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How can you be a "startup" for 10 years? Will they ever stop being a "startup"?
by theknown99 13y ago
How can you be a "startup" for 10 years? Will they ever stop being a "startup"?
- officemonkey 13y agoI suppose even Yahoo and Google were "startups" at one time. 37signals probably kept the moniker longer than other businesses because they were profitable early, and they didn't need or want to grow fast for growth's sake.
- petercooper 13y agoand they didn't need or want to grow fast for growth's sake. The HN/YC model of a "startup" is something that is growing rapidly, as per http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html, so perhaps 37signals was never a startup in the HN use of the term ;-)