Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it's an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup. Directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser, the film celebrates risk-taking, urban revitalization, and diversity while delivering a vital call-to-action-with entrepreneurship at a record low, the country's economic future is at stake.
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- Released
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Keywords
- business start-up
- entrepreneurship
- woman director
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Top Cast
Dextina Booker as Herself
Kate Catlin as Herself
Avery Hairston as Himself
Pamela Lewis as Herself
Max Nussenbaum as Himself
Labib Rahman as Himself
Brian Rudolph as Himself
Andrew Yang as Himself
Top Crew
Cheryl Miller Houser · Director
Cynthia Wade · Director
Boaz Freund · Cinematographer
Kimberly Pellnat · Editor
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