garage startup
Humble tech beginnings
A garage startup is a small business launched from humble beginnings—literally or figuratively from someone's garage.
The term evokes the origin stories of tech giants like Apple and Hewlett-Packard, whose founders famously began working out of garages before building empires.
It suggests scrappy entrepreneurship, minimal resources, and outsized ambition: Every billion-dollar company was once a garage startup.
- siliconMetalloid in electronics
- valleyLow ground between heights
- dormOn-campus student housing
- bootstrapStart without external resources
- sweat equityUnpaid work as investment
founder · hustle · pivot · venture · scrappy · prototype · minimum viable product · coding · pizza · whiteboard · disruption · equity · burn rate · Series A · incubator · ramen · hoodie · pitch
- Steve JobsSteve Jobs, Apple, iPhone, iPad, iPod
- Startupsfounder, founders, startups, co-founder, venture capital
- Rags to RichesCinderella, Rocky, Aladdin, Slumdog Millionaire, Annie
- business spacescoworking space, shared office, business center, office suite, hot desk