startupschool: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08", for over a decade HN has pointed bootstrappers and skeptics of hyper-scale startup culture to it as a motivating, influential talk.
- 8 HN recommenders 8 months 2010–2023talkFor over a decade HN has pointed bootstrappers and skeptics of hyper-scale startup culture to it as a motivating, influential talk.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2010–2018talkHN points to it as a staple pg talk, and it appears in lists of the best startup videos and tech talks.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2010–2015talkHN commenters cite it for its memorable lines on advice, limited experience and early user focus, and rewatch it as a reminder not to be prescriptive.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2009–2020talkHN recommends it as practical advice on dealing with tech press, whenever someone asks how to pitch TechCrunch and similar outlets.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2009–2014talkHN points to it as a source for Norvig's 'unreasonable effectiveness of data' argument and for his views on image search and the semantic web.
Questions
Which startupschool video does Hacker News recommend most?
David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08: recommended in 8 different months by 8 HN users between 2010 and 2023.
Is this every startupschool video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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