An entrepreneurship HBO special? Let’s hope not!
January 29th, 2007 by 
Chris Harris
Venture financing is growing, the number of new patents being filed is up, and the number of new companies is up as well. Innovation & entrepreneurship are definitely back in vogue now.Fortunately, I haven’t seen it in the movies much… yet.Hollywood has a penchant for calling the tops & bottoms of business cycles - but not in a good way. In late November the Anonymous Trader commented during the collapse of Amaranth Advisors that hedge funds may be doomed because of a new HBO series about hedge funds in the works.Money Magazine’s George Mannes also noted some evidence that Hollywood has a hard time getting a movie or show put together before the collapse comes. In fact, Greg Newton even found a pair of “Hedge Fund” Kenneth Cole shoes! That has to be bad news.I’ll be keeping my eye out for a sequel to startup.com, private equity M&A’s, or a movie about a young group of cowboy Harvard graduates trying to make their mark in the VC world.
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