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start-ups

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I don't think I've heard of any start-ups which were sustainable at the beginning, whereas many small businesses/hobby projects are.

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Quick take

Alternative spelling of startup. [The act or process of starting a process or machine.]

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noun

Alternative spelling of startup. [The act or process of starting a process or machine.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for start-ups.

noun

Alternative spelling of startup. [The act or process of starting a process or machine.]

Example sentences

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I don't think I've heard of any start-ups which were sustainable at the beginning, whereas many small businesses/hobby projects are.

2

I guess it depends whether we're talking about start-ups or small businesses/hobby projects.

3

Drew Houston from Dropbox was also a solo dev at the very beginning of Dropbox, but I guess the very fact that by definition start-ups are destined to grow quickly means that new people need to be brought on board at some point...

4

The sales avenues in that domain are radically different from 'just' IT based start-ups and just like I wouldn't see a bio-tech person run an IT firm the reverse probably holds true as well, ditto for advice to such management.

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But I'd be hard pressed to generalize what I've learned in my career in IT/IT related start-ups and take that and apply it to say a company that creates a new medicine or one that tries to commercialize some new medical instrument.

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How do you use start-ups in a sentence?

I don't think I've heard of any start-ups which were sustainable at the beginning, whereas many small businesses/hobby projects are.

What does start-ups mean?

Alternative spelling of startup. [The act or process of starting a process or machine.]

What part of speech is start-ups?

start-ups is commonly used as noun.