Startup.com

My overall opinion on this documentary is that it is excellent. It is interesting to realize that the World Wide Web has not been around for very long. For a documentary like that to be made on an evolution is pretty awesome in the sense that the actual people involved in the boom ensured that there was video coverage on every single scene of the process.

First of all, this documentary teaches its viewers on how to start up a company or business and gives evidence that almost everybody has the potential to start a business. It just requires hard work, determination, commitment, persistence, etc. and anything that seems impossible to do could be easily turned around into something bigger. People are created to fail or succeed and it is okay to fail but it is only when you fail and give up that makes you a complete failure but if you can fail and use it as a lesson then you can always seek for newer ideas and succeed.

The documentary explains how anything new in technology isn’t static but always keeps changing in the smallest amount of time. One cannot stop thinking and improving on old ideas in technology but has to be always working on making something newer, better, convenient, and efficient everyday. It is very sad to realize that often times the actual inventors of an idea do not benefit the most out of it just because they relaxed and someone stepped up from the outside to make their invention better. I have come to understand that technology has developed drastically over a very short period of time. Looking at what technology was shown in the documentary and comparing that to what we have now is just absolutely incredible. From the first ever dot COM to nowadays where we have individual domains as we discussed in class and one can buy it for very cheap. I would watch it over and over again because I did not just watch the Startup.com just to know how easily it went crazy shortly after it was introduced. Instead, I took some personal lessons out of it such as starting up a business, seeking funding for a business, recruiting the best board of directors and employees, and managing the business as a whole. It was a good documentary.