[angersock]

I disagree further--I don't think that startup culture (especially the pseudo Ponzi stuff we see nowadays) has anything to do with hackerspaces.

"Startup culture" is purely an invention of "How do I build a business with no resources"? Hackerspaces are the continuation of HAM radio clubs and electronics clubs and engineers bullshitting at bars and people letting folks goof around with their broken television sets and kids goofing around on BBS.

None of that has anything to do with startups--to say otherwise is pretty much just astroturfing.

[seiji]

Many 1-2 person startups use hackerspaces (which have no formal definition) as co-working spaces. So there is a symbiotic relationship there, especially when some hackerspaces cost $100 to $300 per month.

Formal hackerspaces (e.g. have a building, have staff, have policies) are [potentially non-profit] startups themselves.

[TodPunk]

I very much agree, but I was only using startup culture in the context of that term's use in the article. If we want to get more general than that, you are very correct that startup culture as a separate principle is not overlapping at all with hackerspaces. The use of it as a term of starting a tech company out of your garage hobby is.