Brock Predovich was a prizefighter turned serial entrepreneur. Dean Haritos, a successful Silicon Valley ex-pat looking for a fresh start outside the bubble. Together, they were ready to make a go at creating a new model of business accelerator in Denver, Colorado. They needed to create a PR buzz, however, that would precede them as they expanded. We decided to create a video series based on entrepreneurial life. The show took shape and was filmed and edited over the next 18 months in consultation with industry pros and culminated in a 30-minute pilot episode, a series bible, brand visuals and marketing collateral including a show logo, business cards and a vibrant social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube.
Written, Directed, Produced and Co-Edited by Kyle Eason, the episodic series StartupStory whose 30-minute pilot episode - available below in its entirety - had its world premier debut screening in June at SeriesFest Season Three in Denver.
Indiewire covered the story as industry executives, producers and on-camera talent streamed in for the week long event. Showing as part of SeriesFest’s "Colorado Stories" program, StartupStory debuted in the plush Maglione Theater at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver to an excited crowd of supporters.
StartupStory is a self-contained entrepreneurial docu-reality series about persistence, grit and triumph - risking everything, overcoming the odds, and finding redemption in the global business world. Brock is a prizefighter turned serial entrepreneur. Dean is a successful Silicon Valley ex-pat looking for a fresh start outside the bubble. Together, Brock and Dean, are fighters - they have successful careers with international experience and enough capital to make a go at creating an exciting new model of business accelerator in Denver, Colorado, the entrepreneurial capital of the New American West. After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars creating a co-working space for the community of business leaders they mentor, they reach dangerous levels of exhaustion and are forced to ask for help from another investor. They get an answer, but it’s not what they expect. Both men are sent reeling and spun apart as they try to make sense of painful realities and face inner demons they thought they had left behind while continuing to help their gutsy members reach their own “impossible dream”. For one, it's time to face a familiar adversary. The other embarks on a life-changing journey to the center of the new global economy where he will begin again.
Kyle Eason - Writer, Director, Producer, Co-editor.
From Inception Integrated Marketing and milehighhouse (Denver).