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Are You Ready To Succeed? Clickable Interview With Professor Srikumar Rao (Video)

Our culture and acquired mental models predispose many of us to unhappiness, but things don't have to be that way. That's according to Professor Srikumar Rao, our feature guest at the January 28, 2010 Interesting Café, Clickable's innovators and culture event series. Following a successful career in corporations and then academia...

Bug Labs Founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack on Bottoms-Up Innovation (Video)

Clickable's December 1, 2009 Interesting Cafe in New York featured Peter Semmelhack , founder and CEO of Bug Labs . With a passion for empowering people to invent, Peter shared how open-source electronic-device platforms are fueling bottoms-up innovation and a new way of thinking. Peter's talk was amazing! Below is a short video interview (about...

Reinventing Education Through Project-Based Learning (Video)

Our education system, especially in urban areas, is broken. To gain insight into challenges and solutions for transforming it, Juliette LaMontagne, TED Fellow and professor at Columbia University, led a discussion at our most recent Interesting Café. Interesting Café is Clickable's monthly culture event to expand our thinking and connect...

Video: Fred Wilson On Why The NYC Startup Sector Is So Great (Interesting Cafe)

We had a packed house last week for Clickable's Interesting Cafe, featuring Fred Wilson, managing partner of Union Square Ventures and author of A VC . (USV is one of Clickable's investors.) Fred's talk was on what makes the NYC startup sector so great . (Clickable is a proud NYC startup, so we were delighted with this topic.) Clickable...

Caterina Fake At Clickable's Interesting Cafe

Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch , was our special guest at Clickable's Interesting Cafe last week. She shared wisdom on design and usability, being a female entrepreneur, leaving a product legacy, and driving innovation. Below is a short video interview we shot after her group talk. (The full 48-minute talk is here .) Our next Interesting...

Culture Night At Clickable Featuring Wired’s Frank Rose (Video)

We recently held our first Interesting Café, an event series led by the Culture Team at Clickable. Our feature guest was Frank Rose, contributing editor at Wired. Frank spent the past decade writing about the changes digital technology has wrought on media and entertainment. He started out covering the Lower Manhattan punk scene of the '70s...

Peter Thum, Humanitarian And Founder Of Ethos Water, Shares His Inspirational Story With Clickable (Video)

Who is Peter Thum? He’s the founder of Ethos Water, which has generated over six million dollars to help a half-million people around the world get clean water, as well as hygiene and sanitation education. He was our feature guest at our most recent Interesting Café, Clickable's monthly culture night and open house. Below is a video...

World-Renowned Inventor Garrett Brown Shares Insights With Clickable (Video)

Garrett Brown, Oscar-Winning inventor of the Steadicam, led our last discussion at Clickable's Interesting Café, one of our culture and community initiatives. Steadicam is a game-changing film invention, and Garrett's shot with it on nearly 100 movies including Rocky, The Shining and Return of the Jedi. Following our group discussion...

The Numerati – Q&A With BusinessWeeks's Stephen Baker (Video)

Stephen Baker, senior writer at BusinessWeek, was the featured guest last week at Clickable’s Interesting Café, one of our culture events. Pulling themes from his new book, the Numerati , he shared how a powerful new endeavor -- the mathematical modeling of humanity – is transforming every aspect of our lives. Steve sat down with...

Insights From Heidi Dangelmaier, Expert In Gender & Design, Founder Of 3iying

Heidi Dangelmaier was our feature guest at our most recent Interesting Café, Clickable's monthly culture night. Who's Heidi Dangelmaier? After feeling like a social outcast as the only “chick” studying robotics at Princeton Computer Science Department, Heidi became passionately interested in gender and design. Heidi applied...
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