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@rrhoover Thanks for sharing the GV links; these are new to me and I am absolutely hooked to GV now!
@kennethn if you had to choose one article or video, which is your favorite?
P.S. It would be useful if "portfolio only" content was noted on the homepage. It's disappointing to click into the page to find it's not accessible.
@rrhoover Hard to pick a favorite, but OKRs, Quick 'n Dirty User Research, and Meetings That Don't Suck are the most popular of our public workshops.
I agree that the "portfolio only" delineation isn't perfect. Keep in mind that it's not just a marketing site, it's where our many thousands of portfolio employees go to find videos, so we want to keep them accessible. Also, several videos are portfolio-only but have public essay-length articles associated with them (look at Product Roadmaps as an example). If you want to distinguish public from portfolio-only, the Workshops page is probably a better starting point.
We know we can improve it, although I'll say the current design is a significant improvement over the old site!
@kennethn I SAID ONLY ONE, KEN! :)
You're right, not all of the content is gated for non-portfolio companies and yes, big step up on the design.
One more unsolicited piece of feedback: add a prominent email subscription CTA. I know I'll forget to return to the site and I'd like to be reminded when you add new goodies (especially videos).
The instructional videos are headed by @kennethn and @rklau - originally the videos were a google ventures portfolio company only perk (and some of the videos that contain sensitive information still are only accessible by portfolio cos and require you to login), but they subsequently opened it up to the general public, which I think is a great idea, as it's great for branding etc.
When they redesigned the gv site a couple of months ago, they re-organized the content into this library structure, making it all much easier to browse, which is awesome, before that it was just kind or an events calendar. Google ventures portfolio cos get to attend the recorded events in person and/or ask questions on live-stream often, eg when analyzing what factors affect the load speeds of different websites, people could ask for their own website to be deconstructed.
Numerous videos have been exceptionally useful to watch, eg Rick's OKR video (and subsequent advice) was instrumental in us implementing OKRs at Vungle.
Thanks for the kind words @_jacksmith. I'm with GV and co-lead the workshop series with @rklau. We welcome all feedback, and in particular requests for topics you'd like to see us cover. We've made a lot of our videos public on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Goo...
Great source as I said earlier. Also, the number of votes (235 as of now) here on GV library reflects the pulse of what the community is looking for!
This is really great! Always love when VCs release stuff like this for entrepreneurs. Have long been a fan of First Round Review and Sequoia Capital's Groove. Glad to see another great resource.
Google had a disparate collection of videos and resources before, then I couldn't find it. Just looked around now, I believe they used to belong here: https://www.googleforentrepreneu...
@rrhoover thx for sharing. I see with this and Google Trends Visualizer there is some effort being made to bring in some Google love ;) Especially after TWiST interview when I realized most of the products here are Web or iOS only.
@narekk haha, are you claiming collusion!!?? :)
Speaking of which, fans of this should also check out @jason's This Week in Startups and @camillericketts' First Round Review.
@rrhoover Thanks so much for the shout! Looking forward to see what kind of content Google produces with Library!
@rrhoover the GV Library has been redesigned, dunno if it deserve a second hunt or not. What's the best thing to do in these cases?
The talk by Alistair Croll on Lean Analytics is phenomenal. I can't recommend it enough. http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-analy...
This is really incredible, got it playing in the lower-right of my screen now and not stopping until I watch it alllll. :)
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