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As long as you're growing fast you are a startup http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html Size is irrelevant, you can be a sm
by sytse 10y ago
As long as you're growing fast you are a startup http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html Size is irrelevant, you can be a small restaurant and not be a startup if you're not growing fast anymore.
- untog 10y agoSo when Apple launched the iPhone they were a startup?
- adventured 10y agoThe premise obviously doesn't make sense. Start-up means getting started, starting up something, early into the formation, a young entity, etc. To claim a massive 40 year old business - with many old products - can be a start-up, would be to intentionally obfuscate the historical use of the term. There's no good reason to declare that Apple was a start-up when it was growing fast, it makes no sense. What would be the purpose of contorting the language for that? It's a: "fast growing company," that's all the description that's necessary for any older business that grows quickly.
- untog 10y agoWell that's my point. That the term "startup" is already hopelessly corrupted, and by the OPs standard Apple would count. It makes no sense, and is largely the way it is for PR reasons.
- sytse 10y agoI'm not sure what their growth rate was at the time. There is no set number, but if you're tripling in people every year it tends to feel like a startup.