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Behind Kind: From Purpose to Profits
An emotional and telling expose into one of America’s most dynamic entrepreneurs. Daniel Lubetsky reveals his innermost messaging and practical strategies in starting and growing Kind Snacks, a 1 billion dollar food company that he grew from a tiny apartment. Daniel shares a socially conscious thinking that dramatically grows a great company while doing a lot of good.
Counting the Hidden Costs of Doing Business: Amy Larkin
This episode of the Green Interview features Amy Larkin, an award-winning entrepreneur, environmental activist, and author who works with corporate executives to create more sustainable enterprises. Larkin was the founding director of Greenpeace Solutions. She now has the consulting firm Nature Means Business and she’s the author of the 2013 book Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy in which she issues a clarion call for governments, businesses, and consumers to recalculate the financial contributions of the natural world—and the long-hidden costs of environmental damage.
Entrepreneur Skills
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? Pete Williams shares personal experiences and discusses skills an entrepreneur needs, such as resilience and an analytical approach to failed ideas. He discusses the entrepreneur's need for an exit strategy from the business.
Entrepreneurship: When Am I Ever Going to Use This?
This video explores entrepreneurship: what it is, the skillset required, and the risks and rewards of owning your own business. Viewers recieve a first-hand look at how entrepreneurs transform the seed of an idea into a reality. Students learn why a business plan is important, what it should address, and how to copyright a business model.
Failing Forward: Owning Your Future
A young girl, Noa, experienced failure being isolated and uninvolved. A lower school principal shares the notion of “Failing Forward” with her and changed her life. Noa took that inspiration at 12 years old and built a world-class Nanny Agency servicing NY City and the Hamptons. This program is an entrepreneurial story that can change anyone’s life, whether in middle, graduate school or a seasoned entrepreneur.
Fortune Hunters: Turning Trends into Profits (12 parts)
Dianne Buckner—the host of Canada’s most popular business program, Venture—presents this fast-paced 12-part series examining new and emerging trends in business and marketing and how entrepreneurs are profiting by them. The first 11 programs are made up of an introduction to a trend and to a fortune-hunting business trying to cash in on it; a panel of experts who assess the trend, the prospects of the fortune hunter, and the chance of success for similar enterprises that are already tapping the trend elsewhere in the world; and a story of a successful entrepreneur who has struck it rich. Program 12 pulls it all together with a top-ten list of tips for entrepreneurs. Original CBC broadcast title: Fortune Hunters. 12-part series, 20-23 minutes each.
Inside China 4: The New Entrepreneurs
This program discusses China’s “new billionaires” as well as its many small businesses, many of which were set up by migrants who have battled against hardship and many or which are run by women.
Inside the Founders: Studies in Business Leadership Series
This 12-part series of short-form videos presents a dozen case studies of highly successful enterprises. In each of the 7-12 minute case studies, the company founders share their stories, philosophies, and advice, covering topics such as business planning, marketing, people management, sales, and more.
Modern Makers
Modern Makers is a 25 minute documentary that features three artists who have built successful creative businesses from literally nothing. They are unlikely business people living in unlikely places who have taken advantage of modern internet technologies (and other creative strategies) to grow very unique businesses.
Scaling Chutzpah – Tapping Within to Grow A Really Big Business (16 parts)
Twenty-two inspiring and wildly successful entrepreneurs reveal what it took personally and practically to create successful businesses and non-profits organizations.
Start Up Series (13 parts)
Join host Gary Bredow as he travels around the country interviewing small-business owners to hear their personal stories and find out what it really takes to start a successful business from the ground up. Energetic, inspirational, and educational, Start Up is a fast-paced series sure to capture the imagination and hearts of the nearly 50% of Americans who dream of starting their own business.
Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth Series
This 14-part series of short-form videos provides guidance on the transition from being a small company into a large company. The leaders featured in this series run companies that have grown to become household names, such as, JetBlue Airways, Pandora, BET, Zappos, LifeLock, Stonyfield Farm, and many more.
Tea for Me : An Honest Journey to Profits
A timely and refreshing presentation on vision, ethical business practices, fair trade, recognizing market opportunity, unique marketing strategies attracting and growing people. Seth Goldman, founder of Honest Tea and Executive Chairman of Beyond Meat relays his journey to building the largest Organic Tea Drink and then selling it to Coca Cola. Seth is the TEO still at Honest Tea and has helped grow Beyond Meat into one of the most exciting product companies and stock offerings in current times.
TEDTalks: Fang Ruan—Management Lessons from Chinese Business and Philosophy
Business management in China is changing, says consultant Fang Ruan. Learn how Chinese entrepreneurs -- long guided by Confucianism's emphasis on authority and regulation -- are now looking to Taoist philosophy for a new, dynamic leadership style that believes things spontaneously transform and naturally achieve perfection when they're supported, not controlled.
TED Talks: Paul Tasner: How I Became an Entrepreneur at 66
It's never too late to reinvent yourself. Take it from Paul Tasner -- after working continuously for other people for 40 years, he founded his own start-up at age 66, pairing his idea for a business with his experience and passion. And he's not alone. As he shares in this short, funny and inspirational talk, seniors are increasingly indulging their entrepreneurial instincts -- and seeing great success.
The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Growing a Business Series
This 10-part series of short-form videos is a comprehensive, in-depth, and entertaining video guide that mentors young entrepreneurs on how to start and grow a business.
You're the Boss: Starting and Running Your Own Business
Designed for anyone currently weighing the decision to launch a business as well as those who want to push full steam ahead, this five-part series provides inspiration, insight, and nuts-and-bolts guidance on building a thriving company. Eye-opening video, graphics, and narration lay out the basic concepts while business experts and entrepreneurs who have carved their own paths to success shed light on a wide range of issues—from branding and marketing to the hurdles of government paperwork to the people-smarts needed to manage and motivate employees. To expand viewer awareness of long-term objectives and strategy, an episode on closing or selling a business is also included. A Coproduction of Films for the Humanities & Sciences and MotionMasters. 5-part series, 25 minutes each.
