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YouTube channels for entrepreneurs
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoI would also suggest: https://www.youtube.com/user/techomic https://www.youtube.com/user/techomic - which is Justin Jackson's YouTube channel. It's very weighted to actionable things you can do day to day that continuously improve your marketing.
- waderyan 10y agoOne additional one I have liked is Harvard Innovation Labs[1]. There is a Startup Secrets series that has some solid insights. Taught by entrepreneurs and VCs in the Boston area. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/user/Harvardilab https://www.youtube.com/user/Harvardilab
- philfrasty 10y agoThe amount of „business coaches“ on YouTube outshines Moore's law by factor 10.
- paulpauper 10y agomore money to be made pitching how-to guides than actually doing it For every Google or Facebook, tons of failures
- smacktoward 10y agoThe person who makes money in a gold rush is the one selling picks and shovels.
- serg_chernata 10y agoI share the same attitude and tend to push people into a mentality of just getting sh*t done. No amount of videos, podcasts and articles will make you successful. They definitely have their place. I am not saying this is all bad, but some people mistake procrastination for "learning". Myself included.
- BrandonWatson 10y agoThe phrase I love is "procrastination porn."
- pymai 10y agodefinitely agree, although i would say that podcasts are a lesser evil that youtube videos or articles. - some channels or website tend to favour quantity over quality since they can get more ad revenue that way - podcasts are generally more professional. not like youtube where its common to find 10 minutes of some person rambling to make a point that should have only taken 2 - you can fit in podcasts/audiobooks while you do other things, driving, doing chores etc.
- serg_chernata 10y agoAgreed, I podcast exclusively during daily commute.
- no1youknowz 10y agoValuetainment is a pretty gond one: https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickbetdavid https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickbetdavid
- laktek 10y agoThanks for compiling this list: Here are some of my favorites: 1) The School of Life - https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel 2) ComputerHistory - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHDr4RtxwA1KqKGwxgdK4Vg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHDr4RtxwA1KqKGwxgdK4Vg 3) CreativeMornings - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ZA3QN2nDmqOSujn8zvNjw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ZA3QN2nDmqOSujn8zvNjw 4) Winners & Losers in a Digital Age (some of it are edgy, but not bad for a lunch time viewing) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67plOPT3Am0JbnL_LjU2X1DfraHvVsWd https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67plOPT3Am0JbnL_LjU2...
- almostarockstar 10y agoSomething about The School of Life gives me bad vibes. I feel like there is too much of an undertone to their videos.
- pymai 10y agoyea, same feeling when i found that channel first. ive warmed up to it a bit more since. like most things, i just keep in mind that what they are saying is just their opinion and not gospel.
- ikurei 10y agoI'm not a great fan of The School of Life, but I like the mind behind it, Alain de Botton. Care to elaborate on what kind of undertone you see in their videos?
- almostarockstar 10y agoI watched a few videos a while back - on the topic of love I think - and it felt like there was a hidden agenda. At the time I felt it was a little too opinionated, pompous, and possibly content marketing for a religious group. None of this is fact, of course, just what I felt when I watched it.
- EnFinlay 10y agoSeems like a solid list of youtube channels that won't just give you what you already know. A little bit of feedback: > It’s this kind of entrepreneur — the disobedient kind — that we’d like to converse with over the pages of this blog. The kind that appreciates weird and feels talked down to by typical “10 habits that changed my life” articles. The kind that prefers sophistication to ease and discovery to the comfort zone. Strikes me in a negative way. It just feels like those ad campaigns that are trying to be rebellious, or people boasting how smart they are.
- ronilan 10y agoNot a channel just a video: https://youtu.be/L_-k_1WQ5As https://youtu.be/L_-k_1WQ5As "Now in this world of ups and downs... So nice to know there are jackalopes around."
- ChildOfChaos 10y agoHaha!! :P Great! My favorite Pixar short! Nice to see this in the list of "dry" videos!
- agounaris 10y agoMaybe the title should be "YouTube channels for wanna-be entrepreneurs". youtube channels and bullshit, if you wanna do it, just do it.
- minimaxir 10y agoIncidentially, "just do it" is the same advice typically perpetuated by said YouTube channels.
- almostarockstar 10y agoEntrepreneurs are allowed to have downtime and watch videos too.
- tertius 10y agoIf entrepreneurs consider videos on entrepreneurship downtime then they're wasting their time. If you're watching something to learn to be a better entrepreneur you better be making notes. This is not (or should not be...) entertainment.
- agumonkey 10y agoI think video is quite a bad medium. Watching trains the wrong part of the brain. Being alone at a library yielded better results in my case.
- karimdag 10y agoI've got a question for you guys! What do you think of Gary Vaynerchuck ?
- 1337biz 10y agoSocial Media Guru aka hype monkey
- AJRF 10y agoPromotes 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.
- omginternets 10y agoHe 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.
- goodJobWalrus 10y ago"document rather than create" what does this mean?
- AshWills 10y agoDocument your journey and be yourself rather than trying to create story lines and a "persona". Gary Vee Quote: "In very simple terms, “documenting” versus “creating” is what The Real World and the Kardashians is to Star Wars and Friends. And don’t get confused—just because you’re “documenting” doesn’t mean you’re not creating content. It’s just a version of creating that is predicated more on practicality instead of having to think of stories or fantasy—something that’s very hard for most people (including myself)." - https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/creating-content-that-builds-your-personal-brand/ https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/creating-content-that-builds-...
- ploggingdev 10y agoAll 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.
- jsudhams 10y agoAgree 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?
- paki123 10y agoThis is a really stupid question, but all info about startups and making it in any field seems to be muddled with all this grinding bullshit, but is there any way to really succeed at any moonshot dream like a successful startup or business or athletics without "grinding" and sacrificing the now for the future? Are there examples, of hopefully non wunderkid geniuses, who succeeded by just clocking in and giving it their all? Without the help of adderall, microdosing, or any other "nootropic"?
- willholloway 10y agoIt's not about short-term masochism, it's about focus. The human brain is non-scalable neural network.It only has so much bandwidth. The things that create/capture enough value to make big money are almost always non-trivial/hard. Market forces are the reason for that. There is a lot of competition by smart, driven people for the relatively scarce economically viable applications of technology within current market conditions. And resources will be scarce, help will be scarce, an unending line of people will either want what you have secured or want to destory you via regulation or lawsuits. Your employees will definitely not care as much as you do, and can get disgruntled and cause bad trouble. It's really best to move through the business world thinking everyone is out to get you. Only the liability paranoid survive. So for those reasons and more, if you focus on more than health + your business, you are likely to get eaten by someone else who isn't spreading his or her focus as much.
- danm07 10y agoGood to know I'm not the only one who finds Tim Ferriss cringeworthy.
- thomk 10y agoHe produces some interesting content, but, I agree: there is something about his style of delivery that is irritating. I tried to quantify it while listening to his podcast but I can't quite put my finger on it.
- ChildOfChaos 10y agoI like some of the stuff he shares, but he promotes very much the 80/20 idea but then produces a huge amount of content with a massive amount of bloat. His books are super big and thick and his podcasts are full of fluff which might be good to get listeners but short on actual useful content. This to me makes him extremely unauthentic and disappointing that he is not using his platform to actually create meaningful content.
- cameronha 10y ago"Entrepreneurship in Everything" is light-hearted and not as hardcore as some of these others. 3 minute videos that teach entrepreneurship by looking at music/books/films. Chance the Rapper episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXasTsQi_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXasTsQi_8
- georgiecasey 10y ago130 points upvoted in 2 hours, is the voting patterns on this weird or am i looking for conspiracies
- montymetzger 10y agoIntroducing our Global Startup Contest - open for all Entrepreneurs, no regional limitations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLAw4nR6IQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLAw4nR6IQ
- almostarockstar 10y agoI'm working on my own channel at the moment if anybody is interested. Still trying to build content, but I'd appreciate feedback. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvhjBHSW6wLNnyAOEj9u2w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvhjBHSW6wLNnyAOEj9u2w
- jameskegel 10y agoHey there, I just subbed your channel. I'm not saying my channel is of any quality, or that I'm in a position of authority to offer advice, but you're asking, so I figure I can answer, from the perspective of someone with ~80k subs currently: First thing I did was say "cool look!" then I clicked 'about' link to learn more about your channel and ways that I could follow your twitter, etc, and there was not anything beyond a succinct description. I'm not complaining, and I doubt it will cost you much, but people don't want to have to work hard to follow your content stream, and it's like a set-it-and-forget-it way to wring out every last potential subscriber. Your video production during your two book reviews was good, and your review was entertaining, personal, and seemed like an honest unscripted opinion. You have a great quality that you speak clearly and with intention; I appreciated that. Your third video 'Designing Success' was in my opinion the best, design-wise :) (get it? design--... wise?) I liked the intro with the hip hop music and the artistic approach to conveying your surroundings and setting for the video. The audio- I didn't mind the audio in the 3rd video when it got messy during the windy part, and I could see that you somewhat realized you were in choppy waters when the wind started blowing. You spoke clearly, and even as an American, accustomed to primarily listening to American dialect, I could still understand you- but one thing lacking that would have made it better was a proper Closed Caption track so that you could still be understood. That's just me nit-picking though, as someone who is hard of hearing. An unsolicited tip: One thing I realized early on, making videos, is that you can't ever have too many audio sources recording. Audio recorders are cheap, and the mics you can attach to them are endless, so it's no issue to run several mics: one source could be the camera's audio, which I typically use for reference. Another option could be a portable audio recorder. Currently I use the Zoom H1, which was about 89 USD brand new. It allows me to pop in my headphones and monitor the audio as it is produced, in stereo, and if need be to connect something like a shirt mic, there is a port for that as well. One thing that I've been experimenting with recently, is if I'm recording outside, I'll also mic the ambient noise about 12 feet away and use that audio track to train an Audacity plugin to filter out errant jarring noises in incidences where loud vehicles or sirens drive past. Great channel, I subbed, and look forward to new content. Take care! Good luck! Also, if you haven't seen it already, check out the YouTube Creator Academy (formerly, the YouTube Playbook) which is pretty much a guide entitled "this is how to make money properly on our platform" edit: corrected Zoom H2 to Zoom H1
- paki123 10y agoThis is a really stupid question, but all info about startups and making it in any field seems to be muddled with all this grinding bullshit, but is there any way to really succeed at any moonshot dream like a successful startup or business or athletics without "grinding" and sacrificing the now for the future? Are there examples, of hopefully non wunderkid geniuses, who succeeded by just clocking in and giving it their all? Without the help of adderall, microdosing, or any other "nootropic"?
- fwn 10y agoI'd love to make a project to sum up every TED talk in 140 charaters. This way one could consume their whole set of ideas worth spreading in under an hour.
- Applejinx 10y agoThey're not? o_O (already easily summed up in tweet size, that is)
- Ghostium 10y agoMaybe they don't cover all talks, I haven't look into that, but I used the book summary feature quite alot. https://www.getabstract.com/en/summaries/video-talks-lib/ https://www.getabstract.com/en/summaries/video-talks-lib/
- djabatt 10y agoGary Vee cheerleading is entrepreneur pollution.
- rhlala 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/user/Startupfood https://www.youtube.com/user/Startupfood TheFamilly chanel, Oussama ammar!
- ajsharp 10y ago[Googles: "how to entrepreneu"] NO RESULTS [gives up]
- rubicon33 10y agoI don't understand why people watch these pep talk style commentators. If you need someone else to motivate you, I'd seriously question whether or not you have the gusto to make it for the long haul. Going further... I can't help but wonder if watching this releases some sort of endorphin for the want-to-be entrepreneur. These guys prey on hope, mainly, and by giving these pep talks, I think a lot of of people get temporary hope that if they just dig in, they'll be a millionaire too. You really need to ask yourself if you're attracted to these motivational speakers: why do you need motivating? The real secret to success, I believe, is digging in to an endeavor you love.
- iamacynic 10y agomy business does millions in revenues and i watch him and others. mainly because i find a lot of what they say is true, and i'm looking for information on how to get to the next order of magnitude in revenues. their audience isn't just wannabes, it's also successful people looking for guidance/validation/vindication/whatever. it's not just "motivation", it's also "information". talking shit on the internet to successful people isn't new. you're not doing anything new. it's actually really tired. so very, very tired. yawn. zzz.
- rubicon33 10y agoYea, me too bud. I make 500 million a year, drive a brand new ferrari, and I'm 6'5 280 lbs with 8% body fat. Making stuff up on the internet isn't new. You're not doing anything new. It's actually very tired, so very tired. Yawn. zzz
- mythrwy 10y agoMaybe he's so very tired from working 16 hours a day and only taking one weekend a decade off? :) Personally I'd skip the motivational videos and get some sleep as I feel that produces better returns.
- rubber_duck 10y ago>I make 500 million a year, drive a brand new ferrari, and I'm 6'5 280 lbs with 8% body fat. r u me ?
- israrkhan 10y agoStop watching, and start doing. Well, you may continue to watch, but no amount of watching will teach you what you can attain by actually doing stuff.
- brokenmasonjars 10y agoI sometimes watch Harvard Innovation Lab's channel. A few lectures that I found pretty good; 1. Fake It Till You Make It with Dan Sullivan of Crowdly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tKYvPKN7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tKYvPKN7U 2. Turning Products into Companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=092JQrye9IM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=092JQrye9IM 3. You Have a Great Idea and Nobody Cares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_oYcUrojhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_oYcUrojhg There was a fourth one that I really liked but I can't remember it at the moment. I'll post it if I remember. Edit: here we go: 4. Funding Strategies to Go the Distance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTdS29M1o4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTdS29M1o4
- pymai 10y agotime spent watching entrepreneur videos is time you could have spent being an entrepreneur. its time you can never get back. if you have to watch something then just limit yourself to watching this one until you get the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOksW_NabEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOksW_NabEk
- johnnydoe9 10y agoEh I was with you until the Nerdwriter1 channel thing, yes the production value is great and they are well made but if you watch other better ones like Every Frame A Painting, Lessons From A Screenplay, Channel Criswell, KaptainKristian, etc you'll notice how his commentary is less than meaningful when it comes to his movie/tv related videos.
- almostarockstar 10y agoNerdwriter covers a vast range of topics, which means a larger market, but clearly his knowledge of any specific area will be weaker. I particularly enjoyed his videos on poetry. Definitely gave me a new perspective on an art-form I have never really indulged in.