Video of the Week: Business Model Innovation
Two minutes of analysis on how business model innovations happens in new companies and old companies.
Video of the Week: Why you are going to fail to have a great career
15 minutes of tough love about careers via a sarcastic Canadian economics professor.
Video of the Week: Earthrise, Earthset
90 seconds of otherworldly beauty
Video of the Week: The Puzzle of Motivation
What we seek in employment: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
Video of the Week: Misrepresentation Trailer
This is an 8 minute trailer for a movie about how (Western) society and media (mis)represent women.
Video of the Week: Marc Andreesen at Stanford
Via Fred Wilson, here’s a 50 minute discussion with Marc Andreesen (of much fame) about entrepreneurship, tech trends and more.
Video of the Week: Humans Need Not Apply
This 15 minute video covers the upcoming economic revolution that general purpose robots will cause. Worth watching just to see who is doing what with robotics.
Video of the Week: Reach Out and Take It
Want to get advertisers on your blog? Gary V explains how. This 11 minute video shows how to get advertisers on your blog, vlog, podcast or other niche content site. Be warned, it is simple, but not easy.
Video of the Week: What’s a “Doertacracy”
VC Brad Feld of the Foundry Group defines this concept in this 90 second video:
The internet has let one thousand, nay one billion, flowers bloom, so many flowers that it can be overwhelming at times. Brad suggests picking one or two or three flowers at most and really understanding them, rather than trying to smell all the flowers.
Video of the Week: Sales Safari
Amy Hoy discusses finding users’ pain points in this 50 minute presentation from 2013.
I think developers, myself included, are much more interested in the how (redis, nodejs, bright shiny things!) than in the why. Amy’s presentation is a good reminder that it is important to start with the why–what is your customer trying to achieve and why are they trying to achieve that. She calls this process a “sales safari”. Lots more information about this and other bootstrapping topics at her site.
