Ctrl+Alt+Compete

CTRL+ALT+COMPETE is a feature-length documentary that takes a revealing look at the startup and emerging business scene through the eyes of five founders and their teams some are Tim O'Reilly and Felicia Day. Outstanding Documentary and telling story from visionaries going from nothing to a dominating force. Some say too dominating. Microsoft has helped many individuals reach their goals by supplying capital into their visions, this documentary goes into the facts and reasoning behind it all including my favorite, the XBOX team. Fun and interesting movie, it is a documentary so if not into that type of movie look else ware.

This Microsoft-documentary looks a little like an hour long version of those small Microsoft product-commercials. With a hip beat, cool footage and snappy soundbites ... Great for a 2 minute commercial, unbearable for a whole hour. There are some good interviews - or rather soundbites from interviews - that are worth listening to, but most of all it is a disjointed collection of presentations from various startups (most of them rather unknown), and some short interviews of industry veterans, talking about venture capital and why so many startups fail. Unfortunately it isn't very engaging, and I never really understand what the startups are doing, or what they are competing for. I would have preferred a documentary that followed some of the startups during a year of growth and failure, or something that showed more about what is was like to run a startup, besides doing presentations for potential investors.