Andrew Ng: Education for Everyone
Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that is offering classes from Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Caltech, and other top universities to anyone in the world. Its mission is to give anyone, anywhere in the world access to a high quality education for free.
Co-founder Andrew Ng, also the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and an associate professor in computer science at Stanford, presented at the Leading Education By Advancing Digital (LEAD) Symposium held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in September 2012.
He spoke at the Leading Education By Advancing Digital (LEAD) Symposium held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in September 2012.
How Chegg became the #1 source for textbook rentals
The story of Chegg’s “pivot” - from online classifieds to textbook rentals. This Silicon Valley-based startup has carved a niche for itself by helping students save hundreds of dollars. Why buy expensive college textbooks when you can rent and save money?
10 Myths of Entrepreneurship
In the second video of the series ‘Little Green Bags’, the professors of St Galen do away with the ten myths of entrepreneurship, and show how one can create a successful start-up business without money, business plan or even an idea.
ECNlive and Tech City Partnership
Prime Minister David Cameron backs ECNlive partnership with Tech City, as he announces plan for £50M regeneration of Silicon Roundabout
Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO), the body tasked with promoting British technology companies based in the East London tech cluster, is joining forces with digital news network ECNlive, in a partnership that will connect Tech City with investors in the City of London.
The partnership was announced this morning at a Tech City event attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, who praised the success of innovative British technology businesses such as ECNlive and announced a £50 million plan to regenerate the Old Street Roundabout at the heart of East London-based Tech City business cluster.
News of the Prime Minister’s announcement was broken on the ECNlive network, as the first step in a content partnership that will see ECNlive’s digital network carry live news and real time information from companies within Tech City, to financial institutions, media groups and technology companies across the capital.
Tech City will use ECNlive’s digital network, which reaches more than 400,000 business people across the capital, to carry real-time up-dates on company initiatives, tech sector data and trends. ECNlive is present in more than 100 landmark offices buildings in London, including the offices of the City’s most influential investors from the technology and financial services industry.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: “The UK is in a global race and I am determined that we as a Government continue doing everything we can to equip the UK to compete and thrive in that race.
“As well as backing the businesses of today, we are creating an aspiration nation and also backing the innovative, high-growth businesses of the future. That’s why we’re investing in creating the largest civic space in Europe - a place for start‐up companies and the local community to come together and become the next generation of entrepreneurs.”
Antony Ceravolo, CEO of ECNlive commented: “ECNlive will give Tech City companies a consistent presence in the heart of the City of London informing potential investors of the latest developments within the dynamic technology sector based in East London.
“ECNlive is itself a great example of how an innovative British technology-based business can establish itself and thrive. Now we’re helping to take Tech City to the City.”
Based in East London, ECNlive is backed by Octopus Ventures and an international consortium of private investors in the media and technology sectors and is led by Chief Executive Antony Ceravolo, a founding director of LOVEFiLM.COM.
ECNlive delivers a mix of live content and digital full-motion display advertising. Content is up-dated in real-time and includes global and national news, financial and sports up-dates, weather and travel information, as well as localised information relevant to audiences within individual buildings.
TCIO was established by UK Trade and Investment to promote the growth of companies based in the tech cluster centred in Shoreditch. In October Joanna Shields formerly Facebook’s, Vice-President and Managing Director Europe, Middle East and Africa, to be Chief Executive of TCIO.
A micro-lending service empowering rural entrepreneurs this Diwali
A Bangalore-based micro-lending service is bringing cheer to hundreds of small-scale rural entrepreneurs this festive season. Preethi Prabhu, an art gallery owner in Bangalore is celebrating her Diwali in a different way this year. While others are bursting fire crackers and partying, Preethi has decided to invest a small sum of money to help a weaver family in Maharashtra.
“Something that we spend on a one day outing in a restaurant can help a great deal to people living in rural areas, I think that money they get in their business brings in a lot of integrity to them and they pay it in the right time,” says Preethi Prabhu, a social investor.
Entrepreneurship is a Calling
Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and Stanford consulting associate professor, explains what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. He appeared at the E-Provocateur speaker series hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on October 23, 2012.
Solving European Employment through Startups
As Europe faces its highest unemployment rate in more than two decades, and hitting today’s young adults particularly hard, StartUp Europe is being established to stem the current “brain drain” of talent from the region and empower youth, technology and entrepreneurship.
StartUp Europe is a centre of excellence to develop and support entrepreneurship and drive job creation in Europe and is a collaboration between Telefónica and the Lisbon Council - the Brussels-based think tank.
Joachim Schoss: No future without Startups
Joachim Schoss is one of the most successful Internet entrepreneurs in Europe. Mr. Schoss has a history of founding successful companies, including TellSell Consulting and Telcare, which merged with Sykes Enterprises. In 2004 his most well known company, Scout24, was acquired by T-Online for $221 million. He was named 2002 Business Angel of the Year in Switzerland.
In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Schoss also has extensive investment experience, going back to the 1990s. From 2000-2003, he was the Chief Excecutive for Beisheim Holding Schweiz, and is currently invested in Researchgate, bettermarks and several other start-ups.
Mr.Schoss is President of the charitable foundation MyHandicap.com, and a board member of NZZ - Neue Zürcher Zeitung, of Goldbach Group and two banks, in Zurich and Munich.
Summly: News Noise Trimmed
He launched the second and improved version of Summly, a mobile app that generates bite-sized summaries of news stories that fit neatly on your phone screen. No scrolling, no tapping, no chasing down links to media website. Just the news, or as much that can fit in 350-500 words.
The app, which was released Thursday for the iPhone, pulls in news articles from hundreds of online sources and uses an algorithm to extract key words and phrases to build a coherent summary. D’Aloisio said Summly gives readers more content than a Tweet, but doesn’t overwhelm them with pages of text.
Mobile Gaming in China
David Liu, Founder and CEO of mobile gaming company RedAtoms, discussed industry trends in China at the 3rd annual China 2.0 conference. The event was hosted by the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on September 28, 2012.
