tech startups
Fledgling tech companies
Tech startups are newly founded companies in the technology sector, typically characterized by rapid growth ambitions and venture capital funding.
The term implies innovation, risk, and the potential for either spectacular success or failure.
Startup culture has its own vocabulary—pivoting, disrupting, scaling—and stereotypes: hoodies, ping-pong tables, and grueling hours.
She left her corporate job to join a tech startup in Austin.
- freemiumHybrid monetization approach
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- angel investorsPrivate early-stage business backers
- seed fundingInitial startup capital infusion
- artificial intelligenceMachines mimicking human thought
bootstrapping · burn rate · exit strategy · accelerators · blockchain · cloud computing · risk-taking · move fast · unicorn · pivot · growth hacking · fast-paced · entrepreneurship · marketplace · incubators · silicon valley · fintech · customer-centric
- digital societysocial networks, internet, digital age, internet culture, digital natives
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- ScandinaviaNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
- tech industrysoftware, computers, semiconductors, hardware, Amazon
- American InnovationEdison, Thomas Edison, Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, Wright brothers
- US TechSilicon Valley, AI, software, hardware, semiconductors
tech startupsmultinational corporations
Businesses operating in multiple countries
tech startupstraditional industries
Established economic sectors from earlier eras
heavy industry · steel mills · agriculture · mining companies · coal mines
tech startupsbureaucracies
Complex governmental administrative systems