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.
Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08
Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, speaks at Startup School 08 about listening to users.
The Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About | Terraform
A 20-minute S3 episode touring Terraform Industries, a startup making synthetic natural gas from air and solar power.
- Startups - David H. Hansson, Partner at 37signals -TWiST #E337
A This Week in Startups episode in which Jason Calacanis interviews David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.
Understanding the Job
Clayton Christensen explains the jobs-to-be-done idea in five minutes, using the fast-food milkshake example.
Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote at RailsConf 2010
Gary Vaynerchuk's keynote at RailsConf 2010 in Baltimore.
Tracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
Tracy Young, a former construction engineer and cofounder of PlanGrid, speaks at the 2015 Y Combinator Female Founders Conference.
Michael Seibel - Building Product
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel lectures at Startup School on building a product people want: identifying the problem, the customer, an MVP and which customers to pursue first.
Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott and Matt Gray talk at Electromagnetic Field about making Emojli, an emoji-only messenger that began as a joke, how it was built and why they never want to do it again.
Mike Arrington at Startup School 08
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get press coverage for a startup and how to respond to it.
David Heinemeier Hansson-Unlearn Your MBA (Entire talk)
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals, argues that planning is guessing and startups should focus on today.
Y Combinator's Paul Graham sits down with Jason at LAUNCH Festival 2014
A fireside chat at LAUNCH Festival 2014 where Paul Graham tells Jason Calacanis why he is handing Y Combinator's presidency to Sam Altman.
DollarShaveClub.com - Our Blades Are F***ing Great
Dollar Shave Club's low-budget launch ad, in which the founder jokes his way through the case for cheap mail-order razors.
The Hustle
A KRAZAM satirical sketch about hustle culture and productivity obsession in tech.
TWiST #46 with David Heinemeier Hansson
An episode of This Week in Startups in which Jason Calacanis interviews Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson.
Elon Musk : How to Build the Future
A 20-minute Y Combinator interview in which Sam Altman asks Elon Musk how to build the future.
A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics
A 2012 Harvard Institute of Politics conversation between Peter Thiel and historian Niall Ferguson.
Enterprise Sales | Startup School
Y Combinator partner Pete Koomen, who led Optimizely to $100M ARR, walks through the enterprise sales funnel.
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup
A 16-minute Y Combinator Startup School talk in which Sam Altman lays out what makes a startup succeed.
Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039
Journalist Vincent Woo discusses his New York Magazine piece on Lambda School's misleading promises, including its income share agreements and placement claims, in an interview on This Week in Startups.
How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels @ Dojo Bali
Pieter Levels talks at Dojo Bali about building startups without venture capital through bootstrapping, persistence and learning many skills as a generalist.
Disruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)
Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation using the steel industry, showing how mini-mills beat incumbents from the low end.
Gary Vaynerchuk: Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - Web 2.0 Expo NY
Gary Vaynerchuk's Web 2.0 Expo keynote on building a personal brand in social media.
Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital Pt. 2- TWiST #295
Part two of Jason Calacanis's long interview with investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups.
Riot On Documentary (2002)
A documentary about Riot Entertainment, a Finnish dot-com-era startup that raised millions in funding and then collapsed.