- Matthew Leitheiser
- Oshkosh, WI
- United States
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What are some good TED talks for young entrepreneurs?
I am a young college student who would like to start my own business sometime in the near future. I am part of the Entrepreneurs Club on campus, and I am constantly looking for new viewpoints/ideas to share with the other members. I found a website with 12 must-watch videos which were very insightful and had some great points.
Since then, I have been looking for other videos, but haven't had much luck. Does anyone else have any suggestions of videos they have seen and would recommend?
Thanks!!
Here is the site with the TED talks that were recommended to me: http://www.shopify.com/blog/6553665-12-must-watch-ted-talks-for-entrepreneurs
Steven Hsieh
This is the most important.
WHY
Why do you it? Why do you want to create a business?
It is your job is to find people that believes what you believe in.
Your job it to not lead the company, but to serve them.
Your job is to help them be good at their job.
Lejan . 30+
What is your product, your service, your invention you like to sell?
Personally, I am very careful about those 'good advice' talks of those 'entrepreneurs' who once made it. What you don't get to see are all the others who didn't make it and this for multiple reasons. Not the right time, not the right connections, not the right product or service, not the right strategy, etc. ...
Usually we learn best by failure, but that is something we learn best ourselfs. And it takes some endurance to get through it, while knowing we'll never get through it at all... :o)
As you will be the one who got to have it all, at least at the very beginning, I would focus on yourself, if I was you. :o)
If there were any universal and working 'golden rules for entrepreneurship' don't you think we would be all competitors by now?
If you know what to do, you may make your way into business. Prepare to struggle, to fail, define what you want, educate yourself in 'how to' run a business and find a product or service people need or like to have. And a good start-up partner can be of good help.
To become an entrepreneur just for the sake of being an entrepreneur may be a motivation, but it could lack on substance in itself on the long run.
In any case, good luck!
Robert Galway 30+
It is just over an hour, but once you see it, you will not look at life the same. It sets the standard for a lot of things.
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=randy+pausch+last+lecture&tnr=21&vid=&l=4587&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DU.4860894462279725%26pid%3D15.1&tit=Randy+Pausch+Last+Lecture%3A+Achieving+Your+Childhood+Dreams&back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Drandy%2Bpausch%2Blast%2Blecture%2Bvideo&sigb=129s8v8ch
Jedrek Stepien 10+
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
pat gilbert 100+
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html