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Many of these companies are not "startups" anymore. Fir example, Ebay ?
by pavanky 13y ago
Many of these companies are not "startups" anymore.
Fir example, Ebay ?
- suyash 13y agowell most of them are startups.
- mosselman 13y agoI usually make more sure than 'most of x is y' before I claim certain things. This is just hipsterism. Ebay, LinkedIn, Mozilla? Are you kidding? While in New York I went to some networking events where people said 'I work for a startup', 'How long have you guys been around?', '4 years', 'That doesn't really sound like a startup.', 'I know, but we FEEL like a startup.'... A*holes.
- colinhowe 13y agoWhen do you cease being a startup?
- rubinelli 13y agoWhen you are too big to pivot.
- coolsunglasses 13y agoWhen 0.1%-10% of equity is no longer in the cards for high value front-line (not VP) employees.
- wensing 13y agoWhen you shift from customer development to company-building. In other words, when you stop searching for, and instead start scaling, a business model. See also: http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/ http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/
- mosselman 13y agoAfter about 1-2 years. It is like saying that your car or house is new after 10 years. Or saying your shoes are new when they are 6 months old. The word is pretty self-explanatory, it is not that hard people.
- suyash 13y agoWell, 70% (which implies "most") or more of the companies listed on LeanStack are startups, I don't understand what your definition of Startup is.
- sspiff 13y agoHe said many. I agree with him: Intuit, Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are hardly startups. And this list is by no means exhaustive. Sure, many others may be startups, perhaps even most. But since when do we generalize away ~30% of some population. That's not very scientific. I can't think of many scenario's where this would be acceptable.
- sspiff 13y agoI agree. Calling Intuit a startup is like calling USPS an up and coming disrupting force in the mailing business.