Comment by aahortwwy

5 years ago

At what point does an organization stop being a "startup" and become a "private company"?

When its inertia has reached a point where it can continue to succeed not because of its actions, but in spite of them.

Obviously it’s pretty tricky to define but I’d say anything that doesn’t have an already established or rapidly growing customer base/revenue is a startup. If you can shutdown all r&d and it’s still going to be viable business for a while then it’s not a startup