{"id":1302,"date":"2011-12-12T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2011-12-12T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:27:34","slug":"what-is-a-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/startups\/what-is-a-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a startup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All this talk about startups, and I often wonder if people really understand what a startup is.<\/p>\n<p>A bakery is not a startup. A consulting company is not a startup. Anything that requires multiplying the number of people in the business to scale, is not a startup.<\/p>\n<p>A startup is a company that has an idea where doubling income does not require doubling staff. It is a business where scaling to add another 1000 clients requires very little additional hardware.<\/p>\n<p>A software company is a startup. After writing that first copy, selling 1000 more has only slight incremental costs. Selling 10000 more requires only slightly more resources than that. A subscription web site is a startup. The difference between 10 paying subscribers and 1000 paying subscribers in terms of the labor to produce the site is minimal.<\/p>\n<p>If you start a business and you are primarily responsible for earning the income through your direct efforts, you are an employee, not a business. A consultant is not running a business, s\/he is a contracted employee with many employers. A software developer that sells his product and can take three days off without materially affecting his income is a business.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/startups\/what-is-a-startup\/\" width=\"250\" send=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\"><\/fb:like>\n<\/div><div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this talk about startups, and I often wonder if people really understand what a startup is. A bakery is not a startup. A consulting company is not a startup. Anything that requires multiplying the number of people in the business to scale, is not a startup. A startup is a company that has an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/startups\/what-is-a-startup\/\" width=\"250\" send=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\"><\/fb:like>\n<\/div><div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[216,218,217,178],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startups","tag-business","tag-contractor","tag-employees","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cd34.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}