Considering the fact that there is too much information to cover in a concise manner due to the more pressing matter at hand of filing the Appeal with the D.C. Circuit Court, I'm going to post this series of screenshots of archived webpages of the above-named company (ResuPress) and its purported services along the course of its progress since being launched in August, 2012.
The flagrant misreepresentations (outright lies, perhaps), inconsistencies, etc., by Riney, Mizobe, and Otsuka are to be examined with reference to the screenshots in this post, as opposed to uploading them redundantly across multiple posts.
The pages have been grouped together in "phases" corresponding to their release in respective series.
As a sort of spoiler, I'll just state in advance that the evidence below shows that the so-called "video resume" startup described by Riney in his interviews (i.e., http://www.disruptingjapan.com/why-japanese-vcs-are-losing-out-james-riney-of-500-startups/) was in fact planned to itself provide service as a venture fund to support new startups both financially and materially, going so far as to offer legal services...
First ResuPress “Home”
webpage, archived October 27,2012:
This page includes a
sentence describing the upcoming service Storys.jp,
“Storys.jpは、あなたの経験、プロジェクト、そして共に働いた仲間などの”名刺にのらない”ストーリーを共有する新しい空間です。”
First ResuPress “Overview”
webpage, archived October 27,2012:
This page includes the
following information indicating that the company is going to develop web
applications that will revolutionize the world, with three people listed as “Board members”,
including Riney, Koichiro Wada, and Keisuke Wada (the VC from “Incubator”):
和田 晃一良 (Koichiro Wada)
和田 圭祐 (Keisuke Wada)
世界に革命を引き起こすWebアプリケーションの開発
First ResuPress
Announcements page, archived November 3, 2012:
This page includes the
following information indicating that the company was founded on August 28,
2012, and that Incubate Fund and ANRI are investors:
2012.08.28 レジュプレス株式会社 設立
First ResuPress Index
page, archived November 4, 2012:
http://web.archive.org/web/20121104235521/http://www.resupress.com/index.html
Phase
2
The following two pages,
archived on December 22, 2012, are the same, with a single slide reading “Venturing
Japan?”
Phase
3
Next,
they added slides for two new/upcoming services in March, 2013, the homepage displaying a total of three services: Venturing
Japan support for launching a business in Japan; STORYS.JP; and Ekino, which
states “An Online Flee Market at Every Train Station”. Meanwhile, they eliminated the detailed text related to localization and strategic partnerships: http://web.archive.org/web/20130304141900/http://www.resupress.com/
Two
of those slides lead to archived pages, but the “Venturing Japan” link was blocked
from archiving by implementing robots.txt: http://web.archive.org/web/20130304141900/http://www.resupress.com/services.html
There is a currently
active version of that page, but it is password protected:
Phase
4
The fourth version of
the ResuPress homepage, archived in April of 2013, eliminated the Venturing
Japan and Ekino services, and included the following statements:
ResuPress is a Tokyo based tech startup focused on building exciting new ventures and bringing them to the world.
ResuPress was founded by James Riney, Koichiro Wada, and Takuro Mizobe with the support of Incubate Fund and Anri Fund.
The Board was comprised
of:
“James Riney, Koichiro Wada, Keisuke Wada”
And the Team was
comprised of:
“James Riney, Koichiro Wada, Takuro Mizobe, Keisuke Wada, Anri Samata, Nicholas Gianniotis (Advisor)”Note that Otsuka has yet to appear on either list.
Phase
5
There are no changes
until June 25, 2014, when a link/graphic for a new service called Unite is
added, the names of Riney and Gianniotis are deleted from the page, with Otsuka’s
name appearing for the first time on both the Team list and the Board list, to
which Mizobe has also been added.
Phase
6
The next change happens
in August, 2014, with the Unite service being deleted, and the Coincheck
service added:
STORYS.JP
The first homepage of
STORYS.JP, archived on March 1, 2013, does show Otsuka on the Team, and
includes a third investor, Teddy Lo, who also happens to operate a Crossfit business
in Hong Kong. The page also includes links to personal stories the team members
and investors have uploaded onto the website:
The page remains
basically the same through October 10, 2014, with Riney still shown as a member
of both the Board and Team, even though he had already left the company, and
then the “About” page showing information about the company itself was
eliminated from the website altogether:
The next archived page shows that it had been deleted
by the company:
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