Would love to hear your thoughts.
Ask HN: What constitutes a startup?
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#6A technology company that has a realistic possibility of scaling to something massive (e.g. hundreds of millions of users/revenue).
Likewise it doesn't necessarily need millions in revenue to be successful. Many exits have come from zero revenue.
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#7A technology company that has a realistic possibility of scaling to something massive (e.g. hundreds of millions of users/revenue).
Why millions of users? Few B2B startup have millions of users. Likewise it doesn't necessarily need millions in revenue to be successful. Many exits have come from zero revenue.
The question is about what constitutes a startup, not what constitutes success.
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#8How about: a small, tech-related business that aims to score big.
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#9How about: a small, tech-related business that aims to score big.
Why should tech have anything to do with it? A new coffee shop on the corner is a startup isn't? To me a startup is a new company, that's it, no more, no less.