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Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by danielha on Thursday March 08, 2007 @03:20AM (#2846)
"Startups are basically comedies [...]"

I've been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture. Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network...

Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by bootload on Thursday March 08, 2007 @06:46AM (#2860)
'... been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture ...'

AGENT: "So tell me about the show, what's it about?"

NERD #1: "Well its 4 guys, sitting inside on computers typing, making jokes, writing code and eating pizza trying to reshape the social networks in cyberspace."

AGENT: "So do you go outside?"

GEEK #1: "No, we don't need to. I just look up 'alt.nerd.obsessive' and find the google location & look it up on google map."

AGENT: "Do you do normal things?". "You know Like go to cafe's and meet women?". "You know talk, drink coffee?"

GEEK #2: "I saw a girl this week. I've counted three this week... including the one at the 7-11". D"o you know what I'm working on? I'm optomising a ...."

NERD #2: "Don't listen to them. They're doing server side work. We are the front end guys. I own a mac. It's got an OS10-X Tiger OS with ..."

AGENT: zzz... zzz... zzz...

NERD #1: "Guys, guys your blowing it, jeez. Now look what your've done. You've put the agent to sleep. How we ever going to get on TV?"

Geek #2: "What about YouTube?"

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Oh yeah it's really going to catch on :)

Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by lupin_sansei on Thursday March 08, 2007 @09:51PM (#3048)
You obviously haven't watched the IT Crowd: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=it+crowd&search=Search
Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by danielha on Friday March 09, 2007 @05:58AM (#3138)
I haven't, though it slightly rings a bell. I referred to the Wikipedia article on it and it reports a US pilot has just been filmed last month. I'll keep my eye on that one.
Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by bootload on Friday March 16, 2007 @07:29PM (#4659)
yes... very clever nerdy english show. Still waiting on series 2, "after the party" :)
Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by danw on Sunday March 11, 2007 @07:28AM (#3567)
Why write a script when you can just use reality? Give each startup in the next YC batch a video camera and get them to record the journey. They could either post it regularly as a video blog or save it all up and edit it into a lovely 2hour documentary. Would be great to watch and give outsiders a better idea of what startups are like. Kind of like 'Project Aardvark" [http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/].
Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by cnaclerio on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:58PM (#3789)
Kind of like, Startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
Re:Guy Kawasaki on Founders at Work by python_kiss on Thursday March 08, 2007 @04:10AM (#2850)
"Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network..."

heh, or you could always pitch to YCombinator :D