startup in 7 easy steps 2016

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WikipediaWikipediaWikipediaWikipedia:::: a company, a partnership or temporary organizationdesigned to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

BusinessBusinessBusinessBusiness DictionaryDictionaryDictionaryDictionary: Early stage in the life cycle of an enterprisewhere the entrepreneur moves from the idea stage to securingfinancing, laying down the basis structure of the business, andinitiating operations or trading.

PaulPaulPaulPaul GrahamGrahamGrahamGraham: A startup is a company designed to grow fast.

Newly founded, technology focused, venture funded or exitoriented does not in itself make a company a startup. The onlyessential thing is growth. Everything else follows from growth.

UrbanUrbanUrbanUrban DictionaryDictionaryDictionaryDictionary:::: A recently formed company. In modernterminology, it has come to describe a company formed with abusiness model relying on the internet with a jobless founder.

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