If you are following the steps in the videos having to do with creating/building a Maven project and it continues to fail, check your version of Maven by typing mvn -version in the command line. If it is greater than 3.1.1 download an earlier version (or 3.1.1 is also fine). There are known issues with newer versions of Maven, JDK1.7, and the Archetype we use in the videos.
