A start-up is a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model through distinct stages of development with unique challenges and resource needs. Unlike established companies, start-ups are constrained by available cash and must quickly find a profitable model or risk failing, making them different entities than larger corporations.

1. WHATS’S THE KEY
DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN A
SCALEABLE START UP
AND A LARGER
ESTABLISHED
COMPANY?
PART ONE

2. Start-ups are a temporary
organisation designed
to search for a scalable and
repeatable business model

3. A start up is not a smaller
version of a larger company

4. The life
cycle of a
corporation
is not
appropriate
for a start up

5. A start up has unique stages of
development with distinctive
behaviour and modes of thinking

6. It progresses through distinct stages
* unique set of challenges and decisions
* requiring vastly different resources,
* different skills
* and different strategy

7. Unlike a large
profitable
company,
start ups are
constrained
by their
available
cash

8. Quickly find a profitable and scalable business model
or go out of business

9. Want to find a profitable and
scalable business model?
See part two