My professor gave us a lecture on the "dinosaur age" of past, and current, big technological corporations. It was kind of cool to see how a company could be so big at one point in time and then suddenly vanish within a few years. Or, on the opposite side, how a small company that not very many people knew about could conquer its competitors and grow to be number one. Business is a very vicious world to be in. Only people who are flexible and adaptable can survive in such a wild and fast-paced environment. It's important to keep that in mind when starting a business. I think now in the modern time any product you make is like your business because there are so many different companies and ideas out in the world that just lowering your prices in comparison to your competitor's isn't enough anymore. To really get a business going, it needs to be about something that is really different that totally stands out. Even movie making is like a business because there aren't very many "new" movies anymore. most of the movies are just taking ideas and concepts from other/older movies, so they're becoming predictable. That might be why the movie industry is starting to lose money now. Only movies that are completely different can make huge bucks for Hollywood, and I learned from class that's exactly what business today is like too.

We watched the documentary "StartUp.Com" in my virtual world class and I absolutely loved it. You got a chance  to see how the individual characters behaved and reacted in certain events. You got to see the strong bond between the two main guys/ best friends and how the value of their friendship grew despite all the bad that was being done to their company. You even got to see the "human moments" throughout the film, like when Kaliel's mate was going on about wanting a dog but he wouldn't even give in to the thought. They never got what they want right when they wanted it, which makes for a great entertaining film. Now, other than just analyzing the individuals and their relationships to each other throughout the film, I also found the business concept side to it facisnating as well. In fact, the bonds between the characters is what weakened and broke their future successful business, and I think if they were both more focused on their business than their personal lives that they could have made millions from it. Instead, one friend was more emotional and, for lack of a better word, was some what of a slacker as well as an individual who couldn't make up his mind, and because of his personality he didn't get his job done right. I think it wouldn't been better if Kaliel was just let him go and said they could still be friends and he hired someone else in his place. It was cool to see what businesses go through in order to be successful and how human the founders of that business could be.