start-up
start-up
Definition
start·-up (stärt′up′)
noun
- a starting or starting up
- a new business venture
adjective
of or for a new business venture start-up capital
start up
Synonyms
start up
v.
start-up Finance Definition
A
company that has just begun operations. A start-up has the potential to make
the owner a significant amount of money but it also can be a risky investment.
Venture capital funds typically invest in start-ups. Angel investors, wealthy investors who are willing to give a
small amount of initial or seed money, also may fund start-ups.
start-up
Usage Examples
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.
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