5 useful YouTube channels for entrepreneurs

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Success stories, a charge of motivation and valuable advice for experienced businessmen and those who are just starting their own business.

Over the past one and a half to two years, a media space around the topic of entrepreneurship has formed and flourished in the Russian-language segment of YouTube.

Hundreds of enthusiasts - from information businessmen with dubious backgrounds to real billionaires, members of the Forbes list - are trying their hand at this business. The vast majority of them quickly give up on the idea of settling in full of unpredictable reactions, aggressive trolls and YouTube hats. But only a few find their own style and audience, master the skill of working in the frame, gather teams of professional producers and television workers, providing an ever higher level of show, higher quality content and an ever more attractive picture.

We have compiled a selection of business bloggers on the Russian-speaking YouTube, choosing the ones that really deserve attention. Each of them is a source of useful information about real business and a motivating role model.

1. Oscar Hartmann

The main topics of the channel: motivation in business and life; life hacks for finding ideas for business, recommendations for organizing working hours, strategic business thinking.

Who is intended for: aspiring entrepreneurs, those who are looking for a business idea and / or need a charge of motivation and energy.

Oskar Hartmann is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of more than 10 companies with a combined capitalization of over $ 5 billion, including industry-leading KupiVIP, CarPrice, Aktivo and FactoryMarket.com. Founder and partner of several investment funds. Oscar is one of the most open and sought-after speakers in Russia, demonstrating in practice positive thinking and a proactive approach to life and business.

Oscar experiments a lot with genres. According to his assurances, the best he succeeds (and resonates with the public) are not those issues where expensive equipment, light and a team of specialists were used, but simple selfie videos he shot himself.

Watch first:

• How much do you want it ?! Motivation! →
• How to find a business idea? →
• How to change yourself? Life changes →

2. Entrepreneur Notes

The main topics of the channel: life hacks for managers and entrepreneurs, interviews with leading entrepreneurs of the country.

Who is intended for: experienced entrepreneurs and managers; for those who do not have enough "business illiteracy".

Channel of Maxim Spiridonov - co-founder and CEO of the educational holding "Netology-group" (it includes the brands "Foxford", "Netology", EdMarket). Maxim is a technology entrepreneur who has created several Internet projects, the author of the book Who Runs the Russian Internet, and a finalist in the 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year competition. His "Netologiya-group" is included in the rating of the 20 most expensive companies on Runet - 2018 "20 most expensive companies on Runet - 2018" by Forbes magazine. Business valuation according to Forbes - $ 72 million.

Maxim is probably the most experienced interviewer in this collection. For ten years in a row, he hosted the Runetology podcast weekly, communicating with the heads of the largest Internet companies on the Runet. In April 2018, he transferred his interviews to YouTube. For the thoroughness of preparation for the talks and the depth of the discussion, Maxim is called "Dud in Business".

Watch first:

• "How to sell your startup to a strategic investor?" - an interview with Alexey Milevsky, Investment Director of Mail.ru Group →
• "The main thing in business is to focus on the long-term" - the first full interview with the CEO of "Ostrovok.ru" Felix Shpilman →
• "I am the world champion in falls" - an interview with the head of the "Like-center" Ayaz Shabutdinov →

3. Igor Rybakov

The main topics of the channel: happiness in business and entrepreneurship, team building, starting a new company.

Who is intended for: aspiring entrepreneurs, managers in search of motivation.

Social entrepreneur and venture investor, co-owner of the TECHNONICOL corporation, trustee of the Rybakov Fund, Entrepreneur of the Year - 2018. Takes 84th place in the list of 200 richest businessmen in Russia - 2018 richest businessmen in Russia, with a fortune of 1.2 billion dollars.

Since the beginning of 2018, Igor has been actively engaged in his YouTube channel. It can be seen that a team of professionals is working on each issue. At the same time, it is worth noting that from the first issues to the last, there has been serious progress in terms of the development of Igor himself as a presenter: both in content and in the ability to stay in the frame.

Watch first:

• "It exists" - the first interview of the founder of Wildberries Tatiana Bakalchuk →
• Do I need a business education? →
• "Who paid for the house of" Transformer "?" - interview with the founder of Good Wood company Alexander Dubovenko →

4. FranchTV

The main topics of the channel: creating your own business, success stories of entrepreneurs.

Who is intended for: small and medium business entrepreneurs.

FranchTV is a project of Roman Kirilovich, co-founder and executive director of the Franch consulting company. Roman says this about his channel:

1. Without water. We do not tell success stories that few people can apply on themselves.
2. A practical approach. We consider the topic from different angles: how much money needs to be invested, how to avoid mistakes and quickly come to a result.
3. Highest quality content. We have a huge fleet of professional equipment and our own studio at our disposal.

It can be seen from the episodes that the channel is constantly experimenting with the form of material presentation and the construction of the episodes. Picture quality, studio lighting and editing are constantly evolving. The team consists of professional journalists and editors with significant experience in business media.

Watch first:

• Igor Rybakov on billionaires, false goals and successful success →
• Andrey Fedoriv about the battle between Portnyagin and Chernyak, Artemy Lebedev and the brand of Ukraine →
• Fedor Ovchinnikov on the protection of the Dodo business, madness and Ukraine →

5. Big Money

The main topics of the channel: business efficiency and the role of a leader in business, the rules for creating successful companies.

Who is intended for: mature entrepreneurs and managers.

The last (but certainly not least) channel, which we will write about here, is Big Money by Evgeny Chernyak, head of the Global Spirits holding and owner of one of the world's best-selling vodka brands, Khortytsya.

Evgeny's popularity skyrocketed after the well-known public discussion with Dmitry Portnyagin "What is your margin?", Where he revealed the insufficient competence of this business teacher, in fact, in business. Eugene conducts honest, often even harsh interviews without water, politics and censorship with businessmen like himself.

Watch first:

• "About venture investments, digitalization of the economy and motivation" - an interview with Oskar Hartmann →
• Andrey Onistrat. About business, sports and YouTube. Running Banker - in detail about the fakap →
• "How to make big money without doing your own business" - an interview with Yitzhak Pintosevich →

You may ask, what about Portnyagin himself? But in no way. It makes no sense to recommend his "Transformer" for viewing to entrepreneurs. This is not training or motivation, but a well-made reality show. There are a lot of big words and demonstrations of a beautiful life, but it is impossible to take out management insights or useful business advice from there. A kind of "Dom-2" for those who think that he is higher than watching "Dom-2".

Do you know any other worthwhile channels not included in this list? Write in the comments which ones and why you consider them worthy of attention.