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| Startup.com is a documentary that tells the story of the
upcoming Internet company, govWorks.com, which helps businesses and citizens
use a variety of government services more easily. The era in which venture
capitalists threw money at anyone with an idea for creating something on
the web is where this story takes place, but it's not all glory in the dot.com
arena. Two high school classmates, ten years out, decide to start this
Internet company that helps citizens deal with local governments and
bureaucracy. It will enable people to register motor vehicles, pay parking
tickets, and other similar tasks online. They create the company, and, like
many others of its kind, go through the glorious rise and fall of it.
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| Kaleil Isaza Tuzman (Himself): heads the business aspects of govWorks.com.
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| Tom Herman (Himself): heads technological side of the company.
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| Bill Clinton (Mr. President): cameo
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| Employees of govWorks.com (Themselves): starts at 8, works up to 120, and then down to 0.
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This movie introduces the people, stories, and challenges behind
the creation of an Internet business. Two lifelong friends quit their day jobs
in pursuit of the glory that may be obtained from starting an e-business company,
only to realize that their immediate success soon turned on them. The way
in which the movie is filmed is not so much of a telling the story, but more
of rather unobtrusively going through the everyday sort of dealings that startup.com's
have. It depicts the typical events and situations quick e-business companies
have to go through, and the timeless hours of effort and work that go into it.
This mindset of get-rich-quick was inspired by the dawn of the Internet
age. By using a tool such as the Internet, one could expand the market of his
or her product or service over the entire globe. However, it is important
to realize that if a situation like this arises, one can be sure that many
others are willing to take advantage of the opportunity as well. Everyone
trying to make their own place on the Internet eventually leads to the buying
out of smaller organizations by larger ones, as in the case of govWorks.com.
This mentality has leveled off for the most part in our modern day, but the
Internet is becoming more and more a part of how people run their everyday
lives, and soon there will be a page on the Internet for any and every type
of service, product, or need that one may have.
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