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Your points are tangentially related to a question I've floated around in my head for years: when is a startup not a startup? There's the income/profit metric
by Domenic_S 14y ago
Your points are tangentially related to a question I've floated around in my head for years: when is a startup not a startup?
There's the income/profit metric (if a company is paying its CEO $200k+ and has several $150k+ engineers, they're obviously selling a significant amount of something)
Or there's the acquisition metric (our goal is to be bought, and we haven't been bought, so we're a startup)
- michaelochurch 14y agoYou may have followed my advocacy for open allocation: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companies-open-allocation-is-your-only-real-option/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companie... When a tech startup runs well, it's constrained open allocation. People can't just go off and "do whatever" but if the work is important to the business, anyone gets to step up and do it. There's no fighting over "headcount" or jockeying for plum projects. There is the work that needs to be done and as long as (a) people work on things that are relevant to the business, (b) people take enough of an ownership mentality to do the difficult or unpleasant stuff that's comes along with the good, they remain in good standing. Once you have closed allocation, you're definitely not a startup.