's Internet!
1995
Marie born. She just graduated from UC Berkeley and got hired to run a department!
1995
Joint Venture with NTT PC Communications
1995
Raised 327 million yen from Tiedemann Group in New York, USA by fund manager Campbell Gunn
1995
Scooterboy.com - First Internet Comic Book
1996
Bought Tokyo Journal Magazine
1996
Wall Street Journal and Asian Wall Street Journal front page
1996
August - japan.co.jp and 100+ .co.jp domain name regisistered
Launch free email at Jmail.co.jp and the 100 .co.jp domain names
1998
How to Survive a Press Thrashing speech at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ)
Epic speech. BusinessWeek Japan editor stood up and apologized. Tanya Clark left in tears (she wrote the hit piece. Who paid her?).
1998
1999
Grow to 250,000 users by end of 1999
1999
Sell control and pay all debts
2000
Denied by blacklist again for conversion of .co.jp collection to new .jp
2000
February, left japan with shirt on my back, withOUT my company and no debt.
Read Japan.co.jp: Hardhat Requried to learn about starting the first commercial internet company in Japan.
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2000
Fired by new owners of Jmail and screwed out of stock sale to Hans Tiedemann for $400,000 and slammed out of any ownship stake. Shameful behavior on his part.
Shaved my head in ceremony of retiring sumo legend.
2000
Founded ABCsolar.com and swore never to go to Japan again.
2000
Ran for School Board in the Palos Verdes Unitifed School District, California. Lost, but got 2,222 votes and ide
as implemented.
Platform for Disabled Student Rights
2001
April 26th - Launched SolarDaily.com a newspaper for the solar industry with the Space Media Network of Sydney, Australia
See More at www.SolarDaily.com
Brad Bartz led the Internet venture business scene from 1990 in Tokyo.
In 1995 he raised 4 million dollars from a New York Hedge Fund to expand its Joint Venture With Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT).
In August 1996 Bartz registerd 105 .co.jp domain names exploiting the loophole of one company can only have one domain name by making 105 Delaware Corporations.
Japan.co.jp, JPN.co.jp, sushi.co.jp and many more. Then Brad Bartz and his company were blacklisted by the Japanese governement. A blacklist that is still in place and having continued negative impact.
Read more at www.JPRS.com
JP Power V ABC Solar Japan KK
Summary: JP Power (Solar Client) buys 1.5 million dollars worth of solar panels. ABC Solar delivers as contracted CIF to port. JP Power abaondoned at port and all hell breaks loose.
The fact that you are reading this at Japan.co.jp is the base truth for this story. I may own Japan.co.jp and get to post anything I want on the 100+ .co.jp domain names. That is true. But, I can not sell these domains.
Google and other network advertisers pulled all ads with the blacklist years ago.
Again, you decide. Which is worse. A blacklist or JP Power leaving 1.5 million dollars of solar panels at the Port of Yokohama. Left them for ABC SOlar to somehow cleanup. The court gives no penalty to JP Power for abaondoning the solar panels. Instead, ABC Solar is penalized for not cleaning up correctly. Sheeeeeeesh!
This is a great book and I highly recommend for any businessperson.
Japan taught me a lot about defense as a good policy for business anywhere. Learn real world key lessons for starting, running AND keeping your business. A series of business forms are presented for you to fill out. This is a working book.
The Venture Business Manual also has Non-Disclosure agreements and other key documents for reference and use
Legal Restrictions on Foreigners with questionable justice.
(oh Brad! No, really, check it out. I registered this domain, Japan.co.jp, and two weeks later foreigners were outlawed from buying a Japanese domain name.
So, yes, Japan has legal racism that gives competitive advantage to locals.)
Only one condidtion should you do business in Japan. That is when you own 100% of the distribution channel in Japan. Any deviation from this is short-sited as history is littered with ripped off JV partners in Japan.
Help Brad Bartz or...
Banish Brad Bartz
Get struck by lightening twice, just do business in Japan.
Before you invest a yen, learn these stories and talk to Brad.
Learn who to avoid in Japan, some real scumbags. Learn that other markets offer a better chance of long-term success.
2. JP Power (Solar Client) buys 1.5 million dollars worth of solar panels. ABC Solar delivers as contracted CIF to port. JP Power abaondoned at port and all hell breaks loose.
Email Brad@Bartz.com and tell him how you feel about this case.