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Eric Ries -- The Lean Startup [video]

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45 pointsiamelgringo13 comments

Skip 5 minutes in to get to Eric Ries talking. After you do that, this is very worth your time.

And skip to 87:30 (plus a wee bit) for Eric's take on lean publishing, including an absolutely priceless anecdote on the answer to "If I had data on actual customer behavior for this book, would you use that data to change how you would create/market the book?"

And I'm going to forever quote their answer on "Why I will probably not publish a book."

And, after interacting with his publishers over the last 6 weeks I can completely agree. Eric was phenomenal to work with... his publishers... less so.

That being said, Eric stepped in. Waived his speaking fee (which is substantial) and waived the book purchase requirement.

In a nutshell, Eric's story is that he moved from code hacking to company / startup hacking. Really, really good stuff.

Or skip to 12:40, to get right to the interviewers first question and Eric's subsequent response.

Can the organization provide a podcast with a more mobile-friendly format than the 1280x720 provided?

I would do it myself, but the RSS does not provide enough information to generate the video URL and I am not in the mood to do screen-scraping. Besides that, in order to be able to play it on my iPod (I like to watch them at the gym) I'd have to re-encode the videos with a lower resolution and that's a big no-no for me (not to consider the rights problem).

Install the VLC app and enjoy the video without re-encoding.

http://vidcaster-media.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/99/videos/3033...

Works in Mac Chrome and Quicktime Player, should be easier to open on iPad by having it here.

I had to skip to 11:30 for the content.

That mostly works (doesn't on my iPod), but I'd like to see the other videos and, maybe, subscribe to their content stream.

Anyway, thanks. I already had downloaded it to my desktop, but it's very useful for those who didn't.

Thanks for the feedback. I just forwarded your feature request to VidCaster. They're one of our Co-op companies that we introduced to 500 Startups. Their Demo day is tomorrow, so they may not be able to get on that right away. But, thanks for the feature request.

For those looking for a mobile-friendly feed try this: http://hackersandfounders.tv/feeds/mrss/

Thanks, but, for some reason, iTunes thinks it can't play the videos.

Saw Eric speak at a DC Lean Startup Circle meetup event... excellent presenter, highly recommend watching the video or seeing him in person if possible.

A tip to everyone: When speaking, don't umm in regular intervals... that's all your listeners will listen on.

Individual ums and uhs can add flavor and aren't overall too distracting. However, if you um in regular intervals with the same tone, especially when it's a connection, it's REALLY distracting. Ugh.

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