definisi start-up

Startup Lokal adalah perusahaan baru yang biasanya bergerak di bidang teknologi informasi dan menggunakan media internet sebagai platform nya. Perusahaan ini menghasilkan produk-produk digital (seperti aplikasi web atau layanan melalui website)

Dari definisi yang tercantum di Facebook page StartupLokal:

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets.

Ronald Widha dari TemanMacet.com:

Startup = perusahaan baru, lokal = dalam konteks ini lokal di Indonesia.
Aku rasa deifnisinya ga harus perusahaan web dan ga harus high tech, ga harus produk, boleh jasa. tapi konotasinya di asosiasikan sama the new economy. grass root movement. ga ngandelin perusahaan gede doank.

Arham Haryadi dari Road-Entrepreneur.com:

StartUp Lokal itu Corporate IT baru yang masih dalam tahap awal

Rama Mamuaya dari DailySocial.net:

Menurut definisi gw .. perusahaan yang baru mulai. As simple as that. Cuma berhubung di Silicon Valley itu hampir semua perusahaan teknologi, maka startup itu identik dengan web company. Apalagi dengan pertimbangan mudahnya memulai sebuah web company, nggak seribet bikin perusahaan model lain.

Beberapa constrain yang populer diadopsi literatur luar :
– Dibawah 3 tahun operasional
– Kurang dari 20 orang karyawan
– Revenue kurang dari $100.000 (1 Milyar Rp) per tahun.

Kristiono Setyadi dari kristionosetyadi.net

IMHO, startup itu sebutan untuk perusahaan baru. Bener kata Rama, ada penyempitan makna yang mengacu pada spesifikasi “teknologi” untuk sebuah startup. Cuma, instead of web company, menurut gue bisa lebih luas lagi, misal bioteknologi, virtual reality, dsb yang intinya memanfaatkan teknologi. Lokal, like Ronald said, is Indonesia. No doubt about it :)

So, IMHO again, startup = new company + new technology; lokal = Indonesia. CMIIW.

ini bahasan menurut Wikipedia.com

A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase ofdevelopment and research for markets. The term became popular internationally during the dot-com bubble when a great number of dot-com companies were founded. Startup companies can come in all forms, but the phrase "startup company" is often associated with high growth, technology oriented companies. Investors are generally most attracted to those new companies distinguished by their risk/reward profile and scalability. That is, they have lower bootstrapping costs, higher risk, and higher potential return on investment. Successful startups are typically more scalable than an established business, in the sense that they can potentially grow rapidly with limited investment of capital, labor or land.

Startups encounter several unique options for funding. Venture capital firms and angel investors may help startup companies begin operations, exchanging cash for an equity stake. In practice though, many startups are initially funded by the founders themselves. Factoring is another option, though not unique to start ups. Some new funding opportunities are also developing in crowd funding.^[1]

A critical task in setting up a business is to conduct research in order to validate, assess and develop the ideas or business concepts in addition to opportunities to establish further and deeper understanding on the ideas or business concepts as well as their commercial potential.

If a company's value is based on its technology, it is often equally important for the business owners to obtain intellectual property protection for their idea. The newsmagazine The Economist estimated that up to 75% of the value of US public companies is now based on their intellectual property (up from 40% in 1980).^[2] Often, 100% of a small startup company's value is based on its intellectual property. As such, it is important for technology oriented start up companies to develop a sound strategy for protecting their intellectual capital as early as possible.^[3]

Startup companies, particularly those associated with new technology, sometimes produce huge returns to their creators and investors – a recent example of such was Google, whose creators are now billionaires through their share ownership. However, the failure rate of startup companies is very high.^[4]

While there are startup businesses created in all types of businesses, and all over the world, some locations and business sectors are particularly associated with startup companies. The Internet bubble of the late 1990s was associated with huge numbers of internet startup companies, some selling the technology to provide internet access, others using the internet to provide services. Most of this startup activity was located in Silicon Valley, an area of northern California renowned for the high level of startup company activity:

Recently, Chicago has emerged as a hub of startup activity in the Midwest. Lured by a combination of large business customers, federal research dollars, and a large hiring pool fed by the area's universities, Chicago is home to a growing number of startup companies like 37signals, Groupon, SceneTap and Feedburner.^[6]

A company may cease to be a startup as it passes various milestones, such as becoming profitable, or becoming publicly traded in an IPO, or ceasing to exist as an independent entity via a merger oracquisition. Companies may also fail and cease to operate altogether. Recently the patent assets of these failed startup companies have been being purchased by what are derogatorily known as "Patent trolls" who then take the patents from the companies and assert those patents against companies that might be infringing the technology covered by the patent.^[7]

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