Category: Video

BEST OF TED: The Mind Behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity

Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket. Continue reading

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BEST OF TED - The Technology of Touch

As we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel — the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this? In this fun, fascinating TED-Ed lesson, learn about the field of haptics, and how it could change everything from the way we shop online to how dentists learn the telltale feel of a cavity. Continue reading

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Is the Desktop Dead?

Watch this face-off between Robert Scoble, Vala Afshar, and Michael Krigsman on the direction of cloud, social, and mobile computing in the enterprise. Continue reading

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The Best Entrepreneurs Scratch Their Own Itch

Kauffman Sketchbook – “The Itch” – Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, suggests that the best entrepreneurs are people who scratch their own itch. Continue reading

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BEST OF TED: Why videos go viral

Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s Trends Manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web videos. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. Continue reading

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Mr. Green Jeans

Blue jeans have become a fashion staple all around the world, but the manufacture of denim has also given the world a big environmental hit. Help may be on the way because there’s now a new generation of dyes that eliminate huge amounts of waste and energy… and a surprising amount of water! Continue reading

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Growth Strategy

In 2010 we launched a comprehensive research initiative to explore how companies, globally, were addressing business growth within their organizations. In our data collection, interviews and analysis, we originally sought to identify patterns in growth rates, return on invested capital, and future growth potential. During this process, one thing became very clear… Continue reading

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