''The Startup Kids'' is a documentary about young technology entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. The hour-long movie was created by two Icelandic women, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir, and released in 2012. It contains interviews with startup founders who relay stories about the founding of their respective companies and their lives as

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

s. 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 Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ),

and

MG Siegler M.G. Siegler (born November 2, 1981) is a general partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on seed and early-stage investments. Early life and education He is originally from Ohio, and obtained his B.S. from the University of Michi ...

, tech blogger at

Techcrunch TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately ...

. Notable interviewees featured in the documentary include: *

Leah Culver Leah Culver (born 1982 or 1983) is a computer programmer, startup founder, and angel investor. Education Culver started as an art major at the University of Minnesota, but switched majors and earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science i ...

Zach Klein Zach Klein (born ) is an American entrepreneur and investor, and currently the CEO of Dwell. He co-founded DIY.org, and is best known for co-founding and designing Vimeo. He created the Cabin Porn phenomenon, which was initially an online project ...

* Jessica Mah *

Ben Way Ben Way is a serial entrepreneur and author best known for his appearance on ''Secret Millionaire'', '' The Startup Kids'' and as a cast member on '' Start-Ups: Silicon Valley'', he started his first company at the age of 15. He went on to raise ...

Brian Wong Brian Wong (born April 14, 1991) is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur. In 2010, Wong co-founded Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a company offering a mobile app rewards platform through which computer game players would receive real-world rewards from ...

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. To finance its production, the filmmakers raised US$23,000 in 2011 on

crowdfunding Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over was raised worldwide by crow ...

platform

Kickstarter Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, ...

, surpassing the established $7,000 fundraising goal.

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