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A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth.
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:I worked at a company that was a startup for 10 years . To me, a startup is defined by a) sources of funding and b) company culture.
Startups are usually a mixture of owner funding, investor funding and self-funding. The people who invest in the company have direct control over day to day operations
The company culture tends to to be more flat. No several layers of management. Also, the leadership tends to come from the bottom. The managers don't drive the company. Rather, ideas come from the workers, and the company takes direction from those ideas.
Syed Islam wrote:
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:I worked at a company that was a startup for 10 years . To me, a startup is defined by a) sources of funding and b) company culture.
Startups are usually a mixture of owner funding, investor funding and self-funding. The people who invest in the company have direct control over day to day operations
The company culture tends to to be more flat. No several layers of management. Also, the leadership tends to come from the bottom. The managers don't drive the company. Rather, ideas come from the workers, and the company takes direction from those ideas.
Interesting, so how would that translate with regards to the type of software developers they are looking for.
For example, Ruby on Rails developers tend to work for startups because of rapid deployment.
Syed Islam wrote:
Interesting, so how would that translate with regards to the type of software developers they are looking for.
For example, Ruby on Rails developers tend to work for startups because of rapid deployment.
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