Something Ventured - The Early Days of Venture Capital

Something Ventured
May 29, 1:00pm, Admiral Theatre
May 30, 6:30pm, Harvard Exit
June 5, 5:30pm, Kirkland Performance Center

Buy Tickets: http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=44551&fid=206

Directors Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller scheduled to attend May 29 and May 30 screenings.

Venture capitalists have helped launch so many successful companies (Apple, Cisco Systems, Atari)... [read more]

Something Ventured
May 29, 1:00pm, Admiral Theatre
May 30, 6:30pm, Harvard Exit
June 5, 5:30pm, Kirkland Performance Center

Buy Tickets: http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=44551&fid=206

Directors Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller scheduled to attend May 29 and May 30 screenings.

Venture capitalists have helped launch so many successful companies (Apple, Cisco Systems, Atari) that it's hard to remember that they are a relatively recent creation. Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's film chronicles the early days of the venture capitalists, which essentially reinvented how companies get launched and almost single-handedly created today's Silicon Valley. Prior to the 1950s, entrepreneurs had to rely on the largesse of wealthy financiers who were reluctant to take on new risk. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a small group of renegade engineers decided to break away from their established technology firms to become full-time investors in other people's start-up companies, often resulting in fantastically large profits for all involved. Through interviews with entrepreneurs and pioneer venture capitalists such as Don Valentine, Dick Kramlich, Arthur Rock, and Tom Perkins, Something Ventured provides a glimpse into this high-risk, high-reward world, where a billion-dollar success can be followed by dozens of failures and wrenching personnel changes. Coming on the heels of the global financial crisis, this engrossing film is a reminder that the entrepreneurial spirit is still alive and that innovative financiers are still willing to place their bets on the American Dream.


Director Biography
American Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have jointly created critically acclaimed multi character documentaries for 20 years. Their work includes Ballets Russes (2005), recognized as one of the top five documentaries of 2005 by both the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review. This is their 7th collaboration.

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