startup 

A recently formed company. In modern terminology, it has come to describe a company formed with a business model relying on the internet.

Johnny Asshat: "I live in San Francisco, I think I'm going to wake up tomorrow and create a startup selling downloadable toast over the internet. It'll be free, but you'll have to pay for the jam which is where I'll make my money. Aren't I quirky and special?"

Me: "No, you're a self-absorbed idiot. Get a real job."

startup by Alexander Vasarab April 17, 2007

Startup 

is when you have a great tech business idea and you make it a real business, but usually you fail (it's okay), because you're not that f*cking good businessman, or because it turned out that you had a shitty idea and you hadn't pivotted in due time, and you already spent all money.

Good startups (10%): Google, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Evernote, WhatsApp, Snapchat and every other that you using on daily basis.
Bad startups (90%): There are too many to list them, and it will be better to not say them aloud (superstition)

Startup by RandomStartupGuy November 23, 2013

Startup Girlfriend 

A girlfriend of a start-up CEO or co-founder who understands that her boyfriend is a young, crazy, ambitious, aggressive, academically and socially intelligent monster whose sole purpose in life is to create innovative technologies and business models. Therefore, he does not necessarily care about anything that goes on outside of his company or the industry in which it operates.

She also understands that for a period of time, her boyfriend is cash-strapped, and therefore does not engage in spurious expenditures and demands such as bottles of liquor at Hollywood nightclubs, sushi at overtly expensive posh restaurants, and $22 sandwiches at Urth Caffe.

The ultimate startup girlfriend also comprehends that time and not cash is the most important asset.

Dude, Sharon is a total-startup girlfriend. I showed up 2 hours late to her birthday party and even forgot her gift at my apartment, but she wasn't upset at all when I showed up!

Startup Girlfriend by SanguineBio September 26, 2010

Startup Mullet

Wearing a T-Shirt under a Suit Jacket.

Jeremy Edberg's suit jacket looked professional from behind, but once he turned around it was clear that the look was just a Startup Mullet.

Startup Mullet by e1ven October 21, 2010

Startup Green 

An obnoxiously bright, nearly nauseous tone of green paint found on the walls of fledgling tech businesses often in San Francisco's South of Market District.

Our new office came equipped with foosball table, beer kegerator, game room, Herman Miller Chairs, a top of the line espresso machine and our logo boldly printed over the Startup Green Walls.

Startup Green by Hepburn October 19, 2015

startup paedophile

A person who attends startup business events with the intention of finding young, naive companies they can take equity from in return for "contacts" or advice.

That guy over there is a real startup paedophile.

startup paedophile by MyCow October 20, 2014

startup envy 

Feeling of resentful discontent one experiences when employed at a regular job and one encounters news, conversation, or personalities related to startups.

John had a fit of startup envy after he was introduced to the free-spirited folks at the new startup next door.

startup envy by LightningBoy August 6, 2010