I remember when I was learning guitar and it was so frustrating in the beginning, I used to watch great rock guitarists and draw inspiration from them. Videos of live performance kept me going. Extending the same analogy, is there some great startup videos that I can watch to get inspired when I am down and demotivated?
By now there's a pretty good collection of talks from Startup Bootcamp at MIT: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp</a><p>Some notable speakers:<p><pre><code> - Drew Houston (Dropbox) both in '09 and '11
- Patrick Collison (Stripe)
- Alex Polvi (Cloudkick)
- Leah Culver (Convore)
- Chris Wanstrath (Github)
- Bill Clerico (WePay)
- James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
- Kyle Vogt (Justin.TV)
- Adam Smith (Xobni)
- Angus Davis (TellMe)
- Paul English (Kayak)
- Alexis Ohanian (Reddit/YC)
- Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc)
- Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research/Alpha)
- Bob Metcalfe (PARC, 3M)</code></pre>
DHH is always fun.<p>David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY</a><p>Jason Calacanis vs. David Heinemeier Hansson on This Week in Startups
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k#t=47m" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k#t=47m</a>
Inspiration can be highly personal. This is the video that did it for me. "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you'll be successful."<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsm-QbN9r8&t=20" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsm-QbN9r8&t=20</a>
This is just for fun (not informational at all), but I love how it parodies the startup culture.<p>College Humor Start-up Guys:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4</a><p>At the very least the video will cheer you up :)
This one was posted here some time back and I liked it <a href="http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/getting-your-groove-back/#comment-2484" rel="nofollow">http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/getting-your-groove-back/#comm...</a>
May not be technical. But, Bill Cosby's commencement speech, talked to my heart.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY-WFfajWq8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY-WFfajWq8</a>
Not about startups specifically, but still great:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X38PCf7kao" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X38PCf7kao</a>
Go to Mixergy.com. It's hands down the best resource for learning directly from company founders.<p>Also go check out the early episodes of This Week In Startups.