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Comment by garbowza | Hacker News Reader

This seems so obvious in hindsight. Despite "The Social Network"-generated interest, startups are simply too boring to make for great ratings without some manufactured drama.

I feel for those who applied to TechStars NY, not knowing about the circus they were getting into. Startups are hard enough without additional, external distractions.

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The original videos were really interesting. The original url is out[1], but google is your friend[2], so you can find them out[3], and even a few ones on youtube[4].

It even got an Emmy[5]!

Edit: Vimeo still got them all: http://vimeo.com/13484895

[1] http://www.techstars.com/thefounders

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.techstars.com%20thef...

[3] http://www.techstars.com/the-founders-episode-5-and-6/

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsKKNYAQpnQ

[5] http://www.techstars.com/the-founders-wins-a-heartland-emmy/

I would find a show about start-ups without drama interesting. There are reality shows that seem to be fairly drama free like "19 and counting" (so I'm told anyway). I honestly feel like the producers of the show weren't giving the audience enough credit and just made up normal reality show nonsense.

If they are targeting those interested in startups and not just the lastest trashy reality show they would be much better served doing it documentary style. It's something I would gladly pay a fair amount to watch, following the ups and downs on young startups in a level headed and unbiased way.

I think another good setting for this would be a coworking space, I know techstars is essentially that but at a regular coworking space you get a heap of diversity in what people are doing which adds interest.

Check out The Founders series mentioned above - it is fantastic.

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