Converse of object

• trace: It traces the start-up of a company providing mountain bike parts, begun by two engineering graduates whilst undertaking PhD research.

• encourage: Initially, the scooters in Scotland will be marketed out of Farmer Autocare, the entrepreneurâs scheme to encourage new start-ups.

• assist: To assist business start-ups e.g. via ' nursery units ' where administration, security etc. is shared to minimize costs to individual businesses.

Adjective modifier

• high-tech: This book might be the best, lowest risk way of finding out what its like to be in a high-tech start-up.

• entrepreneurial: We have worked for businesses that range from entrepreneurial start-ups with two or three people right up the largest telecommunications supplier in the world.

• innovative: Some delegates also toured Harwell Innovation Center, which houses 35 innovative start-ups and provides them with business support.

• successful: Managing a successful start-up within a new market, however, demanded a whole new set of skills.

• fast: The electronic submission of information enables a fast company start-up satisfying all of the required legal formalities.

• new: A new start-up has little of value to sell, anyway.

Modifies a noun

• entrepreneur: Start-up entrepreneurs that have gone through the company registration process have to contend with a lot of details in setting up their business.

• venture: The main output of the module is to give students the ability to write a business plan for a start-up venture.

• phase: The project consists of a one-year start-up phase followed by a four-year action phase from 2001 to 2005.

• cost: There are always start-up costs, often quite large.

• grant: Many had found the start-up grant of £ 500 helpful.

• funding: Funding The DfES has allocated start-up funding to LAs for the development of extended services in their areas.

Noun used with modifier

• biotech: That means each biotech start-up could triple its venture capital with matching grants.

• business: A further section below shows an analysis of the new business start-up figures by Legal Entity.

• Internet: Having first joined the Telegraph in 1998, he left for a brief stint as Editor of an internet start-up before returning in 2001.

• airline: I have lost count of the number of internet travel ventures and airline start-ups that have never got off the ground.

• technology: Typically, most start-ups make losses for several years, yet many technology start-ups, for example, can have huge valuations.