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Revenue Streams: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
Profit, revenue, income, assets, cash flow -- all these words mean money, but they all have specific uses. In business, money is important to us and we want to describe it as accurately as possible.
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Office by day, club by night - the new shape of workplaces
LEAD IN:Work-hard, play-harder. Young Indians are all about mixing work and play.India is emerging as one of the biggest markets in the world for tech-based startups, and workspaces are transforming from traditional and hierarchal, to...
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Transformed Spaces: Office by Day, Club at Night
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4058782LEADIN:Work-hard, play-harder. Young Indians are all about mixing work and play.India is emerging as one of the biggest markets in the world for tech-based startups, and workspaces are...
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Office by day nightclub by night - the new shape of the office
LEAD IN:Work-hard, play-harder. Young Indians are all about mixing work and play.India is emerging as one of the biggest markets in the world for tech-based startups, and workspaces are transforming from traditional and hierarchal, to...
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What Can You Learn from Your Competition? Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship
We’re used to competitions with clear winners and losers: baseball games, math olympiads, pie-eating contests, and games involving thrones. We crown a victor and everyone else goes home empty-handed! In business, though, there isn’t just...
TED Talks
TED: How cryptocurrency can help startups get investment capital | Ashwini Anburajan
We're living in a golden era of innovation, says entrepreneur Ashwini Anburajan -- but venture capital hasn't evolved to keep up, and startups aren't getting the funding they need to grow. In this quick talk, she shares the story of how...
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Defense Against the Dark Arts of Influence: Crash Course Business Soft Skills
How do con artists manage to scam millions? Why do people choose to follow great leaders, or horrible ones? How do CEOs get better deals in the boardroom? Influence. In this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn chats to us about what...
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How to Create a Fair Workplace: Crash Course Business Soft Skills
Fairness is one of the quickest ways to lose or gain trust. A lot of times we assume unfair people are incompetent or opportunistic. In this episode, Evelyn chats about how we perceive fairness and what the hurdles are to being "fair" in...
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How to Seek Help and Find Key Partners: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs do have to wear a lot of hats, but we need to understand where we fall short and where other people or products could help get the job done. We can’t be an expert in everything or have time to do everything. But some people...
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How to Sell Anything: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
It can be hard to strike the right tone or know what’s going to appeal to someone, but there are tricks. We can craft a narrative and use well-placed emotional appeals to tell customers a story. Even if you don’t consider yourself a...
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How to Become a Better Negotiator: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
You've prepped and now it's time to actually negotiate. In this episode of Crash Course Business, Evelyn talks to us about how to make sure we take care of ourselves and get what we're looking for out of a negotiation.
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Las mentiras que nos son útiles
Las mentiras que nos son útiles Las mentiras son una parte integral de la experiencia humana, pero es nuestra responsabilidad aprender cuando la verdad nos sirve más, defiende el empresario Néstor Guerra. Al embarcarse en un viaje...
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How to Speak With Confidence: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
Public speaking isn't easy for everyone. It can be nerve racking and even scary. But, in this episode of Crash Course Business Soft Skills, Evelyn talks to us about S.U.C.C.E.S and how we can use it to help us be prepared to speak to a...
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people...
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How to Communicate with Customers: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
No business, no matter how innovative and amazing it is, will survive if people haven’t heard of it. If people don’t know something exists, they’ll never be able to purchase it. It’s time to work on our communication skills.
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Minimum Viable Product and Pivoting Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship
Imagine if the only videos on YouTube were people looking for love. That could have been the world we lived in! Before it had 1.9 billion users per day, YouTube started as a video-based dating service, complete with the truly excellent...
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Testing Your Product and Getting Feedback: Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship
To figure out if an idea is as good as we think it is, we have to talk to our customers. We’ve said it over and over again. We have to ask them what they like, dislike, want, or need, and we want honest feedback about our product or...
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Understanding Financial Statements and Accounting: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
Honestly, “spreadsheets” are kind of the vegetables of the business world -- the very idea of them makes some people queasy. But that’s ok! They can be intimidating, but they’re not impossible to understand. Today we’re going to learn to...
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TED: The link between unemployment and terrorism | Mohamed Ali
For the young and unemployed in the world's big cities, dreams of opportunity and wealth do come true -- but too often because they're heavily recruited by terrorist groups and other violent organizations. Human rights advocate Mohamed...
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Is Growth Right For You? Crash Course Entrepreneurship
In business, growth basically means making a company more successful in some way: finding a new revenue stream, revamping the cost structure to minimize expenses and increase profit, or adding new people and knowledge to the team. Our...
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How to Develop a Business Idea: Crash Course Business - Entrepreneurship
So, where do ideas come from? And what do you do with them once you have them? In this episode of Crash Course Entrepreneurship, Anna helps to answer these questions (and more) as we figure out what we need to do to launch our business.
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How to Avoid Teamwork: Disasters Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
Group projects have a reputation of being difficult at times. But there are ways to make sure everything from the project to meetings about the project go smoothly. In this episode, Evelyn chats about how we can make sure and avoid...
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Financing Options for Small Businesses: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
This episode is near the end of this series, but entrepreneurship isn’t a linear journey. You might need funding to accomplish any of the steps to build a business, not just when you’re ready to take a product or service to market. Some...
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The Many Forms of Power: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
In our second to last episode of Soft Skills, Evelyn talks to us about Power and how it's not always bad, not always good, and useful to understand. Enjoy!