>If the original title begins with a number or number +
>gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it.
>E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14
>Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is
>meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
If anyone's interested in more entrepreneurship talks, I just launched http://tedocracy.com, which recommends TED videos for you based on talks you've enjoyed or disliked. We also have an 'Entrepreneurship' category under 'Business' on our homepage.
Great list, but if you had to pick a single one, I'd do Simon Sinek's (http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...). It should utterly transform the way you think about how to pitch anything, from yourself to your company to whatever.
here's a little ted talk transcript downloader i threw together. because watching videos is a timekill (sounds like the author learned this the hard way :) sometimes we'd rather just skim a document - focus on the words not the delivery. below is a filter - the way UNIX utilities are supposed to be written, remember? it's bourne shell, sed and curl (no bash needed). no ruby python perl nonsense; no release on github; just simple stuff; simple. i'm not endorsing curl as an httpclient but seems like people like curl so that's what's used. 1st the filter fetches an index of all the speaker names called "ted.idx" if ted.idx does not already exist. you then feed speaker names to the filter and it outputs the transcript text to stdout (if there is a transcript) with each transcript separated by a line of 80 dashes. each line is prefixed with a colon and a space.
you read the output file however you want; maybe something like this:
less -Gp--------- file.txt
then you can jump from transcript to transcript by pressing "n" or "N"
would you like to download all the ted transcripts? this will do it:
filter < ted.idx > file.txt
here's the filter:
(note: \' does not need the backslash in sed; that's only to get past the HN forum software without being translated)
read -p'what should we call this command? ' d
[ x$d = x"" ]||
echo don\'t forget to place $d in your PATH
[ x$d = x"" ]||
cat > $d << done
c=http://www.ted.com/speakers
[ -f ted.idx ]||{
echo fetching ted.idx... >&2
b=\$(curl -s \$c/atoz |sed '
/Showing page 1 of/!d;
s/.* //;
s/<.*//;
')
curl -s \$c/atoz/page/[1-"\$b"] | sed '
/href=.*speakers\/.*html/!d;
s/</\
/g;' |sed '
/speakers/!d;
s,.*=\",,;
s,\".*,,;
s,.*/,,;
s,\.html\$,,' > ted.idx
}
echo >&2;
echo "usage: less ted.idx" >&2;
echo "usage: grep speaker_name ted.idx |\$0 > file" >&2;
echo "usage: sed 'line-no!d' ted.idx |\$0 > file" >&2;
echo "usage: \$0 < ted.idx > file" >&2;
echo "usage: less -Gp----- file" >&2;
while read a;do
curl -s \$c/\$a.html |sed '
/notranslate.*href=.\/talks\//!d;
s,.*href=.,http://www.ted.com,;
s/\">.*//;
s/.*/url = \"&\"/;
' | curl -sK - | sed -n '
s/\'/'"'"'/g;
This is linkbait garbage. Giving Shopify the benefit of the doubt, I clicked on it expecting it to maybe be a parody of these types of articles. Disappointing.
It is "Top X of Y" style article that adds almost nothing to the content. Edit: Try googling "Top X TED Talks" or a variation. Almost all of these are SEO spam articles on this exact topic. I'm sure I'm just being too negative but, I find it really annoying.
The fact that is has been collected is the value added.
If I go to ted.com and search for entrepreneur, I'll have to sift through 81 results, and only one of the top 10 matches the list collected here.
The reaction here reminds me of the assumptive skewering folks often receive elsewhere for innocently reposting pictures without attributing them to some unknownable [1] source.
How is someone with good intentions behind submitting a collection supposed to go about sharing it? Is there an actual problem here beyond the specific phrasing of the title or just your assumption that the submission is link-baiting?
1: Tineye and Google image search are relatively new and not exactly common knowledge.
It is an aggregation of TED talks that somebody found interesting for entrepreneurs. Picking out of the sea of TED talks the ones which are interesting. That's commendable. OP can change the title to "Top TED Talks for Entrepreneurs" and it will even fit the guidelines.
It's a pity though that the author didn't submit it himself, especially since (s)he then monitors the comments...
Well, someone does have to wade through all the videos to hopefully find the good ones and write a synopsis for each. That kind of filtering can be valuable.
I can't add much further to their TED Talks - some of these guys are the best at what they do. I simply add a quick summary, show the video, and link to further content (their books, podcasts, websites) if people want to learn more.
It's "linkbait garbage" - it's a list of lectures I think are valuable for small / medium sized businesses to watch. There's a big difference.
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As someone who has never been in the position to pitch to a VC, I found it really interesting and informative.