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Well, slideshare is 7 years old and is owned by LinkedIn, but I suspect that many of us here would consider it to be a startup.
by hkmurakami 13y ago
Well, slideshare is 7 years old and is owned by LinkedIn, but I suspect that many of us here would consider it to be a startup.
- benoits 13y agoInteresting. What's you definition of a startup then?
- downer90 13y agoBallpark: Small business, less than 20 employees, and less than 5 years old, and started with unconventional debt (not bank loans). Bonus points to "startup" credentials when software development or new, emerging technologies are involved. 20 50K salaries multiplied by 5 years is five million dollars in labor, never mind the overhead. If you've burned through that much cash and you're still in business after five years, congratulations. Unicorns aside, it doesn't matter if you're in the red or in the black. You are an established business, and not some fledgling twinkle in an investor's eyes.
- truthlaidbear 13y agoSame with a lot of the Salesforce component companies. Goinstant for example.
- Edmond 13y agoFunny, I posed this question a couple of days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862721)...it is a new branding trend for IT companies though food and beverage companies have been doing it longer.
- graue 13y agoIt suddenly occurs to me that "startup" is the new "indie", or "viral". It's become a genre rather than a descriptor of the source of the content.