13 places to watch video interviews of founder stories

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Late yesterday, I sent a call out on Tumblr, Twitter and Quora, asking for suggestions for sites where I could watch video interviews of founder stories. Huge thanks to karlis and huntobrien (as well the great respondents on Quora and Twitter) for helping me compile the ultimate founder story playlist!

In case you’re similarly addicted to watching founders relating war stories, here is the list:

1. TechCrunch Founder Stories: http://techcrunch.com/video/founder-stories/

2. Kevin Rose’s Foundation: http://foundation.kr/

3. Founders@Fail: http://foundersatfail.com/category/episodes/ 

4. Startup School: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos

5. Startup Bootcamp: http://www.youtube.com/user/StartupBootcamp

6. Build. Measure. Learn (Lean Startup SXSW 2012): http://www.udemy.com/lean-startup-sxsw-2012-videos-and-presentations/

7. Something Ventured: http://www.somethingventuredthemovie.com/

8. Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

9. Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/

10. Under30CEO: http://under30ceo.com/category/under30ceo-interviews/

11. TalkTech: http://talktech.tv/

12. Founderly: http://www.founderly.com/

13. This Week In Startups: http://thisweekinstartups.com/

Thanks again to all those who helped put this together!

I was researching Namibian entrepreneurs recently and I noticed that there isn’t much on the Internet to show for them. Entrepreneurship itself is only just growing in Africa, but at least in this video I can see the beginnings of what is going to be a great future for Namibia, its youth, and Africa at large.

Watch it in its entirety - their energy is exciting and they have some great things to say. My favourite point: the need for education AND entrepreneurship (a view I ‘ve held for quite a while now).


The video description: “Can entrepreneurship change Namibia? What can future Africa look like if young people can put their ideas into practice? This is an introductory video of business students in the Plemjive collective as well as of artists in the Cabinet Reschuffle collective. More to follow in 2011; long documentary in co-creation between Namibian and Finnish entrepreneurs.”

Source: cofounder.tv

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