Think differently after these TED talks
These seven TED talks will change the way you think about customers, business and the economy.
From a shirtless dancing guy starting a movement to the story of spaghetti sauce’s success to the single most important thing a VC is looking for in a pitch. These videos challenge common thinking–and remind us that the most obvious way to do something isn’t necessarily the best way.
Here’s the play-by-play in 5465 seconds.
Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs
One of the forces behind 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, Cameron Herold was a born entrepreneur. From the age of seven, he was experimenting with ways to make money – from negotiating the price of coat hangers returned to dry cleaners to doing comic book arbitrage by buying comics cheap from the poor kids and selling them for higher prices to the rich ones.
Each business venture taught him business lessons. By selling comic books he learned to buy low and sell high. Other ventures reinforced the value of recurring revenue and how much easier it is to return regularly to the same customers rather than finding new ones.
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Innovation award winner, Kimberly Gulevich
Most teens would hold their breath and walk by quickly if they passed a sewage lagoon. Not Kimberly Gulevich, of Fort St. John, BC. Instead, she took a closer look and investigated whether smaller household sewage lagoons could become a source of energy.
“I have become really interested in protecting the environment by using waste materials and existing technologies in new ways,” said the grade 12 student. “I heard of people who throw covers on their lagoons and collect gas. I decided to research this, and determine its potential in the north.”
Women in business
According to the Centre for Women’s Business Research, women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the US.
But–according to Astia, a nonprofit group that advises female entrepreneurs–women only create eight percent of venture-backed tech start-ups. What gives?
On April 21, 2010, the New York Times published an article examining the gap between male and female entrepreneurs in tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, New York, Austin and Boston.
