I’ve been chatting to entrepreneur Patrick McPhee from Splurf about PlanHQ featuring in a startup TV series he’s getting going for New Zealand, due to start screening later this year.

The idea is to show everyone the reality of startups, and the startup culture here in New Zealand. Hopefully by opening our doors we’ll be assisting those in startups by showing our mistakes and successes and providing a little inspiration to those who aren’t in business for themselves to maybe get amongst. Patrick and crew have just released a 30 minute pilot video below, interested in any thoughts. (Note: The outcomes in the pilot are fictional and are for illustration only)

Startup TV Pilot

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The inspiration - Startup.com the Movie

In terms of the style of how the story is to be told, Patrick refers to Startup.com the Movie which follows an online startup govworks.com which goes from inception, to raising $US 60 milion and a couple of hundred staff to dead. Not an ideal outcome ofcourse, but failures are part of success, although in this case, and at this time of the web, was all too common.

Seeing your mistakes from others

I remember watching the movie startup.com in 2003 shortly after I’d helped raise $11 million for early stage energy management technology company Energy intellect. It was the first time I’d watched a movie that had things I could genuinely relate too, and it forced immediate learning. I saw the things that I/we had done wrong, watching someone else make mistakes and seeing them as mistakes certainly helps you.