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My favorite talk was the one given by Jessica Livingston. The way she simplified what it takes to be a good entrepreneur, resiliency and drive and the "monsters" you'll meet along the way was amazing. My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber... A special award to Ben Horowitz for humor and to Robert Scoble who managed to speak (ask a question to Ron) even though he wasn't on the speakers's list :)

I totally agree. Her talk was by far the most practical, and provided serious actionable advice. I really liked it!

I also agree that Travis was probably the only one who didn't give much insight or advice into entrepreneurship, which was unfortunate.

I tried to summarize most of them here if you don't want to watch video http://www.backspac.es/tag/sus2012

PS. Scoble tried to ask Ron if he would still invest in Highlight

JL efficiently didn't delve into #1 monster of cofounder disagreements. An insightful point was about the large company corp dev monster.

Another must watch is Joel's talk: deciding and knowing what kind of venture one is in, so that one takes the more appropriate actions when situations arise.

Here's the article Joel's talk was based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

Reading it should give you a good overall picture of his talk.

"My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber"

That was what I thought at the time as well. Lots of people have said his was one of their favorites. I still don't get it.

I thought Travis from Uber had a great talk because he showed the operations of his business. Zuck mentioned that companies can 80/20 somethings but have to be the best at some things to beat the competition. I think Uber's core is operational efficiency. They keep metrics on everything, they predict where riders are being underserved, not just where they are. I posted some more of my notes on http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summa...

My best advice is just go and watch the BOS videos, I have been blown away. Their videos beat any conference on tech entrepreneurship in my opinion. I measure this based on substance. The Clayton Christiansen talk alone is worth more than watching all the startup school 2012 videos! This is just my opinion.

PS: Already a down vote. Be man or woman enough to state your case.

http://businessofsoftware.org/ in case anyone's left wondering.

Videos 2012: http://businessofsoftware.org/category/video-2/

Unfortunately I don't think those are the videos from 2012. I attended in person, and don't see any of the talks I saw.

there are videos to watch with no signup, I have been watching them on bliptv and there are also summaries of the videos which helped me keep notes.

Which Christensen one? There's several.

http://blip.tv/business-of-software/professor-clayton-christ...

I think this is the first year that the videos are linked to directly from the startup school page. A much better experience than having to search through justin.tv, youtube, lanyard, etc. to find all of the videos. Also, nice to find the list of speakers on the startup school page, since I think it traditionally has been replaced with the most recent year's list of speakers each year.

What's with the shitty video player? Can't even go full-screen? Why not just post the videos on YouTube?

And the quality of the actual video isn't even HD?

Guessing it's because of the slides. Is there a platform you suggest for playing embedded YouTube videos and a slide deck at the same time?

How about just making it a part of the video? The video would automatically switch back and forth from the video of the speaker to the slides as necessary. This is the format that was used by pretty much all of my college classes, and I never had any issues with it.

You can do that on udemy.com

Uh, why isn't it just slides with a voice over? I don't think seeing Zuckerberg's face is really making anything he says more valuable.

You're wrong. Depending on where you look, nonverbal behavior constitutes between 60% and 93% of communication. If I really am interested in a podcast I will always opt for the video-version if it means I can't put it on my iPod and listen to it while doing chores like I could with the audio version.

Where does that number come from? It sounds suspiciously made up -- not by you, mind you.

wikipedia - body language

It looks like the original study dealt only with "communication of feelings and attitudes" i.e. emotional content:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian#Misinterpretat...

I don't see any evidence that this applies to communication in general.

Perhaps in regards to conversations, but I think for a one way information exchange like a lecture it really doesn't matter.

+1 The player doesn't even work for me on Linux

Huh. Which Linux? Not to detract from your problem with it, but it's working fine for me on Linux/Chromium.

Yes, I was keep searching for the volume button

Gotta say that Startup School 2012 had some really great talks. I had the chance to attend in person and it exceeded my expectation. The speakers shared some great insights and stories about their startups and each one gave a different perspective.

My favorite speaker probably was Joel Spolsky (and his slow, organic growth vs land-grab talk).

I love how Joel used Fog Creek to fund StackExchange's development and now Trello, which both seem to be land-grab businesses. It's almost like Fog Creek is it's own startup incubator now. Maybe a new model of funding/startups?

For those who weren't there, Trello was funded by Fog Creek employees investing their bonuses into developing the product.

I thought his slides also added a lot. Very straight forward and clear -- he almost didn't need to speak.

For those wondering, just before the 3:00 mark of Mark Zuckerberg's interview, the "Startup School" sign attached to the podium spontaneously fell.

"Ben Horowitz (recording unavailable) "

This recording will never be available? I would like to watch his talk...

My key takeaway from Horowitz talk was "Don't sip sizzurp (AKA Purple Drank)."

Could you explain what does it mean? I'm out of context

I tried to summarize it here http://backspac.es/r/Xx8736cUap

Supposedly he gave a very similar talk in 2009 and it's somewhere on youtube.

NOBITCHASSNESS. Or at least that is what his shirt said...

It did. His slides were also marked "Confidential / Do not distribute" so I don't think any recording of his talk will be released.

I'd like to think that the RIAA blocked the video for his use of hip hop quotes sprinkled through his talk.

"I'm from where they send shots then we send 'em back A half a million dollars worth of crack money Wrap your parents up, now you got a black mommy Yeah I did it, true to my religion Two guns on me, both with extensions"

-Two Chainz

Thanks for doing this and putting them up, the talks are amazing.

The slides are out-of-sync for me, atleast for the Uber video.

It's unusable for the uber presentation. They're a full one or two minutes ahead

Here are my bite-sized reactions to each talk: http://blog.squarepoet.com/post/34350209686/startup-school-2...

I felt a recurring theme was "don't give up"... so I'll really try to remember that lesson when I hit future roadblocks.

I enjoyed attending and meeting some of you in person. Definitely looking forward to next year's edition!

Ben Horowitz (recording unavailable) is a shame, since in my humble opinion he was the best. I just love his attitude, and passion for hip-hop.

What is the best way to strike a balance between the speaker and slides while recording/editing a talk?

I find it hard watching talks where only slides got recorded or others where only the speaker gets recorded.

For the latter, I'll normally download slides and use them to move along with talk.

I prefer Splitscreen. This is what Google has done for several TechTalks before.

Flash required? I'm curious - why? Is it easier to publish videos with a flash wrapper?

Maybe to avoid sharing away from the site? My other (half joking) thought is to stay consistent with the considerably dated markup and design that runs through most of the YC sites

> Ben Horowitz (recording unavailable)

NOOO! This talk was fabulous!

His talk was mainly what he has given before. I found this which is pretty close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-LBSqm3xh4&sns=em

I'm glad the audio is good because it was pretty crummy that day (at least from the balcony).

I had to strain to hear what the speakers were saying.

Was the volume OK for those on the main level?

On the main level it was pretty bad on the right side closest to the stage. The audio speakers sounded muffled, but sounded fine as you stepped further back.

You could tell we couldn't hear anything because no one was laughing when everyone else was.

Hacked together a quick script for downloading the videos for viewing offline (requires rtmpdump):

http://pastebin.com/AxZCgcsF

Aside from maybe Jessica Linvingston's talk, Spolsky's was the only one that said something very interesting to me, even though it was basically 12 years old.

The slides are out of sync with the video for me, and the video stops periodically. Is this happening for anyone else?