A bit sensationalist IMO. From my experiences costly Tokyo rentals are optional.
During college I lived in central Tokyo on a budget that was much less than what I had in the States (120,000 jpy) - working near full time mind you.
Started out by living in a few different netcafes for a month and moved into a humble flat with initial costs under 100,000 jpy.
Now with a non-Japanese wife and no guarantor, we pick places where these fees are non-existent and landlords or organizations are okay with foreigners working non-traditional jobs using guarantor companies (monthly guarantor fee of around 2600 jpy). More so than the deposits, it sucks I get discriminated against for my race.
Actually quite a few places allow you to get in without such deposits. I've lived here since my last two years of college - totaling 8 years now - and never had an issue getting in with almost zero down aside from rent and guarantor company fee. My rents have ranged from $350/month to now $1600/month.
On the private side:
コンフォリア
On the public support side (subsidized housing):
UR (Urban Renewal)
JKK Tokyo (東京都住宅供給公社)
I've done email marketing for some pretty big companies over the last 3-4 years, as well as a few smaller ventures. When it comes to generating revenue, HTML wins across the board in my experience with general goods' EC, daily deal, education and food.
The users of this board aren't exactly the type of people who impulse buy.
Nice! Knew what a fullstack programner was so I was thinking it might be along those lines.
As was mentioned before, more often than not, startups have limited funding and can't afford both a UX guy and designer. Full stack for the budget! FTB?
I'm talking about all these Tony Robbins wannabes and content companies using startup/entrepreneurship as an angle.
Useful voices: 37signals folks, Eris Reiss, HBR, anyone here, etc.
Not useful voices: Inc.com, Forbes.com, Random dude running on investment alone, linkbait like "<insert superlative> <noun> for <insert phrase about startups or entrepreneurship>".
Indeed used LinkedIn to hire me :3