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August: Movie About First Dotcom Boom

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Also, 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/

Saw this yesterday and, unfortunately, it's not very good.

Not very good indeed, but interesting cameo by Jason Calacanis.

I think you meant David Bowie.

Why do you say that?

Aside 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.

There 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/

You sure you're not talking about the infamous Gizmondo mobile gaming phone thingy? :-)

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.

The Joel Spolsky documentary http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/ was pretty good. Not terribly exciting, but interesting.

another good documentary, like startup.com, is e-dreams, the story of kozmo.com

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/

Favorite 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."

free lunch to the person that actually gets what they do. my guess:

-something like avenue a/ razorfish. a digital agency

I 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."

I have no idea what that means, but I guess that's sort of the point.

What do you mean by First Dotcom Boom, when was the second one or last one. There was just one Dotcom Boom.

also checkout - startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

Watching startup.com and e-dreams made me wonder if any of this generation of startups have invited a film crew to watch.

http://rockstartup.com/ and it's just as embarrassing as it sounds.

Update: forgot to mention 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).

i started watching them on hulu. http://www.hulu.com/watch/20487/start-up-junkies-episode-1#x... Cheers!

I would do that in exchange for some additional funding ;-)

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