Monday, March 14, 2011

StrartUp.com


StartUp.com is documentary movie that tells the story of the founding of GovWorks.com, a startup company which connected its site users with government operations. Makers of the film followed the two founders, Tom and Kaleil from day one. This is classical story about conflict between personal and business relationships. The movie starts when Kaleil leaves his old job and becomes CEO of GovWorks.com, and ends more than a year after that. 
In short period of time 28-year-olds Kaleil Isaza Turzman were given $60 million and asked to turn it into something grand. VC gave those money for Isaza's belief that people need this service without a proof. Great picture of the dot.com bubble time. The size of company was growing from 8 employees at the beginning to 250 at the peek. The site GovWorks.com, which was up and running from May 1999 to December 2000, was intended to link people with government, ultimately making it easier to pay parking tickets and taxes and buy licenses.The company's business failings were flat revenues, and a sales cycle that was too long.

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