Finance in Business 1: Starting a Business

TV Choice Ltd.

This is an entertaining guide to sources of finance for business startups. It considers such sources of finance as loans, share capital, and grants and discusses the role of banks and venture capitalists.

Communispace—Inside the Founders: Studies in Business Leadership

TeleTime

Diane Hessan has grown the online focus group service Communispace from an idea to a company that sold to the world's largest advertising agency Omnicom for over $100 million. Communispace now has over 200 clients and 500 employees. Diane now teaches people how to gain employment and thrive in a startup environment through her role as the CEO of the Startup Institut.

Delegation Skills—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program focuses on the changing role of a company’s leader during growth, exploring how to create sustainable operating procedures that can weather growth.

The Disruptors

BBC Worldwide Learning

Jamie Bartlett uncovers the reality behind Silicon Valley's glittering promise to build a better world. He visits Uber's lavish offices in San Francisco and hears how the company believes it is improving our cities. But in Hyderabad, India, Jamie sees the human consequences of Uber's utopian vision. Riding shotgun in a truck as it drives itself for more than a hundred miles on a highway, Jamie asks what the next wave of Silicon Valley's global disruption will mean for all of us. In search of answers, he gets a warning from an artificial intelligence pioneer who is replacing doctors with software. Jamie's journey ends in the remote island hideout of a former Facebook executive who has armed himself with a gun because he fears this new industrial revolution could lead to social breakdown and the collapse of capitalism.

Taking Ideas into Business Reality

Seven Dimensions

In this film, entrepreneurPete Williams provides insights on turning ideas into business reality. He describes how to use the internet to test the market for an idea and prove market viability before committing major resources. He explains the need to construct focus groups carefully to avoid being misled. He discusses the elevator pitch for a product, and the need for a marketing strategy. He talks about the need to execute an idea, even at the risk that someone else will steal it. He talks about how to gain crowdfunding.

The Sharing Economy: More Than Just a Trend?

New Docs

Airbnb, Social Dining and Sidecar: swapping instead of buying—we take a look at how this new form of economic activity, the so-called “sharing economy”, is developing in different countries around the world. What is the secret behind the success and appeal of the “sharing economy”? With underlying motives ranging from sustainability to economics, new business models and—potentially—an alternative culture of consumption and community are emerging all over the world. Consumers are becoming users and the internet is playing a key role here. This documentary looks at Germany and France, the United States and South Korea to discover various models for a sharing economy. How do they work? Is sharing really caring? In San Francisco, this program looks at a particularly successful start-up: Airbnb, a website on which private individuals can book and rent out private accommodation worldwide. Even in the mega-city of Seoul, politicians believe in the positive effects of the sharing economy, for example with house-sharing concepts. Worldwide, the sharing economy is being promoted or prevented by governments. One thing appears certain: as a consequence of the digital revolution, it will fundamentally change the way we live and consume.

Enterprise Case Studies 2: Technology and Innovation

TV Choice Ltd.

Many people start up new businesses looking to make money from technology and innovation. But what are the realities of starting a technology-based business? The following case studies illustrate both the possibilities and the pitfalls.

Daring to Care: Growing the Love Economy—Ethical Markets 5

Ethical Markets Media

In this program, Hazel Henderson and Louis Bohtlingk, author of Dare to Care, discuss the growth of the new sharing economy, including open source volunteerism, crowdfunding, and local currencies. People can overcome the domination of money over their lives by participating in new opportunities for sharing services, exchanging community forms of wealth, and fostering local relationships. Part of the series Ethical Markets 5: Transforming Finance 3.0. (28 minutes)

Sales Strategies: Part 2—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program, part 2 of "Sales Strategies", looks at developing a selling process and creating a salesforce.

Building a Management Team—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program looks at how growing companies build management teams that mesh with their organizations’ cultures. It will provide guidance on how to find management both internally and externally.

Scaling Culture—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program studies how growing small companies can translate their cultures into the larger companies that they’re becoming.

Creating Culture: Part 1—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program, part 1 of" Creating Culture", how to create culture through leadership, social interactions, and hiring the right people.

Creating Culture: Part 2—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program, part 2 of "Creating Culture", addresses how to resolve cultural clashes within organizations.

Cultivating Talent—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program provides insight into how growing companies find people with potential and groom them into the talent needed to provide competitive advantages.

Driving People Performance—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program looks at ways in which to motivate employees to achieve more, such as incentives, recognition, leadership, and culture.

Leadership: Part 2—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program, part 2 of "Leadership", examines successful leadership techniques for leaders of growing companies, including leading through empathy and strong communication

Accounting & Finance Clips 2: Sources of Finance

TV Choice Ltd.

This program discusses sources of finance, looking at the pros and cons of internally and externally financing a business. It also considers ownership, startup capital, and investors in a business.

Handling and Planning for Aggressive Growth—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program explores the challenges associated with rapid growth and the best ways in which to address those challenges.

Leadership: Part 1—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program, part 1 of "Leadership", examines successful leadership techniques for leaders of growing companies, including leading through example and articulating a vision.

Sales Strategies: Part 1—Studies in Scaling Startups: Driving and Managing Growth

TeleTime

This program, part 1 of "Sales Strategies", looks at whom you should target for sales and how you should target them.