Startup.com

Rule number 8: Gov Works was destined to fail. The Documentary “Startup.com” is a perfect representation of the craziness that took place during the dot com bomb. It tells the story of the rise and fall of gov works, a startup company founded by Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, and Tom Herman. The documentary does a great job highlighting how it destined to fail from the beginning, a fact that is blatantly clear to the audience, but not to Kaleil, tom, or anybody else involved in this business.In-fighting and inconsistency plagued this business from the very beginning. The two founders are always butting heads and disagreeing with each other, even during important investor meetings.  I mean seriously, the documentary opens on Kaleil trying to decide what the company’s name is?!?! Like they don’t even know what to call themselves and we’re supposed to believe that they are ready to take accept funding from large investors? Yeah right. Furthermore, there idea has some crucial flaws, such as one brought up by an investor. The flaw in question is that working with the government in order to make a profit is very hard and has the potential to not work out. How exactly do they make a decent profit? What is going to convince government to utilize these features to pay parking tickets, either way they will be getting paid and this will just cost the government. Even if they did want to make this happen, what’s stopping them from investing in making it themselves, that way they wouldn’t have to pay someone else to do it. The idea of having government interactions be done online is a good, but not as a business.