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Poll: Do you work at a startup?

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Re: Poll: Do you work at a startup?

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An interesting secondary poll is: Where does a startup stop being a startup in terms of revenue.

I 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).

err, any company with decent funding can easily support over 30 ppl

Re: Poll: Do you work at a startup?

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I work in Indianapolis at a software company in the higher ed. and municipal operations management sectors.

Which 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.

Re: Poll: Do you work at a startup?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that misleading? It says "Do you work at at startup", not "did you"

It'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…

The 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.
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