Startup.com
by Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim
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Actor: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Kenneth Austin, Roy Burston, Tom Herman, Tricia BurkeDirector: Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim
Producer: Chris Hegedus
Producer: Jehane Noujaim
Producer: D.A. Pennebaker
Producer: Edward Rugoff
Producer: Frazer Pennebaker
Producer: Rebecca Marshall
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Live / Artisan
DVD Reviews of Startup.com
DVD Review: The truth is better than fiction
Summary: 5 Stars
Seeing the mixed reviews on Amazon made me a little wary before I saw the film but after seeing it, I'm really glad I did. This movie tells the tale of how the classic startup duo - the geeky engineer and the smooth talking business guy build a $60 million company in the span of less than 2 years. It is a monumental achievement by the film-makers who filmed the duo day-in-day out for two years and put together a movie that is as insightful as it is compelling.
For those aspiring entrepreneurs interested in the film, I cannot urge you enough to see it. From this film you witness firsthand how a top tier VC is pitched ( the founders get money from Kleiner Perkins ), what getting a term sheet is like, and how a twenty-something wet-behind-the-ears entrepreneur leads and motivates a team of over 200 employees. To top that off you get sucked into the buddy story of the founders that is so masterful, no writer could've come up with something this good.
5 stars, a must see for the aspiring entrepreneur.
DVD Review: Fascinating documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
As with most documentaries which involve candid moments there's always some doubt as to the veracity of the characters' actions, but [...] has so much compelling material about the rise and fall of a quintessential [...] (a not-so-necessary website called govworks that would allow you to pay parking tickets and such online) which burns through millions of venture capital without any real thought to turning a profit that it quickly dispels such concerns; if you're at all interested in that particular bubble of about a decade ago, check out this interesting film.
3/4
DVD Review: Remarkable
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished watching this movie right off of Amazon's website, one of the dot coms that survived. Througout the entire movie I can feel the energy, frustration, anxiety, excitement, and all types of other emotions from the characters in the movie. I kept asking myself, "did this really happen". That's because I did not read the description of the movie until after I watched it. I'm not sure this movie was motivational or sad. But the arrangement and flow of the movie is like impeccable. From the start of the movie to the end, the movie its like a total attention grabber. There was never a dull moment throughout this entire movie. I wouldn't mind watching it again.. Very very entertaining. Even at the end, I was waiting for more. Also, as someone else stated, I wish they would've covered more of the startup. The movie starts with the CEO of the new dot-com company quitting his job so that he could work full time for his business. He has a high school buddy who partners with him on this joint venture. But by this time, they already had a solid idea of what they wanted the business to do, and who they could contact to obtain millions of dollars in fundings. My thing is, how did they get to that point. If you are at the point where you are quitting your job, that means your company is more than off the ground, you have some signicant capital so that not only your company stays a float for a while, but you personally can live strictly off the capital of either your company or you have a nice chunk of life savings to hold you over. Ohh also, at the beginning of the movie, the company already has 8 employees. They were doing really good.. I'm not even sure how, because they didn't even have a product yet.DVD Review: Great Film for Business Student & Entrepreneurs of what NOT to do!
Summary: 4 Stars
Just saw this film for the first time on IFC and let me begin by adding to the multiple accolades about this film primarily because it's a great film for business school students of what NOT to do in the world of being an entrepreneur. I'm very glad to see the failure of these guys and I'm sure they are still paying for it till this day to a certain extent, if not financially, then psychologically and emotionally.
I am a IT tech guy who was a part of the dot com bubble, but knew even back then it was not going to last. I was trained from the "old school" corporate environment (ie. The Big Blue IBM culture, apparently, that was "uncool" to the dot-commers) of a SOUND business plan along with a SOLID structure and NOT JUST PURE VISION. These guys were just over-glorified, ego-centric, slippery salesmen. They SOLD a dream to which they crashed and burned and THANK GOD FOR IT!
I won't waste my time regurgitating the well-deserved harsh words of what real and successful entrepreneurs have already given them through the years, but my message for Kaleil to which I'm sure he has figured out now is "less glory" and "more humility". Dude, successful people are "behind the scenes" not seeking glory and making things happen and are the REAL "Go To" guys/gals. It isn't about your RICH image and your Tiffany cufflinks, but rather the BIG debt that only YOU know really exists!
I run a small tech consulting company based on pure personal passion and servitude to others. Although I am not making millions, I am comfortable AND, I am NOT incurring debt. I am also not spending much on marketing. WHY? Because my humble attitude and kind approach not only strengthens my positive reputation amongst my business peers, but it leads to a return in revenue which ALSO leads to others speaking kindly and the word of mouth spreads like wildfire.
I really wouldn't comment too much on a film, but after seeing these two guys, I needed a place to vent my anger due to the sheer stupidity of these guys. I am sure they are "good" men in general, but they suck in business to put it bluntly and I'm hoping they both wised up after a good decade!
DVD Review: Friends To The End
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary is about more than just the failure of a company. This movie is about friendship. Set against the backdrop of the dot com bubble burst, what I loved about this movie is that it is basically a story of two guys with a solid friendship. I can't blame them for starting a business on a dream. Everyone was doing the same thing in the late 90's. I don't blame them for the business failing. Most of these ventures failed. During the rise and fall of the company there is a lot of drama between the two founders of the company. They have been friends since kids and the failing business almost tears their friendship apart. In the end I got a great sense of hope that there is more to life than just making profits and that true friends can get through anything and come out on top at the end. I think too many people go into this movie wanting to know all the details about why the business failed and what went wrong. A lot of people have bashed this movie because it focuses on the relationships of the players but that is the same quality of this movie that endears it to me. Money comes and goes. Sometimes you may fail at something. It's easy to lose sight of what is truly important in life. To me, this was a beautiful movie because it shows the true meaning of friendship... through thick or thin.
Description of Startup.com
Directors Chris Hegedus (The War Room) and Jehane Noujaim couldn't have imagined the drama that awaited when they began documenting the creation of the pioneering e-commerce site govWorks.com. For over a year they followed the company, the brainchild of childhood-friends-turned-business-partners software geek and doting single dad Tom Herman, and ambitious young business-school-grad-turned-company-CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman. During the rise of the Internet investment frenzy and the subsequent crash of the dot-economy, the cameras remain keyed into the human dynamic: the lifestyle compromises, the personal sacrifices, and the clash of philosophies and personalities that ultimately tear boyhood buddies Tom and Kaleil apart...almost. Startup.com's portrait of the cutthroat nature of American business culture and the choices one makes (or doesn't) to succeed poses the one question most documentaries ignore: Is it worth it? --Sean AxmakerGeneral DVDs
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