PickVidsBest Startups & entrepreneurship Videos
The 121 Startups & entrepreneurship videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 18 introductory, 8 intermediate, 95 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Y Combinator, This Week in Startups, startupschool.
Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen's MicroConf talk on designing a bootstrapped business by starting from your own strengths, goals and constraints.
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED
A WIRED Future Cities documentary on Shenzhen, covering its hardware-prototyping culture and shanzhai copycat manufacturing.
Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me
Mike Monteiro's CreativeMornings talk on getting paid for creative and freelance work, covering contracts, working with lawyers, and refusing to work for free.
David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08
David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at Startup School 2008 on building a profitable startup.
Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
Paul Graham's keynote at PyCon 2012, in which he talks about startup ideas and what kinds of companies are likely to matter in the future.
BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos
AvE tears down the Juicero cold-press juicer, examining its heavily machined parts, electronics and the pricey juice packs.
Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)
Darius Kazemi's XOXO 2014 talk on releasing 72 weird internet side projects in a year.
How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture covers his career at Xerox PARC and how to think about inventing the future.
The Patent Scam Intro
Austin Meyer, developer of the X-Plane flight simulator, explains how he was sued by a patent troll over a trivial claim about an app's license server.
Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Peter Thiel's lecture from the How to Start a Startup course on business strategy and monopoly theory, arguing that competition destroys profits and that startups should aim to build monopolies.
Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film]
A feature-length film by the Makani team chronicling their thirteen-year effort to build energy kites that harvest wind power, with footage from test sites in Hawaii, California and Norway.
How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Part two of Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture on inventing the future.
Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
Alan Kay speaks at the DEMO Founder School session on why real progress takes invention rather than incremental innovation.
Mike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" (PT Br)
Mike Monteiro's Creative Mornings talk "Fuck You, Pay Me" with his lawyer Keith Levine, on contracts, scope creep and making sure designers and freelancers get paid.
Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework
A three-minute clip of Jeff Bezos describing his Regret Minimization Framework: imagining yourself at 80 to decide whether to leave a Wall Street job to start Amazon.
DropBox Demo
The original five-minute Dropbox demo video, which presented the product's features before a finished product existed.
FailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study
Travis Kalanick's talk at FailCon 2011 about his earlier failed startups, given as a case study before Uber's rise.
Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
The opening lecture of the How to Start a Startup course at Stanford, with Sam Altman covering ideas and products and Dustin Moskovitz discussing why to start a startup.
Chase Adam at Startup School 2013
Chase Adam, founder of the nonprofit Watsi, speaks at Startup School 2013 about building a nonprofit startup.
How to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Segment co-founder and CEO Peter Reinhardt recounts how his company found product-market fit, including how a product grew out of a small feature of another.
Paul Graham at Startup School 08
Paul Graham speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to create a successful startup.
Steve Jobs on Failure
A two-minute clip from a 1994 interview with Steve Jobs by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.
Maciej Ceglowski - Barely succeed! It's easier!
Maciej Ceglowski's talk at Web Directions argues that small teams and lone programmers can build sustainable businesses without chasing Silicon Valley's grow-or-die model.
Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291
Jason Calacanis interviews investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups.