Startup School TV

Sir Martin Sorrell | Free doesn’t work for medias

axel — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:47:41 +0000

Sir Martin Sorrell, co-founder and CEO of WPP, a global communications company with 140,000 employees in 121 countries, is one of the most powerful advertising executive. in this position, he has a very unique perspective of the evolution of the media businesses. In this interview, he explains why, in his opinion, free doesn’t work for media, on the long run:

Bastian Lehmann | Move to the Valley or fail ?

axel — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:02:54 +0000

Despite an over-catchy title, this discussion offers an interesting analysis of makes the Valley so different from Europe.

Do you think that this type of show reveals the doubts of the Valley about what makes and will continue to make it so successful?

Steve Blank | Is there a market for your great idea?

axel — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:43:31 +0000

Steve Blank raises the question of the product-market fit in this video about Customer Development process in Lean Startups.
This is second video of a serie given at Stanford University. The first one can be found here.

Steve Blank | Customer Development for Lean Startups

axel — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:37:34 +0000

In this video, Steve Blank describes the Customer Development process in Lean Startups. Blank, a retired serial entrepreneur and founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978, wrote a great book for early stage companies: Four Steps to the Epiphany. He’s now teaching entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University and the Columbia University/Berkeley Joint Executive MBA program. this talk was given at Stanford.

Jono Bacon | The art of community leadership

axel — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:13:11 +0000

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager at Canonical and author of “The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation” is interviewed by Brian Ahier for O’Reilly Radar.
Jono describes the basic principles of building community around an open source project, and most of his advices are applicable to other communities.

Dan Martell | Lean product development

axel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:58:59 +0000

Dan Martell, a Canadian entrepreneur, is the co-founder of Flowtown.com. He created his first company, Spheric Technologies Inc, at 25.
Dan shares his Flowtown experience, failures and successes, and explains Lean Product Development with a focus on technology infrastructure and continuous deployment.

Jerry Kaplan | Five Skills Entrepreneurs Need

axel — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:19:26 +0000

Jerry Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur, he successively was co-founder and chairman of GO Corporation, co-founder of Onsale and co-chairman of Egghead.com. He also wrote “Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure” about his experience at GO Corporation.
In this presentation to Harvard students in 2003, Kaplan explains, with pragmatic examples, what skills a CEO should develop to succeed.

Do you see other skills needed?

Ira Glass | How to tell a story

axel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:32:09 +0000

Ira Glass, from radio show This American Life, is one of the most compelling storyteller.
In this interview, he tells us all his secrets, including this advise: “a good story has the momentum to keep your listeners interested”, which is really critical for your young startup pitches.

Mika Salmi | What Makes an Entrepreneur

axel — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:24:06 +0000

Mika Salmi, serial entrepreneur who founded AtomFilms.com and Shockwave.com now spends his time actively serving on boards, investing in startups and working on his next business idea.
In this interview by Chris Albrecht from GigaOM, Salmi give us an opportunity to learn about his own habits when creating a business idea, the lessons he learned and the common mistakes he sees other entrepreneurs make.

Cameron Herold | Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs

axel — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:22:02 +0000

Cameron Herold has been coaching entrepreneurs around the world, for many years. Prior to that, he was VP of Corporate Development at Ubarter.com and COO at 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. And now, he started BackPocket COO to coach and mentor young, fun companies. In this speech, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — as kids and as adults: “Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur”, says Cameron Herold.

Photo: Paula Kirman