[slezakattack]

Unfortunately, declaring your company a start up is sexy. My last company was about 130 employees, made some profit but mostly enough to keep the business afloat, been around for a little over 10 years, and was reluctant to call itself a start up.

The company I'm currently at has close to 1,200 employees, been around for close to 10 years, its own free cafeteria, profitable enough to fund several high-risk initiatives, but easily calls itself a start up..

My personal opinion: you're no longer a start up if you're able to afford your own "free food cafeteria". ;-)

[seanp2k2]

If "free food cafeteria" means something other than "the CEO is buying a few pizzas to feed the whole office" I would say it's no longer a start-up :)