Stunning! Award-Winning Teenage Science In Action
In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. At TEDxWomen Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah described their extraordinary projects– and their route to a passion for science.
How To Build A $500M Company In 500 Days – Mike Cassidy
Last week, Cassidy traveled to Turkey for a start-up event, and he talked about how he does it. To be sure, Cassidy’s is not the recipe used by folks like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Bill Gates, who think especially long-term while building their companies. It’s the recipe for the extremely quick exit. It’s the second of two dominant strands in company-building. (via venturebeat)
Cassidy’s slide presentation below.
Astonishing Poetry – Sarah Kay at TED
This TED talk turned her poem into a worldwide sensation. Listen to Sarah Kay’s extraordinary talent.
Sarah Kay’s astonishing poem in hardcover.
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Quantum Levitation [Video]
Wow that’s awesome! This video from The University of Tel-Aviv showing a disc of yttrium barium copper oxide floating due to quantum levitation. It’s pretty crazy …
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Tangible Computing – Making Mobile Phones Stiff, Scratchy & Stubborn
Fabian is a Berlin-based design researcher, working with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. He is currently engaged in his PhD thesis about Tangible User Interfaces in mobile phones.
Blog: http://www.fabianhemmert.de Website: http://www.fabianhemmert.com
Sink or Swim School of Engineering Talk by Instagram Founders
Co-Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger were able to launch Instagram without being computer science graduates. Krieger is proud of this fact, as it shows students from other disciplines can start companies in the technology space. He recalls his most valuable Stanford courses as the ones that taught him to define questions and then allowed him the freedom to seek the answers. In this clip, fellow Co-Founder Kevin Systrom also talks about the importance of connecting with other members of the entrepreneurial community. (via ecorner)
Random Hacks of Kindness
What a great idea! (via rhok.org)
Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of innovation focused on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges. Random Hacks of Kindness was founded in 2009 in partnership between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank.
Since then thousands of volunteers have worked on applications that are already making an impact. I’m OK, an SMS service that lets people inform their families of their status, was used on the ground during the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile in 2010. The World Bank is piloting CHASM, software for visualizing landslide risk, in the Caribbean. Other apps have received support and interest from governments, NGOs and international organizations around the world.
How it Works
RHoK works by bringing together experts in development and volunteers with a broad set of skills in software development and design. The goal is to produce practical open source solutions to development problems. Events give the community an opportunity to sprint on projects, but the community continues to collaborate around the year.
RHoK Highlights
The RHoK community grew rapidly in 2010, with volunteer-organized events taking place in 26 cities around the globe, over 2000 registrants and resulting in 120 distinct projects worked on.
Ideas don’t Matter by Adeo Ressi [Video]
Many people don’t realize that more than half of Founder Institute companies start the process without their final idea – and in many cases, without an idea at all. In fact, the first 1/3 of the program is devoted to identifying and refining a meaningful, enduring and defensible startup idea.
In the video below from the very beggining of the program, Adeo Ressi outlines a simple, 5-step method to forming and beggining to evaluate startup ideas. Adeo is a serial entrepreneur, founder of the Founder Institute and TheFunded.com, and is on the board of the X PRIZE Foundation. He also runs the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, and has a second child due any day now congrats Adeo!). (via Founder Institute)
Adeo Ressi on Coming up with Startup Ideas (06/08/10) from Founder Institute on Vimeo.
…On The Fear Of Failure – [Video]
Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure.
Watch Walin Ollins, Stefan Sagmeister, Paul Coelho, Rei Inamoto and others answering the same question at Berghs’ Exhibition ’11 vimeo channel.
Mike Maples: “You Have to Be Willing to Throw it all away” [Video]
Superstar investor about having the courage to dismantle a mediocre business and rebuild it into one that has the potential to hit a homerun. This is a must-watch video for any/every entrepreneur.
Mike Maples at the Founder Showcase from Founder Institute on Vimeo.
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