Start-up

A start-up (or startup) company is a company recently formed.

The word was much used in the late 1990s during the dotcom boom, where much stock market speculation and hype surrounded small hi-tech start-up companies seeking early IPO and promising enormous future profits. Many such start-ups started as spin-offs from university research groups.

External links

• Starting My Business- UK based business startup portal, offering free advice, company formation, business stationery/business cards, website templates, domain registration to virtual offices.

• Business In Focus - Business support for start up and existing businesses. Advice, training, property and funding, with five advice centres and eight workshop sites spread throughout Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

• How To Start Up Any Business - Information they don't teach you in business school about starting your own business.

See also business plan, venture capital, IPO, exit, Silicon Valley, Stock market bubble.