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Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by ploggingdev »

All of the pep talk type Youtube channels that OP mentions (Gary Vee, Mark Cuban etc), they push (IMO) a wrong idea of startups : they all say you should work 16 hours a day, bare minimum sleep, hustle and grind (god, those words make me cringe). That advice completely ignores health and general well being, which is essential if you're in it for the long haul.

Anyway, this list seems interesting. Thanks OP for compiling this.

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by jsudhams »

ploggingdev wrote: post #13

All of the pep talk type Youtube channels that OP mentions (Gary Vee, Mark Cuban etc), they push (IMO) a wrong idea of startups : they all say you should work 16 hours a day, bare minimum sleep, hustle and grind (god, those words make me cringe). That advice completely ignores health and general well being, which is essential if you're in it for the long haul. Anyway, this list seems interesting. Thanks OP for compil…

Agree with this. If founder cannot make work this without loosing sleep and enough rest.

1. Can they take sound decisions? Is there any datapoint on this. i.e. List of companies gone south due to this specific type of working

2. How will they build the team with this kind of culture?

3. If they value these for themselves would they value it for employees / customers?

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by smacktoward »

paulpauper wrote: post #5
philfrasty wrote: post #4

The amount of „business coaches“ on YouTube outshines Moore's law by factor 10.

more money to be made pitching how-to guides than actually doing it For every Google or Facebook, tons of failures

The person who makes money in a gold rush is the one selling picks and shovels.

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Post by AJRF »

karimdag wrote: post #12

I've got a question for you guys! What do you think of Gary Vaynerchuck ?

Promotes a horrible kind of Entrepreneurship that will damage employees lives. He seems content and driven and good at what he does, but boasts about it too much. He walks the walk, but also damn sure spends a lot of time on talking the talk too. Personally dislike his content, but impressed by what he does / has done.

Re: YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

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Post by omginternets »

karimdag wrote: post #12

I've got a question for you guys! What do you think of Gary Vaynerchuck ?

He makes exactly one good point, and then repeats it incessantly: there's a tendency amongst entrepreneurs to do too much planning and not enough execution.

His practical advice to "document rather than create" is a good synthesis of a solution, I think.

Everything else beyond that is just pep-talk.

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