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[edit] Most startups fail

is awfully general and doesn't sound teriibly NPOV. Rephrasing? --80.6.146.72 17:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

There's plenty of data and nuance, but "most startups fail" is a succint summary. e.g. google startup failure-rate. see, for instance,

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2002/sb2002034_8796.htm Ipthief 07:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Advertising

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from the page - as it was blantant advertising and irrelevant to the majority of users. If this is posted again, it should be removed again. - Anon

[edit] Startups

Start up companies have lesser investing capital while their projected return of investments are high. The amount of manpower is also typically small for a startup company as they try to decrease expenses and increase profit margins.

[edit] doingbusiness.org external link

This link: Starting a Business The World Bank Group's guide for 175 countries was posted to the article by a single purpose account who also posted the site to several other articles in a way that seemed like spam. The link is potentially useful if a bit "How-to"-ish (which Wikipedia is not). So I thought I'd move it here for regular editors of this article to consider. -- Siobhan Hansa 13:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reverted edit

The edit defined "startup" from the very limited viewpoint of finance, and unjustly (in my view) disparaged common sense/general notions. Why is finance the only viewpoint? What about the IRS? entrepreneurs (who need know nothing about finance to start a company) etc. Ipthief 04:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

You're pushing a very strange definition, and not citing sources. There are plenty of startup businesses which don't necessarily scale etc. Startup service business. Say Razorfish. Or a startup laundrymat or restaurant. These do not tend to attract VCs, but they are an important part of the economy. Was Microsoft a "startup" when it when public? No, I say, though it was still scalable and all the rest that you are focusing on. Ipthief 05:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)


Response: You are right, I'll find some sources and then we'll straighten this out.

[edit] How not to die

Very intresting document --Lo'oris 13:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Conflict of interest tag

Whoever put the coi tag. Please explain yourself before adding the tag back about. Which axe, exactly, do you think the editors of this article are trying to grind? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ipthief (talk • contribs) 05:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I added the conflict of interest (COI) tag because this article reads very much like a penny stock promoter may have written parts of it. The article focuses on investing in start-ups and the supposed potentially high reward. The following phrase from the article is just one of many contained therein that would be classic statements made by penny stock promoters in spam and stock message boards:

"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."

The reality that the vast majority of start-ups funded by VCs, angels or penny stock investors fail is not fully addressed, nor is the fact that individual investors rarely have the opportunity to invest in the "Google" type start-ups and that almost non get weathly investing in any the hundreds of profitless start-up companies promoted to the public every year. This article should be rewritten with a comprehensive discussion of start-ups from multiple points of view and with an objective focus. Do DueDiligence 06:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC) Why are we allowing this blantant promotion? "To understand the fundementals of the Entrepreneur and Start-Ups, please read the following legendary writing: "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" by Peter F Drucker." Honestly couldn't we have this just say ...please read the following: " Inovationm..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.33.66.206 (talk) 16:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)