the kaleil and tom show
Last night I (finally) sat down and watched Startup.com, the documentary tracing the rise and fall of a dot-com in the middle of the tech stocks boom.
It was all very interesting, watching it with the benefit of knowing it's all going to crumble, and also comparing it to my experience running a small business in the tech industry. I'm hoping to watch it again to really grasp all the business details (the downside of the pure, no-narration documentary style is that it's that much harder to understand whats going on).
From an initial viewing it looks like they made some mistakes, and took some big gambles; neither of which is surprising in the tech-crazy climate of the time. But my gut reaction is that they had some fundamental flaws in their business plan, and more importantly, 233 employees!? I'm not that clear on their model, but that seems a little excessive.
Footnote: Tom's got some follow-up notes at www.govworks.com
Posted on Friday, May 24, 2002 and filed under .
