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Ask HN: When does a startup stop being a startup?
- byoung2 15y agoWhen the supply cabinet is locked
- raniskeet 15y agoWhey they run out of money.
- rchaudhary 15y agoWhen the founder does not know everybody in the company by name.
- buckwild 15y agoWhen there is an "official" company email signature.
- dstein 15y agoWhen a revenue stream has been found.
- briandoll 15y agoI love Steve Blank's definition of a startup: A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. With that definition, we can assert that a startup is no longer a startup once they've found that repeatable and scalable business model.
- markhall 15y agoI think that there a countless answers. I wrote about this exact topic some months back. http://www.businessinsider.com/when-is-a-startup-no-longer-a-startup-2011-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/when-is-a-startup-no-longer-a...