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Time to Apply to Inc 500/5000

• transburgh 18y ago
  Anyone from HN going to apply? I know that most are early stage but there might be a few more established companies running around here.
  • siong1987 18y ago
    "# Have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2005, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of revenue" Not many HN companies can actually apply for it.
• alain94040 18y ago
  One stupid requirement from the application: your company must have been generating revenue since 2005. What happens to startups that actually are growing like crazy today but were not around in 2005? I can understand some need for past performance, otherwise Inc. can't compute a growth rate, but still...
  • cperciva 18y ago
    It makes sense to have some minimum starting point -- e.g., the $200,000 revenue in 2005 which is required here -- because it's easy to get astronomical growth rates if you're starting from low enough. That said, I think this would have been better accomplished by saying "if your revenue in 2005 was less than $200k, we will treat your company as if its 2005 revenue was $200k" -- don't allow companies to measure high growth rates simply because they're starting very low, but don't exclude them either.