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Poll: Do you work at a startup?
For the purposes of the poll, a startup can be defined as “a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed” and revenue does not exceed $10m per year.
If not, feel free to comment where or in what sector you work.
[I'd love to chat with you either way -- feel free to hit me up at shane at velodro.me]
- andrec 12y agoAn interesting secondary poll is: Where does a startup stop being a startup in terms of revenue.
- knappe 12y agoI don't see revenue taking part in the discussion other than showing you have a true business model. Having a stable, profitable business model means you're a small business and not a startup. I also tend to start calling a company with 30+ employees a small business rather than a startup. You can't support that many employees without being a stable profitable company (ideally I suppose).
- verdi327 12y agoerr, any company with decent funding can easily support over 30 ppl
- namenotrequired 12y agoFunding doesn't need to be able to support 30 people in order to be decent. What's decent depends on what the company needs.
- justinzollars 12y agoI once worked for a startup, that startup was acquired by Adobe now I work there.
- donjuanica 12y agoDitto. Viva la Omniture!
- notacoward 12y agoNo, but that's kind of misleading because I've worked for ten startups in the past.
- darkstar999 12y agoHow is that misleading? It says "Do you work at at startup", not "did you"
- notacoward 12y agoIt's misleading because if anyone associates certain properties or beliefs to "startup people" vs. "big company" then they'd almost certainly draw the wrong conclusions about me from that answer. In other words, they would be misled. Likewise, any statistical correlation with other properties or beliefs would be skewed by people like me who were habitually one group but just happened to be in the other at the precise moment of asking. When gathering any sample, it can be useful to know about confounding factors or exceptions.
- dopamean 12y agoThe poll isn't about you. A poll generally is about where a group of people stand at a given moment in time. There is nothing misleading about asking if someone currently works at a startup.
- notacoward 12y agoOh, so it was asked without any intention whatsoever of drawing any conclusions that might be affected by the number of anomalies in that small sample? Do you know what the right thing is to do with extra information that you don't think affects the validity of a sample? Ignore it. There's no need to get on people's case for volunteering extra information just in case it would matter to someone interpreting it. The poll isn't about you either.
- dshefchik 12y agoI'm glad I don't work at your big company
- lotp 12y agoNot by your definition.
- sukuriant 12y ago"and revenue does not exceed $10m per year." ... would that mean Mojang isn't a startup?
- pionar 12y agoI would definitely say that Mojang is no longer a startup. It's 5 years old and has a healthy revenue stream and a proven business model.
- pionar 12y agoI work in Indianapolis at a software company in the higher ed. and municipal operations management sectors.
- bherms 12y agoWhich company? From Indy originally and worked for Matchbook Creative and then iGoDigital before making the jump to SF. Love working at the Speakeasy when I'm in town.
- jahkobi 12y agoYes. househappy.org located in Portland, OR.
- burntroots 12y agoUnemployed/Self employed. Freelance.
- bherms 12y agoPost acquisition startup
- ShaneCurran 12y agoAre you an employee of the purchaser or are you still working for the startup?
- bherms 12y agoStill working for the startup
- erichurkman 12y agoB2B finance tools, startup.
- guiporto 12y agoI'm a founder of a startup in Brazil. We help doctors manage their clinics.
- ShaneCurran 12y agoNice! I'd love to chat. Feel free to email the address in the question or my profile.
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- neona 12y agoRetail, going to start school soon instead.
- mkal_tsr 12y agoYes, I founded my own (solo tech founder)
- l0c0b0x 12y agoEducation, I come here to REALLY know what is going on in the tech industry. Usually find out about things I care about hours before 'others' around me do.
- yamalight 12y agoFailed last 3 attempts. Slowly starting 4th one. This time as a research project spin-off.
- Ryel 12y agoFront-end looking for work right now and trying to make this decision. I like the energy of startups but finding the right group of people is hard.
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoOpen source government transparency and governance data services. I have been told by several of our customers that we aren't a startup anymore. But we are according to the criteria listed. Revenue $4.7m last year.
- whitef0x 12y agoI contract to a startup as a developer, but I'm not sure if that makes me 'in a startup' or not, so I put other.
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- biot 12y agoFor most startups I've seen, the only not obvious solution is "does anybody need this, and how can we convince them that they do?". Unless the startup is heavy on experimental R&D, there seem to be very few where the technical solutions aren't obvious.
- owenwil 12y agoYes! I work for a startup in the PaaS space, http://hoistapps.com http://hoistapps.com
- jaysonelliot 12y agoYes, I run the product and user experience for http://moov.cc http://moov.cc
- shortsightedsid 12y agoYes, we are a 2 man startup in customer success stories and how one can use them to get more leads/conversion from content marketing - http://rivet.ly http://rivet.ly. Right now we are pre-launch and busy coding!
- acdanger 12y agoNo. Working at a small web dev firm.
- greenyoda 12y ago"For the purposes of the poll, a startup can be defined as 'a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed'..." I don't think there are that many companies, big or small, that are trying to solve problems whose solutions are obvious, and I'm pretty sure that there are no companies whose success is guaranteed. For example, is it obvious what McDonald's should do to remain profitable in the long term? Should they open more locations or close some of their locations? Should they change their menu? Invest in robots to cook hamburgers? Pay their employees more? Give more independence to their franchisees? Now ask the same questions about General Electric, which has many major lines of business (jet engines, medical imaging, lighting, etc.). I don't think there are any obvious solutions there either.
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- maxamillion 12y agoI work for Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/), not remotely identified as a startup these days but I couldn't be happier with my job, work environment, and corporate culture.
- Osiris 12y agoI just began work at a startup for the first time. The company is about a year old, pre-revenue, and working on series B funding. The caliber of people employed here is significantly higher than I am accustomed to working with.
- semerda 12y agoVoted. I don't agree with the definition since most businesses are working to solve a problem where solution is not obvious esp guarantee. Also if the revenue is anywhere in few mil then I wouldn't call that a startup. A startup is a business trying to find a scalable and repeatable business model. If a startup reaches few mil per year then it is no longer a startup.
- rongenre 12y agoYes -- 4th time at a startup, first time as a cofounder. Marketing Analytics SaaS business.