Being that I am in the “internet” biz and experienced the internet dot com gold rush and subsequent fall firsthand, I love the stories of the dot com’s that made it and didn’t.
The movie Startup.com and the comedy Dot are a great snapshot of this time in internet history.

As many readers may know, and is evident from all the advertising throughout my blog, I participate in a site called PayPerPost.com. It pays bloggers like myself to blog about products and services. I think I’ve talked enough about it elsewhere so I won’t try and sell you on it here (although you should click the ad in the sidebar).

Anyhoo

There is a site called RockStartUp.com that is chronicling the rise of this company and all the trappings of a fledgling startup dot com. It follows the reality show format and is not really breaking any new grounds here except that the times have changed and startups must be much more viable than before.

The cool thing is that they are releasing them as streaming videos, podcasts, RSS feeds etc. So you can subscribe and kinda watch almost in real time as they crash and burn or succeed. So far it’s been nothing but good. They have 14 episodes out now and I’m still catching up, but it’s a great look at how it all works.

Here’s episode 1

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