Documentary "Something Ventured" tells the story of how a few individuals built an industry that would go on to finance nearly all of the major advancements in technology in the past 50 years with companies such as Atari, Genentech, Apple, Intel and more. Our lives would be completely different without their contributions and we can learn a lot today from the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation they helped to create. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen: Tom Perkins, Don Valentine, Arthur Rock, Dick Kramlich and others. The film also includes some of our finest entrepreneurs sharing how they worked with these venture capitalists to grow world-class companies. Background Beginning in...
- 12/22/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
From the outset, Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's "Something Ventured" probably isn't something everybody will enjoy. A documentary about venture capitalists, you need to already have something of an interest about the money that has powered some of the greatest technological advancements of the past forty or fifty years. But even for those who are curious about the coin behind the creative minds, this slim documentary (that runs under 90 minutes) quickly falls into a repetitive, narrow minded rut.
To be fair, the doc does get off to a great start, chronicling the origins of venture capitalism. Back in the late '50s/early '60s the very concept of independent financiers lending the money as the seed capital for fledgling businesses was unheard of. Banks were largely the place anyone wanting to start a business went to get a loan, but the problem was those institutions preferred sure things,...
To be fair, the doc does get off to a great start, chronicling the origins of venture capitalism. Back in the late '50s/early '60s the very concept of independent financiers lending the money as the seed capital for fledgling businesses was unheard of. Banks were largely the place anyone wanting to start a business went to get a loan, but the problem was those institutions preferred sure things,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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