STARTUP.com is a masterpiece documentary because of how it accomplishes the virtual aspect of how difficult it is to not only maintain a business but also a long lasting friendship. First let me start off by saying that the easiest thing about starting a business is the “IDEA”. Everyone can come up with ideas on a basic concept that people seem to need, how they will go about fulfilling this need and etc. However again that is the easy part, the difficult part would have to be maintaining this business
HISTORY Back in May of 1998 GovWorks.com was founded and had 8 employees in it. The idea of such an internet service was inspired by the best friends and two co-founders: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. They have left their jobs to start work on the website. The company has started with a couple of computers, a comparatively tiny office and one car. With its very quick extension just in a few months the company grew to 30 employees, but it was the beginning. Their goal was just pompous: to transform
cannot be built nor sustained without a “superb entrepreneur” and the support of a “first-rate team”, which appeals to both investors outside the company and propagates a strong culture inside the organization (Bygrave). As demonstrated in the film, Startup.com, human capital not only consists of individual skills to produce an entrepreneurial idea, but it also encompasses the necessary social networks and team dynamics needed for collaborative tasks to sustain an opportunity. The documentary provides
Ethics Officer However, eliminating unethical behavior does not just stop in the education. Corporations must be governed throughout all their business transactions. The proposal is that all corporations that are publically traded and have shareholders must employ an ethics officer. The ethics officer will be immune from firings that are unjustified. They will not be part of an employment at-will doctrine (Cross & Miller, 2012). It is proposed that the ethics officer also be part of the corporation’s