Check out our picks for 18 of the best TED talks to educate and inspire entrepreneurs far and wide.

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Talks for Entrepreneurs

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1. Seth Godin
How to get your ideas
to spread
Seth talks the good, the bad, and
the ugly of getting audiences to
pay attention to you — what
makes a successful idea gain
traction and spread?
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2. Majora Carter
3 stories of local eco-
entrepreneurship
Majora tells the inspiring story of
3 entrepreneurs who made a
difference for the planet by
focusing on their own
communities.
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3. Navi Radjou
Creative problem-
solving in the face of
extreme limits
Navi chronicles how
entrepreneurs in emerging
markets use human ingenuity to
champion frugal innovation in the
face of very limited resources.
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4. Rachel Botsman
The currency of the
new economy is trust
Rachel discusses collaborative
consumption and how trust and
“reputation capital” are what
allow for new industries, like
Airbnb and Uber, to thrive.
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5. David S. Rose
How to pitch to a VC
David reveals the 10 things your
pitch needs to prove to venture
capitalists in order to secure
investment for your startup.
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6. Gary Vaynerchuk
Do what you love (no
excuses)
In an impassioned appeal to the
miserable, Gary argues that —
especially in today’s Internet
world — there’s simply no excuse
not to do what you love.
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7. Harish Manwani
Profit’s not always the
point
Harish, COO of Unilever, explains
why focusing on purpose and
sustainability, in addition to the
bottom line, actually leads to
better business performance.
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8. Jason Fried: Why
work doesn’t happen
at work
In this talk, Jason explains why so
little good work actually gets
done at the office. He talks the
two reasons and 3 suggestions
for improving the workplace.
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9. Knut Haanaes
Two reasons
companies fail
In this talk, Knut discusses how
you can run a company and
reinvent it at the same time. How
can you strike a balance between
exploration and exploitation?
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10. Joseph Pine
What consumers want
In this talk, Joseph unpacks the
“authenticity” buzzword — what it
really means to consumers and
how that affects businesses large
and small.
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11. Margaret Stewart
How giant websites
design for you
Margaret shares amusing
examples from giants Facebook
and YouTube to illustrate the
unique challenges of designing at
such scale.
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12. Nigel Marsh
How to make work-life
balance work
Nigel discusses how to take work-
like into your own hands and
make real balance happen —
where work gets done and you
still have time for family.
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13. Dan Cobley
What physics taught
me about marketing
Dan talks about how his
background in physics has
counterintuitively offered key
insights into how businesses are
marketed.
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14. Richard St. John
8 secrets of success
In a lightning fast presentation,
Richard distills countless
interviews into the 8 real secrets
of successful people and
businesses.
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15. Bel Pesce
5 ways to kill your
dreams
Entrepreneur Bel reverse
engineers how to kill your dreams
in order to share what it takes to
nurture passions and succeed in
business.
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16. Bill Gross
The single biggest
reason why startups
succeed
A lot of factors go into whether or
not a business succeeds. Is there
one, prevailing element where
founders should focus their
efforts?
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17. Angela Duckworth
The key to success?
Grit
Angela asserts her theory that IQ
and traditional smarts aren’t the
predictor of success — it takes
hustle and grit to get ahead in the
business world.
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18. Richard St. John
Success is a
continuous journey
In this bite-sized talk, Richard
uses his own business to
exemplify how success isn’t a
one-way street. When we stop
trying, we fail.
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