I am not a huge video person ... part of that may stem from just never having been a television person, either growing up as a kid or later as an adult. Honestly, between reality television and local network news and cable shopping channels, I just never felt like I was missing out. But I do feel handicapped now when it comes to understanding video as a medium for content delivered through the Internet.
In any case, one of many good things about being inundated by business plans, startup pitches, and entrepreneur meetings is that when I step back to evaluate the general level of noise (an exercise I try to engage in on a weekly basis) ... there truly does exist a high threshold to help focus in on those ideas or people that warrant further diligence.
It's clear even if it sounds banal: the idea, or the person, must move me. For example, inspire me to download the software and spend more than thirty minutes on my own exploring it. Entrepreneurs (and Limited Partners) may be surprised - or discouraged, even - by how infrequently the average venture capitalist actually does this.
The video above compelled me to finally establish a YouTube account. (I know ... like I said, not a big video person.) But this performance moved me. How cool is this fingerstyle guitarist, Andy McKee? Television is not completely dead yet: it was McKee's performance on tonight's Last Call with Carson Daly that drove me to YouTube; Daly mentioned something about two million views. Turns out there are also over 17,000 ratings and 4,000 comments on this one video alone. Many have apparently been moved.
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