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August: Movie About First Dotcom Boom
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agofree lunch to the person that actually gets what they do. my guess: -something like avenue a/ razorfish. a digital agency
- ryanmahoski 18y agoI think you nailed it. Tom's character tells us Landshark sells internet strategy advice to ad agencies. "Pure E. Not E commerce. Not E business. Not click and mortar [...] We help big, greedy advertising agencies sell the useless products of massive, morally corrupt multinational corporations. We advise them on how to aggregate eyeballs."
- fallentimes 18y agoI have no idea what that means, but I guess that's sort of the point.
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- thomasswift 18y agoalso checkout - startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
- paulgb 18y agoWatching startup.com and e-dreams made me wonder if any of this generation of startups have invited a film crew to watch.
- jonknee 18y agohttp://rockstartup.com/ http://rockstartup.com/ and it's just as embarrassing as it sounds. Update: forgot to mention http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/ http://www.mojohd.com/mojoseries/startupjunkies/ which you can watch online if you're not one of the 53 people who get Mojo (I'm number 24, but I still have no idea when the show is on).
- thomasswift 18y agoi started watching them on hulu. http://www.hulu.com/watch/20487/start-up-junkies-episode-1#x-0,vepisode,1 http://www.hulu.com/watch/20487/start-up-junkies-episode-1#x... Cheers!
- rbanffy 18y agoI would do that in exchange for some additional funding ;-)
- ddaarryynn 18y agoanother good documentary, like startup.com, is e-dreams, the story of kozmo.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/
- andyking 18y agoThere was an entertaining documentary made a few years ago about a Finnish mobile game startup called Riot-E. It had little in the way of your actual product, but burned through hundreds of millions in bigco funding with a whole host of extravagances before, you guessed it, crashing spectacularly. Riot On!: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
- swombat 18y agoYou sure you're not talking about the infamous Gizmondo mobile gaming phone thingy? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Telematics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Telematics They burned through hundreds of millions too to produce a worthless, inferior handset that no one bought, and had organised crime links and the lot... Incredible that people invest in this kind of company. The fund-raiser must be extremely silver-tongued.
- tapinko 18y agonice post j. good find.
- fallentimes 18y agoSaw this yesterday and, unfortunately, it's not very good.
- jrbedard 18y agoNot very good indeed, but interesting cameo by Jason Calacanis.
- lakeeffect 18y agoI think you meant David Bowie.
- daveambrose 18y agoWhy do you say that?
- rantfoil 18y agoAside from a few unintentionally funny lines, there's not much to this movie. It's really just the vaguely boring implosion of an egotistical startup CEO's life.
- tlrobinson 18y agoAlso, Code Rush is a pretty good documentary about Netscape's open sourcing of Mozilla back in '98 http://www.viddler.com/explore/coderush/videos/1/ http://www.viddler.com/explore/coderush/videos/1/
- ojbyrne 18y agoThe Joel Spolsky documentary http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/ http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/ was pretty good. Not terribly exciting, but interesting.
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- azharcs 18y agoWhat do you mean by First Dotcom Boom, when was the second one or last one. There was just one Dotcom Boom.
- rantfoil 18y agoFavorite quote from this movie: "That's so 3rd quarter 99. You want bleeding edge cross platform robust scalable architectures? Well duh. That's what everyone wants."