Rotten
Too short of detail to really serve as an object lesson to those who follow in their footsteps.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Overview
Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?
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93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Talk about your fabulous story arcs.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
Astute and entertaining.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Fresh
Startup.com humanizes the dot-com goldrush that in the last few years has left a handful of millionaires and hundreds of go-for-broke paupers in its wake.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
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