August 15, 2026 · 10:22 am
For good and bad, humans want things easy and now. Thinking and bodily effort are tiring. If given the choice between exertion or not for something they want, most will choose less effort for the most gains. No effort for all the gains would be supreme. The smaller percentage of humans who choose effort over ease, will have a greater chance of success. However, if everyone behaved this way, a vast amount of business opportunities would not exist.
Our consumer addictions include fast delivery, fast food, fast services, fast everything. We have app services in our digital devices that are instantly available.
For AI, the less thinking and doing a human has to do, the better the product. Every thought is friction. Every action is friction. The goal is to make the AI product flow with a smooth end to end workflow. That is the ultimate goal.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Tagged as AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, intellectual property, IP, product, Products, startup, startups
July 23, 2026 · 12:20 pm
How much money would it take for you to stop using your most valuable products? This is a way to measure a product’s value.
The mission is to make a product so valuable, it would be extremely difficult to stop using it no matter how much money is offered to you to give it up.
Products that solve problems and make your life easier are extremely valuable. Products that awaken your human potential also provide powerful value. The product makes you feel good because of how you experience it.
#products #intellectualproperty #startups #brands #economics
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Tagged as brand, brands, Business, economics, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, intellectual property, IP, product, Products, startup, startups, value
July 16, 2026 · 12:58 pm
Before adding more to my product, I question if it is necessary. I ask AI if it is necessary. I ask others if it is necessary. Finally, the market’s behavior will tell me if it is necessary. Minimum features with maximum impact is what I aim for.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
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Tagged as Art, Artist, Artists, Business, emtrepreneurs, Entrepreneur, feature, features, minimal, minimum viable product, product, Products, startup, startups
June 30, 2026 · 1:45 pm
I was pondering on why the market can go crazy for a less talented artist or technological product. The artist or product must fit the market.
Old stuff get old. It garners less attention unless it has staying value.
New stuff that creates an amazing experience, finally solves a problem, or solves a problem in a smoother way will overshadow the old stuff.
Some old art retains attention and old tech stays practical until they don’t.
New creators will not garner attention by replicating old stuff because they are owned by the original creators. They will never compare to them.
You have to be a creator that creates new stuff generating amazing experiences. This is why talent isn’t enough. The creator’s product must fit in some niche of the market. Less talented artists and less perfect products that fit the market will succeed over talent and perfection.
Filed under Art, Entrepreneurship
Tagged as Art, Artists, Business, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, product, Products, service, startup, startups
June 30, 2026 · 1:35 pm
This past Sunday, June 28, 2026, I dreamt about putting together a story to make it fit for the market, a product-market fit. When I woke up, I had clarity on how to succeed on any product or service we build with one word “fit.” Not more. Not less. A great experience, not perfection. Just the right pieces, in the right system, for the right people, with the right partners. IP fit → product fit → market fit → partner fit → self fit. Don’t add unnecessary features that bogs down the flow of what fits. If the product or service doesn’t fulfill the core of its promise, build it until it does.
The product is new at the cutting edge of creativity. It exists in a blue ocean, a first of its kind. It creates an experience like no other product before it.
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Tagged as Artist, Artists, Business, clarity, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, partnership fit, product, product market fit, Products, service, startup, startups, venture, ventures
May 11, 2019 · 1:51 pm
If you ever need to move furniture and appliances, the Shoulder Dolly @shoulderdolly_official is amazing!!! On May 8 and 9, 2019, my friend and I was able to move really big furniture with this product that would have been very difficult without it. I’m super grateful for the entrepreneur(s) and workers at or contracted with Shoulder Dolly who created such a value!!!
Here’s a product that solves a challenge and sparks joy!!! Mahalo Shoulder Dolly @shoulderdolly_official !!! Great job!!!
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
#shoulderdolly #usefulproduct #greatproduct
#business #entrepreneurs #entrepreneur #value #goodvalue
#movingfurniture #movinghouse #mindful #mindfulness #bepresent #grateful #gratitude #thankful #useful #products #product
I used the Shoulder Dolly in Hawaii with my friend to move large furniture.
Filed under Business, Gratitude, Products
Tagged as be present, Business, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, good value, grateful, Gratitude, great product, great products, mindful, Mindfulness, moving furniture, moving house, product, Products, shoulder dolly, Thankful, useful, useful product, useful products, value
May 8, 2019 · 12:40 pm
Peace is my purpose.
I became a lawyer and politician with this goal in mind through the laws and programs I created or supported.
I enjoy business because #commerce can connect people when a great value is provided.
I love writing fiction because you can touch the souls of people by evoking their emotions through the struggles your characters go through. If you can make a reader have compassion and empathy for a character they would have disliked or even hated but for the story, then you’ve played a small role in bridging the division created by human judgment. Such stories can be adapted into audio and visual form such as audio books and movies to reach a greater audience.
Nonfiction writing can play a role in our self-development in not just our career but our personal development to attain inner peace. If all of us are at peace, the world will be at peace.
So what do you think about attaining world peace? If we break it down into bite size pieces and work on ourselves and help others every single day, it’s possible right!
May peace be with you! Sending you positive energy!
With Warmest Aloha,
Jon
#selfdevelopment #personaldevelopment #selfhelp #innerpeace #motivated #determined #hustle #mindfulness #mindful #grateful #gratitude
I’m pictured here working with a former business partner for branding and marketing on 2/13/2019.
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April 1, 2019 · 11:46 am
Thank you so much to Hawaiian Electric @hawaiianelectric and Drive Electric Hawaii @driveelectrichi for the power bank, which I’ve been wanting for about 5 months!!! I’m super grateful!!! I’m making really good use of them in my daily grind on my #work !!! I got them at First Hawaiian Bank’s @fhbhawaii 2019 First Hawaiian International Auto Show at the Hawaii Convention Center @hawaiiconvention on Sunday March 31, 2019. Now, more than ever, since I don’t drive, and instead, catch the bus to all my meetings and events, I’ve been needing one of these to recharge my @samsungmobile Galaxy S7 Edge, which I use for business and personal use. A couple of times my smartphone ran out of power while in transit. My friend Brandon Mitsuda @brandon_mitsuda gave me his since he already has his own.
#thankful #gratitude #powerbank #hawaiianelectric #driveelectrichawaii #firsthawaiianautoshow #bepresent #livenow #mindfulness #mindful #dailywork #stepbystep #dailypractices #dailyhabits #smallwins #career #personallife #mentalhealth #positivemindset
Thank you so much to Hawaiian Electric for these power banks! I needed them badly as I do business while moving about in Honolulu’s awesome bus system!
Filed under Gratitude, Happiness, Mindfulness, Motivational, Positive Living, Products
Tagged as Anxiety, Business, business use, grateful, Gratitude, journey, Knowledge, learn, mahalo, personal use, power bank, process, product, Products, relationships, Skills, thank you, Thankful, useful, useful products
JON RIKI KARAMATSU 