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What would be better is a well edited documentary, comparing the two biggest start-up incubators Ycombinator and Techstars.

It would be a fantastic promotional documentary for all party's involved. Heck, you could even turn it into some kind of reality Tv show if your wanted to where the 2 incubators compete somehow. 1st season broadcast via Youtube + HD websites. 2nd season via NBC.

It's 1000x better idea for a show than this http://www.iamtheprodigy.com/

its a reality based tv show where 2000 door to door summer salespeople compete to see who can sell the most, what garbage!! The people at Ycombinator and Techstars are the future leaders of the world! How much more interesting can you get!?

If your interested in this idea I will be in the Bay area March 22-27. JimmyReam@gmail.com

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There was a documentary done about one of the dot-com busts in 2000. I can't remember the title, but Google may be able to help you.

The problem is that most of work starting a startup is boring. So either a documentary distorts what actually goes on and shows you the interesting parts (like the one above), or you lose interest and forget about it.

My day basically goes:

1. Wake up. Start development VM. Check yCombinator. Reply to a post or two while VM boots up.

2. Implement a feature, or some administrative script, or setup some software package on server, while eating breakfast.

3. Go to day job. Work on somebody else's startup for 8 hours. Use breaks etc. to resource technologies I'll need for that night's programming.

3.b. Sketch out some feature longhand in a notebook on the train home.

4. Come home. Implement the low-hanging fruit that I just researched.

5. Eat dinner

6. Spend 2-3 hours working on some of the larger tasks that need doing.

7. Repeat.

It's pretty productive, but hardly good TV. The documentary would basically be "Jonathan staring at computer. Jonathan staring at computer. Jonathan staring at computer."

I am keeping a blog (poorly - been 2 weeks since I updated) with the day-to-day stuff. But really, that's just "Here's the challenge we just faced. Here's how we solved it. Rinse, lather, repeat."

The documentary is probably startup.com

I thought about that idea too. I definitely think that one of the 8 Y-Combinator teams should get a person to film the whole experience from start to finish. It seems like everyone on this news feed is dying to see how it all is done.

I'm planning on vlogging my startup adventure, not quite as good as a proper documentary but its cheaper

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