Aaref Hilaly's keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsiWro-Iao
Useful for anybody building an enterprise startup that does extensive B2B sales.
Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#12If you like that kind of thing, both the Business of Software conference and MicroConf put a lot of their videos on line.
http://businessofsoftware.org/
Personally, I can't stand videos. Way too slow, impossible to scan, and generally an inconvenient way of absorbing information.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#13If you like that kind of thing, both the Business of Software conference and MicroConf put a lot of their videos on line. 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.
Agreed, which is why I prefer http://mixergy.com, it's audio only, easy to listen in the background, and it has a full transcript for quick scanning.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#14If you like that kind of thing, both the Business of Software conference and MicroConf put a lot of their videos on line. 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.
Agreed, which is why I prefer http://mixergy.com , it's audio only, easy to listen in the background, and it has a full transcript for quick scanning.
Transcripts are great, but audio suffers from the same problems as video. If you're listening to it in the background, you aren't really listening to it. Try, for instance, listening to your "significant other" in the background while you stare at the screen and then attempt to gauge their opinion of your listening!
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#15Personal favorite is listening to Jerry Colonna on This Week in Startups. He talks of trials and tribulations of the startup life, acknowledging the often hidden fact that we're all humans: http://thisweekinstartups.com/jerry-colonna-independent-life...
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#16For those still in college, I think Zach Holman's talk ”If Only I Knew This Shit in College” is pretty good. He describes why he thinks startups are great, what they allowed him to do, what made him join GitHub, and how to keep improving. http://zachholman.com/talk/if-only-i-knew-this-shit-in-colle... http://vimeo.com/92087878
I think most of this stuff applies if you're in industry as well. Basically the gist is don't be a dick, keep improving, and here's how to tell if you should jump ship or if the company you work for is worth sailing with.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#17Kevin Rose does awesome interviews with startup founders - http://www.foundation.kr
Along those lines there's also the Small Empires series that Alexis Ohanian did for The Verge. Here's all 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CE2TphJPgs&list=PLPCxoI2IU3...
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#18startup.com is a must watch for anyone day-dreaming of a startup. Not a video though, but an 1.5 hour long documentary.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#192.52 minutes of Alan Watts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UxrdQRODuc
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?
#20Purpose - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257019/
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.