About MakeLeaps
MakeLeaps is bilingual Japanese invoicing software, run by Webnet IT. Webnet IT is a Japanese Corporation in business in Japan since September 2003.
Corporate Summary
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| Company Name | Webnet IT Corporation |
| Established | 23rd of September 2003 |
| Headquarters | Shu building 2-28-10, Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013 |
| Bank | Mitsui Sumitomo Bank Toritsu Daigaku Branch |
| President | Jason Winder |
| contact@webnet-it.co.jp | |
| Office | +81 (0)3 4550 1530 |
| Fax | +81 (0)3 5501 9006 |
| URL | http://www.webnet-it.co.jp |
MakeLeaps Vision
1. To unlock the potential of freelancers and businesses in Japan with MakeLeaps; clean, powerful, easy-to-use software that provides a dramatic improvement to back-office speed, accuracy and operations.
2. To boost Japan’s economy through the increased efficiency and productivity of businesses using MakeLeaps.
The MakeLeaps Team
Although Webnet IT has been operating in Japan since 2003, Jason and Paul began working on MakeLeaps in 2009. We launched our software October 2011, and since then we’ve been working hard every day listening to our customers and continuing to improve our software every day.
In only a short period of time, we’ve managed to put together a highly professional, focused team of professionals, dedicated to achieving our vision.
Brief Team Overview
Jason Winder – Founder
Jason Winder originally came to Japan in 2001 to study martial arts. In 2003, Jason started his first business, Webnet IT, providing IT Staff and Services to foreign companies. In 2010, Jason co-founded MakeLeaps, an online quoting and invoicing system designed for businesses in Japan.
Paul Oswald – Founder
Paul Oswald first visited Japan in 2005 after meeting a Japanese woman in New York who would later become his wife. Paul brings extensive software development experience from his years as a lead architect at Sony Music as well as several internet startups.
Daniel Izquierdo – Programmer
Daniel came to Japan to work with us from Venezuela. Daniel is a talented back-end programmer and specialises in listening to customers, and turning over complex features that solve difficult problems in simple and easy ways. Daniel speaks Spanish, German, English, and is studying Japanese every day.
Hiroki Kudo – Advisor/Evangelist
Hiroki is an advisor and MakeLeaps evangelist. Hiroki’s experience as an entrepreneur and at several famous Japanese companies help ensure we’re on the right track.
Max Zimmer – Front-end/UI Programmer
Max is a front-end UI and HTML/CSS programmer. Max’s multi-year experience in making high quality interfaces make a big impact on the look and feel of the main site, and the application. If you look at any MakeLeaps webpage, and it looks great, Max had something to do with it.
Aimi Mukohara – Sales
Aimi has been working with MakeLeaps doing sales and setting up partnerships. At night, she is a singer and a talented musician. She has been on television twice, and brings song into our office, and MakeLeaps into accounting firms and small businesses.
Helen Vickun – Design
Helen is our graphic designer. She makes beautiful pictures and art for everything to do with MakeLeaps, from our UI to the background on our Twitter page, to our icons. She brings great quality design into everything we do at MakeLeaps and she is an indispensable member of the team.
Co-Founder Profile
MakeLeaps Co-Founder Jason (Jay) Winder
Years ago, I was struggling with invoices at Webnet IT. Everything was manual, took a long time, and was full of mistakes, even with many people working on it together. The monthly invoice cycle used to take 3 people a full week of grueling work. This was killing our productivity, and making it impossible to grow.
So I set out to fix it. I spent years building software that allowed my first company Webnet IT to take on 3 or 4 times the number of customers using the same number of staff. We tripled our sales while controlling our costs, and our invoicing is easy, automatic and even fun(!).
Now it takes 1 person 15 minutes to send 60+ invoices every month. The software I built transformed Webnet IT and without exaggeration, had a huge positive impact in my life.
Ever since I saw how quality software can make this kind of difference in businesses and peoples lives, I became obsessed with the idea of bring these same transformative benefits to millions of other businesses in Japan, then in Asia, then around the world.
I met Paul Oswald, and found we shared many of the same passions and ideals and MakeLeaps was born.
Please feel free to contact me any time. I love making new connections and meeting new people. I’m on jay@makeleaps.com. Yoroshiku!
- Jay
