Hi

I am a Japan based business person and am seeking partners in various countries to identify great products and services that can be introduced across countries.
To begin with I am looking for someone in / around Silicon Valley, in Boston area as far as the US goes. Then some one in Tel Aviv, Israel - they have great data security, encoding etc type products I believe. Then London - good financial products / services maybe.
These places are just based on my gut feeling - like minded people from other places are welcome. But of course due to my limited knowledge and resources I am focusing on IT to start with.
One thing that I have found out after months of emailing to seemingly good ventures is that these startups have no bandwidth. Most dont even know that their info@venture.com type addresses dont work - OR - dont bother to ever check those accounts. So getting help from localy situated people to go and talk to these ventures seems to be the right way to do it.
Please feel free to give comments, suggestions and of course help !

Thanks
Ranj