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What is a startup anyway? The term is stupid and overused imo.
I have to think "has external funding" is a minimum.
Why? GH already had 1M repositories when it raised its first round, were they not a startup before?
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I'm not sure I agree at all. 99% of business in this situation, you would never call a startup. New law firm. New dental office. Your uncle started doing roofing, asks your little brother to work his summer off from Uni with him on roofing. A new golf course installed in a coastal area. A 50 new homes going up in the suburbs. The empty spot on the corner is now a little corner store - beer, wine, chips. New taco rest…
A law office can be a start-up. "I want to start up a law office." Words (in English) require context to have much meaning. Startup could certainly mean "investor fueled boom or bust hypergrowth ambition rocket" at a YC demo day. Or it can simply mean a company one started. I'd argue that a trait shared by many startups is talking about themselves in the best light possible to get people focused on their future poten…
'Startup' is a noun. It's not "I want to start up something".
In reality, nobody is calling their new law firm a startup.
Nobody is referring to said law firms as startups.
Now - if it's a specialized kind of firm that sells services online, like a 'law marketplace' or something, maybe they will call it a startup.
Yes - the term startup is quite varied ...
However, the vast majority of business generally don't apply, so there is at least some kind of 'critical mass' to what we mean bu the word.
Generally 'a business' is not 'a startup'.
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Don't be silly. I've never seen anyone advocating for a 24 hour day. At the very most, I've seen 18 hour days. Let's be realistic. https://www.quora.com/How-did-CEO-Marissa-Mayer-pull-all-nig... Want to be sarcastic here, but feel like people would look down on me.
That's not what I'm advocating. Just arguing against the parent who said some equivalent of "while others are building products, you wannabe entrepreneurs are all talks here on HN".
Realize that, I was making a sarcastic joke. :)
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I'm not sure I agree at all. 99% of business in this situation, you would never call a startup. New law firm. New dental office. Your uncle started doing roofing, asks your little brother to work his summer off from Uni with him on roofing. A new golf course installed in a coastal area. A 50 new homes going up in the suburbs. The empty spot on the corner is now a little corner store - beer, wine, chips. New taco rest…
Wow, the Silicon Valley arrogance and echo chamber is real. It's not true that nobody is calling those situations startups. I am. So are the majority of people. And definitely so are the people who start those things. This is a helpful article for understanding the situation: https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/06/replicators-innovators-and... I'm quite sure that the dictionary definition is the one that most people will…
What does my comment have to do with the Silicon Valley?
I'm not even in the Silicon Valley, nor is is the observation of the popular usage of a term 'arrogant'. It just 'is'.
Nobody is calling a regular roofing company a startup. If said roofing company is doing something entirely different, and probably growing at an accelerated pace ... like developing a new kind of integrated tile and application process ... then maybe people would refer to this as a startup.
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A lot of people on HN would probably go with the Paul Graham definition: "A startup is a company designed to grow fast" http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
That's what PG wants a startup to be because it's self serving. He isn't going to get rich off of people bootstrapping lifestyle startups.
So true. I think a startup should be what it literally denotes. A new business.
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Or just call them startups if that's what they are. If someone is starting a business selling something then it's a startup, no matter how small initially.
I'm not sure I agree. What you're describing is 'business'. A startup is a company that's focused on something innovative and effectively high growth - something a VC could invest in. Nobody is referring to the new Taco restaurant down the street as a 'startup' even though their revenues will be more than $1 M this year. VC only makes sense in high growth businesses with large markets. Otherwise they are just busines…
Everyone deaperately wants to be able to tell people that they've created a "startup".
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That's what PG wants a startup to be because it's self serving. He isn't going to get rich off of people bootstrapping lifestyle startups.
So true. I think a startup should be what it literally denotes. A new business.
A new business that isn't limited by local only distribution.
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So true. I think a startup should be what it literally denotes. A new business.
A new business that isn't limited by local only distribution.
I think that's a post appstore or post web definition. I'm all for unsexy startups if they can turn the entire city into a customer and yet not be relevant outside of the city
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#79I did this too. 5 hour stream, started with google docs, trello then figma before building. Lot of fun and having the camera rolling kept me focused instead of getting distracted by twitter or notifications.
I decided to build something for nonprofits:
I found a number of charities that directly equate an action (do x things for y people) with a dollar amount. I pulled together a list of the charitable actions and chose a base product that people were familiar with (the cost of a pumpkin spice latte). Then I sorted them by how many lattes you would have to skip to be able to donate to compelete the charitable action.
It was a lot of fun and I hope to do something similar again.
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Quite some irony in the fact that while some people are trying to build products quickly, Hacker News (run by startup incubator YCombinator) has a 20-comment thread debating what 'startup' means.
By that logic, you can say people that build startups should never do something else in their 24h day.
Oh no, you can spend it on whatever you want. Arguing about the definition of ‘startup’, though?