Do you think there would be an increase in number of startup's, people moving to the valley, college dropout's after watching "The Social Network"?<p>Beyond the fact that it is a movie and that part of it is fiction. I think it will inspire potential entrepreneurs to start coding their ideas and probably move to SFO. Don't you think so?
I think it will inspire a bunch of people to try who will never in a million years succeed. It will also make it crazy easy for coders to pick up girls at the bars.
I don't think it'll motivate people to start up a company any more than "the replacements" motivated people to be pro footballers. I think it might get people thinking about ideas, but in the end, it's the execution that counts.<p>Whilst it's always great for society in general to have as many innovators as possible, I think movies like this tout the "sexy" idea, instead of the grind-it-out reality. As soon as people who were inspired by a movie notice that fact, they jump ship as quickly as the hopped on.
I really think it is. From watching the movie, I realized Zuckerberg has probably never had a better time in his life thans when he built Facebook from scratch. That made me also clear why many entrepreneurs cannot stay in one startup/project and need to recreate something new regularly. It's making me think also ;)
Geekery has been cool for a while, but I've always felt that programming has carried a specific social stigma. With a bestselling movie that includes the line "I need to break out Emacs for that Perl script", maybe things are about to change.
This article implies that might happen: <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-business-of-the-social-network/?singlepage=true" rel="nofollow">http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-business-of-the-social-netw...</a>
I think any real entrepreneurs familiar with web development already know what startups are like, and won't change much.<p>But those who don't know what startups are about may give it a try, which is great.