TEDxValletta - Brigitte Baumann - Wealth on Wings
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Anyone who has ever started an innovative business and fancies him or herself as a budding entrepreneur, always comes across the question of "where do we get the start-up capital from"? Brigitte will take us through a journey of how Angel Investing gives wings to many initiatives that without their support, may never see the light of day, givin... Read more
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- -: TEDxValletta - Brigitte Baumann - Wealth on Wings
December 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Anyone who has ever started an innovative business and fancies him or herself as a budding entrepreneur, always comes across the question of "where do we get the start-up capital from"? Brigitte will take us through a journey of how Angel Investing gives wings to many initiatives that without th...
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- -: TEDxTerryTalks - Richard Kemick - Appraising Canada's Future: Creating Value from Our Past
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Richard Kemick delivers a scathing and very very funny diatribe as he laments the disparity between the "have" and "have not" University Faculties. "Richard Kemick is originally from Calgary, Alberta and is studying English Literature and History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouve...
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- -: TEDxCapeTown: Lise Pretorius - A New Generation of Wealth
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Lise is currently the energy writer at Financial Mail. She holds an Honours degree in Economics and believes that the key to solving the challenges facing the world is understanding economic history and the way the world has developed up to now. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In ...
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- -: TEDxMileHigh - Bernard Amadei - Technology with Soul
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)What is your personal mission statement? Bernard Amadei implores us to be compassionate as he tells the story of "Technology with Soul." Organizations like Engineers Without Borders, which he founded, have driven huge positive results globally by combining technology with compassion. In the sp...
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- -: TEDxOxbridge - McKenzie Funk - How to Really Make Money Off Climate Change
July 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)McKenzie Funk writes for Harper's, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, and Popular Science and is the author of the forthcoming Best Laid Plans (Penguin Press), a book about climate change with reporting from five continents and 23 countries. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED...
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- -: Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks
January 16, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and f...
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- -: Tim Jackson's economic reality check
October 5, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations
July 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he sh...
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- -: Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
September 19, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that pro...
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- -: Women@Google: Mayree Clark
April 15, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Mayree Clark visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to share her insights on the causes of the global financial crisis and the steps needed to get us out of it. This event took place on April 8, 2009, as part of the Women@Google series. Mayree Clark is a Managing Director of Aetos Capita...
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