Arjan El Fassed over huidige ontwikkelingen op internet. Privacy vs open data. In deze lezing/discussie wordt ingegaan op social media, over 'baas over eigen data' en de rol van het bedrijfsleven en de overheid.

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In this funny and blunt talk from TEDxUW, Larry Smith pulls no punches when he calls out the absurd excuses people invent when they fail to pursue their passions.

A professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Larry Smith coaches his students to find the careers that they will truly love.
Throughout his three-decade career here at the University of Waterloo, Larry Smith has inspired legions of students to take up the mantle of economics with his passionate and homespun tales of economic wizardry. A renowned story-teller, teacher and youth leadership champion, Larry has also coached and mentored countless numbers of students on start-up business management and career development strategies.

Having taught introductory microeconomics, macroeconomics and entrepreneurship classes, he recently celebrated assigning his 29,000th grade earlier this year.

Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award, Larry has also coached several of his former students to help them position and develop their businesses, the most famous of which is Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the revolutionary BlackBerry wireless mobile smartphone. Larry also sits on the advisory panels of start-ups to provide his guidance on financing and negotiation with investors and venture capitalists.

John Cleese on creativity.

Zie ook Incubation (psychology)

1. Sleep On It
While writing Fawlty Towers Cleese discovered that when he went to bed with an unsolved script problem on his mind, he invariably would wake up with the solution. Not only that, he often could not remember what was the problem. For this reason, he recommends sleeping on your problems.

2. Don’t Stop Now
After losing a just-written script, Cleese was forced to rewrite it from memory. Later he found the original and compared it with the rewrite and judged the rewrite as remarkably better. He attributes the improvement to his unconscious mind continuing to work even after he had decided the work was finished.

3. Avoid Interruptions
The greatest danger to creative success, Cleese says, is interruption. He has found that when someone or something interrupts his creative work, it is very difficult to pick up the creative flow when he resumes. The more complex the work, the more difficult the resumption. He recommends working where you can create an oasis, a place where you can get into the creative mood that works for you and work uninterrupted. A place he calls your tortoise enclosure.

Why bad leaders discourage creativity
Finally, the master of comedy offers what he calls a profound insight. Namely that to know how good you are at something requires the same skills required to be good at it in the first place. This insight

Joseph Oubelkas begon op zestienjarige leeftijd aan de HBO-studie Hogere Informatica in Breda en vier jaar later was hij een van de jongste IT-ingenieurs van Nederland.  Na het oprichten van zijn eigen IT bedrijf start zijn succesvolle carrière. Totdat hij tijdens een zakenreis in Marokko in een onwerkelijke nachtmerrie wakker werd. Zonder justitieel onderzoek en enig bewijs werd deze jonge IT-ingenieur op 24-jarige leeftijd onschuldig tot tien jaar celstraf veroordeeld.

Videoproductie: Edo van Santen ( http://www.edovansanten.nl ), Talk&Do.TV ( http://www.talkedo.tv ), opgenomen op Big Improvement Day 2012, 17/01/2012 ( http://bigimprovementday.nl ).

Dit is het waargebeurde verhaal van Joseph Oubelkas die eind 2004, op 24-jarige leeftijd, begon aan een zakenreis naar Marokko en daar zonder bewijs of onderzoek wordt veroordeeld tot tien jaar celstraf voor iets wat hij niet heeft gedaan. Ondanks de fouten in het vonnis en de conclusie van het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken dat er geen enkel bewijs richting Joseph wijst, beginnen voor hem de jaren van onterechte gevangenschap.

Tijdens het harde en onrechtvaardige leven in de verschillende gevangenissen bouwt Joseph toch een aantal bijzondere vriendschappen op en wordt hij onvoorwaardelijk gesteund door duizenden brieven en kaarten van vrienden, kennissen en onbekenden, maar het belangrijkste: de 400 brieven van zijn moeder.

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It's a This Week in Venture Capital first, as Mark hears a company pitch from the co-founders of Smarketplaces, Sonia Sahney Nagar and Ryan Weber.

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Timecodes:

00:17 INTRO: We decided to try something new for the first time ever, we have Ryan and Sonya of Smarketplaces who are going to be pitching me!
1:50 Have you raised money, or are you bootsrapping right now?
2:10 So we're going to go through the business in a moment, but let's give people the headlines. What does Smarketplaces do?
3:10 Some of the biggest trends on the internet: content mixed with commerce.
3:30 Intro to Ryan.
4:50 Ryan, what attracted you to consulting?
6:40 Sonya, what's your background?
7:30 When did you go to Harvard Business School? Is there an entrepreneurial background there?
8:47 How did you guys meet?
10:08 Let me throw out a concern I have about programs like Founderlabs  and Startup Weekend. The  problem I have is that you get thrown in with a bunch of people you don't know, it's actually the winners I worry about. My fear is for a weekend, everybody seems great and you're all excited to work together. But you take all the positive kudos, and you commit 5 to 8 years of your life to it, and maybe it's not as good as you thought?
13:28 You should assign your IP to the group that works together. Be selective about the people yo