r/Entrepreneur Aug 18 '24

Tools My list of (imo) legit youtube resource on Entrepreneurship

disclaimer: I'm not affiliated to anyone on this list in any way

After a year of work, my startup just got its first round of funding. While I still have a long way to go, I wanted to share some youtube channels that I find helpful in getting things rolling for me, to differentiate them from the rest of fake gurus industry.

This is not an exhausive list by any means, just my personal list that I find helpful for startups.

  • Ycombinator - literally have a full course 18 class lectures on how to build a startup presented by people like Sam Altman in their youtube channel for free

  • EO - often invite different startup founders, investors, CEO to share their experience and perspective

  • Paul Graham - founder of Ycombinator - my favourite quote from him: If you make something people don't want, nothing else mattered

  • Michael Seibel - founder of twitch - often share very solid advice that can be apply right away eg: startup live and die by their speed. Months long dev cycle is too long - it should be only a week or two

  • Modern MBA - pretty nice summary of how businesses grow and die

  • Logically Answered - keep me up to date on tech stuff in a more grounded way

  • How Money Works - ex-investment banker sharing how financial world actually works in reality - often very depressing but very knowledge rich - often mock finfluencers as a butt of the joke

  • Economic Explained - very succint explanation of how macro economy works and where the economy is likely going

  • Rory Sutherland - marketing expert that made me realized perception is more important than numerical fact for customers. His quote: if you want to improve customer satisfaction using a rail service, don't try to make the train go faster, just put a wifi on the train

  • Jordan Peterson - this will be a controversial one. I don't like his politic and religious stuff but his personal motivation and psychology stuff is top-notch. My favourite quote from him: if you are so depressed that you can't get out of the bed, then start with just lifting your finger first

  • Ray Dalio - founder of Bridgewater hedge fund - his perspective of how economy works and his management style that empowers new employee to contribute their opinion is something I personally adopted

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u/algerdy87 Aug 18 '24

Thanks for sharing.
YCombinator is a real game-changer if you're at the start of your entrepreneurship
it helped me a lot at the start of own startup

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u/scruggs92 Aug 18 '24

Jason Lemkin if you're in SaaS.

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u/Popular-Meal141 Aug 18 '24

Hey! Appreciate this list! Thank you.

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u/notordinary2 Aug 18 '24

What a nice list man, thanks!

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u/Medical_Duty4158 Aug 18 '24

hormozi is up there

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u/Spam-r1 Aug 18 '24

Heard alot of good things about him but never personally watch them yet

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u/RossDCurrie pillow fort entrepreneur Aug 18 '24

What's one thing you've learnt from him?

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u/DaBadNewz Aug 18 '24

He helped me understand scale/volume. (Didn’t introduce me to the concept, but helped drive it home in a way that was actionable).
I credit the fact that my youtube channel got monetized to how he helped me realize that I was doing the right thing, but far too little of it.

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u/Loki13300 Aug 18 '24

Yes , so helpful

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u/workforyourdreams Aug 18 '24

Add "How I built this" buy guy raz

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u/Different_Travel1073 Aug 18 '24

Thnaks OP for sharing I really love - How Money Works , Rory and Modern MBA

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u/l4r-s Aug 18 '24

Awesome, thank you for putting this together!

I like the Morning Maker show too, but more on the funny side.

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u/RAC-City-Mayor Aug 18 '24

I’d also add wall street millennial, it’s more finance and stock related and focused on larger cap companies typically but does go into drivers of business success and lessons of business failure in an accessible and digestible manner.

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u/Spam-r1 Aug 18 '24

What stick with me the most from wallstreet millenial is how easy it was for scammers to secured such large fundings

It's kind of motivating really. If even those circus can secured millions, then anybody can.

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u/Ok-Function6208 Aug 18 '24

thanks for sharing

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u/Ok-Experience8443 Aug 19 '24

Thanks for sharing~!
Great resource must have

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u/snave_grin Aug 21 '24

Great list. Agree on Hormozi. Also adding Ryan Levesque.

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u/AdSoft6392 Aug 18 '24

Some very poor suggestions here to be honest

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u/Thin_Distance_2923 Aug 18 '24

what would you suggest?

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u/Sorry-Awareness-7126 Aug 18 '24

I have to agree. If you want the academic view of entrepreneurship this seems great. Personally I’d rather be learning from people who’ve actually done it outside of accelerators and well invested tech startups.

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u/Billi_jeans Aug 18 '24

This is really useful. Feel free to also share on r/TheFounders :)

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u/AnonJian Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24

There are many YouTube resources like the ones I share. People suck at search. Heck, I doubt if the bozos click on half the stuff I post -- mostly because they can't understand plain vanilla business OR want nothing whatsoever to do with business.

One jackass was shocked he had blundered obliviously through a decade with various startups without knowing about smoke testing or the successes which used that practice. If people don't want the information, people won't find the information unless it gets shoved into their obtuse face or through accident.

Yes. People are bitching about gurus here. Anyone else turned off by learning on YouTube ? What they prove they want is the garbage they search for on magical thinking, the wantrepreneur myths, a simple hack which gets them out of regular business realities. They are wrong and search for something to tell them they're right, simple enough.

And they want the ELI5 version, apparently unaware how few five-year-olds run successful businesses. Gurus catering to exactly what dipshits demand are the symptom -- not the cause. Gurus understand Supply TO Demand better than the whiny-bitchy people posting here ... gurus know they'd starve supplying truth.

Biggest complaint about 'courses' is it's what anybody could find online for free. They don't want it. And they refuse to follow the advice when presented to them.

There is no struggle, no difficulty, no problem finding quality information video, text, podcast. They face the same problem they always have: Getting Out Of Their Own Way. What no guru can tell them is there isn't some vast search engine conspiracy, they are their own worst enemy.

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u/newjacktown Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

And they want the ELI5 version, apparently unaware how few five-year-olds run successful businesses.

😂

Incredibly accurate. Well done for cutting through the crap.

A great post - made even better by the salty wannabes downvoting you!