Episode 10 Jim Weisser Founder of Sign Time & Weisser Ideas

As a serial entrepreneur, Jim has founded and has angel invested
in a number of startups in Japan. The start-ups Jim focuses on
are in digital transformation in Japan. On a personal level, Jim
has been running Internet and cloud and SaaS related businesses
in Japan since 1996. He started his first company in 2000, second
in 2003 and third in 2006, PBXL. In 2020, Jim founded SignTime
K.K. a Japanese company focused on electronic contracts,
e-hankoes and digital transformation in a global environment.


Previously, Jim founded PBXL , a SaaS based company focused on
cloud calling, which was acquired by BroadSoft in November,
2015,. Through the time Cisco acquired BroadSoft, he led both the
SaaS sales and factory operations for the team in Japan until
August, 2018, when he moved into a dedicated sales role.


Jim has substantial SaaS experience in Unified Communications and
Collaboration, hosted PBX services, integrated VOIP offerings,
team collaboration and instant messaging/Chat. Outside of
collaboration, he also has experience with Call Center/Contact
Center as Services (CCaaS) as well, in both indirect and direct
sales roles. In his previous role at Cisco, he built teams to
work with the big 3 large telecommunications service providers
(KDDI, NTT and Softbank) and the major Japanese SI companies like
Fujitsu, Hitachi, CTC and Mitsubishi.