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Startups & entrepreneurship Videos Recommended on Hacker News (121)
Startups & entrepreneurship is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 121 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 262 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Startups: founders, Y Combinator, Startup School, Paul Graham, product-market fit, bootstrapping, fundraising, pivots, failure stories, small business, 37signals.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen: “This talk is the holy grail on this topic” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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11 mo on HNDesigning the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen
Rob Walling
13 HN recommender · 2020–2024
9 mo on HNMike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me
CreativeMornings HQ
12 HN recommender · 2015–2026
8 mo on HNDavid Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08
startupschool
8 HN recommender · 2010–2023
7 mo on HNKeynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
Next Day Video
7 HN recommender · 2012–2023
6 mo on HNBOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos
AvE
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNDarius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)
XOXO Festival
7 HN recommender · 2015–2024
7 mo on HNHow to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
6 mo on HNThe Patent Scam Intro
Austin Meyer
6 HN recommender · 2016–2022
5 mo on HNCompetition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Y Combinator
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNPulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film]
X, The Moonshot Factory
6 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNHow to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
5 mo on HNFounder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
DEMO
5 HN recommender · 2014–2026
5 mo on HNMike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" (PT Br)
Montalvo Machado
6 HN recommender · 2013–2017
5 mo on HNJeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework
Micky Thompson
5 HN recommender · 2010–2024
4 mo on HNDropBox Demo
theragax
4 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNFailCon 2011 - Uber Case Study
BAMM.TV
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017
3 mo on HNLecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
YC Root Access
3 HN recommender · 2014–2024
3 mo on HNChase Adam at Startup School 2013
Y Combinator
3 HN recommender · 2014–2016
3 mo on HNHow to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNPaul Graham at Startup School 08
startupschool
4 HN recommender · 2010–2018
4 mo on HNSteve Jobs on Failure
Silicon Valley Historical Association
4 HN recommender · 2012–2021
3 mo on HNMaciej Ceglowski - Barely succeed! It's easier!
webdirections
3 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HNChris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291
This Week in Startups
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017
3 mo on HNPaul Buchheit at Startup School 08
startupschool
3 HN recommender · 2010–2015
3 mo on HNUnderstanding the Job
Edward Capaldi
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNGary Vaynerchuk Keynote at RailsConf 2010
O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2010–2011
2 mo on HNTracy Young Speaks at Female Founders Conference 2015
Y Combinator
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNMichael Seibel - Building Product
Y Combinator
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNEmojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNDavid Heinemeier Hansson-Unlearn Your MBA (Entire talk)
Entrepreneurship.org
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNDollarShaveClub.com - Our Blades Are F***ing Great
Dollar Shave Club
3 HN recommender · 2013–2016
3 mo on HNThe Hustle
KRAZAM
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNA Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics
Harvard University
2 HN recommender · 2013–2018
2 mo on HNEnterprise Sales | Startup School
Y Combinator
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNSam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup
Y Combinator
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HNHow to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels @ Dojo Bali
@levelsio
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021