The Startup Kids

2012 Icelandic film

Tim Draper
MG Siegler

Release date

September 2, 2012 (2012-09-02)

Running time

55 minutesCountryIcelandLanguageEnglishBudget$23,000

The Startup Kids is a documentary about young technology entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe.^[1] The hour-long movie was created by two Icelandic women, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir, and was released in 2012. It contains interviews with startup founders who relay stories about the founding of their respective companies and their lives as entrepreneurs. The film also features interviews of notable startup founders and investors from the US and Europe about the startup environment, including the venture capitalist Tim Draper and MG Siegler, tech blogger at Techcrunch.^[2]

Notable interviewees featured in the documentary include:^[3]

Leah Culver
Zach Klein
Jessica Mah
Ben Way
Brian Wong

Production & Funding

The two filmmakers cited that they were inspired to create the documentary following their own successes in business so that the film could provide motivation to up-and-coming startup founders.^[4]

To finance its production, the filmmakers raised US$23,000 in 2011 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, surpassing the established $7,000 fundraising goal.^[5]

References

^ "The Startup Kids (2007)". IMDB.
^ "The Startup Kids Film Webpage".
^ "The Interviewees". The Startup Kids. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
^ "Startup Kids Documentary Outlines Journey for Young Entrepreneurs". Small Business Trends.
^ "The Startup Kids: a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe". Kickstarter.