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A growing industry aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere—but it’s still in its infancy, and greenhouse-gas emissions remain dangerously high.

— Peter Reinhardt (@reinpk)

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos)

Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of people draw toast. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Mike Jones, CEO of Science shares insights on what makes a great Direct-to-Consumer Founder, investing early in Dollar Shave Club, economics of a venture-studio & more! 0:32 Jason speaks on current events and intros Science CEO Mike Jones, how they met after selling their companies to AOL 6:02 What is Science and how has it evolved since being started in 2011? Why did they pivot away from the startup studio model? 12:43 What are the economics of a venture-studio? l5:25 Defining the 3 scenarios of a "lifestyle-business" 18:41 Founders sharpening their skills through hardship, how Mike experienced that at MySpace 25:48 Investing in Dollar Shave Club, insights on what makes a great DTC founder 38:25 Short-term/Mid-term/Long-term impact of COVID 48:37 What is gained and lost in fully-remote work? 57:28 Thoughts on eventually going back to work?

Watch the recording of the Venture Studio Online Conference 3 if you want to learn more about startup studios and venture-building models, how to create and communicate the studio’s brand, define a vertical, fundraise, and attract the best founders. Enjoy the 1st-minute inro to get a sense of the atmosphere. Timecodes: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:12 Hello, everyone! 00:04:35 Jon Robert Bradford, Co-Founder, CEO @ Colab 00:22:24 T.A. McCann, Managing Director @ Pioneer Square Labs 00:43:35 Alex Hollander, Vice President, Head of Communications @ Juxtapose 01:04:17 Maksim Malyy, PhD, Research Scientist @ Niches 01:17:02 Ben Yoskovitz, Founding Partner @ Highline Beta 01:37:33 Amanda Poole, Vice President, Talent @ DVx Ventures 01:54:12 Mark S. McNally, Founder / Chief Nobody @ Nobody Studios 02:14:34 Dominik Pasler, General Partner @ ICEO - Venture Builder 02:30:40 Damian Routley, Chief Operating Officer @ Founders Factory Moderators: – Annie Vshivkova, project manager @ Venture Studio Family – Dianna Lesage, Venture Studio Advisor, Community and Content Rockstar – Jake Hurwitz, Founder @ Thursday Labs, Founder @ The Gallery & will moderate the event Presentations of speakers: – Jon Robert Bradford - Colab https://drive.google.com/file/d/1276k63z4SxmLndqFEVEtjIjJ8kxQmBh8/view?usp=sharing – T.A. McCann, PSL - Fundraising for Venture Studios https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNvlSBBo=/?share_link_id=652536575001 (password "PSL") – Maxim Malyy, Niches - Big Venture Studio Research 2024 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZkvSWqGn4UZ4m4PlasJLg1IkOyLlJMJkNZpwA2Cfing/edit?usp=sharing – Annie Vshivkova, Venture Studio Family - Join our community https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12vqyWOYruea5Z59pVJbiknRVhXiOtpwVdymCdDtdjdE/edit?usp=sharing – Ben Yoskovitz, Highline Beta - The Future of Venture Studios is Vertical https://drive.google.com/file/d/17TH0kEljA8rNQsHg1qQXHnCuZnXzMF7x/view?usp=sharing New article: https://www.focusedchaos.co/p/how-to-define-a-vertical-venture-studio – Amanda Poole, DVx Ventures - How to attract the best founders https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QtLWs4KD-CldswJKWk8Tq1Ikjai5D_Q-/view?usp=sharing – Mark S. McNally - Nobody Studios https://drive.google.com/file/d/12bTGjjfuifPJQPA05jleCnBDUEKOOT9b/view?usp=sharing – Damian Routley, Founders Factory - Learnings from a high velocity venture studio https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BKT6l24IcEaETq6A8bsFYCLzT0b9zK8n/view?usp=sharing Additional resources from Max Pog & the team: 1. Join, contribute, or sponsor our Big Venture Studio Research 2024: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxpog_big-call-to-venture-studios-our-teams-full-time-activity-7158769463218130944-LkXQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 2. Get access to the numbers, documents/playbooks, & investors of venture studios by joining the Venture Studio Family paid community: https://inniches.com/family 3. Join the WhatsApp Venture Studio community from your mobile WA app (desktop version can't get you into the 3 subgroups): https://chat.whatsapp.com/Kt0yLkN0dYKBr8CYBfYL2O 4. Read my 7-month report on venture studios where I refer to 100+ sources (it made me famous in the studio community 😁): https://inniches.com/research 5. Watch our previous Venture Studio & VC Online Conferences: – VSOC 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwIhYfXY_Q&t=0s – VSOC 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ackWHkXQM2g&t=0s – VCOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uhm5gM_TpQ&t=0s 6. Check the top-20 venture studio resources of 2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maxpog_top-20-venture-studio-resources-created-in-activity-7142520618050113538-3u1Y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 7. Replenish your library with new books recommended by Venture Studio stakeholders at VSOC3: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-shelepova_replenish-your-library-with-new-books-venture-activity-7163567361902510080-4EUF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 8. Contact me on LI https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxpog or on X: https://x.com/maxpogu 9. Connect my team: Masha https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-shelepova/ & Annie https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-vshivkova-072a63223/

Pied Piper is a middle-out compression solution making data storage problems smaller.

Bill Gross thrives on turning innovative ideas into pioneering companies. He serves as founder and CEO of Idealab, which started over 75 companies since 1996. In this stimulating lecture, he shares how Idealab continues to bring incredible ideas to market, and his personal insights on starting and running successful organizations. Gross also describes the work of eSolar, a spin-off company of Idealab that works to make solar energy cost-competitive in the global marketplace. View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2659

Idealab's first IdeaDay was held on January 14th, 2014 at our office in Pasadena. We shared 10 ideas that we are excited to develop. Our goal is to find individuals or teams to carry any of these ideas forward. If we decide to work together, we can partner closely or Idealab can make a more passive investment.

Peter Reinhardt - https://twitter.com/reinpk - is cofounder and CEO of Segment - https://segment.com/ Segment helps companies capture data from every customer touchpoint and send it to the tools where it can be used most effectively. They were part of the YC Summer 2011 batch. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - https://twitter.com/craigcannon *** Topics 00:00 - What is Segment? 1:30 - Segment’s first customers 3:05 - Their YC application 4:00 - Going through YC 5:30 - Realizing their first product didn’t work 10:30 - Launching Analytics.js 11:45 - Experiencing product market fit 16:55 - Debating whether to launch or build out the product 19:15 - Evan Farrell asks - You mentioned in the SS lecture that you had to totally pivot to Analytics.js to find PMF, is it possible to purely iterate on something people kinda like to find PMF, or should it be clear from the outset if a new idea is something people want? 20:30 - The importance of having a skeptic on your team 23:30 - Customer interviews 26:30 - Benjamin Liam asks - How did they know they have the right messaging to explain their product? 28:00 - Idea generation 32:45 - Danny Prol asks - What values and standards do you have in place for your team at Segment? And how do you actively build that culture into your company? 37:00 - Ashwin Doke asks - How has GDPR impacted Segment's business model? 39:15 - Andrew Pikul asks - Any advice he has on asking for more money than you're comfortable asking for. 41:45 - Juan Carlos Garza asks - How did YC help you to where Segment is right now? 43:15 - Juan Carlos Garza asks - In an early stage, what's the thin line between ignoring a customer suggested feature or moving a customer requested feature to the core of your application? 44:45 - Biggest learnings since YC 45:50 - Important hires at Segment

Startup expert Steve Blank discusses Corporate Innovation with Professor Sheena Iyengar, faculty director of the Columbia Business School Entrepreneurship program, at the Columbia Startup Lab Jan. 13, 2015.

Catch the replay of the October 2021 edition of Ignite's Meet the Investor program featuring Greg Gottesman, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pioneer Square Labs and Co-Founder of Rover.com. Meet the Investor is sponsored by Witherspoon Kelley.

Shonen Jump has given us some of the most storied... stories in the history of storytelling. This video's about the manga that didn't make it. Cancelled before their time... or right on time, depending. Sponsored by GFuel. Get 30% off any order with code BASEMENT at https://gfuel.com Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to the Jump Graveyard Tour 3:35 Snake, You've Created a Time Paradox! 7:56 Grimm's Legendary Tail 12:45 My Prince and the Pauper Academia 17:41 Wishful Thinking 23:54 Gfuel Ad 25:06 Stickin it to HiFi Cluster 31:25 Nazuto check out the Shonen Flop Podcast for more cancelled Jump manga: https://shonenflop.com/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mothersbasement Subscribe to Mother's Basement for anime and gaming videos every week: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=UCBs2Y3i14e1NWQxOGliatmg Validate me! Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/G0ffThew Also on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mothersbasementofficial And check out my Steam Curator page: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mothers_basement/curation and the new Mother's Basement Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mothersbasement In the depths of his Mother's Basement, Geoff Thew creates videos analyzing the storytelling techniques of anime and video games. He has been named the number one Worst YouTube Anime Reviewer by The Top Tens.

In this episode of Oh Ship, Freddie is joined by John Borthwick, Co-founder of Betaworks, a thematic residency and investment program for early-stage companies that has led to businesses like Giphy, Bitly, and Tweetdeck (to name a few). #ohshipshow #Betaworks #VentureStudio ---------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this episode of Oh Ship! Show, please: 👍 Like and share 👍 SUBSCRIBE to catch past episodes & to tune in weekly: http://bit.ly/3ZqUskZ ---------------------------------------------------------- Released weekly, Oh Ship! Show focuses on subjects related to entrepreneurship, business, culture, and innovation through the lens of an experienced leader sitting on a boat in his home office on a webcam. Freddie, and many of his guests, have been involved in numerous businesses throughout their careers, with both notable successes and failures. “Oh Ship!” is about celebrating the failures, sharing those stories, learning, and laughing along the way. ---------------------------------------------------------- 💥WATCH or LISTEN to Oh Ship! Show in your favorite format. Welcome aboard! YouTube | http://bit.ly/3ZqUskZ LinkedIn Live | https://bit.ly/3CFRAHa Facebook | https://bit.ly/3XixjPK Apple Podcasts | https://bit.ly/3GWD7cl Spotify | https://bit.ly/3iycVeW Google Podcasts | https://bit.ly/3XlhTKL Stitcher | https://bit.ly/3X5xHBz Amazon Podcasts | https://bit.ly/3VXnh5K Player FM | https://bit.ly/3W07cMx RSS Feed | https://bit.ly/3Zwcxy0 ---------------------------------------------------------- 👉 CONNECT with Freddie and the entire Oh Ship! community: Website | https://ohshipshow.com/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/freddielaker/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ohshipshow Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/ohshipshow/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/ohshipshow YouTube | http://bit.ly/3ZqUskZ Email: http://bit.ly/3k9WOok

Fujitsu Launchpad is looking for software developers to join their team in Tokyo.

Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of Segment, shares his experience on finding product market fit.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Alphabet is ending an era of unrestrained invention, spinning off many projects into independent startups.

Strategies, templates, and advice on how to stay focused while still being kind