Traces the birth and failure of new media company govWorks.com.
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Kenneth Austin | ... | Himself |
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Tricia Burke | ... | Herself |
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Roy Burston | ... | Himself |
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David Camp | ... | Himself |
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Dora Glottman | ... | Herself |
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Julian Herbstein | ... | Himself |
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Sean Coar | ... | Himself |
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Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have had a dream since they became friends at age fifteen: get rich by developing their own dot com company, in some aspect of computer technology interface. Now in their late twenties, they have now come up with the idea they believe will make their riches, namely as Tom refers to it, "parking tickets": the company will be the on-line revenue collection interface for municipal governments. GovWorks.com came into existence in May 1999 with only an idea. The process of building the business focuses on obtaining venture capital based solely on the idea, with the actual mechanics of the website seemingly almost an afterthought, or at least one left primarily to the hired help. Regardless of the strength of the idea itself in raising this capital, another initial problem they face is what they see as non-commitment by a third partner, Kaleil's friend Chieh Cheung. In early 2000, they do manage to go live with their product to what seems to be a promising... Written by Huggo
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business | venture capital | friendship | dotcom | industrial espionage |Taglines:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 June 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Business sto diadyktio See more »Filming Locations:
Highland Capital Partners - Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts, USA See more »Edit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$16,118, 13 May 2001Gross USA:
$1,283,356Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$1,830,008Company Credits
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Written by R.W. Appel, C. Prommer, R. Trüby, Peter Kruger
Performed by Trüby Trio
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"The Competitor" who is donning the govWorks.com cap, Bryan R. Mundy of ezGov.com, died in a house fire six days before the movie premiered at Sundance. See more »Soundtracks
Donaueschingen (Peter Kruger Remix)Written by R.W. Appel, C. Prommer, R. Trüby, Peter Kruger
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Right now, this is the definitive documentary on the dot.com culture
that essentially ceased to exist so many months ago. I feel there are
two ways the film could have been improved. First, the producers should
have added subtitles to indicate where the protagonists are in the film.
Pretty much all offices look the same, and it would have been nice to
know when the two were at their place, at the consultants' offices, at
the venture capitalists', etc. It would have been helpful to put names
to the numerous faces that come in and out of the picture as well.
In addition, and more importantly, the film never gets into the
specifics of why GovWorks.com failed. One day the company had two
employees, then they had seventy, then they had ten. Why? What was the
business plan? What were the goals of the company? What did the Web site
look like? I think the story of how this business worked (or didn't
work) is at least as interesting as the personal tensions between the
two main characters. When they release the DVD of this film an ideal
second disk would consist of additional information along these lines,
as well as a mock-up of the GovWorks site.