Product: Startup.Com (2001)
Rating: 5.0
Too true
This is pretty good, a documentary of some latecomers starting a company at the height of the bubble, when capital was chasing anything with a web site. Their idea of using the web to pay your parking tickets is typical of the era... undeniably useful, but so also obvious that it could never succeed on the scale the investors had hoped. I was reminded of the character Lenny in Randy Komisar's book "The Monk and The Riddle," who proposed selling caskets online to save the overhead of funeral homes.Like others, I wished they had spent more time covering the downfall of the company after the bubble burst; that would have painted a much more complete picture. But basically they've it so accurate that it's painful... people who are so full of themselves for having gotten funding, who take themselves just a little too seriously in the excitement of the era.This is probably as good a record as we'll ever get of that time, and it was indeed an amazing phenomenon.