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Negotiating Salaries Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Stan Christensen talks about his experience in negotiating salaries and fills the conversation with interesting personal experiences. He believes t...

Lessons Learned from Failures Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Komisar talks about two failures he has faced throughout his career and the lessons he learned from them. The first was a company called GO Corpora...

The Changing Economics in Mobile Gaming Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Nick Earl, General Manager of Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio, shares his insights about moving into the mobile gaming market. He explains t...

Engineering Innovations in Gaming Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Nick shows a video of a motion capture technique used in the latest video games. He stresses the need for such innovation in order to compete in a ...

Negotiating Your Career Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, provides counter-intuitive advice to young people by suggesting that when starting your career you should negotiat...

Opportunities for Start-ups Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Earl shares his thoughts about the plausibility of starting a game development company in the current environment. He explains that with the releas...

Retaining Good People Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, suggests strategies to retain good people. Springer suggests that the most important strategy is to help team memb...

Metrics Driven Sales Model Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 18, 2009 Tzuo believes that as a company grows in revenue and complexity, it is important to have a metrics driven sales model. Factors such as the number ...

Facing Competition: Creating a Barrier to Entry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 In the internet business, the threat from competitors for small and mid-sized organizations is very high, says Tzuo. For this reason, companies li...

Entrepreneurs Are Heroes and Change Agents Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Tim Draper, Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, suggests that entrepreneurs are heroes because they are the real change agents in the world. Altho...

Planetary Systems Around Other Stars Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Guest lecturer Dr. Geoff Marcy gives a lecture entitled, "Planetary Systems Around other Stars," for Professor Lynn Rothschild’s Astrobiology and ...

Importance of Events in the Software Industry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Tzuo talks about how despite the importance of traditional events diminishing with the creation of an online experience, there is still a human fa...

Is Evidence-Based Medicine a Barrier to Cost-Effective Care? Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Alan Garber, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Health Policy and of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Resea...

Increasing Pace of Technical and Entrepreneurial Change Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Tim Draper, Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, argues that the pace of technical change and adoption is increasing. This increasing rate of chang...

The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?) Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 The case for low-carbohydrate diets is gaining weight. Christopher Gardner, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Resear...

Pushing the Envelope for Life Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 This lecture from Astrobiology and Space Exploration is entitled "Pushing the Envelope for Life."

Astrobiology and Space Exploration Introduction Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Introductory lecture of Professor Lynn Rothschild’s Astrobiology and Space Exploration course.

Replaying the Tape Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 This lecture from Astrobiology and Space Exploration is entitled "Replaying the Tape."

The Asteroid Challenge: Will We Be Ready? Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Guest lecturer Rusty Schweickart gives a lecture entitled, "The Asteroid Challenge: Will We Be Ready?" for Professor Lynn Rothschild’s Astrobiolog...

Life in Space, Life on Earth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 17, 2009 Guest lecturer Rusty Schweickart gives the first part of the lecture, "Life in Space, Life on Earth," for Professor Lynn Rothschild’s Astrobiology...

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