Paul Graham at startup school 08 talking about how to create a successful [web/tech] startup.
Steve Jobs giving a graduation speech at stanford.
I’m starting to think that this isn’t the best title for posting these videos, a more accurate title would be “A collection of inspirational speeches by extraordinary people”
I’ve recently developed an interest in entrepreneurship and investing. This is going to be the first in a series of posts about inspirational speeches by successful entrepreneurs.
Warren Buffett gives a speech to recent grads on investing in businesses that you understand with high barriers to entry, long term investing, and doing what you love.
Guy Kawasaki “The Art Of The Start” 10 pieces of advice for entrepreneurs
Scientific papers are incredibly difficult to read if you’re not someone who’s already an expert in the field. It’s even worse when that paper leaves out a lot of details and background information by citing other papers.
A collegue and I where looking for papers on computer vision when we ran into this problem. So we asked,
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a visualization of all scientific papers and automatically linked the references and citations to other papers?
It looks like Peter Bergstorm asked the same question, so he started his masters thesis with the aim to solve that problem by inventing papercube.
Looks like it currently only searches papers up to the year 2004, but it’s looking very snappy so far.
Simple yet effective educational video on how we can imagine 10 dimensions. Most people have trouble imagining 4 dimensional objects, so trying to get someone to imagine 6 more is an ambitious task. This is a hard problem that Rob Bryanton is attempting to solve through this video. He does so through analogies and reducing the problem into simpler ones. i.e. reducing higher dimensions into lower ones.
The supposed connection and analogies he makes towards string theory and the physical world are wrong according to physicists, so don’t take them seriously. Nevertheless, it’s a great educational video to help you understand a beautiful idea. 
Video of guru marketer Seth Godin talking about why you should market to and build things for niches rather than a mass audience.
To summarize,
There is too much advertising clutter in the world now, and to get through this clutter, you have to build something different for a smaller more specialized audience. Building things for the masses leads to creating mediocre products that the average person would want. This just adds to the clutter, instead you should build products for niches and get noticed. That way people who notice you tell others and do the marketing for you. Ideas that spread win. Good ideas that connect people spreads.
The summary just doesn’t do it justice. Here is the video. Anyone who is interested in entrepreneurism or will be involved in the building or marketing of a product needs to watch this.
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