Ricardo Valenzuela

Ricardo Valenzuela is banker, businessman and charter city activist. He was Governor’s Representative of Sonora, Mexico in the United States. He was also president of Liberty Americas Foundation, and Intermex Financial Corporation, Tucsón, Arizona. Today he collaborates articles on economic, political, and historical topics in newspapers in Mexico, Spain, and throughout Latin America. Valenzuela holds […]

Matt Kibbe

Matt Kibbe is president and CEO of FreedomWorks, previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto and author of Rules for Patriots: A Pocket Primer for Patriotic Americans. He has also contributed articles for The Wall Street Journal, USA […]

MIT GSW 2015: Education Startups

The realm of education is changing radically as we speak. This change involves a paradigm shift that requires all institutions to transform the way they approach the science and business of educating others. Teachers are becoming supportive mentors who empower others in personally-defined endeavours. Technology is becoming an ever-present tool that disrupts the standing institutions […]

MIT GSW 2015: Evolution and Future of Funding

Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo, the revolutionary crowdfunding and fundraising platform, shares his take on the progression and prospects of the funding industry. Rubin describes how the concept of crowdfunding has helped overcome the persistent challenges of raising money. The idea of collecting money through a common technology is as old as Pulitzer’s campaign to […]

MIT GSW 2015: Fostering Entrepreneurship

In this panel, Gabriel Delgado Ayau leads four successful entrepreneurs in discussing the challenges of starting a business and following your passion. What is the ideal environment required to fuel startup endeavours? Kyle Passarelli, director of engineering at Xoom Corporation, shares the story of an international bill payment product born to help U.S. based, Latin […]

Introduction to Law and Growth Economics

Robert Cooter points out the legal foundations for a appropriate business environment, in which organizations can make correct evaluations in market and defined property rights. Also, he expounds the relationship between law and economic growth, economic reasoning and policy values. Cooter shows an example of this relation with the cases of China and India’s economy […]

The Widening Gap between Rich and the Poor

Parth Shah speaks on the solving the growing disparity between the rich and the poor that is a problem in so many countries today. According to Shah, the difference in economic wealth is related to the difference in economic freedom of individuals. To illustrate this principle, he retells the story of reform that originated from […]

Reasons for a Baccalaureate in a Modern State

Scott Lee talks about the value of higher education in the present day, which will more likely allow professional achievements and goals for people. Lee sets out how acquiring information and knowledge influence the habits of citizens and university’s students to pursue a superior education and be part of the successful business world. He illustrates […]

Innovation Session

Enormous business opportunities are just a click away from your portfolio. Hitendra Patel explains the way to start a venture by using the entire physical and virtual infrastructure available everywhere. He talks about the benefits of the flourishing connectivity, which has embodied a great deal of favorable circumstances with all the technological advances presently; and […]

Entrepreneurship and Ethics

John Chisholm, based on his personal experience, lectures on entrepreneurship and explains the benefits this practice brings to individuals and to society. Chisholm discusses the process of creating a new venture viewed from a free market perspective and set out in real life. He details basic principles by which people must guide themselves in this important […]

The Role of Government and Insecurity

About this video In this conference Fernando Monterroso unveils some of Guatemala’s main problems and proposes interesting solutions to solve them, all of this in the midst of one of the country’s worst security and social crises on its history.  He describes how the government, through its diverse institutions has been unable to provide basic services such as security, which plays an elemental role […]

Interview with Peter Thiel by Jorge Jacobs and María Dolores Arias

About this video The spirit of entrepreneurship is one of the most important qualities a person can have in a globalized world. In this interview Peter Thiel describes how entrepreneurship helped him to become a successful investor. He describes the challenges he faced when he started his company and how he managed to overcome them. […]

MIT GSW 2015: Education Startups

The realm of education is changing radically as we speak. This change involves a paradigm shift that requires all institutions to transform the way they approach the science and business of educating others. Teachers are becoming supportive mentors who empower others in personally-defined endeavours. Technology is becoming an ever-present tool that disrupts the standing institutions […]

MIT GSW 2015: Evolution and Future of Funding

Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo, the revolutionary crowdfunding and fundraising platform, shares his take on the progression and prospects of the funding industry. Rubin describes how the concept of crowdfunding has helped overcome the persistent challenges of raising money. The idea of collecting money through a common technology is as old as Pulitzer’s campaign to […]

MIT GSW 2015: Fostering Entrepreneurship

In this panel, Gabriel Delgado Ayau leads four successful entrepreneurs in discussing the challenges of starting a business and following your passion. What is the ideal environment required to fuel startup endeavours? Kyle Passarelli, director of engineering at Xoom Corporation, shares the story of an international bill payment product born to help U.S. based, Latin […]

Introduction to Law and Growth Economics

Robert Cooter points out the legal foundations for a appropriate business environment, in which organizations can make correct evaluations in market and defined property rights. Also, he expounds the relationship between law and economic growth, economic reasoning and policy values. Cooter shows an example of this relation with the cases of China and India’s economy […]

The Widening Gap between Rich and the Poor

Parth Shah speaks on the solving the growing disparity between the rich and the poor that is a problem in so many countries today. According to Shah, the difference in economic wealth is related to the difference in economic freedom of individuals. To illustrate this principle, he retells the story of reform that originated from […]

Reasons for a Baccalaureate in a Modern State

Scott Lee talks about the value of higher education in the present day, which will more likely allow professional achievements and goals for people. Lee sets out how acquiring information and knowledge influence the habits of citizens and university’s students to pursue a superior education and be part of the successful business world. He illustrates […]

Innovation Session

Enormous business opportunities are just a click away from your portfolio. Hitendra Patel explains the way to start a venture by using the entire physical and virtual infrastructure available everywhere. He talks about the benefits of the flourishing connectivity, which has embodied a great deal of favorable circumstances with all the technological advances presently; and […]

Entrepreneurship and Ethics

John Chisholm, based on his personal experience, lectures on entrepreneurship and explains the benefits this practice brings to individuals and to society. Chisholm discusses the process of creating a new venture viewed from a free market perspective and set out in real life. He details basic principles by which people must guide themselves in this important […]

The Role of Government and Insecurity

About this video In this conference Fernando Monterroso unveils some of Guatemala’s main problems and proposes interesting solutions to solve them, all of this in the midst of one of the country’s worst security and social crises on its history.  He describes how the government, through its diverse institutions has been unable to provide basic services such as security, which plays an elemental role […]

Interview with Peter Thiel by Jorge Jacobs and María Dolores Arias

About this video The spirit of entrepreneurship is one of the most important qualities a person can have in a globalized world. In this interview Peter Thiel describes how entrepreneurship helped him to become a successful investor. He describes the challenges he faced when he started his company and how he managed to overcome them. […]

Ricardo Valenzuela

Ricardo Valenzuela is banker, businessman and charter city activist. He was Governor’s Representative of Sonora, Mexico in the United States. He was also president of Liberty Americas Foundation, and Intermex Financial Corporation, Tucsón, Arizona. Today he collaborates articles on economic, political, and historical topics in newspapers in Mexico, Spain, and throughout Latin America. Valenzuela holds […]

Matt Kibbe

Matt Kibbe is president and CEO of FreedomWorks, previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto and author of Rules for Patriots: A Pocket Primer for Patriotic Americans. He has also contributed articles for The Wall Street Journal, USA […]

MIT Global Startup Workshop 2015

The realm of education is changing radically as we speak. This change involves a paradigm shift that requires all institutions to transform the way they approach the science and business of educating others. Teachers are becoming supportive mentors who empower others in personally-defined endeavours. Technology is becoming an ever-present tool that disrupts the standing institutions […]

MIT Global Startup Workshop 2015

Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo, the revolutionary crowdfunding and fundraising platform, shares his take on the progression and prospects of the funding industry. Rubin describes how the concept of crowdfunding has helped overcome the persistent challenges of raising money. The idea of collecting money through a common technology is as old as Pulitzer’s campaign to […]

MIT Global Startup Workshop 2015

In this panel, Gabriel Delgado Ayau leads four successful entrepreneurs in discussing the challenges of starting a business and following your passion. What is the ideal environment required to fuel startup endeavours? Kyle Passarelli, director of engineering at Xoom Corporation, shares the story of an international bill payment product born to help U.S. based, Latin […]