The Startup Kids is a short documentary built around interviews with technology entrepreneurs and investors connected with companies such as Dropbox, Vimeo, SoundCloud and InDinero. It focuses on founders’ motivations, early setbacks, funding decisions and practical advice about building digital ventures.
Use in class
This documentary works particularly well in introductory entrepreneurship and innovation teaching. It gives students accessible founder perspectives on opportunity recognition, product development, networks and fundraising. Its short length also makes it suitable for a seminar activity in which students compare individual accounts with evidence on startup ecosystems and survivorship bias.
