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Video Mashup of Advice from the World's Best Entrepreneurs

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45 pointsnjoglekar21 comments

Since njoglekar is here from reelsurfer, some comments: I love the idea, but I wished that the name of the person was being displayed while the video was being played. The videos need some context.

Also the clips seemed to short. 3 seconds, 5 seconds, is far too short for a video clip. My mind needs to take at least a couple of seconds to adjust to what I am seeing, and process the context around that. By the time I had just started to feel comfortable with the video, the clip was over and the next clip was starting.

Not sure if there is a solution to this. Perhaps longer pause times between clips, or video title above the videos?

And your web site needs the love of a designer.

But I'll end on a positive, I'd love to see more clips like this - the 10 best X back-to-back-to-back. No clicking, no watching 30 minutes of video to see the good part... Keep going with this!

Thanks for the helpful message, will answer in order:

1. The clips are short because the user who clipped them decided to make them that short. We would love to see your favorite clips (and they can be longer than a few seconds)

2. We are debating putting pauses between the clips, it really depends what kind of video it is. The video title is viewable upon hover - perhaps we should put it at the top of the page?

3. Any designers that you know well?

4. Thanks! we would love to see you make a best of list as well!

The compilation itself is great, but I think we (in the tech community) suffer too much from tunnel vision and this headline seems to be an example of that. These may be the world's best tech entrepreneurs, but there are much more successful people out there building businesses, risking capital and creating wealth outside of the vacuum of silicon valley. People that are building actual business and selling products that people use -- not a bunch of VC's rolling the dice with other people's money.

What do you consider to be the difference between Apple and an actual business?

Excellent point. There was a HBR article a while back that underscored this point. That the most successful companies (and entrepreneurs) in part took best practices from one industry and applied to their own. One amazing example of this is the porn industry. If you call yourself a tech entrepreneur and haven't spent any time actually studying the way the porn/adult industry operates - you are way behind.

That industry is always at leas 5+ years behind. Doubt this? Go to the way back machine (if it's available, lol) for some of these companies 5 (even 10 years ago) and see how they marketed their product. The sales funnel, the payment processing, everything. Even micropayment and such - they know what they are doing.

This was made by one of our users, we would love to see what clips / advice the HN community thinks is missing

"Don't let society tell you how to live." [21:30, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLkfADe17s]

why don't you cut the clip using ReelSurfer and we can add it to the mashup?

"The owner of this video has disabled clipping. Try a different video." Bad luck aside, ReelSurfer is a nice tool. 0.02$: Find a workaround to this: it will damage UX of your first users.

At this point if the video has its embed functionality disabled there is no way to clip it. Trying to figure out workarounds now

njoglekar, I am running a similar product, although it seems we target different customers, so I hope you don't mind if I chime in. Here is a similar playlist: https://www.everytimehq.com/playlists/302-inspiring

very cool, are you working on this alone? Perhaps you could benefit from our APIs?

thanks. yes, I am currently on my own on this project. I did not realise you had an API, can you point me to some doc? I cannot find any.

can you shoot me an email neil at reelsurfer.com

great idea. however the execution could be better. make the transition smoother, have some sort of motivational background music that pumps you up. it can also be a bit longer.

Thanks! We are working on the transitions - we are somewhat at the mercy of connections and the video provider.

We are deciding the best way to add music. Love to see any lists you can make!

Efficient dosage of inspiration -- thanks.

aw, Elon Musk didn't make the cut.

any particular clip / quote you like?

After crashing his third rocket in a row, there was this exchange with a writer at Wired:

Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a rocket into orbit.

Musk: We haven’t gotten into orbit, true, but we’ve made considerable progress. If it’s an all-or-nothing proposition then we’ve failed. But it’s not all or nothing. We must get to orbit eventually, and we will. It might take us one, two or three more tries, but we will. We will make it work.

Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.

Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

It comes from this this interview: http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa.

EDIT: adastra beat me. Ha.

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