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Crisis Innovation
About this Series
A crisis is an opportunity to think like an entrepreneur. For this series, we pulled together video clips, articles and podcast episodes about how innovators find agency amid recessions, disruptions and uncertainties.The Latest
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Jennifer Tejada,
PagerDuty
Surround Yourself with Failure Experience
Make sure some people on your board have failed, and failed big.
Beverly Parenti,
The Last Mile
Unlocking Creativity with Constraints
Imagine learning to code with no internet connection. Or creating a business plan from behind bars. Beverly Parenti, co-founder of The Last Mile, joins Tina ...
Shirzad Chamine,
Positive Intelligence, Inc.
Seeing Opportunity in Crisis
Returning to the low point in his career described at the start of his talk, Shirzad Chamine explains how high performers find the opportunity in ...
Susan Feldman,
One Kings Lane
Bootstrapping with Flair [Entire Talk]
E-commerce entrepreneur Susan Feldman describes how she and her co-founder went from bootstrapping One Kings Lane in the midst of the Great Recession, standing out ...
Susan Feldman ,
One Kings Lane
Bootstrapping with Flair [Entire Talk]
E-commerce entrepreneur Susan Feldman describes how she and her co-founder went from bootstrapping One Kings Lane in the midst of the Great Recession, standing out ...
Jane Chen,
Embrace Innovations
Crisis as Wake-Up Call
Embrace Innovations Co-Founder and CEO Jane Marie Chen describes how the sudden loss of a corporate customer threatened to end her organization’s operations and ...
Susan Koger,
ModCloth
Purpose Gets You Through Tough Times
Entrepreneur Susan Koger discusses how founders must learn to view both success and failure with more objectivity as the team behind the venture grows. Koger, ...
Linda Rottenberg,
Endeavor
Chaos is the Friend
Linda Rottenberg, co-founder and CEO of Endeavor Global, discusses how instability in society benefits entrepreneurs more than the status quo. She retells the story of ...
Nassim Taleb,
Author
How Things Gain from Disorder [Entire Talk]
Based on his continuing exploration of the decision making process under opaque circumstances, Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things That Gain ...
Nassim Taleb ,
Author
How Things Gain from Disorder [Entire Talk]
Based on his continuing exploration of the decision making process under opaque circumstances, Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things That Gain ...
John Lilly,
Greylock Partners
What Will You Create in White Space?
Believing that we are exiting the "dark ages of computing," investor and entrepreneur John Lilly issues a challenge to technology entrepreneurs in this era of ...
Deborah Hopkins,
Citi
How to Act in Revolutionary Times
Citi Chief Innovation Officer Deborah Hopkins offers ten lessons on how to act in revolutionary times, which include re-learning to trust your intuition, striking when ...
Jack Dorsey,
Square
The Idea for Square
"A recession is a great time to start a company," says Square CEO and Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey explains the numerous reasons why this ...
Steve Case,
AOL, Revolution
Golden Era of Entrepreneurship
Steve Case sums up his career as an entrepreneur: the creation of AOL, the failed merger, the resurgence with Revolution. Entrepreneurship fuels the economy with ...
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