Tim Clark
Well, I’ve finally given up writing about myself in the third person — congratulate me on a big step forward.
I’m an entrepreneur, writer, teacher, and translator. I’ve been the founder, cofounder, or seed investor in several companies, including Ideogram and TKAI, which had a successful exit in 2000, and I serve as a limited partner in the Oregon Sustainability Fund and several other Northwest private equity partnerships.
On the writing side of things, I'm currently serving as contributing co-author and editor of Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game-Changers, and Challengers. I write frequently about entrepreneurship, and my other articles and editorials have appeared in the New York Times, Asiaweek, and a number of other publications. Other books include The Prosperous Peasant, The Swordless Samurai, and Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market (co-authored by Carl Kay). Saying Yes was published in Japanese by Nikkei in July 2006, a real honor, believe you me. Previously I authored the monthly Japan Entrepreneur Report and Japan Internet Report.
Today I’m working on a new venture while researching international business model portability through Hitotsubashi University’s doctoral program, where my advisers are Michael Korver, Tish Robinson, and Yoshi Fujikawa. I also teach graduate-level entrepreneurship courses at Portland State University (PSU), where I love my students and try to help them balance fortune and fulfillment. In my spare time I play the guitar, fool around with computer-based musical accompaniment software, and work on Soul Shelter, a blog co-authored by novelist M. Allen Cunningham.
Portland, Oregon is where I make my home with my wife, two children, and a Corgi rascal named Pepper.
