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The Bible of Business: Mastering Entrepreneurship Series (33 Titles)
Bloomberg Game Changers Series (21 Titles) This original Bloomberg documentary series providing an insider’s view on the business and media leaders who climbed to the top and changed our world: Steve Jobs, Jon Stewart, Anna Wintour, Richard Branson, Rupert Murdoch, and more.
CNN Passion to Portfolio Series (10 Titles) Passion to Portfolio introduces the dynamic individuals who have found as much success with their hobbies as they have with their careers.
Getting Fired was My Ticket to Entrepreneurship - Melissa Ben-Isha, Founder of Baked by Melissa (12:12) Melissa a Mom, baker and founder of Baked By Melissa, a national chain of bake shops and national seller of baked goods, reveals how getting fired was the best professional consequence in her career. She also shares how to take something that is a negative and to grow the daylights out of it in a fulfilling way.
How To Scale Your Small Business (26:10) This video covers the 3 fundamental laws of scale, which must be answered in order for a business to scale to profit. You’ll learn how to take a single-person, micro business and scale the reach and profitability of the business. If you’re delivering the work to your customers, you can see that there is a limit to the amount of income you can generate. You can either work more hours, or you can increase your prices. You’re probably already working every hour you can. And there is a limit to how much you can charge for your services. The solution is to scale out your delivery and examine the results you can provide to your audience. Your job becomes to deliver those results through as many scalable mediums as you can. What You Will Learn: Understand how you can outsource your work Learn to increase your capacity to handle a 1000 orders tomorrow Study how to repeat your process to deliver results to your customers Who Is This Video For: This course is for single-person entrepreneurs, consultants, and freelancers.
PBS Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (01:53:16) Examine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' ascent to power and the global impact of the empire he built. The film also investigates the darker side of the company's rapid growth, and the challenge of trying to rein in the power of the richest man in the world
PBS Start Up Series (13 Titles) 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.
Scaling Chutzpah – Tapping Within to Grow A Really Big Business Series (16 Titles)
Setting Up a Small Business (38:33) Highlighting topics of entrepreneurship, starting a business, marketing a small business, and financial control, this program follows two young people who set up a hi-tech business in their own way. Because they did not require start-up financing, they did not put together a detailed business plan; however they did plan extensively for the business. The program shows how they did their market research, launched the company, and financed the growth of the business from their initial clients. It also considers what changes they may need to make as they continue to grow.
TEDTalks: Bill Gross—The single biggest reason why startups succeed Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others—and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others—and surprised even him.
The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Growing a Business Series (13 Titles) 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.