As many of you know I’m working on the second edition of a book called “Everything I needed to know about business I learned from a Canadian.”

The book features profiles from leading Canadians on a variety of business topics. There has been a lot of conversation around the differences between the rise of new internet companies and the old dot com crash. One of the major differences is the launch strategy that many of these new companies use while getting started vs. the old dot com guys. Firstly, there are no early investment in office spaces etc. Instead we are seeing young entrepreneurs who are all living and working out of the same house.

In the past few days we’ve interviewed Stewart Butterfield (Founder FlickR), Garrett Camp (Founder StumbleUpon) and Debbie Landa (Founder Deal Maker Media) and I’ll be posting some excerpts of those interviews in the next few days, because I think they shed some valuable insights on how much the philosophy of starting a business has changed from five years go.

Check out the trailer for the movie called August that follows a young dot-com entrepreneur struggling to keep his start-up venture afloat during the dot com crash. It involves flashy cars, pretty women and mean, apathetic investors.

I think it’s interesting given the recent wave of dot-coms seems to feature shy-self professed geeks. What do you guys think?