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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?

#21
Eric Wahlfors of Soundcloud telling 4 stories about early phases of Soundcloud and bootstrapping. Especially how they reached their core user base of electronic musicians by (accidentally) organizing the coolest parties in Berlin.

http://vimeo.com/11420397

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?

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This is a fantastic thread.

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

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?

#27
Clayton Christensen's Job to Be Done Analysis

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.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?

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post #5

For 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

This looks awesome. Added to my plan to watch list! Keeping a playlist going for all these videos.
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