Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
Here are a couple of mine:
- Vinod Khosla talks about the importance of team building, the startup life, and what it takes to be an entrepreneur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5J7bd7nzmw
- Marc Andreesen talks about venture capitalist and the future of startups. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLNQZegq7KA
- Eric Ries gives a talk on his Lean Startup theory at Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvKo90qBns
- Harley Finkelstein CPO of Spotify gives a talk on unique marketing tactics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDOq5B4nTo
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http://www.microconf.com/videos-2013.html -- no individual hyperlinks but you want the three of them: Rob Walling's, Jason Cohen's, and Erica Douglass'. Jason's is the best if you're pre-product, Rob's if you're in "OK, so the SaaS clearly works, how do I scale it" phase. (There are another few I would recommend from Microconf 2014 but they're not up yet.)
Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death: http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-... <-- single best talk about running a SaaS business I've ever heard
I also like the Mixergy interviews. My favorite ever is Andrew's interview with Team Wufoo. I don't believe it is publicly available anymore, as Mixergy archives are available to paying subscribers only. (Well worth the money, though I have to watch selectively because apparently Andrew can record them faster than I can find downtime to watch/process them.)
Unfortunately, Microconf have marked their videos as embed-only, which you probably need to workaround, the tools I have tried don't work.
Edit: Oh, it seems like they have opened up, you can download them with this command: youtube-dl "https://vimeo.com/72140534"
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Mixergy's founder has a easy style of interviewing and explaining things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84LymEs67Y
It's the famous, what do people hire a milkshake for anecdote from his book Innovator's Solution.
That thinking has been instrumental in guiding me to make stuff (Draft) that people have really connected to and helped spread like crazy - all because I've spend considerable time studying the jobs people have and then tried to make those jobs simpler. It's such a simple way of thinking about it, and I think people ignore it because it sounds so simple, but then they routinely create products that are small aesthetic variations of someone elses product.
The aha moment really makes customer development make sense.
Here are mine:
From PandoDaily, Fireside Chat With Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yPfxcqEXhE
From CoinSumm.it, Bitcoin Fireside Chat with Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iir5J6Z3Z1Q
From The Lean Startup Conference, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Eric Ries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwSzyqTG0E
And by far the one that made the biggest impression on me, from PandoDaily, Fireside Chat With Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04gnM57Sow
From that interview alone Sophia Amoruso became a huge role model for me.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr9dpcMyX8ls5Ry3hqCbQJ...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5PSIanlQ_x6...
http://zachholman.com/talk/if-only-i-knew-this-shit-in-colle... http://vimeo.com/92087878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_vbfiScoA
This talk shows huge tips quite relevant for startups (the role of a COO, why transparency matters, who to hire and more)
- the article: http://firstround.com/article/keith-rabois-on-the-role-of-a-...
- the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnvUtbIy5ts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuiUXOTE4M
It's specially suitable for people who want to start something of their own but aren't able to.
Another great TED video is by Larry Smith - 'Why you will fail to have a great career' --> http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_ha...
I love the part when he says, what would you like to have engraved on your tombstone. I always had that feeling but this guy phrased it in words for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaBvEO2LYY
While entertaining in its own right, it's interesting because (some people say) the movie somewhat chronicles the history of the Internet Solution (http://www.is.co.za), the South African internet service provider co-founded by Ronnie Apteker and eventually bought by Dimension Data. Ronnie wrote the script for Purpose. He's up there with Elon Musk and Mark Shuttleworth in terms of his impact on the South African tech scene.
However, as someone else mentioned below, videos are terrible - too hard to scan, and far slower rates of information transfer than text.
So, I had an idea. I'm going to pay for transcription of some videos, and will share the transcripts (free, of course).
I'm choosing a transcription service now and will try and have the first one within the next 7 days.
If this is interesting to you, give me your email to help me validate it and I'll send out the transcripts over email.
Videos I'm planning on getting transcribed first:
- All of the videos in the OP
- A few more Naval videos
- A few more Andreessen videos
Link to Google Form: http://goo.gl/Hy5ob1
Useful for anybody building an enterprise startup that does extensive B2B sales.
You can view the free ones here http://www.bizpunditz.com/Library
My personal favourite is http://www.bizpunditz.com/Videos/How-to-build-a-career by Tiger Tyagarajan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHjgK6p4nrw
http://businessofsoftware.org/
http://www.microconf.com/
Personally, I can't stand videos. Way too slow, impossible to scan, and generally an inconvenient way of absorbing information.
http://vimeo.com/11420397
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya0I6oz7q9U
Great to learn the early days of airbnb and how (great) entrepreneurs persevere through the challenges.
http://sujanpatel.com/productivity/23-must-see-ted-talks-for...
Not my usual cup of tea but I watch it once in a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lQ1NBUU_Us
( Their Youtube video are linked )