Startup.com

2001
7.1| 1h47m| R| en
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Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?

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Interesteg What makes it different from others?
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
sgar-1 I saw this shortly after it came out. For at least the first half hour I honestly thought it was a comic satire mockumentary of a fictional doomed startup. It was so inane and random. Then I had the stunning realization that it was real. And not very good.
rev4bart If you like movies like Boiler Room, your going to love this movie!!! This movie has it all..it takes you through a personal journey of the founders of govworks to the ultimate demise during the Internet roller coaster of the 90's.What makes this movie standout and better than other similar internet documentaries (i.e. e-Dreams) is that this actually includes some interesting drama and feels like you are watching reality TV at times. But what makes this better is that you have a quick business lesson going on in the background (i.e. venture capital, designing/testing the web site) The only negative is that I would of liked to see more of the techy stuff behind the scenes and if the scenes were a little better explained of what was going on (after watching it 2x, you will get most of it)..but I would of liked to know what really caused their demise or how much better and why was their competitor sites better?
Jack the Ripper1888 Okay, let's face it, this film is really nothing special. It is pretty good and it is actually pretty compelling as it documents the rise and fall of an internet mega-site. It follows two corporate a**holes as they have everything they could ever ask for, and then have it slip away.The whole thing is shot on a home video camera by two cameramen who never say a word. The whole movie is filmed on an interesting topic, but quite honestly, I thought this film was boring as hell. I found it to be quite interesting and compelling, but the story was slow, and there is footage shown that doesn't have much to do with anything else. There are some scenes that even look like they were set up. Like, why would a guy be sitting around chilling in his underwear while a guy videotapes him. If I was him, I would've gotten some pants on first. There were just some parts that didn't seem realistic, and seem to me like they were set up in advance.Personally, I thought the film was great. But, it is very, very slow and you must have a very high patience. For major film fans only. And even they should take note that this film is an experience that I would not be able to sit throught more than once.STARTUP.COM gets 3/5.
biggdogg173 This movie shows the first hand downfall of a dot com. The movie shows what happened to most of the dot coms in an easy to view pacakge. At first you think that these guys could actually make it as a successful dot com and I think that a lot of people in the dot com world thought the same also. A interesting look at the inside of an .com from beginning to its eventual end.